Engineering Leadership & Product Events in Europe

This is an open discussion for those that are currently job hunting for a software developer job.

We discuss your desired job, strategy, CV, job market, AI, and anything related to job hunting.

Today's topics is positive affirmations. Watch this motivational video1 , motivational video2 and try to come up with a list of positive ideas that give you hope and motivation in your job search.

Bring your questions, and share your experience. Let go of your job search frustrations here, so you can approach recruiters with confidence and a positive mindset.

This page is created for additional visibility.The official registration page is here.

**Course Description:**Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile development to multiple teams. LeSS.works gives an overview. LeSS builds on top of the Scrum principles such as empiricism, cross-functional self-managing teams and provides a framework for applying that at scale. It provides simple structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development. The Certified LeSS Basics course is a brief introduction into the LeSS Framework. It provides an overview of the framework and some of the essential concepts that it uses.The Certified LeSS basics course is for anyone who is involved in a LeSS effort. Basic Scrum knowledge is expected (this is not a beginner's course) and can be achieved by attending a Certified Scrum Master or a Professional Scrum Master course, or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum. You can read more about CLB and review pre-training materials here. **Agenda & Learning Objectives:**This review will combine instructor-led structured learning of key principles of LeSS, introduction to System Modelling and Q&A that is based on experience of practical implementation and lessons learned by experienced LeSS coaches and trainers.

• Introduction to LeSS (Why LeSS?)
• Lean Thinking and System Thinking
• LeSS - as Scrum-based approach on scaling
• How does LeSS scale over ~8 teams?
• Dynamics of component teams vs. feature teams
• Roles, Events, Artifacts
• What is basic Scrum and what is specific to LeSS?
• Why there is one and only real PO and not so-called team POs?
• Why ScruMaster in LeSS is a full-time role?
• The complete diagram of LeSS: principles, rules, guides, and experiments
• Impact of LeSS on organizational design (structures, policies)
• Local Optimization vs. Global Optimization
• The ‘Contract’ Game
• The Product
• Product Development Types
• Product Portfolio Management (real portfolios vs. fake portfolios)
• Why are there so many attempts to modify LeSS, without trying it?
• LeSS vs. LeSS Huge

After the workshop, the participants will be able to understand that LeSS is multi-team Scrum, understand what is LeSS, what is not LeSS, and the principles behind LeSS, understand how the current organizational design comes in the way of the organization being Agile and evaluate what changes need to be made to help the organization adopt LeSS. Course participants will be also recognize 'fake' LeSS adoptions and articulate why the latter don't succeed.
Recommended Reading Pre-Requisites /Self-StudyPlease, proceed to this page for recommended reading: http://www.keystepstosuccess.com/1-day-less-overview/

About the session
What truly motivates people?
Do rewards really boost motivation?
How do punishments (bad consequences) shape our behaviour?
In the age of AI, is our motivation rising, falling, or simply changing?
In this interactive session, we’ll explore these questions through classic experiments and recent research, your own experiences and powerful coaching questions. Along the way, we’ll see why agile ways of working and motivation are so closely connected. No lecture.

Key takeaways
The right reward for the right work: motivation boosters, motivation killers, and how punishments shape our behaviour.
The gap between science and work: what research says vs. what we actually do
Your own motivation spectrum: where you, or your team, stand, and how it connects to your goals
Motivation in the AI era: what’s changing, and what it means for you and your team

Who is it for?
Leaders, change agents, Agile coaches and Scrum Masters, and anyone curious about what drives people.

Bring your motivation and curiosity. That’s all you need!

Your host
Duygu Nergis Akdeniz is an Agile Coach and Project Manager based in Finland, with over 16 years of experience across organizational change, technology, project management, and coaching, with global accreditations.
Over the past decade, she has contributed to Agile and digital transformations in various roles, working with organizations ranging from scale-ups to global corporations.
She combines her technical back ground and coaching skills to support collaboration, continuous improvement, and organizational growth.
She is currently exploring how AI is reshaping the future of work and influencing organizational and team dynamics.

Helsinki Coaching Circle
Our monthly Coaching Circles are a safe and collaborative space for all members of the community and participants of the events to share their experiences, tools and more. The event follows the Agile Finland's Code of Conduct.

Description:
First idea: You need an understanding of WHY you're doing something (as a knowledge worker) IF you are going to do it well.

Hence: We must understand the concepts of agile planning to do the practices well.

So, our goal: more success for you and your Team.

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The concepts behind agile planning are quite different than the concepts behind waterfall planning. (We exaggerate the purity of either set of concepts, but still there is always a notable divergence.)

So, it takes some learning, and many mistakes before we master the difference. Even experienced and effective people can benefit from re-learning some of these key concepts.

Let's have some fun discussing them.

We have an hour. Let's discuss, ask questions, learn! Come join us!

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. For more on Joe Little.

Please register (see button above).

Contact us if you have any questions.

Am Vorabend des /POWorld-Barcamp 2026 (hosted by slashwhy) freuen wir uns, euch zu einem ganz besonderen „Osnabrück macht agil - Community Spezial“ einladen zu dürfen!
Auch dieses Jahr haben wir wieder eine Person eingeladen, die mit ihren Beiträgen die Landschaft agiler Produktentwicklung maßgeblich mitgestaltet: Petra Wille. Sie ist Product Leaderschip Coach, Buchautorin und Organisatorin der Product at Heart Konferenz in Hamburg.
Die Veranstaltung ist kostenfrei und richtet sich an alle Mitglieder unserer agilen Community sowie Interessierte. Es ist eine wunderbare Gelegenheit, sich in lockerer Atmosphäre zu vernetzen, Erfahrungen auszutauschen und neue Kontakte zu knüpfen.
Ein besonderes Highlight des Abends wird das Celebrity Interview mit Petra Wille sein, gefolgt von einer Fishbowl Session, in der ihr aktiv diskutieren und eure Standpunkte mit einbringen könnt.
Also, wieso solltest genau DU dabei sein?

• Exklusiver Austausch mit Petra Wille – wann hat man schon mal die Chance, eine der erfahrensten Product Owner Coaches live in einem intimen Rahmen zu erleben und ihr direkt Fragen zu stellen?
• Inspiration pur – das Celebrity Interview und die Fishbowl Session sind keine Frontalvorträge, sondern echte Dialogformate, bei denen ich meine eigenen Themen einbringen kann.
• Vernetzung mit der Community – ich treffe Gleichgesinnte aus der agilen Szene Osnabrücks (und darüber hinaus), tausche Erfahrungen aus und erweitere mein Netzwerk wertvoller Kontakte.
• Locker, persönlich, nahbar – keine steife Konferenz, sondern eine entspannte Atmosphäre mit Drinks und Snacks, die Raum für ehrliche Gespräche schafft.
• Perfekter Start ins /POWorld Barcamp – ich nehme schon am Vorabend spannende Impulse mit und bin bestens eingestimmt auf das große Event am nächsten Tag. (Ticket erforderlich!)

Für Getränke und kleine Snacks ist gesorgt, damit wir in entspannter Atmosphäre zusammenkommen können.
Verpasst auch nicht die Keynote von Petra Wille auf dem /POWorld Barcamp 2026 am Tag darauf! Für alle interessierten: Informationen und Tickets erhaltet ihr unter www.slashwhy.de/de/poworld
Komm vorbei, bring deine Neugier mit und lass uns gemeinsam einen inspirierenden Abend verbringen!
Wir freuen uns auf dich!
Euer Osnabrück macht agil - Team

The AI Engineering Organisation for Leaders in tech

A high-signal evening summit for Founders, Engineering Leaders, CTOs and Product leaders shaping how engineering Teams become next.

📍Lisbon, Devoteam Auditorium
🕣 17:00–22:00
👥 70 attendees (invite only)

Speakers & Lineup:

• Rijk van Zanten, CTO & Co-Founder at Directus
• Pedro Afonso, VP Engineering at Engine AI
• More to be announced soon..

Programming:

Fireside & Panel:

🎤 What CTOs Are Actually Changing in the AI-Era Engineering Organisation
🎤 How we rebuilt (re-building Engineering Workflows around AI)

Masterminds Roundtables:

Area 1 topic: What Actually Changes

⚡ Junior Hiring Challenges:* If AI does entry-level work, how do you hire, onboard and grow juniors, and where do your future seniors come from?*

⚡ Proving the ROI: What are you actually measuring, and how do you explain AI productivity to your CEO, CFO or board without made-up numbers?

⚡ Reshaping the organisation: Team sizes, EM-to-engineer ratios, new roles (AI enablement, platform), and what the engineering manager's job looks like now.

Area 2 topic: How We Rebuilt Our Workflow

⚡ Quality and ownership: Code review, tech debt and security when much of the code was generated. Who is accountable for code nobody fully wrote?

⚡ Rollout and governance: Getting adoption past the enthusiasts, handling resistance, tool sprawl, cost control and usage policies.

⚡ Beyond autocomplete: Agents picking up tickets, writing tests, triaging incidents. What actually works in production, and where do humans stay in the loop?

Join fellow leaders for

💡 Unique insights, sessions & education sharing
💡 1-on-1 networking with peers & Industry Leaders
💡 ​Curated startup demos

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.

"Why agile stops at R&D — and what changes when teams are designed around customer value"
Many agile adoptions stop at the boundaries of R&D. Teams become “agile,” yet customer service, operations, and product development remain disconnected — creating delays, handoffs, and blind spots exactly where fast feedback and learning would matter most. In this talk, we share a real-world case involving four teams working on a cross-industry software platform for energy, climate, and environmental management.

Rather than optimizing R&D in isolation, we deliberately redesigned multiple teams to cover the entire customer journey, integrating product development, customer service, and operations into a single product group. This restructuring helped break down long-standing knowledge silos, shortened feedback cycles, and created a shared understanding of systemic constraints that had previously remained invisible.

Instead of presenting a polished success story, this session focuses on how we got there, what did not work initially, and which ongoing experiments continue to shape the product group today.

Agenda:
17 doors open, networking, snacks, drinks
17:45 showtime: Wolfgang Steffens - Beyond R&D: Designing Product Teams for the Entire Customer Journey - a LeSS Case Study
break
~18:45-20 Q&A + discussions

🚀 Knowledge workers spend up to 60% of their day chasing updates, managing priorities and hunting for information, and product teams feel it most. Mirza Shayan Baig, Product Management Consultant at Product People, shows how Product, Design and Engineering can align earlier around working prototypes instead of meetings, and how a ProductOps flywheel keeps shared context current enough for both people and AI agents to rely on. Drawing on a real client rollout built with Jira, JPD and Confluence, he’ll walk through automations that cut spec drafting from two days to two hours and weekly reporting from two hours to 15 minutes. You’ll also hear what didn’t work and how to start with a single workflow.

⏰ Schedule (CET)
17:00 - 17:05 Intros
17:05 - 18:00 Presentation and Q&A

✨ About the Organizers
We're on a mission to help companies discover and deliver great products faster. We do this by empowering our community to share knowledge generously. Through our consulting engagements, we do all the hands-on and unglamorous work of a Product Manager on an Interim basis (3-12 months). We onboard fast, align teams, and deliver outcomes. 😉
👋 Join the conversation on Telegram.
📲 Connect with us on LinkedIn.
📺 Watch our previous talks here.
🚀 Would you like to attend one of our in-person events? Check the calendar here.
💌 Don't forget to subscribe to our newsletter to be up-to-date with the latest Product News.
🤩 Step Up: Do you want to speak at our next events? Email speakers@getproductpeople.com

🧠 Un backlog parfaitement priorisé. Des sprints qui s'enchaînent. Une vélocité stable. Des fonctionnalités livrées régulièrement. Tout va bien… non ?

Et pourtant, une question dérange : et si on était devenus excellents pour livrer, mais qu'on avait oublié pourquoi ?

Accompagnez Panda, Product Owner, et Betterave, Scrum Master, dans une aventure qui les mènera bien au-delà de leur backlog. Entre remise en question et transformation, ils vont apprendre à regarder plus loin que les User Stories pour retrouver l'essentiel : les utilisateurs, le sens et la valeur créée.

Au-delà du Backlog : redonner du sens à nos produits et pour celles et ceux qui veulent arrêter de remplir un backlog et commencer à construire des produits qui font la différence.

🎙️ Rebecca Carlier Coach Agile chez Proxiad Nord & Lilian Roche, Coach Agile & Product Manager chez Decathlon
📍 Où? Chez Proxiad Nord* (avec cocktail dinatoire) ou en visio
📅 Quand ? Le 10/11/2026 à 18h30
⚡ Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant !

👉 Envie d'y participer ? Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant !
Vous pouvez également y participer en visio : LIEN TEAMS

itag’s Product Management Forum and Product Management meetup Galway Presents: "Do No Harm" Product Ethics Workshop

Is your product causing harm you haven't accounted for?
AI is accelerating product development at an unprecedented pace, but our ability to anticipate the ethical consequences hasn't kept up.

For product teams, good intentions are no longer enough. Regulatory scrutiny around responsible technology is intensifying, reputational risk from harmful products is growing, and the cost of identifying ethical failures post-launch far outweighs addressing them early. Ethical design isn't a values exercise, it's a risk management discipline.
This session is about putting that into practice.

Working in small groups, you'll apply a real ethical design tool to a real product - surfacing harm, unintended consequences, and blind spots that traditional product processes miss.

Tools include Spotify's own Ethics Assessment, the Black Mirror Brainstorm, Provocatype, Dichotomy Mapping, and more. Each table works with a different tool and a different product, before the room comes together to compare findings.

No prior knowledge of ethics or ethical design required. These tools are built to be picked up without specialist training - you'll leave knowing whether that's actually true.
Come ready to ask the questions nobody on your team has thought to ask yet.

Workshop facilitators

• Ailis McCaul, Product Consultant at Liberty IT
• Ben Bland, Consultant – Emerging Tech, Liberty IT

Your Team Looks Slow. Where Do You Look First? - Rescheduled

Your manager tells you delivery is too slow.

Where do you look first?

It’s tempting to look at velocity, ask whether the team needs more capacity, or start looking for ways to make people work faster.
But before changing anything, you need to understand what is actually happening in the delivery system.

In this session, we’ll investigate a real example from a delivery team at an insurance company. You’ll see the same delivery data the team had and decide for yourself where you would investigate first.
Then we’ll reveal where the time was actually going, what the team discovered, what they changed, and what happened when they measured again.

Along the way, I’ll show you a simple process you can use with your own team.

You'll leave with:
· You’ll learn how to use the data you already have to ask better questions, find where work is getting stuck and decide what to investigate before jumping to a solution.
· Everyone who attends will also get free access to Nave with sample data so you can continue exploring the charts and practicing after the session.

Hello everyone!

It’s that time again ... the Tech Leads MeetUp is back with a new fireside chat! This time, we’ll be discussing tech hiring and the role of AI. We want to get to know the topic from all angles, so we’re bringing together three perspectives: a recent job seeker, a talent recruiter, and a hiring engineering manager.

Our speakers will be:

• Biserka Cvetkovska, Director of Engineering at Outfit7
• Ani Subotič, Talent Acquisition, HR & Employer Branding Specialist at Better
• Ines Panker, Staff Software Engineer

We’ll talk about how recruiting and interviewing have evolved due to AI, which skills are becoming more important, and what role AI plays in testing technical skills.

If you’re interested in hearing different perspectives and picking up a few new insights or just want to listen and hang out after with some drinks and food - make sure to join us!

🗓 When: November 11th at 18:00
📍 Where: Sportradar’s offices (Litostrojska cesta 52a)

See you there!

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
18:30–19:00: Arriving, Networking, Food & Drinks
19:00–19:15: Welcome & Host Intro
19:15–20:45: Three talks with interactive elements, with a short break
20:45–22:00: Networking

🎭 Carnival vibes welcome! Since November 11th marks the start of Carnival season, feel free to dress up (totally optional of course)! And who knows… there might even be some sweet Faschingskrapfen waiting for you!

TALKS:

Talk 1: Careful What You Wish For

Maurizio Rinder & Klaus Ringelhann
Every wish gets granted now. That’s the good news. It’s also the bad news.
A story about worst projects, lost craft, and an assistant who listens more carefully than most of us do.

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Talk 2: This One’s for the Dreamers

Martin Galusinski
Somewhere along the way, we stopped saying “I wish…”.
This talk is about why that happened, and why it might be time to start again. Bring your wildest ideas. You might need them.

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Talk 3: The Human Layer - Case Study

Oleksandr Namchuk
A case study of how a VPN company evolved from a free VPN into residential proxy infrastructure and a major web data business.
A practical look at product evolution, infrastructure, and the emerging role of agents on the web.

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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.

ACCU York x Slurp n' Learn - "A joint night with Slurp n' Learn"

🕡 Doors open 18:00
ACCU York and Slurp n' Learn are running November together: two talks of roughly 45 minutes each, one evening. Doors are at 6pm, and we will confirm the running order nearer the time.
All are welcome, whether you have been to an ACCU York or a Slurp n' Learn evening before or neither.
🗣️ Oana May: "From Writing Code to Making Business-Aligned Decisions: Demystifying Product Sense in Developer-Friendly Terms"
Great engineers in the AI world won't just build things, they will decide what should be built and orchestrate AI to make it happen.
Oana breaks down product sense, the skill behind how product leaders make decisions in ambiguity, and translates it into practical thinking tools for engineers. Drawing on her experience coaching 1000+ product and engineering leaders in the Bay Area, New York and beyond, she shares FAANG-level methods that engineers and product leaders have used to move past execution and start influencing direction.
You'll learn:
- What product sense means for engineers, and why it is becoming non-optional
- How businesses decide what problems are worth solving, and why great ideas get ignored
- How AI is reshaping engineering roles and decision-making
- A framework for identifying the right problems before writing code
This talk is for engineers who want to understand why the business makes the calls it does, contribute ideas that gain traction, and grow into a more product-minded engineer. If you have ever felt that decisions happen around you rather than with you, this session gives you the lens and the tools to change that.
🗣️ Second talk to be announced
🔗 Finish off with Q&A, networking, and 🍻
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About the speaker: Oana May
Oana May is an ex-Meta leader, FAANG product coach, and 3x founder. She recently launched MOATCRAFT™, where she helps software developers learn to choose what problems are worth solving and make better business-aligned decisions. Using the CRAFT system she developed coaching 1000+ product and engineering leaders across the Bay Area, New York, and Seattle, she now teaches builders how to navigate ambiguity and sharpen their judgment, the key skill in a world where AI writes the code.
Her systematic approach resonates especially with software engineers who have never been trained to think systematically about a skill usually perceived as soft and intuitive. Oana proves that this intuition can be learned deliberately, and fast.
Her background includes Harvard Business School and a track record of seeing around corners as a founder and product leader, helping builders earn promotions, land dream roles, and think beyond execution into making smarter bets.
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Thank you to Patch for continued support, making this event possible.
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ACCU York is an ACCU local group
Follow on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@accu_york
Co-hosted with Slurp n' Learn
Venue sponsors: Patch
Community sponsors: YorkDevelopers group, WiT York, Ministry of Testing York, Tech York, dotNet York, York Code Dojo, Leeds PHP, York Ruby, NYNE Games Dev Kitchen, Slurp n' Learn

🕕 Agenda

6:00 – Arrive 🛬 | Drinks 🍺 | Pizza 🍕 | Product chat 💬
6:15 – Welcome & intro from our host - Future
6:20 – A word from our sponsor - Nous Ventures
6:25 – Rich Barrett
7:00 – Break 🍺🍕
7:20 – Evie Brockwell
7:55 – Wrap-up & prize draw 🏅
8:00 – Close & continue the conversation 🛫

🎤 Rich Barrett, Co-founder & CTO
Rich has spent 18 years building technology businesses as co-founder and CTO, and has sold three of them, including Parcel Monkey and Cloud Fulfilment. Between them they've generated more than £250m in online sales for over a million customers. He lives in Wales and spends a lot of time thinking about the gap between a good product and a good business.

TALK: "A good product is not a good business."
Parcel Monkey and Cloud Fulfilment had the same founders, worked in the same sector and both had strong products. One grew far more easily than the other. Rich will unpick why, and share the questions he now asks up front: can this be sold, delivered and supported profitably? Expect to leave with a few awkward questions about your own product.

🎤 Evie Brockwell, Head of Product, Operation & Experimentation at New Look
Evie leads Product, Operations and Experimentation at New Look, and has led product transformations at several organisations. She also spent four years at Booking.com running hundreds of A/B tests. Alongside the day job, she's a product coach, helping product leaders sharpen their craft and build careers they enjoy.

TALK: "The 92%: How to thrive as a Product Leader amidst the chaos"
Leading a product team was never just about the roadmap. Evie's talk covers the rest of the job: staying clear-headed when your calendar's a mess, backing your own judgement under pressure, and giving your team direction when everything around them is shifting. She'll focus on the inner work that makes leaders effective (confidence, presence and clarity) and how to hold onto it when things get messy. Particularly worth it if your calendar currently looks like a losing game of Tetris.

🎁 Attendance Bingo

We’ll have fantastic prizes up for grabs just for attending — keep an eye out during the evening!

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• Photography and/or recording will take place during the event
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• Attendance implies agreement with our Code of Conduct

Una serata di networking e ispirazione!

Ci vediamo per un Tech Drinks in collaborazione con AS Watson 🌍

Tech Drinks è il format di SheTech che unisce ispirazione e networking!

Un appuntamento in collaborazione con un'azienda partner per ascoltare storie vere dal mondo tech e digital, fare tutte le domande che vuoi a professioniste del settore e allargare il tuo network insieme alla community.

L'azienda

AS Watson è leader Mondiale nel settore retail Health & Beauty che consta in 130.000 persone, + 16.500 negozi e 143 milioni di loyalty customers distribuiti su 29 mercati nel Mondo.

Di cosa parleremo?

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🎤Ascolteremo l'intervista a:

• Desirè Fanali****,**** Product Strategy Lead

Desiree Fanali oggi guida la pianificazione delle roadmap digitali, web e app, per diversi brand del gruppo. Ci racconterà il percorso che l’ha portata a ricoprire il suo attuale ruolo, come si trasforma la complessità in opportunità di crescita tra priorità di gruppo, esigenze dei brand e collaborazione cross-team, e condividerà consigli pratici per chi desidera intraprendere una carriera nel digitale.

Infine, spazio al networking: potrai conoscere da vicino il team di AS Watson e la community di SheTech, scambiare contatti e magari trovare l'ispirazione o l'opportunità per il tuo prossimo passo 🚀

Ci vediamo mercoledì 11 novembre dalle 18:30 alle 20:30 presso Sede AS Watson in via Tortona 37 a Milano.

Conosciamo la speaker Desirè Fanali****,**** Product Strategy Lead

Sono Desiree Fanali, Product Strategy Lead nel dipartimento tech di AS Watson Group, uno dei più grandi retailer internazionali health and beauty, presente in Asia ed Europa.

Guido la pianificazione delle roadmap digitali, web e app, per diversi brand del gruppo, allineando la strategia di gruppo alle priorità di crescita dei brand sotto la mia responsabilità. L'obiettivo è generare un impatto positivo sulla customer journey degli utenti e sulle performance dei brand.Ogni piano parte da un'analisi approfondita del mercato di riferimento e dei principali competitor, che offre una visione a 360 gradi.

Questo mi permette di gestire trade off e complessità cross team, favorendo collaborazione e coordinamento, e negoziare tra le esigenze delle singole Business Unit e le priorità del gruppo, sempre con un'attenzione costante all'evoluzione del mercato.Il tech è un ambiente dinamico e stimolante, che premia chi sa sperimentare, prendere decisioni e trasformare la complessità in opportunità di crescita.

Non mancare, i posti sono limitati! 👋

AI is changing what work looks like, from recruitment and performance management to the skills your teams will need in three years. Will it augment people or replace them, and who risks being left behind?

In this lunch session, IWIB4AI founder and AI lawyer Tatiana Caldas-Löttiger explores what AI really means for jobs, leadership and workplace culture. She covers the rules that apply when AI is used to manage people, and how to lead a fair and inclusive transition that brings your workforce with you.

Part of the series Lunch & Learn with IWIB4AI: Leading Responsibly in the Age of AI

What you'll get

• Augmentation vs. automation: which tasks are really changing, and why AI's impact falls unevenly, including across gender
• The legal red lines for AI in HR: why recruitment and worker management count as high-risk under the EU AI Act, and why emotion recognition at work is prohibited
• Workplace surveillance, algorithmic management and trust, and how this connects to the Swedish tradition of co-determination
• Leading the transition: AI literacy as a workforce strategy, reskilling, involving employees early and inclusive leadership
• A live dilemma with anonymous polling, open Q&A, and a one-page takeaway: the Responsible AI at Work guide

Who it's for

Epicenter members and business leaders in the Stockholm area who want to understand the ethical challenges of AI and how to govern it well.

Programme

• 11:30 Arrival, registration and lunch
• 11:50 Welcome from Epicenter and introduction to IWIB4AI
• 11:55 Keynote by Tatiana Caldas-Löttiger
• 12:20 Live dilemma with anonymous polling
• 12:40 Open Q&A
• 12:55 Takeaway tool and close

About the speaker

Tatiana Caldas-Löttiger is an AI lawyer specialising in the EU AI Act and AI ethics and compliance, Course Director - AI Law, Ethics & Responsibility at Berghs School of Communications in Stockholm and the Founder & CEO of IWIB4AI (International WoMenX in Business for Ethical AI). Founded in Stockholm in 2018, IWIB4AI is a global civil society organisation promoting lawful, ethical and inclusive AI, with a presence in six cities across Europe and the Middle East. Speaking on AI ethics since 2016, Tatiana has contributed to AI policy discussions and international initiatives involving UNESCO, United Nations AI governance dialogues, academic institutions and global professional networks. She is a frequent speaker at the Global Legal Skills Institute in the USA, hosts the IWIB4AI Talks series on LinkedIn Live, and serves on the Steering Committee of the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC).

Practical info

📍 Epicenter Stockholm, Malmskillnadsgatan 44a
📅 Thursday 12 November
🕚 11:30–13:00
🍽️ Lunch included

Join us on our 6th Leaddev Athens Meetup for an evening of ⚡ lightning talks, leadership insights, and relaxed networking — hosted at Allwyn Lottery Solutions offices.
⚠️ Space is limited — RSVP is required to attend.
🏠Venue Host:
Allwyn Lottery Solutions
🍕Catering: Pizzas and soft drinks
📝Agenda

• 18:15 - 19:00 | Pre-Session Bookclub: "Build High Value Software Systems: How to eliminate waste across the software delivery lifecycle"

• Panagiotis-Christos Kyrmpatsos | Software Engineer in Research at Orfium

• 19:00 - 19:15 | Welcome by the meetup host

• 19:15 - 20:00 | Fireside Chat Panel: "The state of the tech industry in 2026"

• Archontellis-Rafail Sotirchellis | Associate Director of Engineering at GWI
• Giorgos Vasileiou | CTO at Nadifor
• Dionysis Tsoumas | VP of Engineering at Natech Banking Solutions

• 20:00 - 20:45 | "People Engineering: An accidental manager's journey through scaling culture and AI"

• Ioannis-Petros Moraitis | Director of Engineering at Novibet

• 20:45 - 20:50 | Closing remarks by the Meetup Host

• 20:50 - 21:30 | Networking and Catering


💬 Stay connected
Join the conversation in our LeadDev Slack Workspace
Look for the #athens channel to meet other local community members.

📢 Bring your colleagues and spread the word!

🤔 AI is changing how we work, learn, and collaborate. New opportunities are emerging, but so are new questions: How do we adapt? What should we change? And how do we decide what comes next?

Join Simona Bonghez and Dan Suciu from Colors in Projects for an interactive workshop where learning happens through play, teamwork, and shared experiences.

💭 The games will take us through clarifying where change can actually start from, setting short-term goals, identifying our strengths and understanding that we don’t always have control on how things work out in the end.

You'll work in teams, take on fun challenges, exchange ideas, and explore how different perspectives can help us navigate change, make better decisions, and discover new opportunities.

No long presentations, just interactive activities, teamwork, meaningful conversations, and plenty of fun! 😊

Come ready to play, connect, and get involved. Sitting on the sidelines? Not an option! 😅

Meet our facilitators:

💡Simona Bonghez, Ph.D. is an author and international speaker, and Managing Partner of Colors in Projects, a training and consulting company based in Romania (www.colorsinprojects.ro).

With extensive experience in Agile Transformation projects, Simona is specialized in facilitating interactive and practical agile workshops, supporting companies in embracing new ways of working and managing projects. She is a strong advocate of experiential learning and use of game-based design in education.

Simona’s extensive experience of over 20 years in Project Management combined with her over 15 years of experience in adult education is a personal advantage. She transposes real-world challenges into the courses she teaches within the master programs at university.

On a global level, Simona is Vice Chair Board of Directors - of the Project Management Institute - Global Accreditation Center.

She holds a doctorate in sociology and is passionate about learning through simulation and role-playing games. Simona is also an accredited trainer in SDI (Strengths Deployment Inventory) and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®.

💡Dan Mircea Suciu is passionate about people, teams, and projects. He is a speaker, author,
trainer, and coach with over 20 years of experience in software project development.
For half of that time, he has led teams as a Scrum Master, Project Manager, or Technical Director, gathering a wealth of stories, lessons, and successes that he eagerly shares with others.

Currently, he is Vice Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, where he teaches software project management and actively fosters collaboration between academia and business. In parallel, he is a Partner at Colors in Projects, where he designs and delivers training programs focused on Agile transformations and advanced practices that help teams grow and work better together.

In his free time, Dan enjoys mysterious escape rooms and video games that challenge his
curiosity. Always eager to learn something new, he brings the same positive energy both inside
and outside the classroom.

Agenda:
18:30 — Welcoming participants
18:45-19:00 — Intro about Women in Tech Cluj & Colors in Projects
19:00-20:30 — Play time
20:30-21:00 — Networking

* Please note that this event will be held in Romanian.

* Pictures will be taken during the event and they may be used by Women in Tech Cluj or Colors in Projects

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Women in Tech Cluj started in 2018, and ever since, we've been hosting monthly meetups. Our mission is to learn, support each other, and grow together. We aim to enhance the visibility of technical women and empower them to stand up and have a voice. Despite our name, everyone is welcome to join us! ✨

Have you ever wondered why so many Agile transformations still fail to deliver the promised results? Why leaders continue to question the value of Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters? And if AI can now create reports, retrospectives, and training material in seconds, what is our role in the future?

For years, Agile Coaches have focused on frameworks, events, and coaching techniques. Yet many organisations still struggle with prioritisation, alignment, decision-making, and adaptability. Perhaps the problem isn’t Agile. Perhaps we’ve completely misunderstood the Agile Coach/Scrum Master role?

In this provocative session, Malene Jacobsen challenges some of the assumptions that have shaped our profession. Drawing on lessons from adaptive organisations, sports coaching, and the rise of AI, she explores what the future Agile Coach/Scrum Master looks like.

Outcome of the talk:

1. Explore why traditional Agile Coaching approaches are delivering diminishing value in today's rapidly changing environment.
2. Understand how AI and organisational complexity are reshaping the expectations of Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches.
3. Discover how a performance-focused, sports coach mindset can help Agile Coaches create greater organisational impact.
4. Identify practical ways to shift from coaching Agile practices to improving effectiveness, adaptability, and outcomes.

Lukáš Pítra a Karel Dytrych o řízení firmy v nejistotě, zákaznících, prioritách a AI. Moderuje Ondřej Dobeš z CzechInvestu.

Nevím, co bude za měsíc. Jak přesto řídit firmu?

Zákazníci mění návyky, AI zrychluje konkurenci a tým potřebuje vědět, co má přednost. Jak v téhle situaci volit priority a dotahovat práci?

Na desátém Business Meetupu v Pardubicích to probereme s Lukášem Pítrou a Karlem Dytrychem. Debatu moderuje Ondřej Dobeš z CzechInvestu. Vedle zkušeností hostů bude prostor i pro vaše konkrétní situace a otázky.

O čem se budeme bavit

• Jak zvolit priority, když se podmínky rychle mění.
• Jak rozumět zákazníkům a opřít rozhodování o výzkum, zpětnou vazbu a data.
• Jak udržet produkt jednoduchý a užitečný v době, kdy AI zrychluje vývoj i konkurenci.
• Jak převést dohodnuté priority do práce, kterou tým skutečně dokončí.

Hosté a moderátor

Karel Dytrych je spoluzakladatel Freela a Váš Hosting. Přinese zkušenost s budováním firem, SaaS produktem a organizací týmové práce.

Lukáš Pítra je konzultant zákaznické zkušenosti. Pomáhá firmám porozumět zákazníkům prostřednictvím výzkumu a dat a promítat zjištění do marketingu, produktů a procesů.

Ondřej Dobeš, regionální projektový manažer CzechInvestu pro Pardubický kraj, nás provede debatou.

Pro koho je Business Meetup

Pro majitele firem, manažery, vedoucí týmů a lidi z produktů či marketingu, kteří rozhodují o prioritách a chtějí své zkušenosti porovnat s ostatními. Nepotřebujete technické znalosti AI. Vítáme i účastníky z jiných měst.

Prakticky

Čtvrtek 12. listopadu 2026, 17:00–21:00
Westie Coffee, Smilova 1904, Pardubice
Vstup zdarma po registraci. Kapacita 30 lidí.

Program

• 17:00–17:10 Zahájení Business Meetupu a představení hostů.
• 17:10–17:30 Jak dnes řídit firmu a rozumět zákazníkům — úvodní pohled Karla Dytrycha a Lukáše Pítry.
• 17:30–19:30 Moderovaná debata a vaše otázky.
• 19:30–21:00 Networking a navazující rozhovory.

Časy jednotlivých bloků jsou orientační.

O Business Meetupu a pravidla

Naším cílem je vytvořit bezpečný prostor pro otevřenou a smysluplnou diskuzi, kde se dá jít do hloubky a mluvit i o věcech, které se na veřejných akcích běžně neříkají.

Z tohoto důvodu si jako organizátor vyhrazujeme právo:

• schválit účastníky
• případně registraci zrušit, pokud by meetup nebyl pro konkrétního účastníka vhodný (tematicky, zkušenostně nebo kontextově)

Nejde o exkluzivitu pro exkluzivitu.

Jde o kvalitu diskuze, bezpečný prostor a maximální přínos pro všechny zúčastněné.

Hi Product People,
We are excited to invite you to our next event!
In this session, we will discuss how product leaders can grow products and organizations without losing focus, speed, or alignment. Through practical lessons on scaling teams and leading through outcomes, the talks will show how to turn strategy into meaningful impact—not just more features or faster delivery.

ABOUT THE TALKS

• The growth playbook: what you need to scale your product, and your org

Speaker: Francesca Cortesi, CPO at Vend

Most product orgs know they need to scale, but they keep hitting the same walls: constant pivoting that kills momentum, teams that slow down instead of speed up, and innovation that feels like feature bloat.
Drawing from scaling some of the leading marketplaces in the Nordics, Francesca will share her hard-learned playbook: why focus beats flexibility when finding market-fit, how to structure for speed without chaos, and when to stop optimizing features and start rethinking the product.

Francesca is a product leader who has made impact, innovation, and sustainable growth the cornerstones of her career. With nearly two decades scaling technology-driven companies across the Nordics, she has led major marketplaces, online communities, and e-commerce businesses from early potential to scale.

• Leading through Outcomes

Speaker: Alexandru Bleau, Senior Product Manager at E.ON

When nobody reports to you, the outcome is your authority. In this talk I'll show how leading through outcomes puts everyone on equal ground, turns a nod in planning into a real commitment, and gives you the most effective way to say no. And now that AI lets us build the wrong thing ten times faster, it matters more than ever.
Alexandru is a seasoned product leader, currently @E.ON One working as a Senior Product Manager. He has been building and developing products and services for 15 years, from advertising products, online services, and mobile apps to games, physical, educational, and travel products.

SCHEDULE

5:45 Arrive, grab a bite & drink

6:15 Welcome from ProductTank Amsterdam team and Funda
6:25 - 8:00 Talks and Q&A with speakers

Afterward, we’ll have plenty of time to mingle and talk product over drinks.

Location, Food & Drinks are sponsored by Funda. Thank you for supporting ProductTank Amsterdam!

Just when you got the hang of LLMs, a new kind of AI shows up.
On September 26, 2026, Typesafe launched Jev, a brand new type of AI model. It’s not another chatbot. It’s a decision model. Here is the big difference: LLMs generate decisions. Decision models make them.

And it’s moving fast. In October, OpenAI and Microsoft released decision models of their own. Product teams are already testing them because they are very useful and very cheap. Some teams have even added them to their plans for the year.

So what does this mean for you, the everyday PM?

That’s exactly what we want to find out together.
This night is mostly product, with a little tech sprinkled in. You don’t need to be an engineer to follow along. You’ll leave knowing:
✅ What decision models are, in plain words
✅ How they could work in a real product flow
✅ Where they fit next to your current LLM tools, and where they might replace them
✅ How to tell if they make sense for your team

Hear from teams who are already on it
🎤 Diego Zanlorenzi, Engineering Manager: Lending Experience, Sambla Group
Sambla team has already found some easy applications in their product flows. Diego will share some examples of how powerful this could be.
🎤 Pratinav Gera, Group Lead - Product Data & Search, Klarna
Pratinav will show how Klarna is putting decision models to work.
🎤 Speaker #3
Coming soon. Stay tuned!

🔥 Fireside chat
After the talks, our speakers and a panelist will sit down for an open chat. This is your chance to ask the questions you are curious about.

Agenda

• 18:00 Doors open, check in
• 18:30 Welcome from ProductTank and Sambla
• 18:40 Talks
• 19:45 Fireside chat
• 20:15 More mingling
• 20:30 Doors close

Important: Seating is limited to 80 guests, so RSVP early!
Spots are limited and every attendee needs to RSVP and get approved to come in. We'll check names at the door, so please make sure you're on the list. No guests or plus-ones this time, so if you know someone who wants to come, ask them to RSVP on their own. RSVP only if you are sure you will be able to attend. Joist the waiting list and we will help you.

Good to know

1. The event is in English and in person.
2. It’s for product managers in Stockholm and anyone who wants to become one.
3. Spots are limited. RSVP and we will approve your spot.
4. No guests or +1. Everyone needs their own RSVP.
5. Plans changed? Please update your RSVP so someone else can join.

Come learn, meet other product people, and take a fresh idea back to your team. See you on November 12! 🚀
ProductTank Stockholm is part of the global ProductTank community for product people.
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Thank you for Sambla Group for hosting us.

• Interested in joining Sambla team?
  Explore career opportunities at Sambla:
  https://career.samblagroup.com/
• Are you interested in hosting the next ProductTank event? Please leave a comment in the discussion section below. ️
• Are you interested in speaking at the next ProductTank event? Please leave a comment in the discussion section below.

🎭 Et si on parlait (vraiment) du sexisme en IT ?

Pour cette nouvelle édition des IT Women Talks Lyon, l’association Yeeso vous propose une soirée participative et conviviale autour d’un sujet qui nous concerne toutes et tous : le sexisme dans les métiers de l’informatique.

Et cette fois, on change de format !

🎭 Au programme : un théâtre-forum animé par Emmanuelle GOUVART (Profil Linkedin), Head of People chez HoppR.

À travers des situations concrètes inspirées du monde professionnel, nous vous invitons à questionner les comportements, partager vos expériences et réfléchir ensemble aux solutions pour faire évoluer les pratiques.
Pas besoin d'être comédien·ne ! Le théâtre-forum est avant tout un espace d'échange, de réflexion et d'intelligence collective où chacun·e peut participer à sa manière.

🎯 Notre objectif ?
Identifier les situations de sexisme, mieux comprendre leurs impacts et explorer collectivement des pistes d'action pour construire des environnements de travail plus inclusifs et équitables.

🤝 Et bien sûr, place au networking !
Nous prolongerons les échanges autour d'un moment convivial pour rencontrer d'autres professionnel·les de la Tech, partager nos expériences et développer notre réseau.

Un grand merci à HoppR, sponsor de cette édition, pour son soutien et son engagement à nos côtés !

📅 Jeudi 12 novembre 2026
📍 Now Coworking, 35 Rue de Marseille, 69007 Lyon
🎟️ Événement gratuit ouvert à toutes et tous, sur inscription obligatoire.

📚 Sur place, découvrez également notre livre Yeeso, L’avenir de l’IT avec les femmes !, qui rassemble 52 portraits de femmes de la Tech, 31 articles et 12 actions concrètes pour faire progresser la mixité.

À propos de Yeeso
Yeeso est une association d’intérêt général qui agit pour accélérer la féminisation des métiers et des équipes informatiques, de l’éducation au monde professionnel.

👉 Pour découvrir nos actions, adhérer ou devenir partenaire : https://yeeso.org/

On vous attend nombreuses et nombreux pour faire avancer ensemble les choses !

Comment sortir des situations conflictuelles et retrouver sa capacité d'agir ?

⚠️ Atelier 100% féminin en non-mixté choisie

Un atelier interactif pour apprendre à aborder les situations de tension avec recul, confiance et assertivité.
À travers la méthode DESC, les participantes découvrent comment exprimer un désaccord, poser leurs limites et formuler des demandes claires, sans agressivité ni passivité.

L'objectif : ne plus subir les situations inconfortables, mais développer sa capacité d'agir pour transformer les tensions en échanges constructifs.

Pour l'occasion, vous pourrez aussi acheter le livre de Yeeso tout récemment sortie ! Il contient 52 portrait de femmes de la tech, des articles hyper instructifs autour de la tech et l'inclusion, ainsi que des conseils pour œuvrer chacun a son échelle a l'inclusion de a tech.
Certaines des femmes du livre seront peut-être présentent au meetup, vous pourrez échanger avec elles, les questionner sur leur parcours, trouver votre futur mentor.e, et peut être même leur demander un autographe.

Pour rappel, Yeeso œuvre pour l'équité femmes-hommes dans la tech, et l'IT Women Talks met en avant l'expertise féminine et favorise la déconstruction des préjugés de genre dans l’IT.

Ne manquez pas cette soirée enrichissante et inspirante. Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant pour réserver gratuitement votre place !

• Nous suivre sur Linkedin, Tiktok et Youtube
• Plus d'informations : Le site de Yeeso
• Pour rejoindre Yeeso, devenir partenaire, faire un don pour nous permettre de continuer a faire ce genre d'évènement, ou encore acheter le livre et venir le récupérer au meetup : La page Hello Asso de Yeeso
• La page de CFP si tu veux proposer un talk pour un prochain meetup : Page de CFP conférence Hall

Plus de détails sur le programme :
Annonce a venir sur linkedin

Accessibilité de l'évènement :
Lieu : à définir

Exciting news: LeadDev Porto Meetups are here

LeadDev is a globally recognised community and event series for engineering leaders — bringing together tech leads, engineering managers, and senior engineers from some of the world’s best teams to share knowledge, grow their craft, and shape the future of software engineering.
And now, LeadDev is coming to Porto.

Join us for the special launch event on 12th of November and enjoy an evening of networking and lightning talks. Drinks and nibbles will be provided on the night, thanks to Pixelmatters.

📍 Thursday, 12 November 2026
🕕 18:00
📌 Pixelmatters (Av. dos Aliados 168 5º Andar, 4000-065 Porto)

Agenda
18:00: Arrivals check in.
18:10: Welcome message: the purpose of the meetup, agenda and Code of Conduct.
18:20: “Leading by example in the AI Era” with Tiago Coelho, Pixelmatters
18:45: “Fixing the overhead tax of work” with Rui Machado, MaioLabs
19:10: “Leading Through Simplification” with Ricardo Castro, FanDuel
19:35: Q&A and wrap-up
20:00: Networking with food and drinks
21:00: Event ends :)

Spaces are limited - you must RSVP to attend.
We hope to see you there!

Don't forget to share this with your colleagues who may be interested, and keep an eye out for upcoming meetups.

Thank you to our meetup partner Pixelmatters for sponsoring this first edition and making it possible. 🙏

¿Y si los primeros agilistas lo entendieron todo al revés?

Porque, aunque se reconocen los beneficios de este trabajo durante todos estos años, Raúl reflexiona sobre cómo, al mirar atrás, a menudo le invade la duda de si sus formaciones y su acompañamiento a tantos equipos —en su intento por promover la Agilidad y Scrum— pudieron haber generado algún impacto negativo no deseado.

En esta charla, el ponente compartirá su visión personal sobre cómo descubrió la agilidad, cómo él y sus coetáneos han intentado llevarla a tantos equipos, algunos de los problemas más típicos que se han venido repitiendo una y otra vez, y la receta que propone para conseguir resultados diferentes.

¿Nos acompañas?
¡Te esperamos en las oficinas de FMIT en Santa Cruz!
Agradecemos a FMIT Group que nos ceda su espacio en Calle de Santa Rosalía, 49, 1A