Events

Colorado Product started as a Meetup group and we continue to host monthly events across Denver and Boulder. These regular events are a mix of speakers and panels, workshops, and networking. Details of most of the events Colorado Product has hosted or participated in in the past can be found on Meetup.com. In addition to these regular events, Colorado Product regularly hosts, sponsors, participates in and/or contributes to other events in the region, including Denver Startup Week and Boulder Startup Week, among others.

Notable Speakers

Colorado Product has had the pleasure of hosting a number of especially notable thought leaders and speakers in the field of Product Management. Some of these speakers include:

Marty Cagan

Founder and partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, specializing in product teams and product strategy. Author of "Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love". Former exec at eBay, Netscape and HP.

Ken Norton

Fmr partner at Google Ventures and longtime Google PM. Ken has written extensively about the craft of product management and his essay "How To Hire a Product Manager" became the playbook for a generation of PMs.

Jackie Bavaro

Fmr Head of Product at Asana, and PM at Google, Microsoft. Multi-time author, Jackie’s first book, Cracking the PM Interview, has been credited with helping to level the playing field for PM talent.

Jeff Patton

Consultant, author and speaker that connects good product management and strategy, lean user experience and agile delivery practices together. Author of "User Story Mapping" along with numerous articles and essays.

Merci Grace

Merci is a founder and former venture capital investor. She was early on the team at Slack, where she ran Product and was the first Head of Growth. Today she’s building a new company. In 2015 she founded Women in Product, a global community of people in product management roles.

April Dunford

Consultant, speaker, and globally recognized expert in Positioning. Author of "Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It."

SC Moatti

Founding partner of Mighty Capital and founder of Products That Count. Built products at Facebook, Nokia and Electronic Arts. Award-winning bestselling author of "Mobilized: An Insider’s Guide to the Business and Future of Connected Technology."

Ash Maurya

Ash is the author of "Running Lean" and "Scaling Lean" and is the creator of the one-page business modeling tool Lean Canvas.

Ellen Chisa

Entrepreneur building DarkLang.com. Startup Advisor and Investor. Formerly Product at Lola, Kickstarter, and MS Office Mobile.

Sara Mauskopf

Sara is the CEO and Co-founder of Winnie with extensive background in consumer technology and product management. Prior to founding Winnie, she was the Director of Product at Postmates, and held product leadership roles at Twitter, YouTube, and Google.

Jeff Lash

Passionate about making product managers great & helping B2B companies succeed. Cover all things product management at Forrester.

Past Events

Details of most of the events Colorado Product has hosted or participated in in the past can be found on Meetup.com. But separately, Colorado Product has also hosted and participated in a number of larger, more notable events.