Name: Scaling Products & Communities: Lessons from the Experts
Start: 2025-04-08T18:30:00+09:00
End: 2025-04-08T21:30:00+09:00
Location: SivanS Lab

**Scaling Products & Communities: Lessons from the Experts**

Join us for an exclusive evening with **Janna Bastow** and **James Mayes**, the visionary founders behind **Mind the Product**—the global movement that started as a small meetup in 2010, which has now morphed into the world’s largest product management community.

Mind The Product provides content, training and conferences that touch more than 300,000 product managers, designers, and developers via seminars, newsletters. While ProductTank has meetups in more than 200 global cities.

**Speakers:**

* **James Mayes** \- 3x Founder\. 1st fail\, 2nd exit to 🦄\, 3rd raising for Rodeo\. Prev Cofounder & CEO\, Mind the Product\. Speaker\, Author\.
* **Janna Bastow** \- Inventor of Now\-Next\-Later roadmap\, ProdPad\, and Mind the Product

In this **insight-packed session**, Janna and James will share hard-earned lessons on:

🚀 **Scaling a Global Product Community** – How they built and expanded Mind the Product
🛤 **Now-Next-Later Roadmapping** – A flexible approach to strategic product planning
🏗 **Building a Product Company** – The journey of launching and scaling **ProdPad**

Whether you're a **startup founder, investor, product leader, or builder**, this event will provide practical insights into **scaling teams, communities, and products** while fostering innovation. Please join us for this wonderful opportunity!

**Additionally**, our venue partner **Sivans** is a cutting-edge digital marketing company specializing in accelerating growth of tech startups. SivanS Lab empowers startups to scale efficiently, enhance their market presence, and achieve sustainable success in competitive industries. **If you are a new or experienced startup looking to expand in the Tokyo Market, please join us and learn more about how SivanS can help!**

📅 **Agenda:**

* 🎙 **Main Talk** (7p - 7:45p) - Interactive Panel chat with Janna and James!
* ❓ **Q&A Session** (7:45p- 8p) – Get your pressing questions answered
* 🤝 **Networking** (8p - 9:30p) – Connect with founders, investors, and people in product community

🥂 **BYOD (Bring Your Own Drink) – No food will be provided**

Spots are limited—don’t miss this opportunity to learn from **two of the most influential voices in product management!**

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**🚀 James Mayes** – **Co\-founder\, Mind the Product \| Founder\, StoryPress**

James Mayes is a technologist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of **Mind the Product**. With a background in scaling communities and building high-performing teams, he has helped shape the global conversation around modern product management. James frequently speaks on **team dynamics, innovation, and the future of work**.

**✨ Janna Bastow** – **Co\-founder\, Mind the Product \| CEO\, ProdPad**

Janna Bastow is a product management thought leader, entrepreneur, and co-founder of **Mind the Product**, the world’s largest product management community. She is also the **CEO of ProdPad**, a leading product management software company. Janna is the creator of the **Now-Next-Later roadmap**, a flexible approach to product planning used by teams worldwide. With deep experience in building and scaling product organizations, she is a sought-after speaker on product strategy, roadmapping, and startup growth.

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