Meetings
The St. Louis Product Management Group holds meetings every month or so which are open to everyone and there is (usually) no cost to attend.
Upcoming events
If you want to be notified about upcoming meetings and events:
- LinkedIn: The best way to find out about events and network with others is to connect up with us on our St. Louis Product Management LinkedIn Group
- Email: Sign up for the mailing list and we’ll email you meeting info and reminders.
For questions about meetings, contact Jeff Lash at stlpm@stlpm.org
Past meetings and events:
- February 13, 2008: Our first meeting!
- March 25, 2008: Ten Tips for New Product Managers
- April 29, 2008: Developing a Vision/Strategy
- May 19-21, 2008: Special Event; Pragmatic Marketing product management training
- May 19, 2008: Strategic Role of Product Management, with guest presenter Stacey Weber of Pragmatic Marketing.
- Tuesday, June 24, 2008: Customer Councils
- Tuesday, July 29, 2008: Product Management Advice Session
- Tuesday, September 9, 2008: Voice of the Customer and Voice of Sales for Product Development
- Friday, September 26, 2008: Special Event: Product Management: Five Fundamentals of Market Leadership
- Tuesday, October 14, 2008: Special joint meeting with the PDMA St. Louis Chapter (special time and location)
- Tuesday, November 11, 2008: Accelerating innovation: An overview and discussion of NPD and project management life cycle models
- Tuesday, December 9, 2008: Holiday Happy Hour
- Tuesday, January 13, 2009: Highlights from the recent Forrester Consumer Conference
- Tuesday, February 10, 2009: Managing the Strategic Product Roadmap
- Tuesday, March 10, 2009: The Importance of the Requirements Phase, presented by Shuly Cooper
- Tuesday, April 14, 2009: Product Management Advice Session
- Tuesday, May 12, 2009: Requirements Management Tools: There Must Be A Better Way
- September 16, 2009: Networking Happy Hour
- Wednesday, November 11, 2009: Design for Six Sigma
- Tuesday, April 27, 2010: Is it a Puzzle or Is it a Mystery? Three tools for capturing the wisdom of crowds
- Tuesday, June 29, 2010: Making Thunder — Product Management Innovation
- Tuesday, August 3, 2010: Financial Skills for Product Managers
- Tuesday, October 26, 2010: Doing Killer Product Demos
- Thursday, February 17, 2011: Product Management Lunch — Product Roadmaps
- Monday, March 28, 2011: Product Management Lunch — Customer Research
- Monday, April 25, 2011: Product Management Lunch — Product Development Process
- Wednesday, September 21, 2011: Product Management Lunch — Product Management Leadership
- Wednesday, October 26, 2011: Product Management Lunch — Product Management vs. Project Management
- Tuesday, December 13, 2011: Product Management Lunch
- Friday, January 20, 2012: Product Management Lunch
- Friday, March 2, 2012: Product Management Lunch
- Saturday, April 21, 2012: ProductCamp St. Louis
- Friday, May 18, 2012: St. Louis Product Management Lunch
- Friday June 22, 2012: St. Louis Product Management Lunch
- Friday October 12, 2012: St. Louis Product Management Lunch
- Thursday, November 15, 2012: Anthropology for Product Management: How can an anthropologist help me build and sell better products?
- Tuesday, January 15, 2013: St. Louis Product Management LunchĂ‚Â
- Wednesday, February 20, 2013: Market Intelligence for the Product ManagerĂ‚Â
- Saturday, March 23, 2013: ProductCamp St. Louis 2013
- Wednesday, April 24, 2013: Wednesday Wine Down: Product Evolution and the Changing Tide of the Market
- Wednesday, May 15, 2013: Collecting Actionable Customer Insight
- Monday, June 24, 2013: Voted off the Island: Deciding which projects make the grade
- Wednesday, August 21, 2013: Wednesday Wine Down: Agile and Product Management
- Wednesday, Oct 2, 2013: Strategic Pricing for Product Management
- Thursday, November 7, 2013: Product PR: It’s Not Just About the Features
- Thursday, February 20: Discovering Your Market’s Most Valuable Needs and Drivers
- Saturday, March 29, 2014: ProductCamp St. Louis 2014
- Wednesday, May 14, 2014: A “Crash Course” in Product Design
- Wednesday, June 11, 2014: Improving Your LinkedIn Profile
- Wednesday, August 13, 2014: Disrupt or Be Disrupted: An Introduction to Disruptive Innovation
- Wednesday, October 1, 2014: How to Protect my Intellectual Property? An Introduction for Product Managers and Entrepreneurs
- Wednesday, November 12, 2014: Understanding What Customers Really Want: Using the “Jobs To Be Done” Framework
- Thursday, February 5, 2015: Developing Product Requirements: Tools and Processes
- Saturday, March 28, 2015: ProductCamp St. Louis 2015
- Thursday, March 5, 2015: People Only Buy What They Want, Not What They Need
- Thursday, April 2, 2015: How to Get Prospects to Call When They’re Ready to Buy
- May 7, 2015: Finding Your Theme: How to Create Content that Connects
- Thursday, June 4, 2015: Think and Talk Like a CFO to Win Funding for Your Product
- Thursday, August 6, 2015: How To Not Lose Millions of Dollars
- Thursday, September 3, 2015: Paired-Design for Better Product Definition
- Thursday, October 1, 2015: The 16 Minute Company
- Thursday, November 5, 2015: Win/Loss Analysis: Insight into the Minds of B2B Customers/Prospects
- Thursday, February 4, 2016: The Design of Everyday Activities with Brad Gutting
- Saturday, February 27, 2016: ProductCamp St. Louis 2016
- Thursday, May 5, 2016: Thinking like a Startup Inside a Global Corporation: How Innovation is Shaping MasterCard’s Latest Product
- Thursday, August 4, 2016: The Evolution of the Role of a Product Manager
- Wednesday, September 7, 2016: Fall Happy Hour
- Thursday, November 3, 2016: Liminal Thinking with Dave Gray
- Thursday, February 2, 2017: Building a BIG Dollar Brand on a Shoestring Budget with Jonah White, Maker of Billy Bob Teeth
- Saturday, February 25, 2017: ProductCamp St. Louis 2017
- Thursday, May 4, 2017: Practices for Product Roadmaps with Jeff Lash
- Thursday, June 22, 2017: St. Louis Product Management Group Lunch
- Thursday, August 3, 2017: Loyalty, the Product Experience, and Innovation with Barry Kirk and Brendan Sullivan
- Tuesday, September 19, 2017: Product Management Group Networking Breakfast
- Thursday, November 2, 2017: Strategies: Beginning With The End In Mind with Michael Chandler and Sean Walsh
- Thursday, December 7, 2017: Louis Product Management Group Networking Lunch at Sugo’s Spaghetteria
- Thursday, February 1, 2018: Nimble Tools for New Product Development with Lois Lewis
- Saturday, March 3, 2018: ProductCamp St. Louis 2018
- Tuesday, May 15, 2018: State of Product Leadership, with Eric Boduch of Pendo, at Gainsight
- Thursday, August 2, 2018: Breaking In to Product Management (panel discussion)
- Thursday, October 11, 2018: Happy Hour at Schlafly Bottleworks
- Thursday, November 1, 2018: Product Management Excellence: Creating a Best-in-Class Product Management Organization with Jeff Lash
- Wednesday, December 5, 2018: What a Product Manager Does — and How You Could End Up in Jail Doing It, with Lincoln Steffens
- Thursday, February 7, 2019: Agile: Misconceptions About It and Its Use in Business Agility, with Brad Sullivan
- Saturday, March 9, 2019: ProductCamp St. Louis 2019
- Thursday, May 2, 2019: The Heart of the Matter: Really Knowing Your Customer, with Brian Posnanski and Ron Strawbridge
- Wednesday, June 12, 2019: St Louis Product Management Group Happy Hour at the Schlafly Tap Room
- Thursday, August 1, 2019: Market Research for Product Managers: Listening for Signals in the Era of Noise
- Thursday, September 12, 2019: St. Louis Product Management Group Networking Breakfast
- Wednesday, October 23, 2019: St. Louis Product Management Lunch Discussion — Product Management Challenges
- Thursday, November 7, 2019: The Rise of Product Operations — What Is It and Why Do I Need It?
- Saturday, March 7, 2020: ProductCamp St. Louis
- Thursday, May 14, 2020: Coronavirus Crisis and Its Impact on Product Management: A Virtual Panel Discussion
- Thursday, August 20, 2020: The Path to Product Adoption with Kevin Yanushefski
- June 11-12, 2021: We are part of the 100% virtual ProductCamp ON>LINE(TM)
- Friday, December 2, 2023: Product Management Networking Lunch
- Cheat Codes for Game-Winning Stakeholder Management with Kristina Glynn (May 18, 2023)
- August 11, 2023: St. Louis Product Management Group Breakfast Meeting at Nestle Purina
- Quibi Case Study: What Went Wrong?: St. Louis Product Management Group (stlpm.org)
- November 9, 2023 (6:00 PM): Product Management & User Experience: Collaboration Journey
- The Strategy Sesh (Open Mic): Thursday, February 8, 2024
- ProductCamp St. Louis 2024: Saturday, March 9, 2024
- Tuesday, May 28, 2024:Â The Future of UX: The AI Impact
- Thursday, July 11, 2024: Psychology Principles Behind Creating Effective Products
Have questions or want more information?
Email us at stlpm@stlpm.org