And we welcome yet another great new sponsor to the Product Camp Melbourne family – Monash University!
With the scale, scope, expertise, and partnerships to make change at a global level, Monash is committed to leaving a positive impact on the world so that future generations can thrive. If you are interested in being part of our community of change makers, join the team at Monash to support learning, teaching, research and the professional business of a global university
Another new sponsor to welcome to the Product Camp Melbourne family – Equiem!
Equiem activates real estate with technology that understands people.
Founded and headquartered in Melbourne 12 years ago, Equiem was the original Tenant Expeirence platform. Now Equiem operates around the globe, trusted by 150+ leading real estate organisations in over 900 buildings. Equiem enables real estate owners and operators to create responsive, human-centric working and living environments, by integrating building operation tools, flexible space management and community engagement into one smart building management platform.
Another new sponsor to welcome to the Product Camp Melbourne family – Vic Roads!
VicRoads is a government joint venture in the state of Victoria, Australia. We are here to help provide Victorians with safe and easy connections to the people and places that matter most to them, and we are responsible for driver licensing and vehicle registration.
We’re embarking on a large modernisation journey and our vision is to become Australia’s most progressive registry! If you think Product, come join us.
And yes! Another awesome new sponsor to the Product Camp Melbourne family – Mantel Group!
Mantel Group is an Australian-owned technology consulting business with capabilities across Cloud, Digital, Data & Security. Since our inception in November 2017, Mantel Group has experienced remarkable growth across Australia & New Zealand and are honoured to be recognised as a Great Place to Work for 4 years in a row!
We hire smart and talented people and get out of their way. As a principle-based organisation we have a flat structure with no hierarchy. By focusing on our five principles and not getting caught up in red tape, we trust you to get the job done!
Our team develops end to end solutions to business problems that help organisations move from idea or concept to delivery and ultimately our focus is helping businesses make human decisions about digital products.
Last year Seek hosted Product Camp Melbourne and this year… we’re back in their fantastic office!
SEEK has been helping Australians live more fulfilling and productive working lives for 25 years. SEEK is a diverse group of companies, comprised of a strong portfolio of online employment, educational, commercial and volunteer businesses. As a market leader in online employment marketplaces that span ten countries across Asia Pacific and Latin America, SEEK makes a positive contribution to people’s lives on a global scale.
One of our repeat and much loved sponsors is returning this year – Everest Engineering! Everest has sponsored Product Camp AND helped out immensely when we had some website issues a few years ago!
Everest Engineering – A bold, people first community, building digital products for those who do things differently.
We are super excited to welcome a new sponsor to the Product Camp Melbourne family – Mixpanel!
Mixpanel revolutionizes how companies link product analytics to tangible business outcomes. By understanding the full impact of product and marketing decisions, companies have the necessary information to optimize how they acquire and grow their customers. By providing complete, self-serve, and correct data in an easy-to-use platform, Mixpanel frees teams to move faster, see the whole picture, and measure impact.
And it’s a wrap! Thank you to all the attendees, sponsors, speakers and volunteers for a wonderful Product Camp 2023!!! When we first started planning Camp in early 2023, we weren’t sure how many people would want to be in a large crowd or if we’d need to be wearing masks and still felt like there were a chance we wouldn’t be able to go ahead at all so… being in the room with 200 people and being able to experience camp again was fantastic!
If you have written a blog post or are speaker who’s written up your talk, reach out on the ProdAnon slack to be included below.
We hope you’ll read thru this little summary and give love to everyone involved including keynotes, sponsors, speakers & volunteers!
Our Keynotes: Ken Sandy & Kendra Vant
Product Camp is an ‘unconference’ which means most of the talks are done by attendees though we always organise a keynote or two.
This year we kicked off the day with Ken Sandy‘s Think Like a Product Manager Talk and closed it out with Kendra Vant‘s Kicking the Tyres of AI to See if it’s Right for Your Product. You can check out Ken’s book – The Influential PM – and Kendra’s Substack where she’s posted 4 articles related to her keynote.
Our sponsors are critically important as they give us a place to host Camp and make sure we are not hangry during the day. Massive thank you to:
Awesome sponsors!
Thank you for the Door Prizes!
Session 1 Talks
Our fantastic attendees offer to share their knowledge and hopes and pain by suggesting topics and then having those voted upon. We had 32 people come up to pitch which was fantastic to see. Thank you!!
First up we had …
Steve Bauer & Amir Ansari with ‘Product is the Enemy of UX‘ – their slides are here and now include the the audience participation via the tag clouds.
Georgia Hart from nDeva talked about finding a product manager job.
Ollie Newbery talked about how to find and tell captivating stories about your work. Slides here
Amplitude ran a workshop twice during the day on Finding your product’s Truth North.
Here's the sketch note of Georgia Hart's talk on how to find a product manager 👨🏫 pic.twitter.com/XmsfnDt2Kc
Shreya Pawar on the art of A/B experiments and drew from a e-comm case study
Brent Snook talked about going from conversation to backlog in minutes.
Andrew Murphy with Debugging Difficult Conversations. Andrew did a talk at NDC Oslo earlier this year on the same topic which can be watched on YouTube
