Engineering Leadership & Product Events in Europe

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 · 18:00–21:00 · RynekPierwotny.pl, ul. Rodziny Hiszpańskich 8, Warsaw

[English below]
W tym miesiącu rozmawiamy o budowaniu nowych produktów na bazie tego, co już istnieje.
Piotr i Szymon zaczęli w podobnym miejscu, ale poszli w zupełnie różnych kierunkach.
Piotr przyjrzał się temu, jak ludzie korzystają z GOG, jak o nim mówią, oraz z czego mogliby chcieć skorzystać. Na tej podstawie zbudował nowy produkt od podstaw.
Szymon spojrzał szerzej na cały model biznesowy i zauważył, że jedna z jego części przede wszystkim generuje koszty. Zamiast ją dalej optymalizować, po prostu ją wyciął — i z tego powstał nowy produkt.
Dwie różne drogi, dwa działające produkty i konkretne wyniki.
Bo czasem najlepszy pomysł na nowy produkt nie wymaga kolejnych funkcji. Wymaga lepszego spojrzenia na to, co już mamy.

Jak z jednorazowych wpłat powstał program członkowski oparty na misji GOG?
Piotr opowie, jak powstawali GOG Patrons — od pierwszych sygnałów, że gracze chcą wspierać GOG i jego misję, przez badania i grupy fokusowe, aż po decyzje dotyczące ceny i samego kształtu produktu. Pokaże też dane z pierwszego roku i opowie o tym, co się sprawdziło, a co trzeba było zmienić po drodze.
Piotr rozwija w GOG produkty łączące społeczność graczy z misją zachowywania klasycznych gier. Wywodzi się z digital marketingu, a poza GOG Patrons odpowiada również za Dreamlist, na której gracze oddali już ponad 15 milionów głosów na gry, które chcieliby zobaczyć ponownie w sprzedaży.
Historia Patrons pokazuje, że pomysł na nowy produkt nie zawsze trzeba wymyślać od zera. Czasem wystarczy dobrze przyjrzeć się temu, co użytkownicy już robią i czego od nas oczekują.

Jako młody startup wpadliśmy na genialny pomysł na skalowanie: powtórzymy wszędzie model z Polski. Nowy kraj, nowy lokalny zespół. Działało przez pięć minut. Potem już tylko kosztowało. Więc zamiast dokładać ludzi, przebudowaliśmy produkt z góry na dół: z jednego marketplace'u staliśmy się technologią, na której inni budują dziś własne marketplace'y i własne biznesy.

Szymon stawia tezę, którą część sali usłyszy jak groźbę: New Product Development będzie coraz mniej o featurach, a coraz bardziej o biznesie. W świecie, w którym technologię buduje się coraz łatwiej, product manager bez biznesowego myślenia będzie bezrobotny.

Strateg, marketer, innowator i przedsiębiorca. W digitalu od ponad 16 lat. Współzałożyciel inStreamly, który rozwinął od fazy zero po 15 rynków, ponad 200 000 zarejestrowanych twórców, 50-osobowy zespół i dwie rundy inwestycyjne o wartości 2,6 mln USD. Do dziś działa w nim jako Chief Revenue Officer. Jego nowy produkt to ta sama firma, narysowana od nowa z góry.

Rozchodzimy się na kilka mniejszych stolików tematycznych. Przynieś problem, nad którym siedzisz od trzech sprintów, albo rzecz, która u was naprawdę zadziałała (a której wciąż nie umiesz do końca wytłumaczyć). Chodzi o wieczór, z którego wychodzisz z konkretną odpowiedzią od kogoś, kto ma to za sobą, a nie z kolejnym folderem notatek, do którego nigdy nie zajrzysz.

Rynek Pierwotny / PropertyGroup ul. Rodziny Hiszpańskich 8, 6. piętro, Warszawa

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środa, 23 września 2026 · 18:00–21:00

• 18:00 Przyjście gości, networking
• 18:30 Powitanie od ProductTank (5 min)
• 18:35 Powitanie od Rynku Pierwotnego (5 min)
• 18:40 Piotr Sobczyk (25–30 min z Q&A)
• 19:15 Przerwa networkingowa (15 min)
• 19:30 Szymon Kubiak (25–30 min z Q&A)
• 20:05 Stoliki tematyczne
• 20:45 Zakończenie
• 20:50–21:00 Networking

Bez teorii i bez pitchy vendorów, a przez jeden wieczór także bez requestów o nowe funkcje.

Wstęp bezpłatny. Limit miejsc: 40. Zarezerwuj miejsce, RSVP na meetup.com.

Poczęstunek: kawa i woda od gospodarza, kanapki od nas.

Dziękujemy Rynek Pierwotny za przestrzeń i wsparcie tej edycji.

Kontakt: Luke Szyrmer (luke@launchtomorrow.com), Grzegorz Witek (grzegorzw.mail@gmail.com), Michał Krajewski (mikekrajewskipro@gmail.com) albo przez aplikację Meetup.

This month we're building new products, except none of them started from a blank page. Both speakers found a new product hiding inside a business that already existed, and both got there without bolting on more features. From opposite ends of the building.

Piotr listened to what GOG's own products were quietly telling him, and built up from the ground.

Szymon stepped back, looked at the whole model from above, and tore out the part that only ever cost money.

Same starting constraint, opposite directions, both live with real numbers. Most of us are still bolting features onto the old product and calling it a roadmap.

How does a tip jar turn into a mission-fuelled membership? At GOG it started as discovery, picking up signals scattered across their own products, the ones most of us close with "interesting, let's revisit in Q3." Piotr walks through how GOG Patrons actually came together from the bottom up: the surveys, the focus groups, the awkward pricing questions, first-year data, and an honest look at what worked and what didn't.

Piotr builds products at GOG that connect communities of gamers with the mission of preserving classic games. He came out of digital marketing leadership, and beyond Patrons he owns Dreamlist, which has already gathered over 15 million votes for games to save. (That's more agreement than most teams reach on a single Jira ticket.) The product he'll talk about was living inside GOG before anyone started building it.

As a young startup we had a brilliant plan for scaling: copy the "Poland model" everywhere. New country, new local team. It worked for five minutes. After that it just cost money. So instead of adding people, we rebuilt the product from the top down: from a single marketplace into the technology other people now use to build their own marketplaces and their own businesses.

Szymon's thesis, which part of the room may hear as a threat: New Product Development is less about features and more about the business. In a world where technology gets easier to build every year, a product manager without business thinking ends up unemployed.

A strategist, marketer, innovator and entrepreneur, Szymon's been in digital for 16+ years. He co-founded inStreamly and grew it from zero to 15 markets, 200,000+ registered creators, a 50-person team, and two funding rounds worth USD 2.6M. He still runs it as Chief Revenue Officer. His new product is the same company, redrawn from above.

We split into a few smaller topic tables. Bring the problem you've been stuck on for three sprints, or the thing that actually worked at your place (that you still can't fully explain). The goal is an evening you leave with a concrete answer from someone who's been through it, not another folder of notes you'll never open.

RynekPierwotny.pl / PropertyGroup ul. Rodziny Hiszpańskich 8, 6th floor, Warsaw

At reception downstairs, say you're here for the PropertyGroup / RynekPierwotny event. The doors on the 6th floor will be open.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 · 18:00–21:00

• 18:00 Doors open, networking
• 18:30 Welcome from ProductTank (5 min)
• 18:35 Welcome from Rynek Pierwotny (5 min)
• 18:40 Piotr Sobczyk (25–30 min incl. Q&A)
• 19:15 Networking break (15 min)
• 19:30 Szymon Kubiak (25–30 min incl. Q&A)
• 20:05 Small-group tables
• 20:45 Closing remarks
• 20:50–21:00 Networking

No theory or vendor pitches, and for one night, no feature requests either.

Free entry. Capacity is 40. Grab your spot, RSVP on meetup.com.

Refreshments: coffee and water from the host, sandwiches from us.

Thanks to Rynek Pierwotny for the space and for supporting this edition.

Contact: Luke Szyrmer (luke@launchtomorrow.com), Grzegorz Witek (grzegorzw.mail@gmail.com), Michał Krajewski (mikekrajewskipro@gmail.com) or through the Meetup app.

About the Meetup
This meetup is for people who want to learn more about Product Discovery & Delivery. It combines practical talks with time for discussion and networking. You will meet others who share your interest in creating better products, solving meaningful problems, and improving how teams discover and deliver value.

What to Expect
Talks: Two practical talks or workshops on Product Discovery & Delivery. Speaker details and topics will be announced.
Networking: Dedicated time to meet other product people, exchange experiences, and continue the conversations from the talks.

Agenda
18:00–18:30: Arriving, Networking, Food & Drinks
18:30–18:45: Welcome & Host Intro
18:45–20:45: Two talk or workshop slots, with a short break
20:45–22:00: Networking

Talk 1
Christina Krumpholz & Oliver Hovorka - Project Raven: Transforming Land Registry Data into Live Market Insights
Talk 2
TBA

Why Join?
• Share your experiences and learn from others.
• Take away practical ideas you can use in your work.
• Hear new perspectives on Product Discovery & Delivery.
• Meet people who care about creating better products.
Venue and speaker details will be announced.
We are happy to see you there in person :)

Get in touch
If you would like to host us or give a talk, send us a message here on Meetup.

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We've now been around for a year, and our community is wonderfully diverse. There are attendees who are new to product (management), those who hold adjacent roles (engineering, design, marketing, consulting), those who want to understand what PMs actually do, and experienced PMs who want a shared vocabulary to argue with: this Tank is for you! After a year, we're bringing together a wealth of knowledge.

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Agenda
6:00 p.m. – Doors open
6:30 p.m. – Welcome & introduction by the PT organisers
6:45 p.m. – Talk: Lutz Göcke – „Product Management, Demystified: A Guided Tour Through the Discipline" plus Q&A
~7:15 p.m. – Moderated Discussion
~7:45 p.m. – Networking and drinks, open end
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Product Management, Demystified: A Guided Tour Through the Discipline

What to expect:
Product management is one of the most decisive and often misunderstood roles in digital companies. Is it project management with a fancier title? Mini-CEO? Backlog administrator? None of the above.
In this session, Lutz gives a structured introduction to digital product management, based on his new textbook. In an opening talk (~30 min), he walks through the core of the discipline: what makes digital products different, what "product success" actually means, and how the craft breaks down into its key practices — from Product Discovery and Product Direction to Delivery, Diffusion Data, and a new learning loop.
The second half is deliberately open: we'll pick two or three tension points from the talk — e.g., project thinking vs. product thinking, output vs. outcome, or how GenAI is shifting the role — and discuss them together. Bring your questions, your skepticism, and your war stories from your own organization.

About Lutz
Lutz Göcke is Professor of Digital Management at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences, where he founded and leads the B.A. program in Digital Product Management and the university's startup incubator, HIKE. Before academia, he spent eight years as a digital product manager at Volkswagen. He teaches and researches at the intersection of digital products, business models, and how agentic AI is reshaping product teams. He is co-author of Produktmanagement: Kontinuierliche Innovation digitaler Produkte (Springer Gabler, 2026), a comprehensive German-language textbook on digital product management.

We'd of course be especially glad if attendees have already read Lutz's book and bring that into the discussion though naturally, that's entirely optional.

Once again, we'd like to thank codecentric for hosting and sponsoring this event.

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Uns gibt es nun seit einem Jahr und unsere Community ist bunt gemischt. Da sind die Teilnehmenden, die neu im Produktmanagement sind, die, die in angrenzenden Rollen (Engineering, Design, Marketing, Consulting) arbeiten, die, die verstehen wollen, was PMs eigentlich tun, und erfahrene PMs, die ein gemeinsames Vokabular suchen, um darüber zu diskutieren: Dieser Tank ist für euch! Denn nach einem Jahr bündeln wir geballtes Wissen.

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Agenda
18:00 Uhr – Einlass
18:30 Uhr – Begrüßung & Einführung durch die PT-Organisator:innen
18:45 Uhr – Vortrag: Lutz Göcke – „Product Management, Demystified: A Guided Tour Through the Discipline" plus Q&A
~19:15 Uhr – Moderierte Diskussion
~19:45 Uhr – Networking bei Getränken, offenes Ende
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Product Management, Demystified: A Guided Tour Through the Discipline

Was euch erwartet:
Produktmanagement ist eine der wichtigsten und zugleich oft missverstandenen Rollen in digitalen Unternehmen. Ist es Projektmanagement mit schickerem Titel? Mini-CEO? Backlog-Verwalter? Nichts davon.
In dieser Session gibt Lutz eine strukturierte Einführung in das digitale Produktmanagement, basierend auf seinem neuen Lehrbuch. In einem einleitenden Vortrag (~30 Min.) führt er durch den Kern der Disziplin: Was digitale Produkte anders macht, was „Produkterfolg" eigentlich bedeutet und wie sich das Handwerk in seine wichtigsten Praktiken gliedert von Product Discovery und Product Direction über Delivery bis hin zu Diffusion Data und einem neuen Lernkreislauf.
Die zweite Hälfte ist bewusst offen gestaltet: Wir greifen zwei oder drei Spannungsfelder aus dem Vortrag auf z. B. Projektdenken vs. Produktdenken, Output vs. Outcome oder wie GenAI die Rolle verändert und diskutieren gemeinsam darüber. Bringt eure Fragen, eure Skepsis und eure Erfahrungsberichte aus dem eigenen Unternehmen mit.

Über Lutz
Lutz Göcke ist Professor für Digital Management an der Hochschule Nordhausen, wo er den Bachelorstudiengang Digital Product Management sowie den Startup-Inkubator der Hochschule, HIKE, gegründet hat und leitet. Vor seiner akademischen Laufbahn war er acht Jahre lang als Digital Product Manager bei Volkswagen tätig. Er lehrt und forscht an der Schnittstelle von digitalen Produkten, Geschäftsmodellen und der Frage, wie agentenbasierte KI Produktteams verändert. Er ist Co-Autor von „Produktmanagement: Kontinuierliche Innovation digitaler Produkte" (Springer Gabler, 2026), einem umfassenden deutschsprachigen Lehrbuch zum digitalen Produktmanagement.

Besonders freuen wir uns natürlich, wenn Teilnehmende Lutz' Buch bereits gelesen haben und zur Diskussion beitragen. Es ist aber selbstverständlich freiwillig.

Vielen Dank an Codecentric für die erneute Gastfreundschaft und das Sponsoring.

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Organizational Detoxing – die Sache mit dem Weglassen

„Pair Programming ist effektiver als alleine entwickeln." „Teams mit Retrospektiven sind erfolgreicher." „Agile Projekte sind erfolgreicher als klassische."
Alles Sätze, die wir seit Jahren sagen. Aber woher wissen wir das eigentlich?
Ein Vortrag über De-Implementierung: warum wir immer hinzufügen statt wegzunehmen, was die Medizin uns dabei voraushat – und warum Weglassen sich so viel schwerer anfühlt, als es müsste. Im Workshop-Teil nehmen wir dann unsere eigenen Lieblingspraktiken auseinander. Bringt Mut mit.

Der Vortragende, Fabian Schiller, ist mit seiner Firma Agile Elevation als Agile Coach und Trainer selbständig. Seine langjährige Expertise bringt er aktuell in Karlsruhe an die Kunden, was uns die einmalige Chance gibt, ihn in der Scrum User Group live zu erleben!

Wir sind zu Gast bei Goodspaces, die uns den tollen Raum zu einem Vorzugspreis zur Verfügung stellen; die Vepflegung wird unter anderem von der iC Consult Group GmbH gesponsort.

Ten editions in, and three years of getting together in Kortrijk to talk about the work behind the work. How teams collaborate, how organisations change, how projects actually get done, and about everything that gets in the way.

Whether you've been at this for years and want to share what you've learned, or you're simply curious how others handle the same challenges: you're welcome. No experience required, no preparation needed.

Team lead, scrum masters, coaches, product owners, project managers, developers, testers, managers, but just as much people from HR, marketing or operations. Every perspective counts, and the best conversations here often happen between people who don't work in the same field at all.

We use the Lean Coffee format: no agenda, no speakers, no slides.

Participants bring the topics, we vote on them together, and we discuss whatever the group finds most interesting. Collaboration, leadership, AI, ways of working, change, focus, feedback. It's up to you.

To keep the energy levels high, pizza will be provided.

There is parking in front of the building. The barrier will open automatically. The event will take place at De Kade, the building located at the back right of the parking lot.

Special thanks to the people from Lean Coffee @ Izegem, who showed us how good a conversation without an agenda can be.

Find Your Message: A Public Speaking Workshop for Future ProductTank Speakers

Big THANKS to Craig Millar, Resonate Speechwriting who trains speakers, including for TEDx talk who's kindly offered to deliver this training for FREE for ProductTank members!

And another big THANKS to Grayce, who has kindly offered to host this event in their office and provide food and drink.

About this event
The success of ProductTank has always depended on members being willing to stand up and generously share their hard-earned lessons, ideas and experiences.
But giving your first talk can feel daunting.
Most people worry about confidence, structure, or whether they have anything worth saying. It's easy to wait until you feel "ready" - but the reality is that very few speakers ever do.
The good news is that impactful speaking isn't about being naturally confident or highly polished. It's about having a useful idea and caring enough to share it. And with a little exploration, we often discover that our experience is more valuable to others than we realised.
To help develop future ProductTank speakers, we're delighted to offer this free interactive workshop, led by experienced speaker coach Craig Millar.
Whether you're hoping to speak at ProductTank one day, another industry event, or simply want to communicate your ideas more effectively, this workshop will help you take the first step.

Who is this for?
This workshop is for ProductTank members who:

• Feel they might like to speak at ProductTank one day, but don't quite feel "ready" yet.
• Wonder whether they have anything valuable enough to talk about.
• Have ideas and experiences but aren't yet sure how to turn them into an engaging talk.
• Would like to communicate their ideas with greater confidence, clarity and impact.

No previous public speaking experience is required, just a willingness to explore and discuss your ideas and experiences with others.

What you'll do
Through practical exercises and small-group discussions you'll:

• Recall experiences that could become engaging talks.
• Identify the lessons your audience will find most valuable.
• Learn practical techniques that make talks easier to prepare and deliver.

By the end of the workshop, you'll have started developing a talk that you could continue refining for ProductTank or any future speaking opportunity.

About the workshop leader
Craig Millar is a speaker coach who has spent the past decade helping leaders, technical experts and more than 30 TEDx speakers turn their experience into talks that audiences remember.
He believes that everyone has valuable experiences worth sharing, they simply need the right process to uncover and shape them.

"No matter how good the speakers were at the start, Craig managed to help them develop their skills and become ready to deliver a great TEDx talk."
Yousif Hussin, TEDx Organiser

"I am blown away by how some great and simple tools are so effective."
Helen Herd, Global Head of Sustainability, McBride Plc

"Craig will improve your speech tenfold. The value of a good speech and presentation is huge."
Kavita Sahai, Serial Entrepreneur

Learn more at www.resonatespeechwriting.com

Event details
Location: Grayce, 1st Floor Hilton House, Hilton Street, Manchester M1 2EH
Time: 6:00pm–8:30pm

Every conference speaker gave their first talk once
The turning point wasn't becoming more knowledgeable. It was realising that the experience they already had could genuinely help other people.
If you've ever thought, "Maybe I'd like to speak at ProductTank one day," this workshop is for you.

Please note

• Tickets are free but places are limited.
• If your plans change, please update your RSVP so someone else can attend.
• We may take photographs during the event for community and promotional purposes.
• Venue and event details may be subject to change.

Join us for our next product meetup!

18:00 - Descend, Sip, Snacks, and Strategy
18:25 - Introduction and a warm welcome from our host
18:30 - First Talk
19:15 - Break for more sips and snacks
19:30 - Second Talk
20:15 - Wrap Up
20:20 - End and Depart, with the opportunity for extended discussions at the pub
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📢 Building a product insights agent: research as infrastructure
👤 James Reece
James is a Lead Product Designer at Kaluza, a player-coach and 0→1 specialist with 15 years in UX & product design. A builder at heart: rapid prototypes, product vision, and AI agents, including the product insights agent he'll be talking to us about.

📢 Growing pains: Parenting your AI agents to adulthood
👤 Joel Livermore
With 8 years in product, Joel is a Group PM currently working in payments at Dojo. with a career spanning startups to enterprise. He's spent his last year building AI agents by day and raising a newborn by night.

Sponsor: Graphcore - Build the future of AI compute
Graphcore is creating the technology powering the next generation of machine intelligence. We're currently hiring across a wide range of product and tech roles.
Find out more at graphcore.ai

Host: Kaluza
Kaluza is an energy technology company building the intelligent software behind a net-zero energy future. Our Energy Intelligence Platform helps energy providers streamline operations, elevate customer experience and optimise energy in real time — making clean energy work for everyone.

Season sponsor: Pilot Works
Pilot Works is a product and service design consultancy based in Bristol.
We use research and prototyping techniques to help our clients visualise and align on what they need to deliver, in order meet the needs of their users and achieve their organisation’s goals.
As well as hands-on consultancy we also provide training and coaching for individuals and teams.
Find out more at https://pilot.works

Additional Information
Photography and/or recording equipment will be used throughout the event, with images shared on social channels during and after the event.

By attending, you agree to follow our Code of Conduct

Agile conference in Vienna, Austria

Hello Product People !

We are happy to invite you to the first meetup after summer break. During the event you will hear two lectures followed by networking part.

Our first guests will be Lesia Orlovska who will present her talk: "The Trust Line: A Product Leader's Guide to Calibrated AI Trust"

PMs can now build the first version of almost anything themselves no designer ticket required. But the same AI that saves you three days on a prototype will hand you a wrong number just as confidently as a right one. Drawing on a decade at Snapchat, iGaming, and an AI-native SaaS company, this talk gives you a working framework for knowing where to trust AI: in building, analytics, and decisions and where you still have to do the work yourself and make decisions.

BIO:
Lesia Orlovska is a Sr. Product Manager with over a decade building products at Snapchat, across iGaming and gamedev, and now inside an AI-native B2B2C SaaS company. She trusts data over opinions at Snapchat she ran Voice ML experiments across million-user base and pushed features to accuracy. At B2B SaaS she replaced a manual workflow with an AI-powered CLI that lifted product performance. She also builds what she used to hand off including designing the brand mark for Product Switcher, her own course on applied AI for product teams, herself, with AI tools, instead of briefing a designer. This talk is the discipline she's landed on: not whether to trust AI, but exactly where

Our second speaker will be Grzegorz Wojciechowski, with his talk
"The Era of the Product Creator."

In the era of generative AI, the Product Manager is rapidly transforming into an autonomous Product Creator capable of bridging the engineering gap and testing real market viability without waiting for developers. Drawing on a real-world case study of building and monetizing napelniam.pl solo, this talk demonstrates how modern AI builders turn strategic product sense into functional, validated products in hours instead of months. You will walk away with a practical playbook to bypass traditional technical bottlenecks and turn your own shelved idea into a working MVP in a single weekend.

BIO:
Grzegorz is a software engineer by training, and a product manager and serial builder by passion and choice. He started out spending hundreds of hours in code, only to realize that the real magic doesn't live in the technology itself, but in talking to people and uncovering their everyday problems. He thrives in the early chaos: the exact moment an idea meets its first customer and hypotheses collide with reality. Can't wait to build things that deliver real value with curiosity, market humility, and the kind of scrappy agility we used to wish we had the courage for.

Agenda

• 18:00-18:15 - attendees arriving
• 18:15 - Welcome from Product Tank side
• 18:20 - Welcome from Remitly side
• 18:25 - Lesia Orlovska 30-35 mins incl Q&A
• 19:00 - Networking break :) - 15 mins
• 19:15 - Grzegorz Wojciechowski 30-35 mins incl Q&A
• 19:50 - Closing comments
• 20:00 - 21:00 networking

Hey Product People!

It's been a while since we've all slowed down and had some more casual networking and social time together. Come join us for an intimate evening together at Beehive Inn (ground floor) for some good chats, meeting new people, and networking time. Pop in any time that works for you!

You can find us upstairs on the ground floor room to the left of the entrance, reservation under Valeria Bowers / ProductTank Edinburgh

Can't wait to see you there!

Um was geht es dieses mal?
Bei diesem Meetup übernehmt ihr das Ruder! Statt vordefiniertes Programm bringt ihr eure eigenen Herausforderungen, Fragen und Erfahrungen mit. Lean Coffee – der Klassiker unter den agilen Austauschformaten. Kurz: Selbstbestimmtes Lernen, echte Diskussionen, guter Austausch.

Lean Coffee – Eure Themen, Eure Agenda
Wie funktioniert's? Ganz einfach: Vor Ort schreiben wir gemeinsam eure Vorschläge auf – egal ob "Wie macht ihr KI-Projekte zukunftssicher?", "Wo habt ihr zuletzt gescheitert und was habt ihr gelernt?", "Mein Team kämpft mit X, wie geht ihr damit um?" oder "Ich habe eine Vision für Y, will aber Gegenmeinung hören."
Danach stimmen wir ab. Die Top-Themen landen auf unserer Agenda. Reihum moderiert jemand 10-15 Minuten pro Thema. Kein Dogmatismus, kein Blabla – nur echte Diskussionen unter Expert:innen. Zum Abschluss: Kurz notieren, was ihr mitnehmt.
Das Schöne am Lean Coffee? Es ist jedes Mal anders. Eure Themen bestimmen den Abend. Der Vorteil: Keine langen Vorträge, keine gesetzten Sprecher:innen – nur echter Austausch unter Menschen, die wissen, wovon sie sprechen.

Wo wir uns treffen
Wir freuen uns, euch in unserem Dortmunder Office der codecentric AG zu begrüßen! Wie immer in inspirierender Atmosphäre gemeinsam lernen, diskutieren und neue Kontakte knüpfen. Für das leibliche Wohl ist natürlich gesorgt: Snacks und Getränke stehen für euch bereit!

Wichtig – Absage bitte rechtzeitig
Wir bestellen das Essen bereits 1 Tag vor dem Meetup. Falls ihr doch verhindert sein solltet, bitten wir euch um eine rechtzeitige Absage. Das ist wichtig, damit wir nicht unnötig Essen verschwenden müssen.
Vielen Dank für euer Verständnis!

Anreise
Per Zug: Vom Dortmunder Hauptbahnhof sind es ca. 10 Minuten zu Fuß bis zu unserem Office.
Mit dem Auto: Rund um unser Office gibt es einige Parkflächen. Im Parkhaus der Thier-Galerie findet ihr weitere Plätze.

You are invited to join Chris Sims for an open office hour: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Pacific. This is a chance to ask your questions and get free advice and coaching.

Zoom Security Note
You will need to be signed in to your Zoom account in order to access this event. You don’t need a paid account, a free Zoom account will work just fine. Additionally, you will need to have your camera to check-in with the hosts when entering the meeting. We lock the meeting ten minutes after start time. All of this helps us to create a friendly, interactive, and safer environment.

Product management conference in London, United Kingdom

The Scrum Guide provides the rules to the game of Scrum. In this webinar we will review the Scrum Guide 2020. Read from it some. Comment some. And discuss it.

It will be a good short introduction to agile and Scrum. Please come and discuss.

We will use Google Meet. Link to be added later.

Discussion Leader
Joe Little is an Agile Trainer (CST) and coach. He has been delivering courses and webinars for years, and now delivers many courses and workshops online, including the CSM, CSPO, and A-CSM courses and the ARP workshops. Find more information here.

Please register (see button above). Contact us if you have any questions.

CTO conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands

A relaxed evening for people working in and around product - Product Managers, Product Owners, Product Designers, Engineers, Analysts, and anyone else involved in creating digital products.
This time, we're swapping presentations for roundtable conversations. We'll have 5–7 tables, each starting with a broad topic you will suggest and choose from — think from AI to Psychological Safety across the Product Community.
The topics are intentionally broad. We'll give you a direction, but you decide where the conversation goes — the challenges you're facing, questions you've been thinking about, things that work (or don't), and ideas you'd like to explore with others.
No speakers. No long presentations. Just good conversations with people who understand the work.

Schedule
18:00 Doors open, drinks & snacks (might be pizzzaa 🍕)
18:30 Welcome & roundtable setup
18:40 Roundtable discussions
20:00 Wrap-up & key takeaways
20:00–21:00 Another round of networking

Who is this for?
Anyone working with digital products — whether you're in Product, Engineering, Design, Analytics, Marketing, or another role close to product development.
Come with a question. Leave with new perspectives.

We’re excited to host our next Product Meetup, co-organised by Wise & Startup Hungary. This edition is also a side-event of the amazing Compass Conference (Oct 1-2).

Join us for an evening exploring craft, taste, and the value of slowing down in an increasingly fast-moving, AI-enabled world.

Our first speaker is Wojtek Dziedzic (Senior Product Designer at Superhuman)

Wojtek is a Senior Product Designer at Superhuman, formerly Grammarly, where he works on the future of AI agents.

He previously worked at Nord Security and Brainly and is an active speaker, event organiser, and mentor in the design community.
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In Defense of Slow Work: Developing Craft and Taste as Design Skills — Wojtek Dziedzic (Senior Product Designer at Superhuman)

​Can good design be objective, or is beauty always in the eye of the beholder? Wojtek explores how designers can develop taste and craft through patience, rigour, and deliberate practice, even as AI pushes the industry towards ever-greater speed.

​We will announce the second speaker soon. Stay tuned!

• ​18:00–18:30 — Arrival + Intro
• ​18:30–19:15 — In Defense of Slow Work: Developing Craft and Taste as Design Skills
• ​19:15–20:00 — TBD
• ​20:00–21:30 — Drinks, Pizza, Networking 🍕

We're be back on Wednesday 30th September after a summer break with the usual format...drinks, food and 3 great speakers!

Location: Grayce, 1st Floor Hilton House, Hilton Street, Manchester M1 2EH
Big thanks to Grayce for hosting us again!

Speakers: Julian Bass, Nire Adetimehin and Bevan Broadbent...

Julian Bass: Julian Bass is an author researcher and consultant who has studied product ownership in large-scale offshore software development projects for over a decade. His research findings show how large-enterprise practitioners use a team-based product ownership model in multi-national projects. Julian’s book “Agile Software Engineering Skills” argues that early career software development practitioners need a combination of technical, collaboration and process skills. He is Professor of Software Engineering at University of Salford and Founder of Red Ocelot Ltd. Julian has a PhD in systems engineering from University of Sheffield, is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.

Talk title: Managing Technical Debt: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Talk description: Technical debt is a metaphor for the unwanted complexity that accrues in software as new features and changes are repeatedly added to a system. Following current best practice, teams regularly set aside a proportion of their development effort to mitigate technical debt. Yet technical debt is not accrued uniformly and does not create impact equally in different parts of the software landscape. So, how can you find out how much technical debt that you have? How do you know where is it? Are you overspending? Or are you building-up problems? We’ll explore the good, the bad and the ugly or managing technical debt.
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Nire Adetimehin: Nire Adetimehin is a Product Marketing Manager who works at the intersection of strategy, storytelling and execution. She has experience across B2B and B2C SaaS, helping teams stay aligned around customer needs and bring products to market with clarity.

Talk title: Are Customers Still Kings? How SaaS Products Can Remain Customer-Centric in a Fiercely Competitive Market

Talk description: Every SaaS company claims to be customer-centric, but are their product decisions proving it? This talk explores practical ways teams can stay close to customers, avoid reactive feature-chasing and build around the outcomes users actually value.
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Bevan Broadbent: Bevan is a Leadership Coach. After 20+ years in Product Leadership with JLR, Kingfisher, Boohoo, Portswigger, Gamma and many more, he now helps others (those that will let him) grow into leadership more powerfully than they believed possible.

Talk title: Why I left Product, and why you should stay

Talk description: After 20+ years I chose to leave my first love - Product, and immersed myself in a new love - Coaching.
How a career founded on ruthless prioritisation can lead to life changing pivots.

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Why you should come?
Networking with fellow product people 👋

• Great talks from local and national speakers 🎤
• Food 🍕and drink 🍺
• We welcome people from all backgrounds!

We're a friendly bunch, our typical crowd includes:

• senior product leaders
• startup founders
• mid-level PMs
• new PMs
• people looking to get into Product
• engineers/developers
• designers
• people who work with product teams - and just want to learn more.

Whatever your situation, come along and say hello.

Event timings
6:00pm start - Networking (drinks and food)
6:30pm - Talks (3x 20-min talks + 5-min Q&A)
8:00pm - Talks finish - more networking - drinks and food
8:30pm - Close
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Please note:

• Speakers and venue are be subject to change.
• We sometimes take photos at our events for community and promotional use. By attending, you’re happy for any photos you appear in to be used in this way.
• Your name will be used for registration and check-in purposes only.
• Tickets are free but limited — please update your RSVP if you can’t make it so someone else can grab the spot.

🌟 Agile Bratislava Monthly Meetup
You're warmly invited to the Agile Bratislava Meetup. This time, we will meet at Softec venue.

The meetup is open to all agile roles – bring your colleagues and join us in large numbers! The goal is to inspire one another, share experiences, and collectively explore answers to the challenges currently shaping your organizations.

How will the meetup work?
The content of the event is driven by the participants. Upon arrival, you'll have the opportunity to suggest any topic related to agility. All proposed topics will then be prioritized, and the most requested ones will be discussed in detail. No topic is off-limits or inappropriate.
🔹 The event is in-person, and registration is required.

Meetup Guidelines:
1️⃣ We give advice and tips – Instead of judging, we aim to help others move forward with their challenges.
2️⃣ No recruitment or sales – If you're looking to hire or sell services, this is not the right format.
3️⃣ Las Vegas rule – What is said or happens at the meetup stays among the participants.
We look forward to seeing you! 🚀
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🌟 Agile Bratislava Monthly Meetup
Pozývame vás na Agile Bratislava Meetup. Tentoraz sa stretneme v priestoroch Softec.
Stretnutie je otvorené pre všetky agilné roly – vezmite so sebou svojich kolegov a kolegyne a príďte v hojnom počte! Cieľom je vzájomne sa inšpirovať, zdieľať skúsenosti a spoločne hľadať odpovede na otázky, ktoré aktuálne rezonujú vo vašich firmách.

Ako bude stretnutie prebiehať?
Obsah podujatia si riadia sami účastníci. Pri príchode budete mať možnosť navrhnúť akúkoľvek tému týkajúcu sa agility. Následne všetky témy zprioritizujeme a tie najžiadanejšie spoločne preberieme od A po Z. Žiadna téma nie je zlá ani nevhodná.
🔹 Podujatie sa koná fyzicky a je potrebná registrácia.

Pravidlá stretnutia:
1️⃣ Dávame rady a tipy – Namiesto hodnotenia sa snažíme druhým pomôcť posunúť riešenie v ich firme.
2️⃣ Žiadny nábor ani predaj – Ak chcete robiť nábor alebo predávať služby, toto nie je správny formát podujatia.
3️⃣ Pravidlo Las Vegas – Čo sa na akcii povie alebo stane, zostane len medzi účastníkmi.
Tešíme sa na vás! 🚀

Dear product community: SAVE THE DATE! 🗓️

Our ProductTank Lausanne meetup October 2026 edition will take place on Thursday 01! 🚀

Special thanks to our host for this event: Nexthink 🙏

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Agenda
6:00 PM - Doors Open
6:30 PM - Welcome & Intro

6:40 PM - Talk 1: Aga Skraburska - "Why users ignore what you built and what learning science says about it"
Aga has spent two decades turning what organizations expect of people into learning they'll actually use: leadership and learning transformation programmes at ABB, UBS and startups. Now Head of Product Education at Nexthink, where she's rebuilt its educational products to be AI-driven. Trained in systems-psychodynamic coaching, she works where organizational strategy meets genuine human awareness.

7:15 PM - Talk 2: Chantal Estevez - "Product Management isn't the destination -- it's a stepping stone (How product management taught me to lead, take ownership, and ultimately build for myself)"
Chantal is a product leader, consultant, and entrepreneur with experience building technology and AI-driven products across startups and global organizations. As a Product Management Consultant, she has led product and innovation initiatives for international clients across AI, digital health, and emerging technologies. She brings her product experience to entrepreneurial and consulting ventures, using AI to turn ideas into reality and help businesses apply AI effectively.

7:45 PM - Drinks, Snacks & Networking
9:00 PM - Event Ends
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📍 Location: Nexthink Offices - Centre Malley-Lumières, Chem. du Viaduc 1, 1008 Prilly

Looking forward to seeing you there!
Follow us: Linkedin

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• Are you interested in hosting the next ProductTank event?
• Are you interested in speaking at the next ProductTank event? Please reach out to Claudia.

Join Squarespace Ireland for an intimate fireside conversation and networking event in partnership with Black Girls In Tech

Join Black Girls in Tech and Squarespace Ireland for an intimate fireside conversation with Karen Emelu, Founder of Black Girls in Tech, exploring what it means to build influence, navigate leadership and create meaningful impact in the technology industry.

This candid conversation will go beyond representation to explore the realities of building a career in tech, finding your voice, developing confidence and influence, and turning lived experience into strategic advantage.

Karen will share insights from her journey building Black Girls in Tech and navigating leadership across the technology ecosystem, alongside reflections on the role of allies and sponsors, creating opportunities for others, and moving from visibility to meaningful impact.

The conversation will be followed by audience Q&A and networking, creating space for attendees to connect, exchange ideas and continue the conversation.

What to expect:

• A candid fireside conversation with Karen Emelu
• Insights on leadership, influence and career progression
• Perspectives on visibility, representation and impact
• Audience Q&A
• Networking with the tech and creative community

In partnership with Squarespace Ireland.

How do you create engaged, happy, and effective teams? By empowering employees to choose their own teams and projects! Self-selection is a replicable, iterative process that increases team effectiveness, engagement, and happiness. Amber Field, seasoned agilist and speaker, reveals the secret sauce behind building dream teams. From tech giants to academia, she's revolutionized team dynamics at Capital One Labs, Deloitte, Opower (acquired by Oracle), and even in UW-Madison's Computer Science program. In this eye-opening session, you'll discover:

• The counterintuitive magic of letting employees choose their own teams and projects
• Real-world success stories that will challenge everything you thought you knew about team building
• A step-by-step guide to implement self-selection in your organization

Ready to create your own high-performing agile teams? Your self-selection journey starts here!

Our Speaker:
Amber Field is the former Chief Operating Officer at Strudel AI, a Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of the book, Agile Discovery & Delivery: A Survival Guide for New Software Engineers & Tech Entrepreneurs. She has been an executive leader in tech, agile proponent, and engineer for her entire career at a number of organizations including IBM, National Geographic, Oracle Utilities (formerly Opower), Capital One, and Singlewire Software. Amber frequently speaks at conferences and blogs at amberrfield.com. She lives in Madison, WI.

Zoom Security Note
You will need to be signed in to your Zoom account in order to access this event. You don’t need a paid account, a free Zoom account will work just fine. Additionally, you will need to have your camera on to check-in with the hosts when entering the meeting. This helps us to create a friendly, interactive, and safer environment. The event will be locked at 10 minutes past it's start time. We will not be recording this event.

Interested In Presenting?
We're always on the lookout for interesting people and topics to share with our community. If that's you, drop us a line at info@agilelearninglabs.com.

Agile Coach Camp UK 2026
By the community, for the community.
Two days of open-space coaching, deep connection, learning and serious fun — returning to the woodland retreat that keeps selling out.
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Every single year, we have a waiting list. It’s almost time to head back to the forest!

Agile Coach Camp UK 2026 is officially returning to Centre Parcs Woburn Forest on October 3rd & 4th, and tickets were launched on March 23rd!
If you're an experienced Agile Coach, Scrum Master, or Transformation Leader, this is the 100% not-for-profit Open Space retreat you’ve been waiting for. No keynotes. No fixed agenda. Just 40 practitioners solving real systemic and coaching challenges together.

We are proud to have Scrum Alliance as our exclusive partner — the world's leading Agile certification body. Their support has made this year's ticket prices significantly lower than previous years. Because of this incredible partnership, our first 10 Early Bird tickets will drop on March 23rd at just £175 + VAT.

With only 40 places total, those first 10 will vanish fast.
For more Information and to book your slot, you can find the details here:
https://www.agileaffinity.com/w/uk/courses/45-agile-coach-camp-uk

Our contention: Scrum is very valuable. Managers need to understand this better. The Team, mostly, delivers this significant value through all three roles. We will focus today on the SM and the PO.

Bring your questions.

Joe Little is an Agile Trainer (CST) and coach. He has been delivering courses and webinars for years, including the CSM, CSPO, and A-CSM courses and the ARP workshops. More information about Joe Little.

Register for free!

2023-ban a Toyota-nál, csehországi Kolin-ban jártunk, 2024-ben a pozsonyi VW-t, 2025-ben pedig egy szlovákiai túra keretében a KIA-t és a Nemak-ot látogattuk a külföldi Lean Tourismo esemény keretében.
Idén a horvátországi elektromos hyper car-okat gyártó RIMAC Automobili-t tátogatjuk meg, október 7-én. Izgalmas genba élmények várnak ránk! A darabszám kicsi, de a technológia lenyűgöző. A látogatás után pedig közösen értékeljük ki a látottakat.

A Lean Tourismo díja 19.000 Ft + ÁFA melyet a szervezésre, belépőre és a cateringre fordítunk.

Az utazás egyénileg történik, a látogatás szervezést az egyesület intézi.
Időpont és helyszín:

• 2026.10.07., 13:00 - gyülekező 12:40-kor a Campus előtt
• RIMAC Campus, Kerestinečka cesta 54, 10431, Kerestinec, Horvátország

A jelentkezéshez mindenképpen ki kell tölteni az alábbi űrlapot is, a számlázási információk miatt: Lean Tourismo - RIMAC látogatás - 2026.10.07. – Űrlap kitöltése

A Lean Tourismo események látogatása kizárólag érvényes Leannovation Egyesületi tagsággal lehetséges. A 15 fős létszámkorlát miatt 1 vállalattól 1 fő részvétele biztosított, további résztvevők a létszám függvényében hozhatók.

Az eseményen kép- és hangfelvétel készül.

Várjuk az érdeklődőket!

Welcome to the next edition of the Engineering Leadership Meetup in Copenhagen!
Join us on Wednesday 7th October 2026 at 17:30 at the Netlight HQ for an evening of insightful discussions and networking opportunities.

Important - you need to register & purchase a ticket via Netlight Event Link to attend on the evening.
🚀🚀 Registration Link 🚀🚀
https://events.netlight.com/engineering-leadership-meetup-07-10-26/

Agenda:
17:30 - 18:00 - Welcome
18:00 - 18:45 - Governing Agentic Software Engineering at Scale.
Mark Hissink Muller Founder @ Claroview
18:45 - 19:15 - Break
19:15 - 20:00 - Creating Resilient, High-Performing Engineering Teams
Kelvin Riker Engineering Manager @ Spirii
20:00 - Networking & refreshments

Date & Time: October 8, 2024 | doors open at 18:00
Location: November Five office, Scheldestraat 11, Antwerp

ProductTank is back in Belgium. After a long pause, the product community is coming together again to share insights, celebrate what we build, and make new connections. Join us for the October kick-off.

The programme starts at 18:35.

Our speakers:

• Henri Jacobs - Founder of FORCIT

Topic: AI is easy. Trust is hard.

Drawing on his experience building FORCIT's AI-powered expert-matching platform, Henri will share practical lessons from real product challenges, including messy data, recommendation transparency, and user trust. Discover how product teams can create explainable, adjustable, and credible AI experiences without adding unnecessary friction.

• Second speaker will be revealed shortly 😉Keep an eye on our LinkedIn page for updates!

Agenda

• 18:00 - Doors open, networking
• 18:35 - Opening words
• 18:45 - Henri's talk followed by Q&A
• 19:10 - Break
• 19:20 - Second talk followed by Q&A
• 19:50 - Networking
• 21:00 - Closing

Registration details:

• Free to attend.
• This is an in-person event with limited capacity, so register early.
• If you can no longer make it, cancel your registration so someone on the waitlist can come.
• The programme starts at 18:35, so please arrive on time.
• We will be taking pictures at the event, so please let us know if you prefer not to be featured on our social media channels.

A relaxed evening for product people to meet, mingle, and exchange ideas.

We'll start with a quick chat about the latest AI-related news.

After that, we'll just hang out and have good conversations around product management, discovery, delivery, careers, tools, and real-world challenges.

Whether you’re a PM, designer, engineer, founder, or just product-curious, come by to connect with the local product community in an informal setting.

Drinks, snacks, and thoughtful conversations included.

Join us for the 46th edition of ProductTank, the community meetup for product enthusiasts, makers, and thinkers. This time, our friends at Holidu will be hosting us in their space:

Riesstraße 24, 80992 München-Moosach

Agenda
- 18:30 Doors open, networking
- 19:00 Welcome from the hosts
- 19:15 Talk #1 + Q&A
- 19:45 Talk #2 + Q&A
- 20:30 Wrap Up, networking

Talk #1
Abby Wan Liu // Build Quickly, Fall in Love Slowly: What AI means for Product x Design Collaboration
AI has dramatically lowered the cost of turning ideas into prototypes. Product managers can explore solutions in minutes, while designers and engineers can move closer to production faster than ever.
But there's a catch: the IKEA effect. When we build something ourselves, we tend to value it more. As AI makes prototyping accessible to everyone, we risk falling in love with solutions before we've understood the problem.
So what happens when everyone can prototype? This talk explores how AI is reshaping Product x Design collaboration, and what that means for how we work together.

About Abby
Abby Wanyu Liu holds a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction and began her career as a tenure-track professor before moving into industry. She is now Head of Product Design at Tradebyte, a major B2B e-commerce player and a Zalando company. Outside of tech, Abby runs a contemporary circus in Munich.

Talk #2
Dr. Hayder Schneider // How to turn your AI Product Innovation into Profitable Growth
Does your AI product move the needle? And does it do so profitably? For most products, at least one answer is no. The reason, this talk argues, is a solution-first mindset that came with the AI hype. Teams ship AI capabilities first and hope to figure out the commercials later: what customers are willing to pay, and what it costs to serve them. The talk gives founders and product leaders practical insights into how to prevent these mistakes and turn their AI product innovation into profitable growth.

About Hayder
Hayder has built AI products from industrial operations to the frontier. His work centers on building the teams and systems that turn AI capabilities into products customers actually pay for and depend on. He is currently Head of Product Management at Aleph Alpha, where he works on sovereign GenAI solutions for enterprise and government customers. Before that, he led AI innovation for global manufacturing and led developer platforms at BASF, the world’s largest chemical company. Hayder gave a talk about AI Product Monetization at "Product at Heart" Conference this year, where he caught our attention and was invited to join the stage in Munich.

Don't miss the opportunity to learn from product people, share your experiences, network & get some fun!