While there’s been plenty of speculation about the future of product management, those of you working in the field know how challenging (and rewarding) the job can be.
With the rapid pace of change, it’s especially important to invest in sharpening your skills. Conferences are a great way to do that by learning from thought leaders and your peers.
Before COVID, I used to write a post each year highlighting all the product conferences taking place around the world. I resumed curating my annual product conferences list last year, and what a year 2025 was for product conferences!
Looking back on 2025’s Product Conferences
2025 saw impressive growth in the number of in-person product conferences from 2024. Many countries and cities hosted their first ever product conferences. I had a great time speaking at Mexico’s first product conference, the Product Latam Summit in Mexico City. I gave my talk in Spanish (first time doing that), which was a lot of fun. I actually visited Mexico City three times in 2 months to speak and teach workshops, a testament to the growing product community there. I also spoke at Calgary, Canada’s first product conference, the Product Calgary Summit. And San Diego’s first product conference, the Product Manager Summit. My private training workshops also took me as far as Santiago, Chile, and Johannesburg, South Africa.
For other cities, it wasn’t their first product conference, but the size of their conference grew significantly in 2025. I had a wonderful time speaking at ProductCamp Chicago! Chicago has a special place in my heart because I went to college at Northwestern (go ‘Cats!) Closer to home, it was fun to speak at UC Berkeley Haas’ Product Con.
2026 Product Conference Outlook
I’m happy to report that 2026 is looking even stronger for product conferences! There are 48 product conferences scheduled for 2026! And there will be more scheduled: the conference season always gets crazy from around mid-September to the end of October. Several conferences that are likely taking place then haven’t yet announced their dates (e.g. Women in Product).
Here are the top product conferences of 2026 in chronological order (FYI, my list only includes in-person events):
Jan 28: Product-Led Summit, Washington D.C. – As you read this list, you will see that the Product-Led Alliance puts on a lot of conferences: Product-Led Summits, Production Operations Summits, and Chief Product Officer Summit (plus more). Kudos to them for organizing the largest number of product conferences in 2026 – 26 in total – all around the world!
Feb 18–20: ProductWorld, San Jose
Feb 24: ProductCon London – ProductCons are large conferences put on by Product School in London, New York, and San Francisco.
Feb 24–25: Product-Led Summit, Austin
Mar 9: Product Mastery, Amsterdam
Mar 24–26: Pendomonium 2026, Raleigh – Pendo’s annual conference.
Mar 26: Chief Product Officer Summit, New York
Mar 26–27: Product Operations Summit, New York
Mar 26–27: Product-Led Summit, New York
Apr 1–2: Product-Led Summit, Denver
Apr 11: ProductCamp Phoenix
Apr 14: Chief Product Officer Summit, San Jose – See you there?
Apr 15: AI Product Summit, Silicon Valley – See you there?
Apr 20–21: Product at Heart Leadership, Hamburg
May 9: ProductCamp Vancouver
May 14: Leading the Product, Melbourne – LTP started in Sydney and expanded to Melbourne. I had a great time speaking at both events. Adrienne Tan and the Brainmates team put on a great conference.
May 16: ProductCamp Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh – ProductCamps are local, grassroots gatherings that are usually free or inexpensive. I’m very excited to be speaking at ProductCamp Pittsburgh again (the last time was before COVID). Between ProductCamp, PDMA, ProductTank, and Carnegie Mellon University (which offers an MS degree in product management), Pittsburgh has quite the thriving product community. I’ll also be teaching my Vibe Coding Workshop. See you there?
May 19: La Product Conf, Paris
May 20: ProductCon New York
May 21: Leading the Product, Sydney
May 27: Chief Product Officer Summit, Amsterdam
May 28–29: Product-Led Summit, Amsterdam
May 28–29: Product Operations Summit, Amsterdam
Jun 15–16: Mind the Product Conference, London – Acquired by Pendo, this is one of the largest conference and has been running for years. I’ve taught many workshops there and always enjoy the energy.
Jun 17–18: Product-Led Summit, Seattle
Jun 18–19: Productized, Lisbon – If you’re just a short flight away from Lisbon, Productized is definitely worth the trip. André Marquet and his team put on a great conference. I had a wonderful time speaking and teaching a workshop there.
Jun 24–25: Product-Led Summit, London
Jun 25–26: Product at Heart, Hamburg
Aug 20: Chief Product Officer Summit, Boston
Sep 17: Product Leader Summit, Silicon Valley – This special, invite-only event for product leaders is a labor of love project organized by me, Ha Nguyen, Gib Biddle, and Vidya Dinamani. This will be our tenth event. Everyone has to apply and we carefully curate a group of 120 top product leaders. Submit your application now at productleadersummit.com
Sep 22–23: Product-Led Summit, San Francisco
Sep 22–23: Product Operations Summit, San Francisco
Sep 24: Chief Product Officer Summit, San Francisco
Oct 7: INDUSTRY, Chicago – If you’ve never been to INDUSTRY, you should definitely check it out. Although it has historically been held in Cleveland, Ohio, this year’s conference will be in Chicago, which has a growing product community. I’ve given talks and taught workshops there several times and always enjoy the energy of the crowd. This year, I’m excited to teach my Vibe Coding workshop there!
Oct 7: ProductCon San Francisco – You know there are a lot of product conferences when two of the larger ones are on the same date…(everybody loves October)
Oct 8-9: PDMA Summit, Atlanta
Oct 14–15: Product-Led Summit, Berlin
Oct 16: Just Product, Munich
Oct 26–27: Y Oslo
Oct 28: Product-Led Summit, Sydney
Oct 28–29: Product-Led Summit, Boston
Nov 5–6: Product Management Festival, Zürich
Nov 11–12: Product-Led Summit, Toronto
Nov 18–19: Product-Led Summit, Chicago
Nov (TBD): Product Aotearoa, Auckland, New Zealand – I visited New Zealand for the first time in 2024 to give a talk and teach a workshop at this conference. It was a great event with lots of positive energy. I had a wonderful time interacting with the product communities in Wellington and Auckland.
Dec 2: Chief Product Officer Summit, London
Dec 2–3: Product Operations Summit, London
Dec 8-9: ProductCamp Brasil, São Paolo
I’m excited to see so many in-person product conferences! Hopefully you found one or more events from my list that you’re excited to attend.
Wait, what’s that? You’re looking for even more great product events? Okay, okay, I’ve got one more product event for you.
Lean Product Meetup
Lean Product Meetup (monthly in Silicon Valley and streaming live via Zoom) – I’ve been running this monthly speaker series since 2014 (12 years!) and we’ve grown to over 13,500 members. Before COVID, our events were in-person only. During COVID, we went virtual and gained members from around the world. Our events are now hybrid: you can join us live via Zoom or in person in Mountain View, California.
One evening each month, I host the same world-class speakers who speak at the conferences listed above. Many of them have written bestselling books. My past speakers include Marty Cagan, Teresa Torres, Jake Knapp, Geoffrey Moore, Alex Osterwalder, Christina Wodtke, Ken Norton, David Bland, Laura Klein, Ash Maurya, Nir Eyal, Amy Jo Kim, Tony Ulwick, Hiten Shah, and Steve Portigal.
You can learn more and join our group for free at Meetup.com.
I try to host my speakers for new book launches whenever I can. Marty Cagan launched his books Empowered and Transformed at Lean Product Meetup, as did Jake Knapp with Make Time.
For our next event on March 5th, I’m excited to host PM expert and author Sachin Rekhi to share his advice on “AI-Powered Customer Discovery.” You can learn more and register here.
I hope you found my article helpful. If you did, please share it with your product colleagues!
I look forward to seeing you at one or more of these events!
