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Application form for track 5

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Application form for track 1

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Application form for track 7

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Application form for track 2

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Application form for track 3

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Application form for track 4

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Application form for track 6

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Application form for track 8

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Application form for track 9

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Application form for track 10

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Application form for track 11

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Radu Stefan - Product Manager at Edenred Group

Stefan Murariu - Sr. Product Manager at Genesis Digital

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George Dita - Entrepreneur, former Founder of WiseUp, Startup Product Advisor

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Liviu Lica - CPO at Flip

Vali Banu - Sr. Product Manager at Snyk

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Product discovery and experimentation methodologies, pitfalls and best practices

Tips and tricks on discovery and experimentation for the most important states of your product

How to design, run and analyze effective experiments

Demystifying product discovery and experimentation with real examples

Bringing product discovery and experimentation in your organization as an ongoing habit

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Understand the chaos that happens at the top level of organisations;

People are predictable in conflicts and negotiations, but without the manual it feels like you are reading Chinese and nothing makes sense.

Each session will have - basic frameworks to establish a common language, special guests from different industries, sharing of know how between the participants.

Startup vs Enterprise - people are the same, but the systems are different; unspoken rules to help you avoid serios mistakes.

Frameworks for understanding people and stakeholders - training wheels to navigate the organisations before you develop the skills

Conflict Styles and Negotiation - learn your default style and figure out how to identify it for others

War Stories - taking challenges from each of us, and trying to solve them with the power of the group.

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What is good Product Management: the good, the bad, and the ugly

How to become a Product Manager and be good at it.

How to plan your career in Product Management

How to prepare to transition to product management inside your company or another

Bonus: if you are already a new product manager, you will understand better what product is all about and how to grow

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Step 1: Apply to the track you wish to attend

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Step 1: Apply to the track you wish to attend

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Apply by March 15th eod.

Application forms are available on this page, under each mentoring track title ⚡️

For applications: review the description of the relevant track, dedicate 20-30 mins for thoroughly filling the application form.

If your bandwidth in the next 3 months allows: we recommend you apply to max. 2 tracks.

All mentoring sessions will be held in Romanian, mostly online.

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Product professionals that want to incorporate more evidence based decision making ( Product Managers | Product Owners | Technical PMs )

Cross-functional team members involved in discovery and experimentation planning

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Mid to senior managers that have a team and multiple stakeholders to please at the same time

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People who want to move into product management from different roles, such as business analysts, product owners, customer support, engineers, UX designers, and others

Junior product managers that want to understand better how to plan their careers

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Seasoned professionals with extensive product discovery and experimentation experience

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Professionals that are individual contributors, are in execution roles, or have one stakeholder/manager they have to listen to

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Senior Product Managers and above who understand very well what the role implies and have their careers figured out

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Step 2: If selected, start attending all the mentoring sessions

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Step 2: If selected, start attending all the mentoring sessions

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Selections will happen on March 18th and the mentors from each track will get in touch with the mentees they selected to start meeting.

Mentoring sessions will happen till May 28th, then we'll have the closing event of this edition of the program.

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You will understand what Product Management is, and if you decide to pursue a career in the field, you will know what you have to do.

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Alex Grigorescu - CPO at Enfineo

Bülent Duagi - Product Strategy Adviser at Product Evolution

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Experiences on how to map and leverage your current career context: work situation & skill areas

Stories on how to accelerate your Product skills and know-how development

Lessons around identifying opportunities for growth (inside/outside your workplace)

Insights on how to navigate the people landscape (your manager, colleagues and other people)

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Mid-level and Sr. Product Managers (min 2-3 yrs of experience in a Product role)

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Junior Product Managers at the start of their career or individuals aspiring to become Product Managers.

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Andrei Pirvulet - CTO at Vitals

Bogdan Lucaciu - CTO at Adore Me

Claudia Ursulet-Popa - CPO at WeAreSucceed

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Communication is key - reaching a common language between Product and Engineering, building trust and connection

Aligning goals and expectations between Product and Engineering (specs, roadmaps, estimations)

Understanding the impact of various engineering aspects on the speed of delivery (CI/CD, technical debt, QA test coverage, etc), getting into the engineering mindset

Case studies and collaboration challenges from the group

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Junior and mid POs/PMs who closely work with an engineering team or an engineering manager

Engineers who are unhappy with their PO/PM counterpart

Senior / Principal / Technical POs/PMs who don’t get along with their engineering teams

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POs/PMs and Engineers in a happy-collaboration relationship

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Sorin Nita - Sr. Product Manager at Delivery Hero

Stefan Iacob - Product Strategy and BI at Tremend

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The role data plays within various organizations and tech teams (B2B vs B2C, corporate vs public sector vs startup) – The official vs the actual picture

Human limitations in working with data

What are our data biases and how we overcome them, understand how your stakeholders consume data, and storytelling with data

AI: How useful can we really (afford to) make it ?

Is AI the answer to data-driven decision making? Can AI yield a positive ROI in data-driven decision-making? (alternative: Are the costs associated with AI worth it?)

Information is power – but how does this really work ?

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Product professionals at all stages in their career

Tech & strategy consultants

Founders trying to prepare for / cut through the buzz of growth hacking

Anyone actually managing technology

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People with no access to data within their organizations / products

People not involved in product or organizational decisions

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Alex Stefanescu - Digital Strategy Analytics Manager at H&M

Diana Pagila - Product Owner at Stockday

Iustin Insuratelu - Product Manager at olx

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Experiences in handling stakeholders with different backgrounds, building alignment and trust

Where is your Product going? Sharing ideas around crafting a Product vision

A glimpse on empathizing with users: what about adding Research, UX and UI to your toolbox?

Seeking uplift: building product strategy from commercial analytics and user behaviors

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Product Managers in companies with heritage going through digital transformation

Mid-level Product people that resonate with the topics

Anyone interested in how commercial performance, product roadmaps and digital ROI come together

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Mihaela Roman - Sr. Product Manager at VMWare Tanzu Labs

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Coaching is a leadership style that empowers and motivates individuals and teams, leading to improved motivation, engagement and better performance.

The coach enables the coachee to reach their potential (solve problems, achieve a goal) only by asking unbiased questions and facilitating their thinking, but without the coach sharing opinions, judgement or telling the coachee what to do.

We will discuss more about what is coaching, how to coach, useful skills and benefits.

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This track will provide most value to Product Leaders who are looking to grow and empower their teams (and themselves!), and it can be also useful to anyone looking to support others or even to develop themselves.

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This track is not for people who want to give their opinions and advice about what others should do. Also, we won't be covering dedicated product topics and skills.

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Andra Fecioru - Lead Product Manager at Token Flow

Dragos Manescu - VP of Product at Adore Me

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AI & Data Fundamentals - algorithms, models and AI in general

Identifying Opportunities - find problems that are fit to be solved with data and AI

Crafting AI Solutions - defining and validating AI product features

Evaluation Techniques - key metrics & methods for measuring results

Oops! That did not go as planned  -  AI Edition

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Senior Product Managers, Engineering Managers or any other senior product folks with minimum 3-4 years in the role.

You have a clear goal to start adding AI features in your products or have done it in the past.

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Junior product people

People who don’t currently have a clear goal of adding some sort of AI feature to their product or never worked with AI in the past.

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Tudor Juravlea - Service Design Lead at Raiffeisen

Tudor Mardar - Product Manager at Medicai

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Discover the Design Thinking methods and the practical tools and techniques to drive user-centered innovation and create successful products.

Collaborate effectively with designers by: setting clear roles, communicating openly, respecting expertise, and trusting their knowledge.

Learn how to effectively organize and conduct meetings using collaborative design methods

Integrate Product Discovery into your process with user-centric thinking, collaborative ideation and user research

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Junior and Mid level Product Managers/Owners, Business Analysts

Product Designers

Technical product managers/owners

Product Leaders, Strategists, Business Leaders

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Senior professionals with experience in product design

Professionals with no design teams involved in the process

Designers or developers not part of a product team

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Tania Nemes - Director of Product at adidas Sports Apps

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Distinguish between delivering against outputs vs impacts vs outcomes

How to think and lead your teams by outcomes in order to focus on customer behaviors that bring business results

When (not) to use an outcome-based approach

Outcome-based planning and roadmaps

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Mid-level and Sr. Product Managers (min 2-3 yrs of experience in a Product role)

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Junior Product Managers at the start of their career or individuals aspiring to become Product Managers.

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Seasoned Product professionals who have seen it all

Start-up Product people, Junior Product people at the start of their career or individuals aspiring to become Product Managers

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Watch the launch event replay, featuring:

a 10 min overview about the whole program

presentations from the mentors of the 11 tracks, sharing an overview about each mentoring track

final Q&A

You can find here the Miro board sharing the program overview, covering the mentee FAQ here.

If you have further questions about the whole program, please get in touch with Bülent Duagi - the program lead.

If you have clarification questions about specific tracks in the program, please get in touch with the mentors covering the track - you can find their LinkedIn profiles by clicking on the mentor names on this page.