Product managers are sometimes reviled and other times revered. In this talk, Sammy Shreibati, Product Manager at LinkedIn, goes over the differences between the roles and what to expect. He discusses how to shift your thinking from "what" to "why", how to start working like a product manager and why you should always have a story.

In this talk, Gayle McDowell, the author of the book "Cracking the PM Interview", teaches how to prepare for Product Manager interviews, what top companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft really look for, and how to tackle the toughest problems.

Gayle discusses how the ambiguously-named "PM" (product manager / program manager) role varies across companies, what experience you need, how to make your existing experience translate, what a great PM resume and cover letter look like, and finally, how to master the PM interview questions (estimation questions, behavioral questions, case questions, product questions, technical questions, and the super important "pitch").

Growth Leader from Zendesk, Brianne Kimmel, and Director of Partnerships at Trello, Anthony Marnell, talk about the best practices on how to turn customer feedback into actionable insights. They also discuss why customer feedback matters, what the best practices for sharing customer feedback with internal teams are and how to evaluate signal vs. noise.

What exactly is a Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is the world's first finite digital resource, a currency that no single person or organization can control - kind of like a digital gold. Unless you have a background in cryptography or economics or both, phrases like cold storage, hard fork, and segregated witness can all seem pretty cryptic.

Tyler Odean from Google gives an introduction to Bitcoin that covers questions like what is Bitcoin, how does it work and why does it matter.

Product managers are hired to build the future of products.

However, when working on products and companies that are already at large scale, many Product Managers get stuck in ‘incrementalism’. This is the classic ‘local maxima’, and the proverbial ‘death by a thousand cuts’.

Product Manager at YouTube, Seung Nam, talks about the challenges of building products at scale, and shares some challenges and lessons learned from rebuilding YouTube.com. Main takeaways that Seung discusses are how to create a vision, and share it, how to build design principles, and actually uphold them and how to back it up with complete data.

Are you trying to break into Product Management, or looking to stay on-top of your Product Management game?

Carlos González de Villaumbrosia, Product School Founder and CEO, covers int his talk how to grow your career once you're a product manager, what makes a successful Product Manager and how to understand the role and importance of product managers in today's tech industry. Carlos also shares some tactical tips on how to transition to product management and grow your career.

Pricing is one of the most important skills a Product Manager needs to have. Whether it be pricing a new product, service launch, pricing an upgrade or just thinking about price cuts to stay competitive.

In this talk, Aditya Vikram Bhuwania discusses how to understand how top firms think about pricing, various pricing strategies, architecture and implementation. He talks about the importance of pricing, different pricing strategies as well as price setting and architecture.

In this talk, Matt Wolf, Product Manager at StubHub, talks about the stages of companies, small and large company teams, key differences in company size, and how to understand the Product Manager role based on company size.

He gives insight on what the company needs are at different stages, how to think about your career arc and where you want to be over the long term. From this talk, you can learn how to think strategically about your career path and company size.

Product management is about creating change. Metrics are the guideposts that help us ensure that the changes we make are leading to the results we want. They let us forecast, provide early warning signals, and create incentives for action.

In this talk, Meghan Cochran, former Product Manager at Sephora, discusses designing good metrics, gaining alignment among a broad range of stakeholders, and communicating progress effectively. She talks about the trade-offs of looking at rates & ratios vs. absolute numbers, and funnels, cohorts, and other fascinating and exciting measures of success.

Neha talks about a few projects she worked on for the visually impaired. The first was in collaboration with TechBridgeWorld, an organization that facilitated the implementation of accessible technologies for developing communities. The second was during her time at Google Maps.

Neha Rathi is the primary front end developer for Flow, Sidewalk Labs' mobility subsidiary. Prior to joining Flow, Neha worked on Google Maps in San Francisco. She was responsible for the "popular times" feature as well as keyboard exploration, a screen-reader-compatible tool that makes Maps more accessible for visually impaired users.