The Product Summit: Transforming Ideas To Products,

About the event

Transforming Ideas To Products

People, Knowledge, Process, And Tools Converge For Excellence.




The Product Summit brings together product professionals, developers, designers, managers and marketers with entrepreneurs, makers, inventors, SMBs to share and learn the best practices of building and managing their products across all industries.




The Product Summit Oakland is the 4th event in the series now coming to the East Bay to support Oakland’s entrepreneurship, startup and business culture. It focuses on jump starting, managing and executing the process for building and developing excellent products of all kinds.




We’ve assembled an eclectic group of speakers representing the best from the Oakland Area. Expect to learn about product development, management, founding, designing and delivering products, strategic thinking, scaling and sustaining growth over time and much, much more!




The Product Summit brings together the people behind excellent products in the Oakland, California vicinity. The one day event includes product visionaries, leaders and practitioners who share their first-hand experience for achieving product excellence, from creation to release and beyond, in all kinds of industries and product categories. The provocative event showcases unique viewpoints and lessons learned at all stages in the process of designing, developing, making, manufacturing, managing, marketing, scaling and consuming products of all kinds including software, hardware and consumer goods.




The Product Summit community is focused on providing the much needed foundation for the practice of effective product management. Well-designed and managed products touch everyone; ensure profitability; vastly improve with cross-disciplinary participation, multiple perspectives and shared best practices; and often ignite a powerful movement and dedication for excellence on product teams.




Research indicates that whenever passionate product professionals join forces across functions and are given the resources to support their efforts, the result is not only contagious excitement but also a fortunate spark propelling companies to success by every measure.




To build this foundation and forward future product leaders, The Product Summit offers a range of opportunities to benefit sponsors—everything from engagement possibilities, to demonstrating your company’s leadership, to access to the best people for placement within your open positions, to learning from and with a global audience, to affiliation options to promote your brand.

Become part of a community committed to bringing innovative products and processes to the global marketplace and driving the inquiry already happening around achieving enviable product results.




Benefit To You
• Impressive Visibility:

Your company will become associated with high-quality product management implementations and your brand synonymous with cutting edge thought leaders with deep domain experience.

• Ready Access to Job Seekers:

Your company will quickly move past the common difficulty of finding professionals skilled in product management, technical acumen and leadership.

• Extra Support For Your Own Community:

You can connect your own leadership to a burgeoning community through The Product Summit. It’s a tremendous perk for your employees as well as a rich network of active product professionals.

 

Our Core Values

The Product Summit Community stands behind the following core values:

• Organizing an annual, globally-inclusive conference to support product professionals (executives, founders, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, authors and strategists) in their drive for product excellence. No other conference or organization offers such a multidisciplinary view as well as an emphasis across disciplines, verticals and industries.
• Identifying the most innovative, resourceful, and accessible thought leaders that, together with attendees, can push the envelope around how product management needs to evolve. Speakers have included such well known practitioners as Ken Norton from Google Ventures, Josh Elman from Greylock Partners, Product Management Rockstars such as Rich Mironov, Steve Johnson, and Ian Kennedy from GigaOm, as well as companies as influential as IBM, Microsoft, Twitter, LinkedIn, Lithium, Expedia and Adobe.
• Sustaining an extended community year round with community resources that include regular Global Product Management Talk broadcasts, recurring product therapy sessions, the Webcast Digest of daily digital events for continuous learning, monthly in-person Startup Product and Product Talk community meetup events (in 20 local communities globally) and the Product Professional job board. There are membership benefits as well. The Product Summit invests in long-term strategic affiliations.
  
  
Who Attends

The Product Summit is valuable for every passionate product professional; that is, anyone carrying the title CEO, CTO, VP, Founder, Product Manager, UX, Designer, Developer, Product Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner,
Product Marketer, Business Analyst, Growth Hacker, HR, or VC.

The conference welcomes those representing diverse industries, locations, and product types, including software, hardware, services and solutions.

Why should you sponsor?

Cindy Solomon

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