Real-World Wins & Learning from Losses
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🎉 Behind The Product Meetup brings Budapest's Product Managers together to connect, learn, and share insights for creating innovative products. 🚀
This meetup is for you if:
You decide what your product team builds. 🛠️
You guide how your product enters the market. 🧭
You shape the future of your product. 🔮
🕒 Event Agenda
17:30 - Registration 📝
18:00 - 1 Topic & 4 Aspects 🎤
18:45 - Roundtable Discussion 💬
19:30 - Beer & Wraps 🍻🌯
“Biggest Lessons from Building Products & Teams - Positive & Negative.” 💡⚖️
What drives product innovation 💡
How to overcome team-related hurdles 🛑➡️🚀
How to learn from failure 📉💪
1st Speaker: Tamas Malindovszky, Product Director at SAP Emarsys
Bio:
Tamas is a product professional at Emarsys with 7 years of experience in Analytics and Automation. A people manager and product career path leader, he's also a passionate mentor, author, and game master.
Title of the Presentation: Embrace changes 🌪️
The presentation will cover:
How do changes affect teams? 🤔
How can you make your team more resilient? 🛡️
How are product, organizational, and team changes connected? 🔗
Keywords:
Resilience 💪
Change management 🔄
Re-organisation 🏗️
Pivoting strategies 🔄
2nd Speaker: Gergely Schmidt, Product Manager at Instructure.
Bio:
Product Manager with 10+ years of experience across startups and enterprises. Worked with Ustream, IBM, Tresorit, Lidl, and his own startup—"been there, done that" 📈.
Title of the Presentation: What is innovation? 💡
The presentation will cover: Product management war stories 📖, successes 🏆, and failures 💥 from personal and company perspectives.
Keywords:
Product management
Innovation
Success & failure stories
3rd Speaker: Balázs Kereskényi, a product management leader and mentor from the MVP company.
Bio:
I specialize in improving product management, moving fast to market 🚀, and building early-stage concepts and teams. With experience leading cross-functional teams of 100+, I also enjoy managing up. Fun fact: I even used my skills to create a sourdough micro-bakery 🍞
Title of the presentation: Lessons learned from helping companies move to product-led 🏁
The presentation will cover:
What are the common mistakes companies make when shifting to a product-led approach, and how can they be avoided? ⚠️
How not to waste investor money? 💸
Why do we need cross-functional teams to be aligned, and how to do that? 🤝
How can we make real innovation happen? 🌟
Keywords:
PLG (Product-Led Growth) 📊
Cross-functional collaboration 🤝
Innovation strategy 💡
Managing up 🚀
4th Speaker: Yu-Kuan Lin, VP and Head of Boards & Leadership Products at Diligent.
Bio:
VP and Head of Boards & Leadership Products at Diligent, building the future of governance and technology🌍🚀. Before Diligent, he scaled Meta's nascent business to $10B GMV 💼💸. He also founded a YCombinator-backed startup and scaled Codecademy to a $500M+ exit🎓💡. Yu-Kuan began his career at Google & Microsoft, working on Android, Maps, and Search 🔍📱.
Title of the Presentation: “Building Products with AI for Senior Leaders: Lessons from the Trenches”
The presentation will cover:
What are the key lessons learned from building AI-powered products for senior business leaders?
How does AI influence the decision-making processes of board members and C-suite executives?
What challenges and successes come with building high-impact products in fast-paced, high-stakes environments?
How can product teams better integrate AI to solve real business problems for top leadership?
Keywords:
AI in product development 🤖
Leadership decision-making 🧠
Product management 🛠️
Building high-performance teams 🏆
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Real-World Wins & Learning from Losses