It's World Product Day in 2026 - Now What?

It's that time of year again my friends, when we ring the bells and lift a glass to our craft, our discipline, our journey.

The WPD 2025 theme this year is 'resilience'. To help us move into a resilient and thriving mindset, we are putting together something very special for you - an escape room! (yes, clues, teams, timeboxes and a lot of fun)

Thanks to our super venue host - Serendipity Labs Orlando - we have been given the run of the 3rd floor at CNL Tower II downtown and we will make great use of it.

Prepare to team up and follow the clues as you go on a journey, building a new vision for yourself and your team as PMs in 20026 and beyond.

Yes, we will be escaping the mental shackles of our past and boldly charting our new future - one where we are not just humans-in-a-loop. No way baby. Way better than that, we will be smart, tasteful and savvy 'people-in-the-lead', making accelerated decisions in high-stakes environments informed by our second-sense for what's coming and grounded in our data-driven insights.

Let's stop wringing our hands about the "the future of product management" when AI and agents do most of what we used to call "our work" and let's start leveraging the new affordances of the technology and the new business context.

Bring something to share if you like - a bottle of champagne, six-pack, shots, BYOB and bring a friend.

See you there.

Martin, Sulivan and Curtis