ProductCamp Twin Cities 2026
Friday September 25th
@Best Buy HQ
Your product event!
Your product community!
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ProductCamp is a community gathering and full day (un)conference. From Keynote to Closing, with lots of breakout sessions in between, there are lots of opportunities to meet new people who share your interests. The social aspects of ProductCamp are enhanced by the best conference lunch in the region, and a networking happy hour to conclude the day. We hope to see you at ProductCamp Twin Cities 2026.
Great Innovators Bracket the Day at ProductCamp Twin Cities 2026
At ProductCamp Twin Cities 2026, we will celebrate several of the breakthrough products that have come out of the Twin Cities. We kick off the day with a Keynote Address from Scott Olson, inventor of Rollerblades, the Rowbike, and the SkyRide. The first two innovations were included in a recent survey of the 10 greatest innovations out of Minnesota in the last 50 years!
And we will close ProductCamp with the awarding of the First Annual Art Fry Product Innovation Award. Art Fry is, of course, the innovator who developed Post-It Notes as a Senior Scientist at 3M. The Post-It note, by the way, was cited in the survey as the number one innovation out of our state in the last 50 years. Art, now in his mid 90's, will be present to address the Closing Session of ProductCamp and participate in the presentation to the Art Fry Product Innovation Award recipient.
Scott Olson - innovator of Rollerblades and more - as Keynoter at ProductCamp Twin Cities 2026
Scott Olson - innovator of Rollerblades and more - as Keynoter at ProductCamp Twin Cities 2026
Great products enable companies to penetrate and perhaps dominate a market. Elite innovations make new categories or new markets. Scott Olson is most famous as the innovator behind Rollerblades opening a market that now holds almost 500 companies. Following the success of Rollerblades, Scott has continued bringing his imagination and innovator spirit to a series of recreational products in the exercise space including the pictured SkyRide which provides for human powered monorail exercise and a glide that gives the sensation of flying. Intrigued? Take a Carnival Cruise Line trip and enjoy a flight on Scott's fancy! Or come to ProductCamp and hear all about the innovator's journey, from the athlete innovator himself.
Presentation Proposals
Presentation Proposal for ProductCamp Twin Cities can be submitted through September 4th. Have an idea or knowledge to share? Step up, submit a proposal, and share with the community. You can submit your proposal idea here.
Just planning on attending? Register early, so that you can participate in voting for sessions when voting begins on September 6th.
Here are several of the topics that have been proposed for sessions to date:
So you want to be a product consultant, lessons learned from going out on my own
Stop Paying for the Same Product Decision Twice
Neither Cheerleader Nor Holdout: The Third Way on AI
The 1 Person GTM Machine: Building No-Code Agent Stacks That Launch for You
Impossible to Overlook: How to Stand Out in an AI-Driven World
From Stuck to Shipping: A Mini-Workshop on Your Team's Growth Journey
Check back periodically to see more topics that have been proposed! See you at ProductCamp.
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Thank you Twin Cities. We now have all the volunteers we can use. What a great community!
ProductCamp Twin Cities 2026 will be an in-person, participant-driven “unconference”, on Friday September 25th at Best Buy's Headquarters in Richfield. The 8:00am to 4:30pm event will be immediately followed by a networking happy hour at a nearby venue.
ProductCamp Twin Cities is a true "unconference" where anyone and everyone can submit session topics. ProductCamp participation is open to anyone who builds, designs, markets, manages a product or service, or is interested in joining the Product Community. An unconference, unlike a conference curated by a select committee, has attendees select the sessions that will be presented, ensuring a good match between what attendees want to see and what's being presented. As the event draws near, registered attendees are 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 are invited to present. The design of the day leans into the wisdom of the crowd!
Speakers submit proposals through a form found on the 'Call for Proposal' page. Submissions will be accepted through September 4th. Voting by registered attendees will occur between September 6th and September 15th. Speakers will be notified on September 16th, and the list of selected presentations will be posted to this website on September 17th. This year we are planning to have 24 breakout presentations, 6 sessions, each with 4 concurrent presentations, though the precise plan for the day is still under discussion.
Speakers submit proposals through a form found on the 'Call for Proposal' page. Submissions will be accepted through September 4th. Voting by registered attendees will occur between September 6th and September 15th. Speakers will be notified on September 16th, and the list of selected presentations will be posted to this website on September 17th. This year we are planning to have 24 breakout presentations, 6 sessions, each with 4 concurrent presentations, though the precise plan for the day is still under discussion.
Our one ask of attendees is that everyone look to learn, share, and connect with others to make the event more vibrant and our Product Community better integrated and stronger!
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