How to Prioritize When Everything Feels Important

Cut through the noise and learn how to make clear, confident decisions—even when every project, feature, or request feels urgent. Join us for a thoughtful, energizing roundtable built for PMs, designers, founders, and anyone navigating complex prioritization.

This month, we’re tackling one of the hardest parts of product work: prioritization when everything seems important.

We’ll dig into practical frameworks, real-world stories, and the subtle judgment calls that separate reactive product teams from intentional, high-impact ones. Expect an evening of good people, good conversation, and plenty of honest examples of what works—and what absolutely doesn’t. (Plus pizza!)

Whether you’re stewarding a roadmap at work, shipping your own product, or juggling side projects, you’ll walk away with:

• Ways to distinguish urgency from importance when the stakes feel high
• Tools for evaluating tradeoffs across competing goals
• Approaches for saying “not now” without burning bridges
• Stories from other builders about hard prioritization moments—and how they navigated them

Join us for our monthly in-person roundtable session of The Product Group Hudson Valley, a local chapter of the world’s largest and longest-running product management communities.

• Who should attend: Product managers, aspiring PMs, product designers, entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in understanding the role of product management -- whether you’re just starting out or already leading teams.
• Takeaway: Learn practical techniques for focusing your team, clarifying value, and driving momentum.
• Format: Interactive roundtable discussion, where everyone will share experiences, explore challenges, and exchange ideas.
• Featured Product: Tom di Mino will join us to talk about his work at the cutting edge of AI, at Aldea Labs and beyond.

This is your invitation to:

• Be part of shaping a new Hudson Valley product community
• Connect with thoughtful, local builders and leaders
• Walk away with practical takeaways you can apply immediately

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Tom di Mino is a poet-turned AI Content Engineer whose career spans creative writing, UX, and large-scale LLM systems. He has held senior contract roles at Google, JPMorganChase, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and is currently Principal AI/ML Engineer at Aldea, where he builds voice-first AI advisors using advanced STT/TTS pipelines and post-Transformer LLM architectures.

About the venue: Inspired by the coworking and localism movements in the early aughts, Beahive is a pioneering network of hives for work and belonging — the first and only of its kind in the Hudson Valley, one of only a handful in all of NY, and one of probably only a few hundred in the world when it opened.