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Building Pillow Talk: A Fireside Chat with Joanna Montgomery

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About Event

Join us for a fireside chat with Joanna Montgomery, founder of Little Riot and creator of Pillow Talk, a product designed to help people feel connected across distance.

What started as a deeply human idea went on to reach customers in more than 70 countries and be used in children’s hospitals around the world. In this session, Joanna will share the real story behind building a physical tech product, turning an idea into something people love, and navigating the messy path from concept to global recognition.

Hosted by Stephanie Melodia, one of the UK’s Top 20 Most Influential Female Founders, this conversation will explore Joanna’s journey as a founder, product builder, and operator in the tech space.

With 14 years of experience in tech, Joanna has raised multiple rounds of venture capital, built patented products, and worked across innovation, product development, and commercial growth. She brings a practical, honest perspective on what it takes to build something genuinely new.

This session will go beyond the polished founder story. Joanna will talk about the challenges of building hardware, finding market demand, raising investment, protecting an idea, and staying resilient when the product journey is anything but straightforward.

You’ll walk away with insights on:

• How to turn a human problem into a product people care about

• What it takes to build and commercialise a physical tech product

• Lessons from raising venture capital across different ventures

• How to navigate product development, patents, and market adoption

• The resilience required to keep building when the path is unclear

Whether you’re building a product, testing an idea, raising investment, or trying to create something that genuinely connects with customers, this conversation will give you practical lessons from a founder who has taken an idea from early concept to global reach.

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