Product Edmonton - Lightning Talks ⚡️⛈

We are a group dedicated to collectively increasing the skill-level and connectedness of the entire Edmonton Product Community. 📈

For this session, we will be catching some fast, actionable, and bite-sized talks from a handful of Edmonton's best Product People.

Fred Thompson - Senior Product Manager @ ATB - The Importance of Backlog Health
Natalie Moore - Product Manager @ AltaML - ....A behind the scenes look at my first datathon and why every Product Manager should do one
Taylor Reese - Principal Interaction Designer @ Intuit - Visual Design–A Collaborative Contact Sport

🍕There will also be some food and drinks sponsored by the kind people at ATB.🍕

¯_(ツ)_/¯ FAQ👇

Q: When do you meet and what do you do?
A: Product Edmonton formats will iterate and evolve as needed, and the constant will be a regular bi-monthly Meet Up (with killer presentations) at Startup Edmonton on the first Monday of every second month. On top of that, there will also be other events like...

• workshops and tutorials 🎓
• panel discussions and topic-specific deepdives 🔬
• collaborations with other like-minded meetups and organizations 🤗
• some good, old-fashioned nerding out over a 🍺or two

Q: Who should go to this? Is this just for Product Managers?
A: Our name is specifically open-ended, due to the wide number of disciplines that this all relates to. Whether you are a product leader, product manager, designer, developer, strategist, business analyst, project manager, UX enthusiast, account manager, content strategist, marketer, data person, etc., we all have things to both offer and learn. 👍

Q: I'm thinking of getting into Product but I have no experience. Am I welcome at this event.
A: Yes, you are especially welcome here.🏅

Q: Do you have a Slack Channel for Product-related/Product Manager chatting, job postings, favourite articles, advice, etc.?
A: Of course we do, and we would be stoked if you join it: https://goo.gl/forms/XFeBbI7d44uJWgu02 🙏