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Tanya has 10+ yrs experience applying her entrepreneurial spirit within companies, big & small. She’s in the process of founding a boutique product consultancy, focused on early stage startups. Most recently VP of Product at UserTesting, she’s also led product & growth teams at Facebook, Google, and Groupon. Her expertise is in building highly cross-functional, diverse, & inclusive B2B Product teams that use customer insights & data to drive growth. She has an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and a BA from Stanford University.

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As Stripe's longest-tenured Product Manager and its first PM lead, Shreyas has been instrumental in defining the role of product management and growing the PM team at Stripe. He currently leads Stripe Terminal & Mobile products and is involved in strategy across Stripe's products. From 2016 to 2019, Shreyas led product management for Stripe's flagship product, Connect. Before Stripe, he held product leadership roles at Twitter, Google, and Yahoo. Shreyas writes about product management, leadership, and organizational psychology at twitter.com/shreyas

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Esteban Contreras is a Senior Director of Product Management at Hootsuite, the global leader in social media management software. Esteban has spent over a decade at the convergence of technology and marketing. He is passionate about solving problems with software and developing customer-centric, mission-driven product teams. At Hootsuite, Esteban has driven the vision for its social media marketing solutions and led product portfolios responsible for publishing, engagement, mobile, analytics, integrations, and machine learning initiatives. He has advised tech startups in SaaS, gaming, social networking and ecommerce. Originally from Guatemala, Esteban lived in the United States before moving to Vancouver, BC where he now lives with his wife and two kids. You can find him on Twitter @socialnerdia.

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Jason returns to the INDUSTRY stage where he wowed attendees with his insights on the nature of being creative in 2017 and on building products the Basecamp way in 2019. He’s the co-founder and CEO of Basecamp, a renowned project collaboration product, and co-author of several seminal books on modern work practices, including Rework and most recently It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work.

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Greg is an established product leader currently working as a VP of Content and Data Platforms at American Express. He has led product management, data science, software engineering teams for the last 20 yrs at companies such as eBay, PayPal, and Intel. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science and Accounting. He resides in Scottsdale, AZ and loves to spend time with his wife and kids, reading, traveling, running, biking, and working on community improvement efforts.

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As executive vice president of product at Zendesk, Shawna manages the organization’s global product teams to deliver thoughtfully designed, market-changing products. She follows a customer-first mindset and is energized by seeing what experiences are possible with Zendesk technology. Shawna currently holds three patents, and her career has revolved around making hard concepts easy and intuitive for users. She previously spent 15 years at Salesforce as SVP of product management, where she was a pivotal part of multiple product strategy teams, including the Customer 360 platform. When she’s not at the office, you can find her listening to live music or soaring to great heights on the trapeze.

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Christian has been a product leader for over 15 years, building teams and developing enterprise and consumer products that have shaped companies such as CareerBuilder and Merrill Corporation as well as clients such as PayPal, Etsy, Starbucks, Dell, and Macy’s. Christian is passionate about helping companies implement the discipline of product management to build world-class products and new technologies. Before joining Silicon Valley Product Group, Christian was the Global Head of Product for Merrill Corporation.

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Ryan has worked on all levels of the software stack, from UI design to back-end programming to strategy. Through over 16 years at Basecamp he’s designed features used by millions while also inventing the very processes their teams use to design, develop and ship the right things. These days he’s focused on strategy. That means understanding what their customers are trying to do so they build the right things and make the product more coherent over time.

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Julie Zhuo is currently the co-founder of Inspirit, a product strategy, data and design advisory firm for high-growth tech companies. Before that she was the VP of Product Design for the Facebook app, where she helped scale the service from 10 million users to over 2 billion during her 13 years there. Her field guide to management, The Making of a Manager, became an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller and was selected as one of Amazon's Best Business and Leadership Books of 2019. She writes about technology, design, and leadership on her popular blog and mailing list, The Looking Glass. She graduated with a computer science degree from Stanford University and lives with her husband and three children in California's Bay Area.

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Claire is the Chief Product Officer of Product Management at Optimizely. Previously, she was the CEO and co-founder of Experiment Engine which was acquired by Optimizely in 2017. Claire is an expert in high-velocity experimentation programs, product strategy and user experience, and a passionate advocate for women in technology.

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Kasia is a technologist in healthcare at McKinsey & Company and the Project Lead of The Data Nutrition Project, an initiative that builds tools to improve the health of artificial intelligence through healthier data. Previously, Kasia worked at the U.S. Digital Service (White House / EOP) to improve government technology around the opioid crisis and visa application processes. They were also the Product and Partnerships Lead for Scratch, a project of the MIT Media Lab. When not in front of a whiteboard or a keyboard, Kasia can be found cycling uncomfortably-long distances on a bicycle.

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Maryanna is the Product Lead for Ads Management at Facebook Inc. She oversees a 100 person organization that is responsible for >$50Bn in revenue for Facebook. She is also the co-founder of BlackProductManagers.com which serves as an up-leveling community for the strongest diverse product thinkers in the world. Her expertise is in leadership of scale platforms, building strong cultures, and supporting diversity in tech development. Prior to joining Facebook Maryanna was the founder and CEO of a mobile workflow startup, was an investor with Audax Group Private Equity, and a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. She received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth college, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where she was an Arjay Miller scholar.

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In 2005, Gibson Biddle joined Netflix as VP of Product. In 2010, he became Chief Product Officer of Chegg, a textbook rental company that went public in 2013. Today, he’s an adviser for multiple consumer tech companies and teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford.

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Richard’s curiosity for product design and leadership has led to four books on these topics. As well as being co-author of Design Sprint and Product Leadership, Richard also authored Design Leadership and Enterprise Design Sprints. When he’s not writing, speaking or teaching, he is VP of Design Transformation at InVision. Previously, Richard was the CEO of Fresh Tilled Soil, an international product design agency.

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Entrepreneurs and enterprise leaders alike recognize the importance of innovation, but few harness it effectively. Bob Moesta helps make it more predictable and successful. Among the principal architects of the Jobs to be Done theory in the mid-90s along with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen, Moesta has continued to develop, advance and apply the innovation framework to everyday business challenges. Currently president & co-founder of The ReWired Group, a Detroit, Mich., Innovation consultancy & incubator, he is also a fellow at the Christensen Institute.

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Tami Reiss is a product strategy leader with over 15 years of experience helping startups, established companies, and community profit organizations figure out what to do next. Currently, she focuses on the Insight Partners portfolio as their CPO in Residence through her role as SVP of Product at ProdUXLabs. She has held many roles which adds to her ability to understand with different perspectives and various industries. In 2016, Tami launched Just Not Sorry, a Gmail plug-in used by half a million people around the globe to write more confident emails. Tami lives with her husband Nadav in Manhattan but grew up in Florida and spent over a decade in LA. She loves to travel and considers herself a citizen of the world.

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Ash Maurya is the author of two bestselling books “Running Lean” and “Scaling Lean”, and is also the creator of the highly popular one-page business modeling tool “Lean Canvas”. Ash is praised for offering some of the best and most practical advice for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs all over the world. Driven by the search for better and faster ways for building successful products, Ash has developed a systematic methodology for raising the odds of success built upon Lean Startup, Customer Development, and Bootstrapping techniques. Ash is also a leading business blogger and his posts and advice have been featured in Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and Fortune. He regularly hosts sold out workshops around the world and serves as a mentor to several accelerators including TechStars, MaRS, Capital Factory, and guest lecturers at several universities including MIT, Harvard, and UT Austin. Ash serves on the advisory board of a number of startups, and has consulted to new and established companies.

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Holly is the Founder and CEO of H2R Product Science, a product management coaching and consulting firm that teaches the science of high-growth product development. She is a former Columbia University research scientist and has led over a dozen successful digital product initiatives at startups, high-growth companies, and enterprises like Shutterstock, The Lean Startup Co, and Weight Watchers. With those experiences she has developed the Product Science Method, a framework to discover the strongest product opportunities and lay the foundations for high-growth products, teams, and businesses.

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Dan Olsen is a product management expert and author of The Lean Product Playbook. Based in Silicon Valley, Dan helps CEOs and product leaders build better products and stronger product teams as a hands-on consultant, trainer, and coach.