ProductCamp Twin Cities is Back!! Revived: Oct 25, 2024 at Best Buy HQ

ProductCamp Twin Cities 2024

was

Friday October 25th at Best Buy HQ

Your product event! Your product community!

Visit the Presentations 2024 Page to see Many of This Year's Presentations!

Thank you to all who participated in the revival of ProductCamp Twin Cities after its post-Covid hiatus! Hope you enjoyed the 2024 event as much as we did. See you at ProductCamp Twin Cities 2025!

ProductCamp Twin Cities 2024 was an in-person, participant-driven “unconference” held on Friday October 25th at Best Buy's Headquarters in Bloomington.

ProductCamps are for anyone who builds, designs, markets, or manages a product or service worldwide--as well as entrepreneurs and start-ups. ProductCamps have diverse audiences from software (technology) to life sciences, consumer packaging, to manufacturing. Join the conversation around all things product in this unique in-person event.

An Unconference: Unlike a conference curated by a select committee, attendees of a ProductCamp select the presentations for the unconference, ensuring a good match between what's being presented and what attendees want to see. Potential speakers apply by completing a form giving details of their proposal. As the event draws near, registered attendees will be invited to vote on the presentations they most want to see. In a strictly democratic way, the highest vote-getters are invited to present. The design of the day leans into the wisdom of the crowd!

Speaker Submissions

ProductCamps feature diverse topics with speakers from all types of organizations and all ethnicities, and gender identities. In the lead up to ProductCamp, we call for speaker submissions that cover a range of product-focused topics from passionate professionals. After Speaker Submissions are received and the submission portal closed, voting by registered attendees takes place to select the submissions that will comprise the agenda of Product Camp.

ProductCamp Twin Cities 2024 Keynote Speaker

Thank You, John Grancharich

John Grancarich is Chief Strategy Officer at Fortra, a global leader in cybersecurity, located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. John is a member of the founding team of Fortra’s cybersecurity business. Setting the direction and standard for Fortra’s growing cybersecurity business, John advocates for practicality and scalability in new product and service innovation at Fortra, and believes AI and automation hold the key to accelerate the growth of the industry.

Prior to joining Fortra, John was the founder of Product Fuse, serving enterprise technology companies to help build and implement successful product strategies. Prior to that, John served as Vice President of Product Management for KLDiscovery and held senior positions at Kroll Ontrack and Paul Hastings.

John is a co-author of Internet Fraud Casebook, The Worldwide Web of Deceit, published by John Wiley & Sons.

Registration for ProductCamp 2024 was via Eventbrite: $25

ProductCamp Twin Cities is happy to be back and to be back in person after being virtual during covid and absent since then.

By product people for product people.

ProductCamps Twin Cities are true "unconferences" where everyone can submit session topics. Submitted proposals then get voted upon by our attendees to select those that will be presented. All are welcome to participate. The one ask we consistently make is that everyone looks to learn, share, and connect with others to make our product community stronger.

During the run up to ProductCamps, we update the website with information about the upcoming event and speaker proposals. And we notify attendees when it's time to vote.

A light breakfast and full lunch are served to attendees. The $25 registration charge is to help underwrite the cost of food, and to make the annual recurrence of ProductCamp Twin Cities financially sustainable!