PLC #46: Welcome UXCam, Contentful event, and see you at Leaders Mastermind this week
PM news, expert insights, Community and Conference updates, and events to help you grow your career and network.
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💪 Welcome UXCam to ProductLab Conf>
We’re excited to have UXCam as our Main Sponsor! Their insight-driven platform helps product teams boost app engagement and retention through real-time analytics, session replays, and powerful behavior insights. From identifying friction points to personalizing user journeys, UXCam empowers teams to build apps users love. How? Inspired Fitness used UXCam to increase user sign-ups by 181%, boost app sessions by 415%, and reduce crashes by 40%—all by acting on real user behavior.
PS: Their AI Analyst, Tara, will be released soon. This gives us the opportunity to organize an event together for the Community :)
💙 Contentful is Back!
Intuition and intentionality were our key takeaways from last Thursday’s Contentful event. Michelle Proksell and Fabian Schultz shared their approach, the bumps along the way, and how they built AI personalization for users. Sabrina Mach delivered an inspirational talk, encouraging us to look beyond the obvious, zoom out, and better understand customer behavior.
This helps us build with clarity and truly differentiate ourselves in a market where AI often enables fat, sometimes useful, features.
🚀 Contentful is making a strong return to the tech scene. It's great to see them active again and generously hosting our community in their beautiful event space near Humboldthain.
♥ ProductLab Mastermind: Building a Well-Oiled Product Team
As product leaders and people managers, one of our biggest levers for impact is our team. The way we shape rituals, structure, and culture directly affects how we lead and how we help others grow.
This is a curated session for 6-8 product leaders, designed with a group coach. We’ll create space to openly share insights and challenges in an off-the-record setting, followed by a relaxed networking session to continue the conversation informally.
Join us to explore how strong team practices can help you scale your impact and support the growth of others.
📰 Product Leaders’ Wisdom
Brought you weekly by Leila Montazeri
You’re Still Thinking About Product? The Smart Ones Are Thinking About Distribution. In this sharp analysis, Brian Balfour breaks down the recurring “open → grow → close” playbook used by platforms like Facebook, Apple, and Google, and warns that ChatGPT is on track to become the next dominant distribution channel.
Taken from the Brian Balfour blog
Hiring great PMs is hard, and the game keeps changing. Ken Norton shares a thoughtful retrospective on 20+ years of hiring, what he got wrong, and what still works today.
Straight from Bring the Donuts
If you want to build in AI, start with how people search. a16z’s latest teardown of the AI-native market research stack shows why behavior-first thinking beats survey-first tools.
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💪 Open Roles
Brought you weekly by Alessia Marchi
🎶 Song of the Newsletter
From our DJ Marco D’Avila