Valerie enjoys working as a Brand Marketing Operations Manager at Google. Prior she held various lead marketing, and consulting roles focused on women in action sports. Additionally, she held positions as a Marketing Project Manager at MiresBall brand design agency, and in Product Marketing at Spy Optic Eyewear. Valerie has a BA in Communications, Advertising emphasis, Marketing minor from San Diego State University, and is PMP certified. She is a volunteer at Mind the Product, City Surf Project in San Francisco, and sits on the board for Women’s Skateboarding Alliance.

Valerie Gee

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Lean Product Management

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Product Management Skills

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How to Influence the Business by David J Bland

Janna Bastow is one of the co-founders of Mind the Product, and kicked off her first event for product people with ProductCamp London in 2010, in an effort to meet and learn from other product managers. 

As a product manager always looking for better tools, Janna also co-founded <a href="https://www.prodpad.com/" title="product management and roadmapping software">ProdPad</a>, product management and roadmapping software for product people. 

She often starts and stops conversations with the question: “What problem are you trying to solve?”

Janna Bastow

Data Driven Product Management

Product Management Process

Video: Lean, Fast Feedback and Leopard Print

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

Startup Product Management

Video: Lean Product Development

Video: Is purpose the new pivot?

Rif Kiamil

Product Design

Software Experience Management

What is Product Management?

How I built the same MVP 3 times, across 3 continents in 3 weeks

Jock Busuttil (jockbusuttil.com) is a product management and leadership coach, product leader and author. He has spent over two decades working with technology companies to improve their product management practices, from startups to multinationals. In 2012 Jock founded Product People Limited (productpeo.pl), which provides product management consultancy, coaching and training. Its clients include BBC, University of Cambridge, Ometria, Prolific and the UK’s Ministry of Justice and Government Digital Service (GDS). Jock holds a master’s degree in Classics from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of the popular book The Practitioner’s Guide To Product Management (jockbusuttil.com/#book), which was published in January 2015 by Grand Central Publishing in the US and Piatkus in the UK. He writes the blog I Manage Products (imanageproducts.com) and weekly product management newsletter PRODUCTHEAD (producthead.news). You can find him on Twitter (@jockbu) and LinkedIn.

Jock Busuttil

Product Management in Commerce: Online, Offline and Mobile

<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/kunalspunjabi/">Kunal Punjabi</a> is a Product Leader with 15+ years in product (consumer B2C, B2B SaaS marketplaces) and 7 years of people management experience (managing teams of up to 4 PMs). He has held executive positions in Product management and led the conception, execution, go-to-market and growth of products at companies like Cerebral, Xerox PARC, Achieve (Freedom Financial network, Freedom Debt Relief, Freedom Plus, Bills.com), Shutterfly and others. 

Kunal has built and grown products that have generated tens of millions in revenue and has extensive hiring and management experience of IC PMs. He has operated at small (&lt;30) and large (3,000+) organizational scale, navigating teams through hyper-growth, layoffs, and shifts in company direction. He also has been a Continuing Education lecturer in Product management for Stanford Continuing Education since 2018. Kunal received his Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech and has spoken at conferences like Product Camp Silicon Valley. 

You can email him at kunalspunjabi@gmail.com and follow him on <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/kunalspunjabi/">LinkedIn</a>.

Kunal Punjabi

Agile Product Development

User Experience (UX)

Validate or Die: Using Validation to Build the Right Product

Co-founder of <a href="http://www.prodpad.com">ProdPad</a> and Mind the Product who run ProductTank, ProductCamp London and Mind the Product conferences in London and San Francisco. Blogs about Product Management at MindTheProduct.com &amp; ProdPad.com. Simon began his career in Space Engineering, where he developed a Fortran realtime program to automate satellite operations. He then traveled around the world before a stint in the Australian Army.

Simon Cast

The Importance Of Narrative

<a href="http://uk.linkedin.com/in/damianrees">Damian</a> is a Director at Experience Solutions a <a href="http://www.experiencesolutions.co.uk">user centred design agency</a>  supporting Product Managers at leading UK brands. Damian has 13 years experience as a UI design specialist for companies like BBC  and National Air Traffic Services researching &amp; designing websites, apps, voice recognition, and air traffic control interfaces. Follow his tweets @<a href="https://twitter.com/damianrees">damianrees</a> and @<a href="https://twitter.com/experiencesolns">experiencesolns</a>

Damian Rees

How user research can help prioritise product requirements

<a title="@tommizzle on Twitter" href="http://www.twitter.com/tommizzle">Tom Layfield</a> is a London-based Product Manager working for <a href="http://www.simplybusiness.co.uk">Simply Business</a>. He’s been obsessed by the web since designing his first site at 13 years old, and is especially passionate about all things startup. In his spare time he likes to play sports, watch F1 and listen to whiny indie music.

Tom Layfield

Business Strategy

Lean product development in a traditional industry

Nick Cordrey has been a PM in telecoms voice and messaging products in UK and Australia for the last 7 years, most recently for Vodafone. As well as tech he loves surfing, photography and dabbling in Rails. Follow his "only tweet when something interesting to say" feed at <a href="http://twitter.com/nickcordrey">@nickcordrey</a> or link up on <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/nickcordrey">LinkedIn</a>.

Nick Cordrey

Losing Weight with the Lean Startup

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