Louron serves as the Editor at Mind the Product, bringing 11+ years of experience in editorial roles across business and technology publications. For any editorial inquiries, you can connect with him on LinkedIn or email him at louron.pratt@pendo.io 

Louron Pratt

Conferences

Video

Why you should care about trust when building is this easy: Kathy Pham (Harvard, Workday, Mozilla)

Lily Shield-Polyzoides is a journalist working across print and digital publishing. She first worked with Mind the Product in 2023 and most recently covered the Commissioning Editor role, covering content on artificial intelligence and product careers.

Lily Shield-Polyzoides

How to turn market signals into your next product release — Dave Killeen at #mtpcon London 2026 

Product Management Conference

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

From first click to Aha: How AI is rewriting user onboarding - Nichole Mace at INDUSTRY 2025 (Pendo)

Four habits to maximise your ROI on AI investment - Matthew Certner, (IBM) - INDUSTRY 2025

Nishrath A. is a freelance copywriter, currently working with Civic Champs, a technology company that helps nonprofits manage their volunteers. As a freelance copywriter, her primary goal is to help businesses communicate their value in a compelling and effective way.

When she isn't working, you will find her staring intently at Visual Studio, trying to find bugs that have invaded her code.

Nishrath A

Building Product Teams

Breaking down misconceptions to create healthier teams by Adrian Howard

Teo currently is a Group Product Manager at <a href="http://www.collectivehealth.com/">Collective Health</a>. Collective Health is rebuilding everything about how health benefits work. From administering better health plans, to connecting members to the right networks across medical, dental, vision, and pharmacy, to introducing an entirely new way to engage with health benefits – their platform creates an all-in-one experience companies and their people deserve. Teo has been working at the intersection of technology and business for over 10 years: as CXO advisor at the Boston Consulting Group in New York, as Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard and in Product Operations at Facebook. He also holds a BS and MS in Computer Engineering as well as an MBA from NYU School of Business.

Teo Zanella

Product Design

Challenges and Approaches to Building Products In Complex Ecosystem

Martin Eriksson has 25+ years experience building world-class online products in both corporate and start-up environments for global brands such as Monster, Financial Times, Huddle, and Covestor. He is the Founder of ProductTank, the Co-Founder and Curator of Mind the Product, and a Product Partner at leading venture capital fund EQT Ventures. He is also the author of the best-seller <em>Product Leadership, How Top Product Leaders Launch Great Products and Build Successful Teams</em> (O'Reilly, 2017).

Martin Eriksson

What is Product Management?

The Importance of Listening to Your Customers by David Cancel

San Francisco

Your Product is Already Obsolete – How to Survive by Des Traynor

Currently a product manager at Nucleus after exploring and experiencing a diversity of professional roles. Recently moved to NYC to change her perspective and solve new challenges.

Jackie DeJesse

Finding "Product-Me" Fit

Product Launch

Taking Your Product Across Cultures by Lisa Long

Jay Haynes is Founder &amp; CEO of thrv, the first and only jobs-to-be-done software for product teams. Jay is an award-winning CEO with 25 years of experience formulating and executing product strategies. Prior to thrv, Jay was CEO of Strategyn, a leading jobs-to-be-done research firm. Jay was CEO of two startups funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Kleiner Perkins. Earlier in his career, Jay worked as an investment professional with GTCR Golder Rauner, a leading private equity firm in Chicago with over $3 billion under management. Jay also worked as a Product Manager at Microsoft in the Windows Group. Jay graduated Phi Beta Kappa with highest honors from Brown University, and he received his MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

Jay Haynes

Product Management Skills

Building High-Growth Products Using Jobs-To-Be-Done

Postdoctoral researcher in machine learning at University of Cambridge, department of engineering. PhD in Machine learning. Previously, postdoc at University of Oxford. Research engineer at Samsung and HP.

Shaona Ghosh

How To Learn From Structure In Your Product Data

Agile Product Development

Lean Product Management

Product Management Process

Scaling Lean Principles by Jeff Gothelf

Dennis is the CEO and Founder of <a href="https://x.ai/">x.ai</a>, whose artificial intelligence driven personal assistant lets people schedule meetings using plain English and nothing more than a CC to amy@x.ai. He’s a pioneer and expert in the analytics, optimization and big data space and has been since its inception – he is also a fully-fledged entrepreneur and successfully delivered a number of company exits. He’s an accredited Associate Analytics Instructor at the University of British Columbia, the Author of Data Driven Insights from Wiley and a frequent speaker on the subject of Analytics and Data. A native of Denmark, Mortensen currently calls New York City his home.

Dennis Mortensen

Designing Invisible Products

With his background in technical editing, community building and product marketing, Chris' approach to product management is inherently centered around user narratives. He spent the first few years of his career working with the B2B developer products, prototyped an experimental technical publishing platform along the way, and then kick-started the Mind the Product platform. You can find him at ProductTank, or on twitter as @camassey.

Chris Massey

Level Up Your Product Game Using Empathy

The Unplayable Piano: How Frustration Makes Us Creative

Director Mobile Product at XING, the leading professional network in the German speaking markets. Co-Organizer of ProductTank Hamburg and Curator of MTP Engage Hamburg.