PLC #38: Welcome Labby, Next Events, and our Discovery Conference Lab!
PM news, expert insights, Community and Conference updates, and events to help you grow your career and network.
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🚀 Introducing Labby
We’re building Labby, your friendly matchmaker in the product world. Labby chats with you to understand your needs—whether you’re hiring, switching jobs, exploring AI, providing or looking for mentorship, or navigating a challenge.
Based on what you share, we’ll connect you with someone in the community who gets it. Think: tailored intros, zero spam, real value.
Whether you're experimenting with AI, planning your next career move, or need a sounding board, Labby is here to connect you with peers on a similar path.
🎫 Our upcoming events!
Finally, tomorrow we will join Miles for our April event. We had a heavy month to plan Community events until August and to be ready for our conference!
So what to expect!?
We chatted with Marcel, ex-SumUp, about his journey to becoming CPO at ToolTime. They offer a SaaS tool for tradespeople to save time. He will share how they are implementing their new vertical for payments and billing, making things faster and safer for their users! The guest speaker will be announced soon, most probably from the fintech world! See you in their beautiful office!
📅 19th May
💡 Fintech implementations
📍 ToolTime (Friedrichshain)
June will be special, almost summer and a time for lakes, see, and vacations. We are kicking off the month with a special event at BEAM to discover our entrepreneurial side by launching from scratch, solving hard problems, validating, and launching to the market. You can join startup accelerators or company builders; one of them is BEAM, and Alessio will share his journey after several ventures in building a new product in the logistics space!
📅 05th June
💡 Launch 0→1 Products
📍 BEAM (Prenzlauer Berg)
🎟 New Conference LAB Facilitator announcement: Erika Lauro
Why join her?
This lab is designed for product managers who want to master discovery, problem definition, and hypothesis-driven decision-making. Learn to move beyond assumptions and validate solutions with structured research, experimentation, and testing.
Erika is a seasoned Product Design and Strategic Design Leader with deep expertise in Product Strategy and Data-Driven Design. Over the last 12 years, she gained a strong track record of leading design teams to deliver senseful and impactful experiences for B2B and B2C products. She has worked across diverse environments, from innovative startups and renowned agencies like AKQA to leading product-centric companies such as Zalando SE, Babbel, and IKEA.
Use ERIKA50 to get a 50 OFF discount on the workshops.
📰 Product Leaders Wisdom
Brought you weekly by Leila Montazeri
"Why should I care about what’s happening in the market?" Leah Tharin makes the case for market context as your secret weapon in product thinking.
Running a pilot isn't enough; David Pereira outlines how to run effective pilot testing that delivers clear, confident decisions.
Some strategic advice sounds smart… but is totally wrong. Diana Stepner breaks down the most common myths product managers fall for, and what to believe instead.
Writing great user stories isn’t magic; Eiki Takeuchi offers a practical, no-fluff guide to making your stories actually useful for your team. From Medium
🎥 “Everyone’s an engineer now.” Guillermo Rauch (Vercel CEO) on AI, frontend dev, and the future of product-technical collaboration. From Lenny’s Newsletter
🎧 How Typeform builds lovable products; Aleks Bass shares what it really means to build with emotion, and why it starts with storytelling. From LogRocket LaunchPod
💪 Open Roles
Brought you weekly by Alessia Marchi
💃 Partnerships
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Leadership Bootcamp for leaders by our Member Vivek Juneja,
The course covers the basics of leadership role: people management, delivery management, stakeholder, business acumen, decision making, project management and lot more. Get 75 Euro OFF
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