Over 60 Product Administration Conferences

Conferences present a chance to community and trade data with friends out of your business. Attending them additionally lets you be taught helpful insights from prime of the category consultants. A product supervisor can learn the way different product leaders are dealing with comparable issues what KPIs they’re utilizing.

Inside the previous few years, the variety of product administration conferences has skyrocketed and now there are over 60 of them all around the world. Based mostly in your requests for such an article, we’ve compiled all of them on this checklist and sorted them by month (scroll all the way down to the tip for the full checklist). The checklist will probably be frequently up to date so come again to test it out each time you’re planning to go to a brand new convention.

This checklist contains solely conferences that are devoted to product administration or have a really robust product administration part on the agenda. This checklist doesn’t embody UX or Agile conferences, that are additionally usually attended by product managers. If you understand of any product administration convention that’s not on this checklist, please tell us within the feedback and we’ll add it.

Many of the product administration conferences are congregated within the USA and Europe. Furthermore, a lot of the exercise takes place from March to June. This would possibly change considerably as new conferences is likely to be introduced for the This fall interval because the 12 months progresses.

Notable Conferences

Thoughts the Product

Thoughts the Product convention venue (by Amido)

Thoughts the Product might be one of the well-known sequence of conferences. It presently hosts 5 conferences in London, Manchester, San Francisco, Hamburg, and Singapore. Product managers from throughout the globe come to those occasions to community and hearken to an incredible roster of audio system from firms like Medium, Slack, Google, BBC, and Tencent.

ProductCon

ProductCon convention venue (by ProductCon)

ProductCon is one other sequence of conferences organized by Product College, which has programs for brand spanking new and current product managers. The conferences are hosted in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, and London. Audio system come from a few of the prime firms in these areas. The attention-grabbing differentiator for ProductCon is that they provide free dwell streaming tickets for all of their occasions. A very good alternative to host a studying session for product managers in your organization.

Product Camp

Product Camp user-driven agenda board (by Product Camp PL)

Product Camp is completely different from all the opposite conferences on this checklist as a result of it’s truly an “unconference.” It’s a participant-driven format, the place attendees themselves recommend subjects that they need to talk about. Every matter is written down on a sticky be aware and posted on a board for everybody to see. Then all attendees vote on their prime three subjects and that’s how the agenda is created. Occasion organizers put all of the subjects in a timetable, which is seen to everybody. The one who got here up with the subject turns into the moderator, who shapes the dialogue.

Essentially the most attention-grabbing factor about unconferences is the “two-feet rule.” It states that everybody is free to maneuver round between discussions if the present one doesn’t go well with their pursuits. It is a intelligent technique to optimize engagement. It doesn’t matter if 5 or 15 persons are taking part in a dialogue as a result of that’s how many individuals are occupied with a selected matter.

Ladies in Product

Ladies in Product convention members (by Ladies in Product)

Ladies in Product is a “non-profit group devoted to offering ladies with equal entry and illustration in product administration careers in any respect ranges.” Native communities all throughout the USA, Canada, and Singapore host smaller occasions and gatherings which culminate in a yearly world convention in September, often held within the Silicon Valley space.

X4 Expertise Administration Summit

X4 Summit keynote audio system (by Qualtrics)

X4 Expertise Administration Summit is a big convention with a Product Monitor. The monitor options shows and workshops by a few of the greatest firms on this planet. The actual jaw-dropper of the convention was the keynote audio system roster in 2019—Barack Obama, Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, and Ashton Kutcher. No marvel the tickets had been offered out means upfront. The convention has already occurred on the time of publishing this checklist; nonetheless, it’s price organising a reminder for subsequent 12 months to get a hand on the early chook tickets.

Pixel Up

Pixel Up convention venue (by Pixel Up)

Whereas not a product administration convention per se, Pixel Up is presently the one large-scale convention, the place product managers based mostly within the continent of Africa can meet and community. It incorporates a roster of audio system from top-tier firms (Fb, eBay, Slack, and so forth.). The convention agenda is principally targeted on product design and UX subjects.

JAM

JAM Barcelona web site (by JAM)

JAM is a sequence of product administration conferences in Europe. Whereas the London convention is much like many different conferences with respect to the format, the occasions in Wales and Barcelona combine bodily actions with talks and shows. This method creates alternatives to mirror on offered subjects in a relaxed atmosphere. It additionally helps construct extra casual relationships with different product leaders.

Product Advertising Group occasion sequence (by PMC)

A sequence of occasions for product entrepreneurs or product managers who’ve a stake in product advertising. The conferences in Boston, Austin, San Francisco, New York, Seattle, and Toronto function audio system from consulting firms like Gartner or SiriusDecisions alongside native product advertising leaders.

Full Listing of Conferences in 2019