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
- TBD
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:Â Anthropology for Product Management: How can an anthropologist help me build and sell better products?
- Tuesday, January 15, 2013: St. Louis Product Management LunchÂ
- Wednesday, February 20, 2013:Â Market Intelligence for the Product ManagerÂ
- Saturday, March 23, 2013: ProductCamp St. Louis 2013
- Wednesday, April 24, 2013:Â 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:Â 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:Â Building a BIG Dollar Brand on a Shoestring Budget with Jonah White, Maker of Billy Bob Teeth
- Saturday, February 25, 2017:Â 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:Â 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: 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