bpm Recap: #8 @ Spoke.ai & #9 @ Remerge and next event 22.05 at Wolt
bpm Recap: #8 @ Spoke.ai & #9 @ Remerge and next event 22.05 at Wolt
Let’s recap our last event and announce our exciting partnerships and upcoming product events.
This monthly newsletter from berlin product managers is brought to you by Spoke.ai, Remerge, Lenny’s Newsletter, Jam, and ProductLab from bpm.
Hey bpm Community!
April was a wild month - Let’s get to it!
Did you catch us at our events: #8 at Spoke.ai and #9 at Remerge in Berlin?
Whether we missed you at either event or you had so much fun attending, you couldn’t stop talking about it to your peers, here is our friendly, monthly recap!
Thank you to all that joined one or both of our meetups this month - we are truly grateful for your commitment and energy that you bring to keep this community growing and thriving!
With over 1.4K subscribers on Substack and over 3K followers on Linkedin, we definitely couldn’t do this without you!
If you missed the events, we have included photos, thanks to Arundhati Shenoy, and also have attached links to our speakers’ slides.
Announcing our ProductLab Community
We are proud to announce a new way to connect! Join our free Online Community to stay online, exchange ideas, interact with peers you met at previous BPM meetups, and give us your feedback on how we can improve our events in the future!
Announcing our upcoming ProductLAB
Coming up on May 20, join Florian Bonnet, VP Product at Fintecture, ex-Director of Growth at Typeform for a CoHorts workshop focused on data-driven decision making! You don’t want to miss the launch of this!
Event Recap: #8 at Spoke.ai
And what is a meetup nowadays without an AI talk? So Jack Lancaster showed us how to build #AI #products. He shared 10 learnings from Spoke.ai - one very important one for me: Chat is probably not the right interface for your AI product! Think more about your user experience in AI. One good note: Trust is a big issue when it comes to AI user experience. How can you gain your users trust in your product? The slides give you some tips.
— Dominic Kress, bpm Community Member
Our first speaker of #8: “Being home for products, teams, and you,” Jack Lancaster, Co-founder & CPO at Spoke.ai shared the team’s 10 hot learnings on how to build AI products, including choosing the right AI functionality, choosing the right interface, and making AI experiences proactive. Check out his presentation slides for the full breakdown!
In addition to overseeing product at Spoke, Jack also hosts 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀, sharing stories from incredible fellow product builders, such as designers, PMs, data scientists, and engineers. Check out the latest episode, to learn about common challenges and how to communicate better in teams!
Malte Scholz gave a wide-ranging presentation on the merits of a customer-centric, problem-oriented and data-driven approach to product management at airfocus. Loved hearing about the practical takeaways to put the learnings into practice. Great to finally connect in person while you were in town! 🤝
— Kevin Hwang, bpm Community Member
We were so fortunate to learn about the 3 non-negotiables of product management, actionable product strategy, customer-centricity, empowered product teams, and the current state of product management with our second speaker, Malte Scholz, Co-founder, CEO & CPO at airfocus.
Check out his slides on Navigating Product Strategy, Customer Focus and Execution.
Event Recap: #9 at Remerge
Our first speaker at #9: “Building Roadmaps and Strategies for Mobile Apps,” Louis Brutton, Director Analytical Products at Remerge discussed how we can measure the value of improved measurement and improve our decision making as PMs. From defining what to measure and exploring case studies of different analytical products, he provides a few steps to get started in the right direction.
Our second speaker, Imad Jawad, Head of Product, Marketplace at FREENOW had a more human-centric approach on which skills to acquire as a PM and how to navigate the challenges presented by assessing one’s self-knowledge, establishing the environment, and creating the best attitude to move forward in order to find the best competency to work within.
Missed the event?
By popular request, you have asked us to record our bpm meetup events, and fortunately, Remerge was able to provide a video recording of #9.
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— Julia Oehme, BPM Community Member
For our Community
ProdCamp features bpm & cohorts.tech on Youtube
Matei Culcer, co-founder of ProdCamp, recently interviewed our bpm co-founder, Daniele Ronca, as they discussed the development of berlin product managers and cohorts.tech and the importance of crafting communities.
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Coming Up
Join us for our next meetup: bpm #10 — Wolt’s Secret Sauce
Secure your spot for #10: Wolt’s Secret Sauce, May 22nd. We will hear from Gokul Nath Sridhar, Head of Product at Wolt about dealing with the complexities of Product Execution at Scale.
Followed by an exciting panel discussing the challenges of running a 3-sided marketplace. Joining Gokul from Wolt are Product Leads — Surbhi Jain and Milosz Zarzycki, and Head of Product — Bharadwaaj Rajan.
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