#76: Validating Berlin PMM appetite, see you next week at Banxware & Conference Call for Speakers!
PM news, expert insights, Community and Conference updates, open roles, and events to help you grow your career and network.
This week was intense. Conference launch, call for speakers opening, your questions flooding in. The workshop lineup is live on the site - full conference details rolling out all week.
We rebuilt a lot this year. Branding refresh, WordPress to Framer migration, clearer day structure. The big shift: Experience & Craft are now our north star - not just topics we cover, but what defines how we build ProductLab itself.
What’s different in 2026: workshops for senior PMMs, a leaders track with Ravi Mehta, central Berlin venue, upgraded everything from catering to photo quality to designed conference moments you’ll actually remember. Same bundle prices as last year (conference tickets slightly up - fixed costs hit us too).
Two raffles for 1:1 coaching with Ravi Mehta. Merch included with workshops. And yes, we got GotBag to make us custom bags.
We’re pushing hard to make Berlin a serious tech hub. Join us?
LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Coming up Community Events!
🎫 Finding (and Re-finding) Product-Market Fit
With João Colaco de Freitas, 𝘊𝘗𝘖 𝘢𝘵 Banxware
Lighting session for 30 people, to get the most of the Speaker and the Community.
🍺 PMM in the Age of Agentic AI: Get Early or Get Left Behind?
Thanks Vladimir Liashenko for the brilliant idea, and help us out, a new Produclab Community Builder? 👀
📰 Product Leaders’ Wisdom
Brought to you weekly by Leila Montazeri
The 2026 Pivot: From Efficiency to Ingenuity
John Cutler breaks down the 10 “Forever Problems” of organizational friction. Discover how AI acts as a “translation layer” for inconsistent workflows. Learn to navigate the “Promise and the Trap” of scaling AI without losing nuance. A masterclass on balancing team autonomy with organizational clarity.
Rani Johnson reveals we’re paying a hidden “AI Tax,” where 40% of
Productivity gains are silently lost to fixing “hollow,” context-free AI work. She argues that the 2026 winner isn’t the fastest team, but the one that swaps raw speed for “Net Value” and judgment-based strategy. To win, stop treating high-paid talent like expensive fact-checkers and start reinvesting efficiency gains back into human ingenuity rather than just more tools.
Is your AI strategy a ‘liability disguised as innovation’? LogRocket breaks down why the “Full Stack PM” is replacing the coordinator, and why your next user might not even be a human.
💪 Open Roles
Brought to you weekly by Alessia Marchi
✨ Something we want to support!
Because what 🥙Abdo (Abdelrahman) Wahba built in Berlin is unique and much of the cool things happened to Productlab is thanks to him!
🎶 Song of the Newsletter
From our DJ Marco D’Avila