Highlights from January’s ProductTank meetups

ProductTanks, created by Mind the Product, are informal meetups that bring local product people together and provide a space to new speakers to share amazing product insights. With over 200 cities hosting ProductTanks globally, we're excited to start a monthly series highlighting some of these fantastic meetups.

We had a great start to 2025, ProductTanks hosted 48 meetups around the world with a lot of product management insights were shared, and in this article we will highlight a few. We welcomed Ana Rodrigues as a co-organiser for ProductTank Porto.

Pritam Das, one of our organisers, summarised the event very well.

'Wow! What an incredible ProductTank Chicago Mind the Product event last night! Christian Idiodi ‘s talk on “Product Management is a Team Sport” was packed with insights on collaboration, value creation, and customer-centricity. His simple yet powerful examples, like solving Starbucks’ problems by tackling comparable businesses first, were eye-opening.

The TransUnion auditorium was buzzing with energy as nearly ~200 product professionals gathered to learn and share experiences. A big shout-out to Abhinav Gupta and TransUnion for sponsoring the event.

Christian’s message was clear: great product management is about teamwork, diverse perspectives, and a shared commitment to creating value. It’s events like these that remind us of the power of our product community.

Thanks David Jesse, Steven R Jones, Lauren Polkow, Jenny Zhao, Anna-Mi Widman, Aeriel Robinson, Nigel Caine, Greg Healy for the great collaboration. Looking forward to working together on many more such great events.

Thanks to everyone who attended the Product Leaders Round table Kristen DeLap Colleen Wilson Jennifer Busenbark Erika Warren, Sruti Patra Himica Kumar Caralanay Cameron, MBA, CPC Adam Goodman Sandra Dainora Petersen Sharon Murphy Alexandra Yeung, OLY.
Thanks a lot Sosuke Kohda Neeraj S. Nitin Murali for volunteering and helping out with the event last night.'

From our ProductTank Cardiff page:

'🤜 A smashing start to our 2025 events calendar! 🤛

🏢 So nice to be back in comfortable surrounding in the BJSS Wales office and thanks for hosting us - great location, office, people, pizza and drinks. Thanks to all those who helped and as always especially Dan Preece and Steven Kenward for going above and beyond.

💪Great to have Place. sponsoring our events for 2025 and seeing Kieran O'Connor and Kyle Roberts sharing what they’re doing and how they want to help the community. Get in touch with them for a chat.

👏Thanks to our great speakers on the night delivering thought-provoking talks to remind us to stay curious, focus on the user, and embrace the complexity of meaningful work! 💡

Jacqui Venter shared profound insights into behavioral science:

👉 It's all about understanding "the why behind the why."

👉 Shift your mindset: Love the problem, not the solution.

👉 Behavioral interventions, like the one sec app, encourage mindful decisions—pausing before diving into social media.

👉 Always ask: What do you want your users to do? Then, work backward to design for it.

Matt Jukes delved into the realities of product management in public service:

🔑 Government products face unique challenges: no competition ("You can't get a passport anywhere else!") and policies over profits.

💡 Despite this, the work has purpose—solving real problems for people across the country.

🤝 Public sector product teams are part of a global community tackling shared challenges.

📚 ☕ Congratulations to Simon Barrett our winner who walked away with a couple of books, and the first of the limited edition ProductTank Cardiff 2025 mugs + a Product go to bundle of Sharpies and Post Its!

👏 Huge thanks to all who attended, it was great to see so many familiar faces(and previous speakers) and new members to the community.

Thanks from the PTC Crew Alex Kavel, Sophie Davies, Tom Preston, Elliot Gardner & Jamie Meredith'

Liuba Azarova, one of our organisers for Vancouver shared:

'What an incredible night at ProductTank Vancouver by Mind the Product! 🌟

Excited to share that I had the privilege of being one of the organizers for last night’s event alongside Sergey Konovalov. It was amazing to see our vibrant product management community come together to share knowledge, make connections, and grow stronger.

Huge thanks to our inspiring speakers: Alan Albert, Rajko Dikmann, Sergey Konovalov, and Mike Trujillo—your insights were invaluable!

Grateful to Workday for hosting us and to RingCentral for their generous support. And, of course, a big thank you to all the attendees for making the evening so special.

This is just the beginning—can’t wait to see what’s next for ProductTank Vancouver! 🙌'

From ProductTank Ahmedabad LinkedIn page:

'Another milestone for ProductTank Ahmedabad!

Our 18th January 2025 meet was an incredible gathering of product enthusiasts, driven by the mission of Mind the Product to bring product communities together globally.

A huge thank you to our amazing speakers:

Vivek Mishra, for his actionable session on Market Testing.

Rakshit Shah, for his inspiring talk on "Innovate, Develop, Deliver".

Jasmine Amin (Patel), for his informative session on DPDP.

Yash Vora, for him crisp speech on DB best practices.

This event, organized by Pranjal Sarkar and Hemal Bhatt, was made possible thanks to the generous support of our sponsor, Augmented Systems LLP, Ahmedabad.

Special thanks to our volunteers Parjanya Pandey and Shivam Sharma who worked tirelessly behind the scenes.

Cheers to all the participants who brought their energy and passion. You are the heartbeat of this community.

A special shoutout to Amit Godbole for his continuous support throughout our journey in building this ProductTank Ahmedabad chapter. Your encouragement has been invaluable.'

From ProductTank Barcelona page:

'What an amazing ProductTank event this Wednesday at Wallapop’s offices!

🚀 Xavi Figueras Palet shared Wallapop’s unique approach to building Trust in Marketplaces with an insightful session on safety.

🌟 Yue Zhao took us on a journey through how the role of a PM evolves as we climb the seniority ladder—an inspiring perspective on growth and impact.

A huge thanks to Giulia Nidasio and the Wallapop team for hosting us in their beautiful space! 🙌

The energy and turnout from our community were incredible, and it’s inspiring to see us continue to grow 📈.

For those who couldn’t make it this time, we can’t wait to see you at the next one!

Well done organizing team:

Adriana Landaverde, Karine K. Nascimento, Loïc Hersant, Jesica Wulf, Nacho Bassino, Guido Lonetti.'

Tony Pagliocco shares
'An excellent start to #2025 with ProductTank Abu Dhabi!! A great panel on Conflict Management with Deepak Khanna, CFA, Mohamed EL Serougy, Odafe Ojenikoh and Jonathan Steingiesser coupled with a great Q&A with Bil Ahmed that brought the heat :)

Was great not only having the event on our home turf at ALDAR, but also having some of the Aldar ProductTeam there as well which was nice especially in a community that I support greatly throughout the UAE.

Huge thanks to the ProductTank team (Shahaf Rozanski, Simon Cast) and to Discovered MENA and LogicEra - Microsoft Solutions Partner for your unending support, the community thanks you deeply.'

We'll be celebrating 15 years of WPD on 21st of May, and this year, we’re inviting the entire Product community to unleash their creativity in the #WPD2025 Remix challenge!

💡 How to participate?
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