ProductTank Manchester - September 2025

We'll be back in September for the next ProductTank Manchester with great product speakers and great networking!

We're delighted to announce not one, but two huge names in Product for this event.

Martin Eriksson and Jason Knight will both be giving talks and then jointly taking the stage to take any questions that may come from the crowd.

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Martin Eriksson — Your Strategy Sucks (and what to do about it)
Ask five people in your company to articulate your strategy right now – you'll get five different answers, if you get any at all. Most teams think they have a strategy when they actually have a roadmap, OKRs, or wishful thinking disguised as "growth plans." Based on insights from advising hundreds of businesses, this talk will expose the brutal truth about why 90% of company strategies fail before they even start – and reveal the critical choices that separate winning strategies from expensive PowerPoint presentations. You'll leave empowered to own strategy (no matter what level of the organisation you are) and know exactly how to build a strategy your team can actually execute - one that forces tough decisions over feel-good platitudes, and that turns your vision into a competitive advantage rather than corporate wallpaper.

Jason Knight — Product Management Isn't Like The Books
Product managers often complain that books are too idealistic, or unrealistic and, worse still, start to feel that they're underperforming or terrified of being labeled a BAD product manager. But are we taking the books too seriously? Should we bother reading them at all? How can we make peace with thought leadership? In this talk, we'll cover all that and more.

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🚨 We're on the hunt for our next sponsors / venues. If you can provide a space for 80+ product people in central Manchester, with food & drinks, we'd love to hear from you!
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Why you should come?
Networking with fellow product people 👋

• Great talks from local and national speakers 🎤
• Food 🍕and drink 🍺
• We welcome people from all backgrounds!

We're a friendly bunch, our typical crowd includes:

• senior product leaders
• startup founders
• mid-level PMs
• new PMs
• people looking to get into Product
• engineers/developers
• designers
• people who work with product teams - and just want to learn more.

Whatever your situation, come along and say hello.

Location: Worldpay, 3 Hardman Square, Manchester, M3 3EB

Event timings
6:00pm start - Networking (drinks and food)
6:30pm - Talks and Q&A start
8:00pm - Talks finish - more networking - drinks and food
8:30pm - Close