Since 2019 Amir and David have been catching up for what they term ‘shit sandwiches’, exchanging professional and personal trials and successes, sharing sympathy and occasional advice. Should I leave my job; how do I handle a difficult report; how do I get buy in; and do you know a good osteo you could recommend, my back is killing me.

They’ve have turned our catch up sessions into a live, high stakes gameshow for the product community’s amusement.

They will be borrowing from the ‘who wants to be a millionaire format’ and we will share stories that will hopefully inspire people to step up and lead (when required) in this messy and uncertain world we find ourselves in.

Get ready to have some fun and hopefully learn a thing or two.

Our Speakers:
Amir Ansari: With over 25 years’ of experience in the field of design and design leadership, Amir has worked across the private and public sectors, in-house and agency, managing design practitioners and leaders to build long-lasting and impactful products and services. Amir is passionate about democratising the craft of design and sharing my learnings – doing it with a smile and a hug.

David Bacon: After graduating from Monash with a Bachelor of Science, David worked as a penguin keeper in England which somehow lead to a career spanning marketing, behaviour change, innovation and human-centred design. David has experience delivering digital products and services in financial services, healthcare, retail, government. He has the goal of weaving humanity into technology. He still dreams about penguins.

Our hosts:
ROLLER is the cloud-based venue management platform for modern attractions, purpose-built to remove friction from the guest experience at every touchpoint. Their all-in-one platform simplifies business processes, improves efficiency, and maximises revenue — spanning Online Checkout & Ticketing, Point-of-Sale, Integrated Payments, Memberships, Gift Cards, Waivers, Self-Serve Kiosks, Cashless Wallets, Guest Surveys, and more. Behind the product is a team that operates with high ownership and genuine collaboration across Engineering, Product, and Design. At ROLLER, builders are expected to think commercially, move with urgency, and care about outcomes — not just output. To learn more, visit roller.software.

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Product managers are often working from incomplete information – a customer or leader asks for a change, but the real need underneath it isn’t always clear. And even when ideas are strong and teams invest real effort, there’s no guarantee that what gets shipped will actually change behaviour or become part of everyday practice.

This workshop is an opportunity to slow down for an hour and explore how behavioural and implementation science can help design the human side of your work.

From understanding what people are really trying to do, through to validating ideas, bringing your team along, and measuring impact that goes beyond the pilot phase.

We’ll work through some practical frameworks and implementation science strategies for influencing change. You’ll also have time to apply these to something from your own work and share with the group.

Come ready to think, discuss, and leave with something you can actually use. RSVP

Our workshop lead:
Dr. Alex Waddell is a behavioural and implementation scientist and the founder of CoFormed, a consultancy that partners with expert teams to turn excellent ideas into real-world impact. Alex brings expertise across behavioural science, implementation science, and service design to help teams design the human side of change by understanding what drives behaviour, what gets in the way, and what makes something part of everyday practice.

Our Host:
Zendesk https://www.zendesk.com

Join us this month for a panel with PMs who have experiences shipping and working daily with Ai. Bring your stories and questions as there will be plenty of time for Q&A.

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Our Panel

• Daragh Kan – Head of Product at Cuttable
• Dave Slutzkin – Co-founder and CEO at Cadence
• Melissa Cupples – Head of Product (AI & Automation)

Thanks to our fabulous hosts for our location InvestorHub.

InvestorHub is a Melbourne-based scale-up with the mission to make being listed a superpower. Our software allows listed companies in Australia and the UK to manage their end-to-end investor relationships, from their investor-facing website, a detailed investor CRM, analytics, and more. We’re hiring for Product Managers, Product Designers, Engineers and more right now!

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Join us March 19th for this talk & workshop on the real world consequences of your organisation. RSVP

In a world where corporations are judged on their social impact, nations unite over goals for environmental sustainability and happiness is considered as a rival metric for a country’s GDP– organisations need to measure the impact they have on the real-world, not just their own bottom line.

But what even IS impact? Is it important for companies that don’t have social or environmental goals? How do you measure it?

This workshop will first introduce the concept of Impact, followed by a dive into how it’s defined and measured around the world in a dozen different domains. Then we’ll learn how we might apply it to produce products that pack a punch

Our Speaker / Facilitator

JJ Monester works as an Associate Product Manager for the non-profit news media company, The Conversation International, a company which democratises knowledge by bridging the gap between academic research and the general public.

Having worked on products where providing evidence of Impact to customers is fundamental, he has gone deep into the complex and nuanced world of understanding what frameworks attempt to achieve.

Grokking organisational impact is an area of learning JJ could get lost in, and possibly already has :-). As an area that he is spending time on in his day to day, yet still feeling like he’s a beginner, he’s very much looking forward to sharing what’s he learning and getting deeper into the concepts alongside you all. Let’s have fun together.

Our Sponsors

Once again we have Revity & Amplitude teaming up to support this community!

Revity helps startups, scaleups and established organisations deliver product-led quality software outcomes.

We partner with businesses to build high-performing teams, uplift engineering capability, and deliver product outcomes that last beyond the project. From applied AI and mobile apps to global expansion and customer lifecycle platforms, we focus on practical, scalable solutions that drive business value. At Revity, we don’t just deliver projects, we empower teams to learn by doing, so organisations grow stronger with every engagement

Amplitude: We help companies build better products.

We help companies unlock the power of their products.

Join the team: http://amplitude.com/careers

Join the community: http://community.amplitude.com
Join our user groups https://community.amplitude.com/p/groups

Join us March 19th for this talk & workshop on the real world consequences of your organisation. RSVP

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We’re kicking off with a talk by Caitlin Blackwell, Head of Product from Seek who’ll share real life stories of getting a product live with AI and the learnings along the way.

Caitlin Blackwell is a Head of Product for SEEK across APAC where she leads a team of PM across the homepage feed, search and job pages to help candidates get great jobs and drive high quality placements for hirers.

She has worked in a range of ecommerce and SaaS companies as well as being at SEEK for a long time. She resides on a farm on the famous Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia where a large garden, a dog and 100 acres of bush keep her busy.

Our amazing sponsors are Easygo

Bio:
Easygo is the Australian powerhouse behind the world’s biggest online casino, as well as pioneering a creator-first online streaming platform with over 50 million users. Fuelled by an ambitious mission, our culture of collaboration invites industry visionaries, innovators, and disrupters to drive the future of entertainment forward.

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To end our 2025 sessions, let’s talk about something we all experience at some point – burnout.

In this hands-on session we’ll help you spot burnout before it happens, and put a system in place that will help you avoid it.

Dr Helen Lawson Williams & Dr Navin Keswani from TANK will explore the four elements of the system that drive burnout, and guide you through building a clear view of how these elements show up in your own life. Working from this starting point, we’ll then identify which aspects of the system you would most like to adjust, how to judge whether your adjustments are working, and how to keep improving your system over time.

By the end of the session, you will have a working prototype of your own, personalised anti-burnout system.

Our Speakers:

Dr Helen Lawson Williams: An organisational psychologist by training, Helen has spent 20 years leading teams across consulting, corporate, not-for-profit and start-ups. With lived experience of burnout, she has coached hundreds of people and teams to do their best work while looking after their wellbeing. She co-founded TANK to scale that impact, based on the belief that burnout is preventable, and that the right path out leads towards flourishing.

Dr Navin Keswani: Navin is a software engineer and functional programmer with deep experience in startups and early-stage product development and delivery. In co-founding TANK, his goal is to end burnout, starting with product engineers, designers, and managers. In a former life he was a mathematician.

Our Sponsors:

Revity:
Revity helps startups, scaleups and established organisations deliver product-led quality software outcomes. We partner with businesses to build high-performing teams, uplift engineering capability, and deliver product outcomes that last beyond the project.From applied AI and mobile apps to global expansion and customer lifecycle platforms, we focus on practical, scalable solutions that drive business value.At Revity, we don’t just deliver projects, we empower teams to learn by doing, so organisations grow stronger with every engagement.

Amplitude:
We help companies build better products. | We help companies unlock the power of their products.

• Join the team: http://amplitude.com/careers
• Join the community: http://community.amplitude.com
• Join our user groups: https://community.amplitude.com/p/groups

RSVP for Thursday, October 23rd

A talk with practical advice on how to set up your systems, team, vision, and roadmap — so you can deliver impact, while staying sane.

Whether you’re starting fresh in a new PM role or have been in your seat for years and need to reset how you work – this is for you. In this session, we’ll share a practical roadmap for how to onboard as a PM in a way that builds sustainable success, covering:

• Mindset — what you need to know about yourself, why and how to keep a work journal
• Vision — step-by-step guide to creating a vision and roadmap for your team, and keep it going
• Systems — Slack, JIRA, documentation and managing the general firehose of information
• Relationships — building trust with stakeholders
• Sustainable success — what this could look like and how it’s actually not that elusive

Our Speaker:

Having worked at 4 different SaaS companies in a PM role over the last decade, Pari Nahata brings her learnings of how to effectively onboard and hit the ground running at any PM role. Currently a Senior PM at Zapier, working fully remotely, she brings insights on how to set up your own systems to manage info overload, how to build trust quickly and how to hit the ground running asap. More importantly, she is invested in how to do this without going crazy and feeling burnt out in the long run.

In her spare time Pari enjoys making stuff with pictures and words, improvising and exploring new brunch spots.

Our Sponsor:

Kraken is the world’s only proven, end-to-end operating system for utilities’ digitalization and transformation, trusted by global energy giants like EDF Energy, E.ON Next, Octopus Energy, Origin and Tokyo Gas.

Headquartered in London and New York, Kraken manages over 70 million accounts, over 45 GW of power – from off-shore wind to grid-scale batteries – and over 300,000 consumer devices such as electric cars and charging stations. The platform’s advanced data and AI capabilities automate much of the energy supply chain to allow outstanding service and efficiency. These advances have redefined the utilities sector, driving a 30-fold increase in new product innovations for partners, top consumer rankings and hundreds of millions of dollars in operational savings.

Kraken’s cloud-based architecture is uniquely adaptable and scalable, proven by an unparalleled track record in seamless, on-time migrations and enabling its successful expansion into water and other verticals.

RSVP for Thursday, September 25th

There continues to be a LOT of hype around ai and an ‘ai pm’.

Doesn’t matter if you’re looking to upskill for your current role or next – or out there actively searching – this talk is for you.

Some of the areas that will be covered include: the difference between building models vs building ai enabled features and incorporating into their workflows.

Plenty of time for Q&A so bring your curiosity. We’ll see you there!

Our Speaker:
Li Xia

Successful products are built on a foundation of a robust User Research & Product Discovery processes. Yet, as product teams, we’re constantly balancing an overwhelming workload. Juggling discovery alongside delivery is a real challenge! I live this reality daily and understand just how tough it can be to keep discovery going while pushing forward on everything else.

My mission with Sondar.Ai is to make continuous discovery accessible and sustainable, enabling more teams to make swift, confident decisions grounded in customer needs.

Join the movement: https://www.sondar.ai

Our Sponsor:

Revity helps startups, scaleups and established organisations deliver product-led quality software outcomes. We partner with businesses to build high-performing teams, uplift engineering capability, and deliver product outcomes that last beyond the project. From applied AI and mobile apps to global expansion and customer lifecycle platforms, we focus on practical, scalable solutions that drive business value. At Revity, we don’t just deliver projects, we empower teams to learn by doing, so organisations grow stronger with every engagement. Follow on Linkedin

RSVP For Thursday July 10th

Once a year we do a set of short talks ie “lightning talk” style, where you learn a lot in a short time and a bit of variety on the topic from each speaker.

Come along for these great talks and support our 4 wonderful speakers (bios below):

Hello From the Other Side – Ana Rowe – Product Managers often say the C level just doesn’t understand. What does it look like when you reach the level and the tables are turned? What does the C level want to see from product? Ana has moved from Product to COO & is here to give us the low down.

My Product Companion – Zain Franciscus – After experimenting with various ai tools to help simplify his work, Zain will share how he’s using several small Ai assistants via Relevance Ai and demo how they function. Will they ever replace his role? You’ll find out in this talk.

Taste, Trust and Craft – Jithesh Ramesh – Part of raising children is embedding morals and values so they are good humans who add value to society. How are we making the world better with Ai and the tools at our disposal?

Top (Recent) Lessons – Roanna Gunaratnam – PMs have to keep learning!

This is a self-funded event – no sponsor for this one. However, we’re in our own room upstairs at the Imperial Hotel. You’ll be able to buy your own food and drink at the venue & the room has it’s own bar.

Ana Rowe:
Ana has been a leader and passionate advocate in the product management industry for over 20 years. She began her product career at SEEK during its start-up days and has since shaped product strategy at organisations like REA, A Cloud Guru and more, both as an in-house leader and as a Principal Product Consultant at Thoughtworks. Always drawn to complex problems and growth opportunities, Ana stepped into the role of COO 18 months ago, bringing her product mindset and transformational principles to broader operational leadership.

Jithesh Ramesh:
I strive to help businesses understand the most valuable aspects of design based on user expectations. I encourage teams to prioritize the user’s experience with products to boost adoption and adherence.
https://ditonium.studio/about

Zainul Franciscus:
Hey there, I’m Zain. As a Product Manager in Melbourne, I love connecting with local communities. I’m involved with Product Anonymous. You’ll likely spot me at their dumpling meetups or attending one of their fantastic talks. I’m also supporting Melbourne’s startup community, helping founders shaping their visions into products.

Roanna Gunaratnam:
Roanna specialises in SaaS products and brings a pragmatic & tenacious approach with strong commercial skills.