Speedrun the Product Community: A Product Management Speed-Networking Event

Growing your professional network isn’t just for jobseekers.

Our job is constantly evolving (especially in the age of AI), and the best way to keep up to date with the latest and greatest is to learn how your colleagues are doing it, what challenges they’re facing, and how they overcome them.

ChiPMA is passionate about building this community of genuine connections, and this is why we are creating this opportunity to connect with others in your field!

At this event, you’ll have the chance to have 12 one-on-one conversations with fellow participants, free of any distractions.

We’ll be providing you with some unique icebreakers, but what you talk about is up to you! By the time you leave the building, you’ll feel like you’ve really gotten to know someone you’ve never spoken to before, and the oft-lonely world of product has maybe gotten a little less lonely and more inspiring.

We are excited to partner with Northwestern University for this event.

Food and drinks will be provided!

Agenda:

5:30 - 6:00 -- Everybody arrives, gets food, gets settled in
6:00 - 6:25 -- Introductions by ChiPMA and Northwestern
6:30 - 7:05 -- Round 1 of Speed Networking
7:10 - 7:20 -- Break
7:20 - 7:55 -- Round 2 of Speed Networking
6:00 - 8:30 -- Outro
8:30 - 9:00 -- More freeform networking

Host:
Jim Wicks - Professor Wicks directs the Master of Science in Product Design and Development Management Program at Northwestern University. Before that\, he was an executive at Lenovo\, Google\, and Motorola.

Lavanya Mathur - Lavanya is a ChiPMA board member and student in the MPD program.

Oleg Yazvin - Oleg is President of ChiPMA and Sr. AI Product Manager at Trintech.