Agenda
The MIT Product Conference is a student-led event at MIT Sloan School of Management. At this year's inaugural product conference, cross- functional leaders will come together for engaging dialogue on the changing landscape of product management, product leadership of the future, and how to enter and advance in the industry
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The conference will also feature a Google sponsored hackathon and opportunities to connect with speakers and 400+ attendees (including students from MIT, HBS, Wharton, Duke, Kellogg Northeastern, Babson, etc, and will be held at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium on February 24, 2023
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM - Registration/Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM - Keynote
Opening remarks by Conference Co-Chairs
Speakers: Caterina Castellano, Francis James, and Rishabh Goyal
9:15 AM - 9:55 AM - Fireside Keynote
1 to 100, Building and Scaling Impactful Products
Speaker - Hugo Barra (CEO, Detect I Ex-Meta, Ex-Google)
Moderator - David Lakatos (CPO, FormLabs)
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM - Fireside Chat
Product and Society: Building Mindful Products
Speakers - Dave Dame (Director of Accessibility, Microsoft), Dev Bala (ex-CPO, Sentropy)
Moderator - Sahil Joshi (Principal Lead, Google)
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM- Coffee Break
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11:00 AM - 11:50 AM - Panel
0 to 1: Optimizing Your Product Journey from Ideation to Launch
Speakers - Dávid Lakatos (CPO, Formlabs), Robin Chase (Co-Founder & Ex- CEO, ZipCar), Mick Mountz (Founder & CEO, Amazon Robotics)
Moderator - JJ Rorie (CEO, Great Product Management)
11:55 AM - 12:55 PM - Showcase
Google Product Hackathon Showcase
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM- Lunch and Networking
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM - Showcase
Announcement of Google Hackathon winners
2:15PM - 2:55 PM - Fireside Chat
Incubating New Business Ideas in a Corporate Environment
Speaker - Nancy Wang (Director of Product, AWS)
Moderator - Ryan Mason (Principal, BCGX)
3:00 PM - 3:40 PM - Panel
The nuances of Product Management for B2B Products
Speakers - Alexzandra Caldwell-Wenman (Snr. Director Of Product Tableau),
Deba Sahoo (SVP, Head of Product, Fidelity Investments)
Moderator: JJ Rorie (CEO, Great Product Management)
3:40 PM - 3:55 PM - Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM - Panel
The Key to KPIs: Measuring Product Success
Speakers - Suresh Vittal (CPO, Alteryx), Lee Weiner (CIO, Rapid7), Erik Holm (VP of PM, NewStore)
Moderator: Prof. Vivek Farias (Professor, MIT Sloan)
4:45 PM - 5:35 PM - Panel
Transitioning Into a PM Role
Speakers - Phill Deresa (Group PM Data & Analytics, Atlassian), Kie Watanabe (Group PM Payments, Hubspot), Eliseo Miranda (Group PM Autonomy, Gatik)
Moderator: John Ellsworth (BPMA)
5:40 PM - 5:55 PM - Keynote
Closing remarks by PM Club Co-Presidents
Speakers: Caroline Liegey and Priya Bhasin
5:55 PM - 7:25 PM - Networking