Join us on October 22nd for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn how to design and run workshops that actually move teams forward. RSVP now.

Going beyond the standard retro and sticky notes, & drawing on real examples from hundreds of workshops plus grounded in coaching and facilitation practice, we’ll cover everything from setting the right goals, to a practical toolkit to design your next workshop with intent, to tips for the messy real-world stuff like handling conflict, getting people to engage, and keeping energy up when things go sideways.

You’ll leave with practical techniques you can use straight away, tools to help teams go from discussion to real decisions, and more confidence being the person running the room.

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Our speaker
Aseel Hamarneh is a Product lead with over 15 years’ experience in tech, working multiple organisations and countries. Over that time, she has seen a consistent pattern: teams collaborate constantly and run regular workshops and retros, yet often leave potential on the table because facilitation is treated as a format rather than a leadership skill.

She has designed and led organisation-wide workshops, large-scale training programs, and numerous strategy and ideation sessions. Her focus is not on running meetings, but on using facilitation to drive alignment, generate stronger ideas, and support meaningful decisions during change and complexity.

Drawing on formal facilitation training and executive coaching accreditation, Aseel approaches facilitation as a capability that shapes how teams think and collaborate. Across diverse organisational contexts, she has seen the same principle hold: strong facilitation unlocks the full potential of collective thinking.

Our hosts: NV AI Learning Centre

Natural Velocity solves the Ai supply chain problem. We make it simple to discovery trusted solutions, engage the right delivery partners, and build capability so Ai moves from experimentation to real=world outcomes, responsibly.

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Our teams have the best AI tools but nothing changed

Most organisations now have AI tooling across their product and engineering teams. Most of them are moving just a little faster then they were two years ago. The tools aren’t the problem. The operating model underneath them is.

Build is no longer the bottleneck. The new constraint is coordination: how teams align on what to build, how functions like legal, security, and design stay genuinely involved without becoming the gate everything stalls behind, and how leaders shift from approving decisions to setting the conditions that let good decisions happen without them.

This session draws on a live transformation across a large technology organisation, redesigning not just how teams build, but the entire system from idea to customer impact.

We’ll cover the three things that actually have to change for AI tooling to translate into speed:
– how work gets defined before it’s built
– how specialist functions engage without creating queues
– and how the PM role changes when coordination overhead drops and intent has to survive further and faster than ever before.

This isn’t a talk about tools. It’s about what your organisation needs to look like for the tools to matter.

Our speaker: Josh Centner

Josh has spent twenty years on a single question: why do good teams, with good people and good tools, still struggle to ship the right thing quickly? The answer is almost never the tools. It’s the operating model underneath.

His career has been built around transformation and product operations – helping organisations effectively adopt new ways of working, supporting strategic alignment, product delivery, and go-to-market execution. He was CPO at myprosperity and Head of Product and Delivery at PageUp, and spent years consulting into some of the largest organisations in the country, including Xero, Carsales, NAB, and IOOF as Head of Product and Design at Elabor8.

He is now co-founder of Zenforge, an AI transformation consultancy, and Principal Product Manager at SEEK, one of Australia’s largest technology organisations, where he’s helping lead the design and rollout of an AI-native product delivery lifecycle from strategy through to launch and optimisation.

Our sponsor: Netwealth

Netwealth is one of Australia’s leading wealth management platforms, providing technology and investment solutions for financial advisers and their clients. Since 1999, we’ve focused on innovation and challenging the status quo, building digital products that help Australians see wealth differently and achieve better financial outcomes. At the heart of Netwealth is a culture of curious, collaborative, courageous, optimistic, agile and genuine people who are passionate about solving meaningful problems and creating better experiences for customers. For more about careers at Netwealth.

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A lot of the time, product management can feel like the art of predicting the future. With incomplete data, lots of competing priorities, and stakeholders that always want to have a say, it can be challenging to make a call on what to do next. Building your product sense is a way to make sense of the madness.

We’ll explore what product sense is, how you actually apply it at work, and ways to develop yours. We’ll run through some real examples of using product sense to make hard decisions, pass hiring tasks, and ultimately ship better products faster.

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Our Speaker

Maxy Lotherington is the Head of Product & Design at InvestorHub, where she leads a team of product managers and designers. She’s spent 10+ years designing impactful digital experiences, scaling product teams, and learning lots every day.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxythedesigner

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

RSVP on Meetup for Feb 26, 2026

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