Product Tank Bratislava #20: April’s Fools Day Special! 🎉🤪

It’s been a while, but we’re back – and we’re bringing the fun! 🎊

This time, we’re diving into the most unexpected, out-of-the-box, and downright crazy things we’ve done with our products. Whether it's hackathons gone wild, customer delight projects that took an unexpected turn, or legendary Easter eggs hidden in your app – this is your chance to share and learn from the quirkiest side of product development.

💡 What to expect?

• 3 x 15 min talks + Q&A
• Stories of experiments, pranks, and happy accidents 😆
• Fun and insightful discussions with fellow product folks
• Networking over free food 🥪 and drinks 🍻, including delicious sandwiches (aka chlebíčky), strudel, and other tasty snacks
• Session will be hosted by Petra Rajkov ✨

📢 Speakers & Topics:

1️⃣ Ship It or Sh*t It: The Hackathon Ideas That Went Too Far
Hackathons are a playground for the weird, the wild, and the downright ridiculous. Some ideas exist just to make people laugh. Others start as a joke but somehow make it all the way into production (sometimes to everyone’s surprise). From toilet paper to patents, this talk will have it all.

Speaker: Peter Hraška (Slido, Cisco)
Peter has been helping to shape Slido for nearly nine years, wearing many hats—from Frontend and Design Engineer to the self-proclaimed Vibe Engineer. He started as someone who wasn’t even supposed to code and ended up building the website and quiz features to work on AI experiments in R&D.

2️⃣ When Algorithms Meet Awkwardness: How Barbie and Sex Doll Printouts Saved Our Face Detection
Prepare for a hilarious journey into the world of biometric technology, where cutting-edge AI faces off against an unexpected foe: dolls. This presentation will take you behind the scenes of a facial recognition project that encountered a truly unique challenge.

Speaker: Martin Onderčin (Innovatrics)
Currently serving as a Product Manager at Innovatrics, focusing on cutting-edge biometric technologies. Prior to this, I held the same role at Vacuumlabs, where I contributed to innovative Fintech solutions. My expertise also extends to corporate strategy and business development.

3️⃣ No limits, no problem? Or when clients go crazy
We thought we created a straightforward product catalog feature, thinking our clients would use it to showcase their products and for the sake of time did not bother with setting strict limits. Little did we our clients, armed with boundless creativity and a lack of limitations, turned our catalogs into the Swiss Army knife of personalization. While this featured enabled some crazy use-cases for our clients we were unknowingly creating a monstrous problem for ourselves...

Speaker: Daniel Viglaš (Bloomreach)
Started with product management in Exponea working on marketing automation solution and continuing in Bloomreach after the acquisition. Current focus is on empowering Marketers with Autonomous Marketing Agents.

📅 Mark your calendars – you won’t want to miss this one
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We can’t wait to see you there! 🚀
#ProductTankBA #CrazyProductStories #Meetup2025

🔥 We would like to try an experiment: Do you have a mentionable story to share with the audience? You can share a photo/video with a short description with us (crazyproductstunts@gmail.com) and we will show it at the end of the Meetup.