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🌎 <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/world-product-day/" style="color:#FFFFFF;text-decoration:underline;">Happy World Product Day!</a> Be sure to celebrate product, yourself, and your peers today! 🎉

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Emily brings nearly 15 years of product management experience to her role as Managing Director for Mind the Product. While she has worked across a variety of industries, she will always have a soft spot for the travel industry where she spent most of her early career building software for airlines and developing a leading consumer travel app, TripCase. Emily is passionate about the craft of product management and loves talking about new ways to make products people love.

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Martin Eriksson has 25+ years experience building world-class online products in both corporate and start-up environments for global brands such as Monster, Financial Times, Huddle, and Covestor. He is the Founder of ProductTank, the Co-Founder and Curator of Mind the Product, and a Product Partner at leading venture capital fund EQT Ventures. He is also the author of the best-seller <em>Product Leadership, How Top Product Leaders Launch Great Products and Build Successful Teams</em> (O'Reilly, 2017).

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<p>Last month, we celebrated the second annual World Product Day, uniting product people around the world for a day of reflecting on our craft. And while the cakes have been eaten, team activities completed, and gatherings wrapped up, we’re still hearing stories of the great conversations that took place throughout the day. We wanted to share a few of these stories from ProductTank meetups around the world.</p>
<h2>Bringing the LatAm Product Community Together</h2>
<p><em>By Mateo Fernandez, ProductTank Montevideo (Uruguay)</em></p>
<p>In Latam we coordinated three product communities in three different countries to host a remote live speaker. The one and only Teresa Torres spoke to 180+ product people at ProductTank San (Santiago, Chile), ProductTank Cor (Córdoba, Argentina), and ProductTank Mvd (Montevideo, Uruguay).</p>
<p>The attendees were thrilled about the multi-region event, and having Teresa live speaking to them.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I didn’t know the product community was so big, it was cool to say hi to the other ProductTanks”</p></blockquote>
<p>Teresa spoke to us about “The What and Why of Product Discovery”, and spent 15 minutes answering questions gathered from around our three regions.</p>
<h2>Tel Aviv&#8217;s Special Sauce</h2>
<p><em>By Moriya Kassis, ProductTank Tel Aviv (Israel)</em></p>
<p>The special sauce behind ProductTank TLV is the opportunity for product managers to not only grow as professionals but to thrive together. In product management, which sometimes feels like the loneliest job, this feeling is essential. World Product Day is an exciting opportunity for product managers to thrive together, both as professionals and as members of a growing community of product managers, all aim to bring the world better products, together.<br />
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16270" src="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/60237621_10156613510183547_7009685784429068288_o.jpg" alt="A group gathers at ProductTank Tel Aviv" width="2048" height="1367" srcset="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/60237621_10156613510183547_7009685784429068288_o.jpg 2048w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/60237621_10156613510183547_7009685784429068288_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/60237621_10156613510183547_7009685784429068288_o-768x513.jpg 768w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/60237621_10156613510183547_7009685784429068288_o-1024x684.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></p>
<h2>Expanding Exposure to the Global Community</h2>
<p><em>By Anna Gandrabura, ProductTank Odessa (Ukraine)</em></p>
<p>Odessa celebrated World Product Day by hosting a keynote speaker from Istanbul, Invertive founder Akar Sumset.</p>
<p>Akar gave a talk on the end-to-end approach, an approach which is achieved by integrating strategy, design, and execution. He outlined a five-step process that showed how strategy, design, and execution can be seamlessly connected, as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>destination</li>
<li>discovery</li>
<li>definition and design</li>
<li>development</li>
<li>data and optimization</li>
</ul>
<p>After the keynote, we had an informal fireside chat with Akar and the audience was really enthusiastic about asking questions. It was a truly great experience for our community to host a foreign speaker and to hold the event in English.</p>
<h2>An Encore-Worthy Talk in Asia-Pacific</h2>
<p><em>By Jase Clamp, ProductTank Brisbane (Australia)</em><br />
It was fantastic to observe all of the product activity on World Product Day from my vantage point in sunny Brisbane. Auckland kicked off the day globally with Jeff Patton streaming in from California. Darius Wey, CPO for Sequoia-backed HealthEngine bravely agreed to fly the 10+ hours from Perth to Wellington ProductTank.  His presentation &#8220;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2227061727373486/permalink/2229534880459504/">Product in the Deep End</a>&#8221; covered some valuable lessons he&#8217;s learned in the course of his career. Amanda Lam from Disney also make the hop from Hong Kong to Ho Chi Minh City to share with the group there.</p>
<p>Brisbane ProductTank was lucky to be hosted by SilverRail with a great view overlooking the river. Nic Smythe, General Manager at Thoughtworks Brisbane shared &#8220;lessons from over 15 years of building other people&#8217;s products&#8221;. Liam Casey, Head of Product for Flaik (a ski school platform), presented on &#8220;Design led or designer led: and other great ways to kill your business&#8221;. It was a candid talk about cutting through political hogwash and establishing a product design approach that is well aligned with organisational objectives.</p>
<p>Due to the unprecedented number of requests for slides, we decided to repeat Liam’s talk in August and also stream it live into the ProductTanks in Sydney and Melbourne. It was only a year ago that I, along with Meg Blake from Melbourne and Adrienne Tan from Sydney, collectively held our breath to orchestrate a live video greeting between our amazing cities &#8211; now we&#8217;re upping the ante with a full live simulcast. What brings me the most joy though is that we&#8217;re sharing our product experiences regionally so that we better equip our community to build products that people love.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-16234" src="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/WPD-Collage-1024x1024.jpeg" alt="World Product Day 2019" width="1024" height="1024" srcset="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/WPD-Collage-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/WPD-Collage-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/WPD-Collage-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/WPD-Collage-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/WPD-Collage.jpeg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></p>
<h2>See you Next Year?</h2>
<p>Whether you celebrated with your own team, at a ProductTank meetup, or just engaged on Twitter, we’d like to say thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s World Product Day!</p>
<p>We’re already gearing up for next year, but you don’t have to wait that long to join the global product community! Check out your <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/producttank/">local ProductTank</a>, join us for a <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/mind-product-conferences/">conference</a> or <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/product-management-training/">training</a>, strike up a conversation on <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/product-management-slack-community/">Slack</a>, or chime in on #prodmgmt Twitter. There are product people all over the world ready to connect and help each other as we all strive to grow in our craft. And of course, we’ll see you next year for World Product Day 2020!</p>

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