Leadership Forum
September 11th 2024 - SOLD OUT

Join us, product leaders!

Alongside the main conference day and our day of interactive workshops, we'll also be running our much-loved half-day Leadership Forum for the senior leaders in our community. The Leadership Forum is a dedicated time to take a step back from the stress of your day-to-day work to focus on your unique challenges and hone your leadership skills.

We'll hear from industry-leading speakers who will be there to spark inspiration. They will also give plenty of opportunities to ask questions and open up discussion in interactive sessions.

You can swap leadership lessons over lunch, chat about how to empower your team between talks, or connect over drinks! And because the event is for senior product leaders only, you can be confident that everyone you talk to is a peer. We're all product leaders working towards building better products (and product teams, of course).

We are also keeping this half-day event intimate with no more than 60 attendees.

The Leadership Forum will happen at: NORD EVENT Panoramadeck, Emporio, Dammtorwall 15, 20355 Hamburg (Google Maps)

🔒Who is this event for?

This event is exclusively crafted for those at the helm of product leadership—individuals who guide, mentor, and manage product people. This includes but is not limited to Product Team Leads, Heads of Product, Directors of Product, VPs of Product, and Chief Product Officers.

Please take note: This gathering is dedicated to the exchange of strategic insights and leadership experiences. It is not designed for individual contributors or those in non-leadership roles.

In the interest of ensuring a diverse mix of perspectives, we allow a maximum of 4 tickets per company or organization.

In order to maintain the integrity and focus of the event, attendance is limited to those currently holding senior product leadership positions within companies. Agency professionals, coaches, and consultants, while valued for their contributions to the product community, do not fall within the criteria for this particular event, which is centered on in-house leadership experiences.

We respectfully reserve the right to review attendee roles and cancel and refund tickets if they fall outside of these stipulated categories.

💌 Tickets

Tickets for the Product at Heart Leadership Forum are on sale now:

Conference, workshop, and Leadership Forum tickets must all be purchased separately.

This event is for senior product leaders only (people who manage product managers, Head of Product, Product Director, VP, CPO, or equivalent). If that's you and you manage Product Managers, welcome! Please note: If you purchase a ticket to the event but do not meet these criteria, we reserve the right to cancel and refund the price of your ticket.

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📆 Schedule

We’ll start the day off with a casual lunch at a nearby restaurant before making the short journey to the main venue:

  • 12:00-13:00 Lunch (arrival from 11:30)

  • 13:30-18.00: Talks

  • 18:00-19:30: Drinks with a view! (optional)

  • 19:30-open end: Continue the conversation with Pizza at airfocus' office around the corner (optional)

🔊 Speakers

Kate Leto

Kate is an Executive Coach with over 25 years of experience with product management, digital transformation and leadership development.

She has had a front-row seat to the evolving ways digital products are discovered, defined, built and delivered and now takes her experience into organisations of all shapes and sizes as a coach and advisor.

Her consulting experience has taken her around the world, guiding clients that range from disruptive startups to Fortune 100 companies.

Kate’s first book, Hiring Product Managers: Using Product EQ to go beyond culture and skills, is available through Amazon and all leading digital storefronts.

Rich Mironov

Rich is a 40-year veteran of Silicon Valley product management, including six startups and 200+ consulting clients. Currently, he coaches product leaders, helps design software product organizations, and has parachuted into software companies 15 times as interim VP Products/CPO.

He been blogging about software product management since 2002 with a focus on real-world challenges and managing B2B executives. He launched the first product camps and his 2008 book "The Art of Product Management" was one of the first in the tech PM space.

Sohrab Salimi

Sohrab is the Founder & CEO of Agile Academy based in Cologne, Germany. He is the only medical doctor in the world who has received the highest accreditations in the world of agility and business model innovation. Sohrab is a Certified Scrum Trainer®, Certified Agile Leadership Educator®, and a Strategyzer Advisor/Coach.

Sohrab spends about half his time teaching agility and innovation to people on all levels in organizations - from Boards of Directors to teams building products - and the other half helping organizations transform towards new ways of working to build better products in a better way.

Prior to his current role, Sohrab was the CIO of a mid-sized IT Consulting company, worked as a management consultant with Bain & Company, studied Medicine in Germany and the USA, and earned an MBA from Dusseldorf Business School.

Sohrab spends the majority of his free time doing all sorts of sports, reading all sorts of books, and travelling with his wife and three kids.

💬 Recaps

Video Recap

Catch the vibe from last years Leadership Forum

Photos from previous events