A look back at Mind the Product 2013
Over 600 product managers, designers and developers attended Mind the Product last year, our second sold-out annual conference. Watch the recap video to get a sense of what it was like to be there! Read more
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Kathy Sierra
Building badass users
@seriousponyKathy Sierra has been advocating for the user in everything from software to books since her days as a game developer. She designed and taught New Media/ Interaction Design courses at UCLA and Java programming at Sun Microsystems. She created one of the largest (and friendliest) developer communities, javaranch.com, the bestselling Head First tech book series for O'Reilly, and authored the Technorati Top 100 blog, Creating Passionate Users.close -
Dave Wascha
Chief Product Officer, Moo.com
@davewaschaDave is the Chief Product Officer at MOO.COM, the award winning online design and print business and one of London's fastest growing private companies. Prior to joining MOO Dave spent 14 years at Microsoft in Seattle and in London product managing a wide variety of products including web browsers, developer tools, enterprise application integration (EAI) software, operating systems, online shopping and travel and web search.close -
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Nir Eyal
Author & Entrepreneur
@nireyalNir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. He is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Nir founded two tech companies since 2003 and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Nir’s last company received venture funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and was acquired in 2011. Nir is also an advisor to several Bay Area start-ups , venture capitalists, and incubators and in addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir is a contributing writer for Forbes, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today.close -
Des Traynor
Co-Founder, Intercom
@destraynorDes Traynor is the co-founder and VP of Customer Success at Intercom. Founded in 2011, Intercom is a simple, personal messaging service for businesses and their customers. It is a single, integrated platform for marketing, product, support and sales communication. At Intercom, Des works with customers on a daily basis and through these interactions he gains valuable insights that help influence Intercom’s product roadmap and product strategy. Prior to Intercom, Des was a co-founder of Exceptional, which was acquired and is now part of Rackspace. Des writes Intercom’s blog and is a regular conference speaker on topics such as product strategy, UX design, customer experience, and the business of start-ups.close -
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Irene Au
Operating Partner, Khosla Ventures
@ireneauIrene Au is an operating partner at Khosla Ventures, where she works with portfolio companies to make their design great. Irene previously ran Product Design at Udacity after leading User Experience at Google for six years, where her team was responsible for design and research for all of Google’s products worldwide. Before that, Irene established and led the User Experience and Design team at Yahoo! for eight years, and began her career as an interaction designer at Netscape Communications. Irene also teaches yoga and meditation at Avalon Art and Yoga Center, one of Palo Alto’s oldest and most established yoga studios. She co-chairs the Board of Trustees at Bowman International School, a K-8 private Montessori school in Palo Alto. Irene holds a bachelor’s of science in electrical and computer engineering from the University of South Carolina Honors College where she graduated summa cum laude and a master’s of science degree in industrial engineer and human-computer interaction from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.close -
Fred Destin
Partner, Accel Partners
@fdestinFred Destin is a partner at Atlas Venture, moving to London to join Accel London in September. He is a 12-year veteran venture capitalist and has worked closely with, among many others, Zoopla, Seatwave, DailyMotion and PriceMinister since their early days. He brings a uniquely international perspective to his work, hailing from Brussels and having spent most of his career in London and Boston.close -
Leisa Reichelt
Head of User Research, Government Digital Service
@leisaLeisa is the Head of User Research at the UK Government Digital Service in the Cabinet Office, HM Government. She leads a team of researchers who work in agile, multidisciplinary digital teams to help continuously connect the people who design products with the people who will use them. Before joining the public sector she was a freelance consultant and worked with clients including Virgin Atlantic, BBC, SonyBMG, HSBC, The Economist, Drupal and the University of Surrey. Leisa tweets at @leisa and occasionally blogs at disambiguity.com.close -
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Alex Osterwalder
Author & Entrepreneur
@alexosterwalderAlex is one of the world’s leading thinkers on business model innovation and modeling. He is the inventor of the Business Model Canvas, a tool to visualise, challenge and reinvent business models, as well as the lead author of Business Model Generation, a global bestseller with over a million copies sold in 30 languages. He’s the co-founder of strategyzer.com and working on his next book – Value Proposition Design, due out this fall. Alex holds a PhD from HEC Lausanne, and is a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, and IESE.close -
Genevieve Bell
Director of Interaction and Experience Research, Intel Labs
@feraldataDr. Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist and researcher with 15 years of experience driving innovation in the high tech industry. As the Director of Interaction and Experience Research in Intel Labs, Bell leads a team of social scientists, interaction designers, human factors engineers and computer scientists. She is also an accomplished industry commentator on the intersection of culture and technology and has been extensively featured in publications that include Wired, Forbes, The Atlantic, Fast Company, and the Wall Street Journal.close -
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All the talks from previous conferences
We’ve had some amazing speakers at our previous conferences, showcasing the very best thinking in product management, product design and product development. Read more