Product Unleashed London: Product Experiments + Unlocking Research Potential

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Event Description:
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Welcome product enthusiasts!

We're a meet-up group that hosts regular speaking events for those interested in the world of digital products and doing things differently!

Each meet-up features new guests from some of the most influential product companies around the world, providing unique insights, tangible ideas, and new techniques to help drive change from the inside out.

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Event Format:
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🚨 This is an in-person event only. 🚨

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Venue:
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Our Product Unleashed London debut: We are at the wonderful Askable HQ in Shoreditch. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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Our speakers:
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Jacob George
Head of Product, Global @ Founders Factory

Jacob George is a seasoned product leader with over 10 years of experience building world-class, innovative products end-to-end.

He currently serves as the Head of Product at Founders Factory, an operator-led fund with a global venture studio and accelerator and over $100M in assets under management.

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About the Talk:
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The Science of Product Experiments

This talk reveals a framework to bring structure and scientific thinking to your product experiments, helping you test ideas quickly and effectively.

You'll learn how to prioritize brainstorms, design lightweight tests, and measure real results to build customer-centric features with confidence.

You'll learn how to:

- Turn team ideas into testable hypotheses focused on high-risk assumptions
- Design minimal prototype experiments to get user feedback fast
- Predict and measure results to know if you're on the right track - Apply a consistent process to choose features based on real customer data

This talk is perfect for:

- Product managers and teams looking to improve their experimentation process
- UX designers who want to validate ideas before investing in detailed designs
- Startup founders and leaders needing to ruthlessly prioritise a flood of ideas
- Anyone who wants a structured approach to testing assumptions and delivering proven customer value

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Venessa Bennett
Global UX Director @ Dye & Durham

Venessa is a renowned design leader, speaker, and problem solver who specialises in creating experiences that meet business and customer needs.

With a proven track record of building design practices and teams for brands such as Vodafone, Rightmove, and UK tech unicorn Cazoo, she is currently the Global UX Director at Dye & Durham. Through her blog, Venessa shares her invaluable insights and learnings on UX and design leadership.

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About the Talk:
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Unlocking the potential of UX research to drive company strategy and roadmaps

As Product People, we often use UX research to inform and validate our solutions. But are we leveraging UX research to its full potential?

Venessa discusses how product people can unleash the power of research to influence product strategy and company direction.

This talk is perfect for:

- UX researchers, designers or anyone involved in conducting user research

You'll learn

-How to advocate for ux research, even with little or no budget
-How to get better reach when feeding back research to the business
-How to leverage research strategically

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Sponsorship & Support from:
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We're super proud for our March event to be sponsored by the amazing team at Pixelated People. Pixelated People is a tech recruitment agency based in London that matches tech talent with companies so they can create beautiful digital products together.

Our first London event is hosted by our friends, the amazing team at Askable. Equip yourself with the best participants, on-demand researchers all in the ultimate research platform. That's askable!

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About your hosts:
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Product Unleashed is brought to you by your hosts John Griffin and Dominic Port.

The duo has worked on the design of products of all shapes and sizes and bring their energy and enthusiasm to this unique meetup, packed with great guests and knowledge - for anyone interested in levelling up their game in the world of products.

The pair are helping to create a launchpad for design strategy and product shaping from the ground up, paving the way for new explorative ways to bring Design to the forefront of Ford Credit.