#mtpcon London 2023 Leadership Forum
Product leaders, what an event!
As product management continues to evolve, more and more product leaders like you are emerging as organisations embrace your ability to impact the business. Yet while support for the wider product management community continues to grow by leaps and bounds there is still
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As product management continues to evolve, more and more product leaders like you are emerging as organisations embrace your ability to impact the business. Yet while support for the wider product management community continues to grow by leaps and bounds there is still a lack of opportunities for leaders to come together with their peers and discuss the challenges unique to product leadership.
So, we were delighted to see the return of our#mtpcon London pre-conference Leadership Forum (exclusively for product leaders) on Thursday, 19th October.
This event saw leaders levelling up their leadership skills, learning how to build better products, and grow successful teams and was a unique and rare opportunity for leaders to come together with their peers, discuss and learn from one another, and make lasting connections.
And wow, was it brilliant!
You can take a look back at our 2023 schedule and guest speakers, panelists and moderators below.
Georgie Smallwood
Chief Product Officer at Moonpig Group
Talk topic: Cross-discipline collaboration
Let’s face it – our teams’ work is ambiguous. When we aren’t communicating well, others around us don’t get it, and soon, it feels like a product against the world—sales, marketing, design, engineering, legal, etc. We need to communicate and do so well. Let’s talk about how we can connect with our peers who see the business differently and leverage their points of view to improve our products.
About Georgie
Georgie Smallwood is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Moonpig Group PLC (MOON.L) She leads the product, data and engineering teams to deliver the ultimate gifting companion in UK, NL, IRE, AUS. Whether it’s a personalised card, a bunch of flowers or just a reminder to send your thoughts to a friend, a Moonpig Moment matters more- as 1 in 7 people in the UK will tell you!
She is a passionate supporter of Women in Technology & leadership positions, and through her advising and investing roles she primarily focuses on female founders and co-founders to drive equality of funding and diversity of thought in the technology space. This passion led to the founding of Auxilia – a network for current and future female founders.
Matt LeMay
Author of Product Management in Practice
Talk topic: Developing your product team
Hiring, training, and coaching – nailing these things makes everything else easier; missing even one makes an uphill climb even higher. These concepts are often in the job description of leadership, but they undersell how much they affect every decision you make. Not only that, the team suffers – a demoralized team is a team that can’t perform. We will have a candid conversation about identifying and implementing strategies to get our teams well-designed and improving. We will be open to coaching to improve product managers, not burnt-out ones.
About Matt
Matt LeMay is an internationally recognised product leader, author, and consultant. He is the author of Agile for Everybody (O’Reilly Media, 2018) and Product Management in Practice (Second Edition O’Reilly Media, 2022), and has worked to build and scale product management practices at companies like Spotify, Google, Mailchimp, and SumUp. Matt is the creator of the One Page / One Hour Pledge, a commitment to minimize busywork and maximize collaboration that has been adopted by over 100 individuals and teams at Amazon, Walmart, Adobe, and more.
Adam Warburton
Chief Product Officer at Vypr
Talk topic: Connecting vision and strategy to action
We know the definitions. We’ve read Empowered. Some of us may have even read a strategy book or two – however, connecting the dots between vision, strategy, and operations is rough – and today, it matters more than ever as budgets are slashed. The ability to pick winners is prized above others. Let’s dig into how to turn the words we’re using into action and turn vision and strategy into the force multipliers there are.
About Adam
Adam Warburton serves as the Chief Product Officer at Vypr, a role that allows him to delve into the complexities of consumer behaviour and market trends to help brands build products customers love. Passionate about crafting compelling product visions, he’s equally adept at translating those high-level ideas into actionable strategies. Adam understands the subtle intricacies of aligning a product team’s vision and strategy with their day-to-day responsibilities.As both a Mind the Product trainer and an organiser of ProductTank Manchester, he relishes the opportunity to share ideas and war stories. His aim? To help us all evolve our craft, placing a greater emphasis on the impact we make rather than the theories and frameworks we follow.
Tobias Freudenreich
Product Leadership Coach & Consultant
About Tobias
Tobias Freudenreich has been working in the digital industry for over 20 years and has held a variety of product management and leadership roles over the years. Today, as an independent product leadership coach and consultant, he helps product people and their organisations continuously grow and develop successful products. Alongside his work, he is also co-organiser of ProductTank Hamburg, co-moderator of the Product at Heart conference and host of the German podcast series “Produktmenschen.”
Jason Knight
Product Consultant at One Knight Consulting
About Jason
Jason Knight and is the creator, host, producer, editor and promoter of the One Knight in Product podcast. A fireside chat style podcast where he aims to speak to people in and around product management, get their perspectives, learn from their experiences and share their stories. He’s built disruptive products for years, including biometric survey platforms (voice and face tracking), self-service survey platforms (sort of like Qualtrics), data-science backed trend prediction SaaS, building APIs for financial services firms to automate their onboarding and helping business leaders create a positive working culture and empowering employees to lead more fulfilling lives.
More than anything he’s a complete product management nerd; He loves speaking about all things product management related, learning from other people’s perspectives (and of course now sharing them with others). You can find more work on Medium.
Erin Weigel
Senior Design Manager at Deliveroo
About Erin
Erin’s career started in customer service when she worked retail and waited tables. This experience gave her a service mindset, which guides her design approach. She got lots of experience testing designs at Booking.com, where she worked for 9 years. She also dabbles in product management, engineering, and people management.
Previously her specialty was data-informed design and experimentation. Now she focuses on design systems, operations, and product accessibility. She lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with her boyfriend, Jan, their daughter, Hedda, and their smelly dog, Boon.
Chris Lukassen
Chief Product Officer at Expandior
About Chris
From coding real time operating systems to running nine teams in a multi-million product development, from garage start-ups to global giants like TomTom and SAAB, from utter failure to CES award winning products. Chris has a huge experience base to draw from when it comes to agile product management.
He is on a mission to show people how they can create products in such a way that they can never imagine going back. In his first book he looked at how the ways of the Samurai can make us better Product Owners, in the sequel he dived into the behavioural stances of the Product Manager, ask him what he is working on today.
Mirela Mus
Founder & CPO at Product People
About Mirela
Mirela is the Founder & CPO of Product People, the premier destination for Product Management services in Europe. With 40 in-house Product Management Consultants, the company runs ~100 client missions per year (parental leave covers, urgent initiatives, advisory, etc.).
Mirela personally serves clients ranging from Zalando to Omio and The World Health Organization. Her background is in Computer Science plus an MBA. She’s doing Product Management for over 12 years, half of them in a leadership role.
Based in Berlin since 2015, Mirela spends her downtime hiking, reading Sci-fi like the Culture Series, playing board games, and painting.
Funmi Alassan
Chief Product Officer at Togetherall
About Funmi
Funmi is the Chief Product Officer at Togetherall, where she leads a team of product managers, designers, and engineers to build a best-in-class digital mental health peer-to-peer community. She is a strategic thinker with a strong customer focus, and over a decade of experience building commercially viable products. She is committed to using technology to solve real-world problems.
At Togetherall, Funmi is responsible for leading the product vision and strategy. She works closely with other leaders to ensure that Togetherall is meeting the needs of its users, clients, and the broader mental health community. She plays a key role in driving growth and innovation at Togetherall.
Funmi is a strong advocate for equity, inclusivity, and responsible tech. Outside of work, she enjoys time with family and friends, loves travel, discovering great cuisine, music, and loves to learn new things.
Sean O'Neill
Chief Product Officer at GfK
About Sean
Sean has spent the past 25+ years at the intersection of commerce, consumer behavior, and data-driven feedback loops. Sean most recently was CPO of GfK, a KKR portfolio firm that was successfully acquired by Advent & NielsenIQ.
Before that Sean spent long cycles at Amazon, Tesco, and start-ups in building orgs that build teams that build products that customers love.
Phil Hornby
Founder & Director at for product people
About Phil
Phil is a highly experienced and passionate product management professional. Helping entrepreneurial product people and teams to be successful.
He has helped thousands of individuals across hundreds of companies – empowering individuals and teams to succeed. He has a proven track record and broad industry experience, having helped product people and teams across most industries.
Chloe MacKie
Chief Product Officer at Exploration X
About Chloe
Chloe is a cross-functional problem solver with a passion for humans and tech. Working across startups, scale ups and corporate labs, Chloe’s experience goes from early stage ventures to scaling successful product-market fit products. Discovery and experiments are her favourite space to play in, putting data at the core of decision making at all stages.
Chloe is passionate about impact in the hands of users and she truly believes good software can improve people’s lives.
Rayan Bannai
Founder at Squared
About Rayan
Rayan – London-based, originally from Bahrain. A serial operator turned entrepreneur.
Founder of Squared. A solution that helps founders build operations through an on-demand, execution-focused model. Having worked in the depths of old-school logistics and supply chain through to fast-paced tech startups, Rayan has seen it all.
What he sees best though is taking operational and technical challenges and understanding the wider implications that have caused this, be it commercial positioning or cultural challenges. Favourite quote: “A jack of all trades is a master of none, but often times better than a master of one.’” Fun fact is he can walk on his hands.
Vivienne Sung
Product Advisor & Coach
About Vivienne
Vivienne Sung is a product leader with a career spanning over 15 years. In that time she has lead the product teams at businesses of every stage and scale with leadership roles at Playfish (Electronic Arts), Marks & Spencer, Fab.com, Meta, Houzz, Pollen and most recently heading up product and design for Bumble Inc. She is currently an advisor and coach to multiple early and growth stage businesses including Dice.fm and Mojo.so and sits on the board of Vivino. She is a mum of two, lives in central Bath and in her spare time she is learning to run more than 5km without keeling over!
Joe Dreimann
Senior Director (Product Design) at Pendo
About Joe
Joe is Senior Director of Product Design at Pendo. His journey in technology to date ranges from creating MS-DOS games in the era of floppy disks to shipping B2B SaaS AI experiences which transform product discovery, and he is not done yet. Since migrating from Germany to Sheffield (UK) in 2007 he has spent more than a decade in technology, leading teams across design, front-end engineering, and product across four countries. His passion is to open up the industry to people who don’t normally have access to it. This ranges from education initiatives to reshape secondary computing education to running Draw Your Breakfast events which flip the “pizza and beer after 6” model on its head to be more inclusive.
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Mind the Product
Mind the Product Ltd
https://www.mindtheproduct.com/mtpcon/london/product-leadership-forum/
#mtpcon London
https://www.mindtheproduct.com/mtpcon/london/
2022-10-13
2022-10-14
London
London
On Friday 20th October, the biggest celebration of product innovation at #mtpcon happened! We enjoyed a jam-packed day, full of product inspiration.
At #mtpcon, we brought together the most brilliant minds in product, our incredible speakers – to share their insights and expertise with you. Plus,
Presenters and panelists
In stock
Product leaders, what an event!
As product management continues to evolve, more and more product leaders like you are emerging as organisations embrace your ability to impact the business. Yet while support for the wider product management community continues to grow by leaps and bounds there is still a lack of opportunities for leaders to come together with their peers and discuss the challenges unique to product leadership.
So, we were delighted to see the return of our#mtpcon London pre-conference Leadership Forum (exclusively for product leaders) on Thursday, 19th October.
This event saw leaders levelling up their leadership skills, learning how to build better products, and grow successful teams and was a unique and rare opportunity for leaders to come together with their peers, discuss and learn from one another, and make lasting connections.
And wow, was it brilliant!
You can take a look back at our 2023 schedule and guest speakers, panelists and moderators below.
2023 Schedule:
- Noon - Doors open / registration (a light lunch will be served between 12 noon and 1pm)
- 1.00pm - Introduction
- 1.15pm - Keynote talk: Cross-discipline collaboration
- 1.45pm - Panel discussion and Q&A: Cross-discipline collaboration
- 2.30pm - Coffee break
- 3.00pm - Keynote talk: Developing your product team
- 3.30pm - Panel discussion and Q&A: Developing your product team
- 4.15pm - Coffee break
- 4.45pm - Keynote talk: Connecting vision and strategy to action
- 5.15pm - Panel discussion and Q&A: Connecting vision and strategy to action
- 5.45pm - Closing remarks
- 6.00pm - Drinks reception
Georgie Smallwood
Chief Product Officer at Moonpig Group
Talk topic: Cross-discipline collaboration
Let’s face it – our teams’ work is ambiguous. When we aren’t communicating well, others around us don’t get it, and soon, it feels like a product against the world—sales, marketing, design, engineering, legal, etc. We need to communicate and do so well. Let’s talk about how we can connect with our peers who see the business differently and leverage their points of view to improve our products.
About Georgie
Georgie Smallwood is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Moonpig Group PLC (MOON.L) She leads the product, data and engineering teams to deliver the ultimate gifting companion in UK, NL, IRE, AUS. Whether it’s a personalised card, a bunch of flowers or just a reminder to send your thoughts to a friend, a Moonpig Moment matters more- as 1 in 7 people in the UK will tell you!
She is a passionate supporter of Women in Technology & leadership positions, and through her advising and investing roles she primarily focuses on female founders and co-founders to drive equality of funding and diversity of thought in the technology space. This passion led to the founding of Auxilia – a network for current and future female founders.
Matt LeMay
Author of Product Management in Practice
Talk topic: Developing your product team
Hiring, training, and coaching – nailing these things makes everything else easier; missing even one makes an uphill climb even higher. These concepts are often in the job description of leadership, but they undersell how much they affect every decision you make. Not only that, the team suffers – a demoralized team is a team that can’t perform. We will have a candid conversation about identifying and implementing strategies to get our teams well-designed and improving. We will be open to coaching to improve product managers, not burnt-out ones.
About Matt
Matt LeMay is an internationally recognised product leader, author, and consultant. He is the author of Agile for Everybody (O’Reilly Media, 2018) and Product Management in Practice (Second Edition O’Reilly Media, 2022), and has worked to build and scale product management practices at companies like Spotify, Google, Mailchimp, and SumUp. Matt is the creator of the One Page / One Hour Pledge, a commitment to minimize busywork and maximize collaboration that has been adopted by over 100 individuals and teams at Amazon, Walmart, Adobe, and more.
Adam Warburton
Chief Product Officer at Vypr
Talk topic: Connecting vision and strategy to action
We know the definitions. We’ve read Empowered. Some of us may have even read a strategy book or two – however, connecting the dots between vision, strategy, and operations is rough – and today, it matters more than ever as budgets are slashed. The ability to pick winners is prized above others. Let’s dig into how to turn the words we’re using into action and turn vision and strategy into the force multipliers there are.
About Adam
Adam Warburton serves as the Chief Product Officer at Vypr, a role that allows him to delve into the complexities of consumer behaviour and market trends to help brands build products customers love. Passionate about crafting compelling product visions, he’s equally adept at translating those high-level ideas into actionable strategies. Adam understands the subtle intricacies of aligning a product team’s vision and strategy with their day-to-day responsibilities.As both a Mind the Product trainer and an organiser of ProductTank Manchester, he relishes the opportunity to share ideas and war stories. His aim? To help us all evolve our craft, placing a greater emphasis on the impact we make rather than the theories and frameworks we follow.
Tobias Freudenreich
Product Leadership Coach & Consultant
About Tobias
Tobias Freudenreich has been working in the digital industry for over 20 years and has held a variety of product management and leadership roles over the years. Today, as an independent product leadership coach and consultant, he helps product people and their organisations continuously grow and develop successful products. Alongside his work, he is also co-organiser of ProductTank Hamburg, co-moderator of the Product at Heart conference and host of the German podcast series “Produktmenschen.”
Jason Knight
Product Consultant at One Knight Consulting
About Jason
Jason Knight and is the creator, host, producer, editor and promoter of the One Knight in Product podcast. A fireside chat style podcast where he aims to speak to people in and around product management, get their perspectives, learn from their experiences and share their stories. He’s built disruptive products for years, including biometric survey platforms (voice and face tracking), self-service survey platforms (sort of like Qualtrics), data-science backed trend prediction SaaS, building APIs for financial services firms to automate their onboarding and helping business leaders create a positive working culture and empowering employees to lead more fulfilling lives.
More than anything he’s a complete product management nerd; He loves speaking about all things product management related, learning from other people’s perspectives (and of course now sharing them with others). You can find more work on Medium.
Erin Weigel
Senior Design Manager at Deliveroo
About Erin
Erin’s career started in customer service when she worked retail and waited tables. This experience gave her a service mindset, which guides her design approach. She got lots of experience testing designs at Booking.com, where she worked for 9 years. She also dabbles in product management, engineering, and people management.
Previously her specialty was data-informed design and experimentation. Now she focuses on design systems, operations, and product accessibility. She lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with her boyfriend, Jan, their daughter, Hedda, and their smelly dog, Boon.
Chris Lukassen
Chief Product Officer at Expandior
About Chris
From coding real time operating systems to running nine teams in a multi-million product development, from garage start-ups to global giants like TomTom and SAAB, from utter failure to CES award winning products. Chris has a huge experience base to draw from when it comes to agile product management.
He is on a mission to show people how they can create products in such a way that they can never imagine going back. In his first book he looked at how the ways of the Samurai can make us better Product Owners, in the sequel he dived into the behavioural stances of the Product Manager, ask him what he is working on today.
Mirela Mus
Founder & CPO at Product People
About Mirela
Mirela is the Founder & CPO of Product People, the premier destination for Product Management services in Europe. With 40 in-house Product Management Consultants, the company runs ~100 client missions per year (parental leave covers, urgent initiatives, advisory, etc.).
Mirela personally serves clients ranging from Zalando to Omio and The World Health Organization. Her background is in Computer Science plus an MBA. She’s doing Product Management for over 12 years, half of them in a leadership role.
Based in Berlin since 2015, Mirela spends her downtime hiking, reading Sci-fi like the Culture Series, playing board games, and painting.
Funmi Alassan
Chief Product Officer at Togetherall
About Funmi
Funmi is the Chief Product Officer at Togetherall, where she leads a team of product managers, designers, and engineers to build a best-in-class digital mental health peer-to-peer community. She is a strategic thinker with a strong customer focus, and over a decade of experience building commercially viable products. She is committed to using technology to solve real-world problems.
At Togetherall, Funmi is responsible for leading the product vision and strategy. She works closely with other leaders to ensure that Togetherall is meeting the needs of its users, clients, and the broader mental health community. She plays a key role in driving growth and innovation at Togetherall.
Funmi is a strong advocate for equity, inclusivity, and responsible tech. Outside of work, she enjoys time with family and friends, loves travel, discovering great cuisine, music, and loves to learn new things.
Sean O'Neill
Chief Product Officer at GfK
About Sean
Sean has spent the past 25+ years at the intersection of commerce, consumer behavior, and data-driven feedback loops. Sean most recently was CPO of GfK, a KKR portfolio firm that was successfully acquired by Advent & NielsenIQ.
Before that Sean spent long cycles at Amazon, Tesco, and start-ups in building orgs that build teams that build products that customers love.
Phil Hornby
Founder & Director at for product people
About Phil
Phil is a highly experienced and passionate product management professional. Helping entrepreneurial product people and teams to be successful.
He has helped thousands of individuals across hundreds of companies – empowering individuals and teams to succeed. He has a proven track record and broad industry experience, having helped product people and teams across most industries.
Chloe MacKie
Chief Product Officer at Exploration X
About Chloe
Chloe is a cross-functional problem solver with a passion for humans and tech. Working across startups, scale ups and corporate labs, Chloe’s experience goes from early stage ventures to scaling successful product-market fit products. Discovery and experiments are her favourite space to play in, putting data at the core of decision making at all stages.
Chloe is passionate about impact in the hands of users and she truly believes good software can improve people’s lives.
Rayan Bannai
Founder at Squared
About Rayan
Rayan – London-based, originally from Bahrain. A serial operator turned entrepreneur.
Founder of Squared. A solution that helps founders build operations through an on-demand, execution-focused model. Having worked in the depths of old-school logistics and supply chain through to fast-paced tech startups, Rayan has seen it all.
What he sees best though is taking operational and technical challenges and understanding the wider implications that have caused this, be it commercial positioning or cultural challenges. Favourite quote: “A jack of all trades is a master of none, but often times better than a master of one.’” Fun fact is he can walk on his hands.
Vivienne Sung
Product Advisor & Coach
About Vivienne
Vivienne Sung is a product leader with a career spanning over 15 years. In that time she has lead the product teams at businesses of every stage and scale with leadership roles at Playfish (Electronic Arts), Marks & Spencer, Fab.com, Meta, Houzz, Pollen and most recently heading up product and design for Bumble Inc. She is currently an advisor and coach to multiple early and growth stage businesses including Dice.fm and Mojo.so and sits on the board of Vivino. She is a mum of two, lives in central Bath and in her spare time she is learning to run more than 5km without keeling over!
Joe Dreimann
Senior Director (Product Design) at Pendo
About Joe
Joe is Senior Director of Product Design at Pendo. His journey in technology to date ranges from creating MS-DOS games in the era of floppy disks to shipping B2B SaaS AI experiences which transform product discovery, and he is not done yet. Since migrating from Germany to Sheffield (UK) in 2007 he has spent more than a decade in technology, leading teams across design, front-end engineering, and product across four countries. His passion is to open up the industry to people who don’t normally have access to it. This ranges from education initiatives to reshape secondary computing education to running Draw Your Breakfast events which flip the “pizza and beer after 6” model on its head to be more inclusive.
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Mind the Product
Mind the Product Ltd
https://www.mindtheproduct.com/mtpcon/london/product-leadership-forum/
#mtpcon London
https://www.mindtheproduct.com/mtpcon/london/
2022-10-13
2022-10-14
London
London
On Friday 20th October, the biggest celebration of product innovation at #mtpcon happened! We enjoyed a jam-packed day, full of product inspiration.
At #mtpcon, we brought together the most brilliant minds in product, our incredible speakers – to share their insights and expertise with you. Plus,
Presenters and panelists
In stock
Product leaders, what an event!
As product management continues to evolve, more and more product leaders like you are emerging as organisations embrace your ability to impact the business. Yet while support for the wider product management community continues to grow by leaps and bounds there is still a lack of opportunities for leaders to come together with their peers and discuss the challenges unique to product leadership.
So, we were delighted to see the return of our#mtpcon London pre-conference Leadership Forum (exclusively for product leaders) on Thursday, 19th October.
This event saw leaders levelling up their leadership skills, learning how to build better products, and grow successful teams and was a unique and rare opportunity for leaders to come together with their peers, discuss and learn from one another, and make lasting connections.
And wow, was it brilliant!
You can take a look back at our 2023 schedule and guest speakers, panelists and moderators below.
2023 Schedule:
- Noon - Doors open / registration (a light lunch will be served between 12 noon and 1pm)
- 1.00pm - Introduction
- 1.15pm - Keynote talk: Cross-discipline collaboration
- 1.45pm - Panel discussion and Q&A: Cross-discipline collaboration
- 2.30pm - Coffee break
- 3.00pm - Keynote talk: Developing your product team
- 3.30pm - Panel discussion and Q&A: Developing your product team
- 4.15pm - Coffee break
- 4.45pm - Keynote talk: Connecting vision and strategy to action
- 5.15pm - Panel discussion and Q&A: Connecting vision and strategy to action
- 5.45pm - Closing remarks
- 6.00pm - Drinks reception
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