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.
What really does that mean? Almost all the talks of our multiple streams during the day are presented by and voted on my the people attending that day. Submit your idea here to drive some hype and glory 😉 , pitch during the morning of the event and enjoy the day.
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
Thanks for your feedback and letting us know there is indeed desire to have Product Camp make a return this year. We’re now kicking off those viability questions since Product Camp is free to attendees, we need amazing sponsors to provide a venue and feed everyone though the day. If you’re interested in sponsoring, reach out with the ‘contact us’ above.
Folks who want to attend, start thinking about how you want to participate. Camp is all about active participation – volunteer on the day, raise your hand to give a talk on the day (subject to pitch & dot voting of attendees who want to hear your talk!), be ready to participate in discussions and meet people! If there’s a topic you’d like to hear about but do not want to talk, suggest that. All suggestions, questions, go to the contact us form above.
While we do not have an exact date yet, we are looking at the 1st two Saturdays in August (Aug 5 or 12) so mark your calendars and we’ll keep you posted!
From our ‘prototype’ roots as a small event, Product Camp Melbourne has grown into an immersive unmissable annual day. Created for anyone who is passionate about creating amazing products, it’s a one-of-a-kind-event where you can connect with hundreds of other like-minded “product” people including PM’s, BA’s, UXers & CXex’s, QA Developers, start-up founders, & marketers.
Guess what…it’s all about you. We’re an unconference which means most of the day’s talks are given by you. Our attendees both create and vote for sessions on the day sparking an energising freewheeling exchange of ideas. Submit your pitch!
Camp is guaranteed fun. With thanks to our generous sponsors, we keep our attendees fueled with great food and coffee. You’ll get plenty of breaks to chat with those friendly faces around you (those you know & will meet!). Stick around for the After-Party and chat over a drink or two.
