ProductCamp Twin Cities 2025
was on
Friday October 10th at Best Buy HQ
Your product event!
Your product community!
ProductCamp Twin Cities 2025
was on
Friday October 10th at Best Buy HQ
Your product event!
Your product community!
ProductCamp Twin Cities completed its second year after reviving from a bout with long-tail Covid. A Twin Cities gathering spot for the Product Community for over a dozen years pre-Covid, it was revived in 2024 by the generosity of Best Buy and PDMA (the Product Development Management Association). And in 2025, it picked up additional financial support from Tuckpoint Advisory Group and Clockwork. Thanks to all our sponsors and supporters!
Our keynote session, featuring AnnMarie Thomas, got ProductCamp 2025 off to a great start. This was followed by 24 breakout presentations and workshops over the course of the day. ProductCamp closed with Art Fry, inventor of the Post-It Note, sharing his thoughts on innovation. This was in conjunction with the announcement of a plan to present an annual innovation award at ProductCamp, which will be named after Art, to honor his own innovative contribution to product space and beyond.
ProductCamp is truly a community gathering. Lots of time and opportunity to meet new people who share your interest, a lunch that ranks as the best conference lunch in the region, and a networking happy hour to conclude the day. Those who were there, we hope you had a great day. To those who didn't make it, we hope to see you next year at ProductCamp Twin Cities 2026.
AnnMarie Thomas was the ProductCamp Twin Cities 2025 Keynote Speaker. An educator, consultant and speaker, whose interest lies at the intersection of engineering and play, AnnMarie founded and ran the 'Playful Learning Lab' at the University of St Thomas for 13 years until stepping down this year. She has consulted at Disney Imagineering, Lego, Google and others. Her B.S. degree at MIT, was followed by an M.S. and Ph.D. from CalTech. Her impressive list of credits goes on and on - for more about AnnMarie vist our Keynote Speaker page.
ProductCamp Twin Cities is happy to be back and to be back in person. After several years of absence, it was reinitiated in 2024 , thanks to PDMA and Best Buy!
By product people for product people.
ProductCamp Twin Cities is a true "unconference" where anyone and everyone can submit session topics. ProductCamp participation is open to all. Our one ask of participants is that everyone look to learn, share, and connect with others to make the event more vibrant and our product community stronger.
We update this website periodically with information on ProductCamp details, such as newly submitted speaker proposals.
ProductCamp Twin Cities has a $25 registration charge to help underwrite the cost of food. A light breakfast and full (fabulous) lunch are served to attendees. This charge helps to make the annual recurrence of ProductCamp Twin Cities financially sustainable!
ProductCamp Twin Cities 2025, an in-person, participant-driven “unconference”, was held on Friday October 10th at Best Buy's Headquarters in Richfield. The 8:00am to 4:30pm event was followed immediately by a networking happy hour at a nearby venue.
ProductCamp is an "Unconference" for anyone who builds, designs, markets, or manages a product or service. An unconference, unlike a conference curated by a select committee, has attendees select the presentations that will be presented, ensuring a good match between what's being presented and what attendees want to see. As the event drew near, registered attendees were invited to vote on-line for the presentations among all submissions they most want to see. In a strictly democratic way, the highest vote-getters were invited to present. The design of the day leans into the wisdom of the crowd!
Thank you for your suppport of ProductCamp Twin Cities!
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The proposal portal for 2026 will open in July.