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Melissa Perri

The Speakers

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Melissa Perri

CEO @Produx Labs | Author of "Escaping the Build Trap”

Melissa Perri is a strategic advisor, author, and board member that works with executives to enable growth through building impactful product strategies and organizations. Currently, Melissa is the CEO and founder of Produx Labs, which offers e-learning for product people through Product Institute and CPO Accelerator. Previously, she taught Product Management at Harvard Business School in the MBA program. She is a board member of MeisterLabs, a board advisor for Dragon Boat and Labster, and a former board member of Forsta (acq. by Press Ganey). Melissa has written two books: "Escaping the Build Trap" and "Product Operations."

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Leah Tharin
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Leah Tharin

Growth & Scale Advisor for B2B

Leah Tharin is a leading Growth Advisor for scaling B2B companies. She was the former Head of Product at Deindeal, Jua and lead the core product at Smallpdf with over 50 million monthly active users. She is a program creator, lecturer, executive coach and advisor to company leadership and funds around product-led growth, scaling and product-led sales.

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Tami Reiss
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Tami Reiss

Product Leader Coach @The Product Leader Coach

Tami Reiss is a product leader coach who empowers teams and leaders to achieve their goals by focusing on strengths. With multiple product roles in B2B SaaS companies and consulting experience with a variety of firms such as Humana, Aetna, JPMorgan, and TheKnotWW, among others, she has a deep understanding of various industries. She primarily focuses on coaching product executives by helping them view themselves as a product.

Radhika Dutt
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Radhika Dutt

Author of "Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter"

Radhika Dutt, an author, entrepreneur, and product leader, advises high-tech startups to government agencies on building radical products that drive fundamental change. She's an Advisor on Product Thinking to the Monetary Authority of Singapore and serves on the boards of Berrett Koehler and the Association of Product Professionals. Dutt co-founded Radical Product Thinking and frequently speaks at business events and conferences globally.

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André Albuquerque
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André Albuquerque

VP of Product @Kitch (acq by Glovo)

André Albuquerque led cross-functional teams in building products across different startup stages, including 2-sided marketplaces, SaaS, and integrations-based products.

Currently leading product, design and research at Kitch (kitch.io), joining the founding team, and helping through the acquisition by Glovo/Delivery Hero ($DHER). Founder of One Month PM, a product manager acceleration program (onemonthpm.com), taught Product at the University (MSc and Exec Ed), advise the portfolio companies at Shilling Capital (shilling.vc), and wrote 0-to-1 product thoughts at www.andrealbuquerque.com.

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Gonçalo Gaiols
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Gonçalo Gaiolas

Chief Product Officer @ SoSafe | CPO Top 20 | Product & Community Led Growth

Gonçalo Gaiolas is the CPO of SoSafe, a company dedicated to promoting cybersecurity awareness worldwide. With more than a decade of experience as either Chief of Product, VP of Product or Community, Gonçalo brings his words of experience combining the fields of Business and Leadership, Low Code and OutSystems, and Product Management and Productivity. He is also an experienced traveler with an eternal beginner mindset, so he might bring an interesting perspective in his worldview.

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Anabela Cesário
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Anabela Cesário

VP of Product Operations @OutSystems | Product Ops Leader, Coach & Mentor

Product management leader & coach that is passionate about helping teams building products customers love. Throughout her career, Anabela has been successfully building teams from scratch.

Currently, she's VP of Product Operations at OutSystems, and has a vast experience in Product Management acquired from her work at Novabase and GE Capital ITS.

A good talk about about fresh starts, product management, ops, scaling teams, and yoga!

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Julia Steier
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Julia Steier

Product Manager @Google | The “Visual PM”

Julia isn't your usual Product Manager –she's "the Visual PM." 

With a deep-rooted passion for both technology and drawing, Julia effortlessly combines creativity and innovation to guide product development from a unique perspective.

With experience as a Product Manager at different companies, including her current role at Google, Julia incorporates visual thinking and communication into her work whenever possible. Her drawings help teams to be clearer on the vision and product goals, and to collaborate and communicate more effectively.

She enjoys sharing her expertise through workshops and practices real-time visualization for talks and conferences, a skill known as graphic recording or visual facilitation. 

She firmly believes that drawing is a valuable tool that can help you become a better Product Manager, and she's excited to teach you how to harness its potential.

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Chiedza Muguti
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Chiedza Muguti

CPO @Alteos | Product Leader | Speaker | Coach | Mentor

Assiduous Product Leader driving delivery from the product roadmap to end users. Experienced financial products and services product professional with proven technical and commercial expertise across the complete Product Development Lifecycle. Excellent communicator, able to influence and operate at all levels of the business. A committed and motivated servant leader of high performing teams that deliver successful outcomes, based on collaborative ways of working and solution driven thinking.

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Dominique Jost
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Dominique Jost

Product @Doist | Founder @Calmr Works | Coach @Product Academy

A creative, resilient, and pragmatic product leader.

Dominique is the Head of Product at Doist, makers of Todoist and Twist, where he is building a world-class, remote and async-first product organization. He started his career writing code for web applications but quickly gravitated toward the art and science of shaping and shipping great products.

This interest in all things product, and his appetite for sharing and learning new ways of working, inspired him to take on different leadership roles throughout his 20-year career in engineering and product.

His ultimate goal is to create empowering environments where teams can create value for customers and the business — all while having fun and staying sane.

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João Freitas
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João Freitas

Digital Products and Value Creation @ Cofidis Group

João Colaço de Freitas is the CPO of Cofidis, a leading consumer finance player in Portugal. He has spent his career zig-zagging between start-up and corporate world across Energy, Retail, Enterprise Software and Finance - finding a surprising amount of common ground. Deep curiosity around user problems, disciplined execution in both discovery and delivery work and radical focus on talent are the things that move the needle - irrespective of the environment.

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David Pereira
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David Pereira

CEO @omoqo GmbH

David Pereira is a product leader with 15+ years of experience. He's sharpened his skills by leading diverse teams, from startups to giant corporations. Since 2020, he has openly shared his mistakes, failures, and insights on agile product management, reaching over 10 million readers worldwide. His thought-provoking courses had 15K+ satisfied students across 100+ countries.

Let his unique expertise inspire your journey.

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Cátia Pereira
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Cátia Pereira

Senior Service Designer @ Koos Service Design

Cátia is a hands-on designer with 10 years of experience as a consultant and manager of design and innovation projects. Getting to know people and their realities, to be able to materialize ideas and bring them to life is her passion! No wonder she finds human-centered innovation the most interesting. Cátia loves adventure – she climbed the highest mountain in Portugal.

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Patricia Cadete
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Patrícia Cadete

Lead Program Manager @OutSystems

Patrícia is a storyteller by training and by heart. After some time as a TV Journalist, she found a different path in the intersection of people, product, and marketing in the past ten years. She's a Lead Product Operations Manager at OutSystems, leading an internal Product Management Academy, helping to grow the next generation of product leaders. At the same time, she hosts and organizes Product Ops Unwrapped, a talk series about Product Operations, followed by a community of 1000+ product and product operations professionals.

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Nersin Changuel
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Nesrin Changuel

Product Manager @ Google

Nesrin is an agile professional at heart, driven by a deep passion for building innovative products that effectively solve users' problems. With her self-management skills, she excels in taking ownership and driving projects forward. Nesrin's exceptional team-building and relationship-building abilities contribute to a collaborative and supportive work environment. As a strong communicator, she thrives on fostering open communication and enjoys collaborating with others to achieve shared goals.

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João Craveiro
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João Craveiro

Group Product Manager

A seasoned software professional, who is passionate about product management, with 8+ years of experience. Specializing in B2B and platform products, he excels in strategy, discovery, and delivery. Skilled in public speaking, coaching, and line management, João currently thrives as a Staff Product Manager at Remote. His previous roles include product leadership at Farfetch and Onfido, teaching at Universidade Lusófona, and product management at Premium Minds. He has also conducted research and served as a teaching assistant at the University of Lisbon.

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Randy Silver
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Randy Silver

Product & Leadership Coach, Community Builder, & Consultant

With a background in leading high-performance product teams at renowned companies like Amazon, Sainsbury's, and HSBC, Randy specializes in building strong product cultures and empowering teams to ask better questions, driving faster progress. He is the author of the book “What Do We Do Now?”. He also runs The Product Experience podcast and you can also check the valuable insights shared at Product in the [A]ether events.

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Magali Pelissier
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Magali Pelissier

Head of Product @ SamKnows

Senior Product Executive with a record of improving the bottom line of 10+ products. Reputation for finding product-market fit, turning around underperforming products and growing adoption. A pioneer in bridging the gap between people, process and technology and implementing workflow automation, AI integration and risk mitigation. Confident in building and developing careers of global cross-functional teams and influencing at C-suite/Board levels. Former artistic swimming elite athlete and Channel swimmer who exemplifies teamwork, accountability, and DEI.

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Rémi Ribas Policastro
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Rémi Ribas Policastro

Speaker, Writer, Workshop Facilitator

Finding out that emotional regulation was a skill and as such it can be learned and mastered was a pivoting moment in Remi’s life. 

 

Since then, Remi has packed years of findings and (self) experimentations in that area to share them with all sorts of crowds allowing them to effectively notice, regulate and harness emotions.

 

Outside of this, Remi builds a career around revenue in the tech industry with an appetite for growth, solving problems and building lasting relationships.

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Elizabeth Immer
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Elizabeth Immer

Product and Design Leader

Questions like “Why do we—as individuals and as group members—do what we do?" "How can we and our customers and co-workers be brought to behave 'better'?" "How can insights from behavioral science help us build more impactful and better-loved products?" guide much of Elizabeth's work. Currently Head of Product Acceleration and Strategy at Frontiers Media, her product leadership approach is heavily influenced by her scientific background in behavioral science. Keywords in her work: Behavioral economics, experimentation, evidence-based decision-making, user research, strategy, usability, UX, CX.

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René Bastijans
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Rene Bastijans

Growth-focused Researcher

As a growth-focused Researcher, Rene's expertise lies in helping businesses, regardless of size, excel in building, marketing, and selling products that generate value and excitement for customers while driving business growth. He specializes in leveraging Jobs to be Done theory, conducting buyer's journey analysis, and performing comprehensive market research. By understanding customer needs and preferences, he assists companies in creating compelling offerings that deliver exceptional customer experiences and drive sustainable growth.

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Andrej Balaz
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Andrej Balaz

Researcher and Designer @ Miro

Andrej Balaz is working as a Staff Researcher in Growth at Miro. With a multi-faceted background in service design, UX, UI, and strategy, he helps teams at Miro to explore and test new ways of attracting customers to engage and retain them. Andrej has also consulted with various organizations worldwide to help them reveal new growth opportunities. When talking to Andrej, you will hear him talk about "selling before building it", leveraging design to "take curiosity on a walk with a clear goal, but no obvious path", and more. Reach out!

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Inês Liberato
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Inês Liberato

Product Coach @ Founders Factory

With a vibrant background spanning big data, gambling, financial regulation, and IoT, Inês dives into the realms of B2C and B2B contexts. As an entrepreneur, she thrives on collaborating with start-ups and scale-ups, injecting her passion for product innovation and transformation initiatives. Currently serving as a Product Coach at Founders Factory, Ines brings a unique blend of expertise and entrepreneurial spirit to the table. Her magnetic presence and insightful perspective make her a captivating speaker, leaving audiences inspired and eager to embrace the endless possibilities of innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Jason Knight
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Jason Knight

Founder & Host @ One Knight in Product Podcast

Jason Knight is a B2B product leader, consultant, coach, founder and podcaster. By day, he works with B2B startups and scale-ups to help them build great products and build the teams that build great products. By night, he speaks to inspiring thought leaders, practitioners and founders on his podcast One Knight in Product. A passionate advocate for mentorship, he’s the co-founder of My Mentor Path, a platform that aims to make mentorship accessible to all.

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