Real-World Wins & Learning from Losses
🎉 Behind The Product Meetup is a space for Product Managers to connect, learn, and share insights with each other. This is a community built by Product People for Product People, dedicated to fostering a collaborative environment for product professionals in the Budapest area. Whether you're leading the way on product strategy or navigating the challenges of team management, we aim to support each other in creating successful, innovative products. 🚀
The event is sponsored by Diligent! Thank you ❤️
This meetup is for you if:
• You’re responsible for deciding what gets built by your product team. 🛠️
• You’re steering how your product enters the market. 🧭
• You’re tasked with determining what comes next in your product’s journey. 🔮
Through these presentations and open discussions, attendees will gain actionable insights on driving product innovation, overcoming team challenges, and learning from both success and failure.
🕒 Event Agenda
17:30 - Registration 📝
18:00 - 1 Topic & 4 Aspects 🎤
18:45 - Roundtable Discussion 💬
19:30 - Beer & Wraps 🍻🌯
The event will feature a series of short presentations followed by a roundtable discussion on the topic:
“Biggest Lessons from Building Products & Teams - Positive & Negative.” 💡⚖️
Senior product leaders will share real-world experiences—both the successes and challenges they’ve faced in building products and managing teams. Through these presentations and an open dialogue, attendees will gain insights into:
What drives product innovation 💡
How to overcome team-related hurdles 🛑➡️🚀
How to learn from failure 📉💪
1st Speaker:
Speaker's Name: Tamas Malindovszky
Position: Product Director
Company: SAP Emarsys
Bio:
Tamas has been working as a product professional at Emarsys for 7 years. He has worked in the Analytics and Automation domains, as a people manager, and is responsible for the product career path. He is an enthusiastic mentor, product person, author, and game master.
Title of the Presentation:
Embrace changes 🌪️
The presentation will answer the following questions:
How do changes affect teams? 🤔
How can you make your team more resilient? 🛡️
How are product, organisational, and team changes connected? 🔗
Keywords:
Resilience 💪
Change management 🔄
Re-organisation 🏗️
Pivoting strategies 🔄
Target Audience:
This presentation is for you if you are working with teams and facing challenges when it comes to changing priorities and organisations. 🧑💼💼
2nd Speaker:
Speaker's Name: Gergely Schmidt
Position: Product Manager
Company: Instructure
Bio:
Product Manager with more than a decade of experience from startup to big enterprise. Best described as "been there, done that" 📈. Ustream, IBM, Tresorit, Lidl, and his own startup.
Title of the Presentation:
What is innovation? 💡
The presentation will answer the following questions:
Product management war stories 📖, successes 🏆, and failures 💥 from personal and company perspectives.
Keywords:
Product management
Innovation
Success & failure stories
Target Audience:
You are a product manager 🎯.
3rd Speaker:
Speaker's Name: Balázs Kereskényi
Position: Product management leader and mentor
Company: the MVP company
Bio:
I can improve product management in your organization. I know how to move fast and enter the market 🚀, build out an early-stage concept and team. I also have experience leading cross-functional product development teams of 100+ people. I enjoy managing up. I've even validated and built a sourdough micro-bakery 🍞 using my product management skills.
Title of the Presentation:
Lessons learned from helping companies move to product-led 🏁
The presentation will answer the following questions:
What are the common mistakes companies make when shifting to a product-led approach, and how can they be avoided? ⚠️
How not to waste investor money? 💸
Why do we need cross-functional teams to be aligned, and how to do that? 🤝
How can we make real innovation happen? 🌟
Keywords:
PLG (Product-Led Growth) 📊
Cross-functional collaboration 🤝
Innovation strategy 💡
Managing up 🚀
Target Audience
You want to transform to a product-led model 🔄.
You are struggling with getting executive buy-in 🤔...
Or, as a leader, you are struggling because your team is underperforming 😟.
You want to improve cross-functional collaboration 🤝.
And last but not least, you want to build the right product in a pragmatic, cost-efficient way 💡🛠️.
4th Speaker:
Speaker’s Name: Yu-Kuan Lin
Speaker’s Position: VP and Head of Boards & Leadership Products, Diligent
Speaker’s Company: Diligent
Speaker’s Bio:
Yu-Kuan Lin is the VP and Head of Boards & Leadership Products at Diligent, building the future of governance and technology 🌍🚀. Prior to joining Diligent, he was the Head of Commerce Logistics & Checkout at Meta, where he helped scale the nascent business to $10B GMV and more 💼💸. Before Meta, Yu-Kuan gained a range of experiences from founding a YCombinator-backed startup to scaling Codecademy, a leader in online learning, to a $500M+ exit 🎓💡. Yu-Kuan started his career at Google & Microsoft, where he worked on Android, Google Maps, and Search 🔍📱. He’s a builder at heart 🛠️ and loves to connect with great product builders around the world to share lessons and stories 🌎🤝.
Title of the Presentation:
“Building Products with AI for Senior Leaders: Lessons from the Trenches”
The Presentation Will Answer the Following Questions:
What are the key lessons learned from building AI-powered products for senior business leaders?
How does AI influence the decision-making processes of board members and C-suite executives?
What challenges and successes come with building high-impact products in fast-paced, high-stakes environments?
How can product teams better integrate AI to solve real business problems for top leadership?
List of Keywords:
AI in product development 🤖
Leadership decision-making 🧠
Product management 🛠️
Building high-performance teams 🏆
This presentation is for you if you are:
A product manager or leader working with AI technologies
Involved in building products for senior business leaders 🏢
Interested in learning how AI can transform decision-making at the highest levels 🧠💡
Focused on scaling teams and creating impactful solutions in dynamic industries 🌐📈
Looking forward to seeing you there! 😊
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