Product management expert Dan Olsen talks about what makes for great products, great product managers, and great product teams.
VIDEOS
PODCASTS
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
| 2025 | ||
| Nov 11 | Vibe Coding Workshop | Salt Lake City |
| Nov 10 | Product Hive | Lehi, UT |
| Nov 9 | UC Berkeley Product Con | Berkeley |
| Nov 6 | Vimeo workshop | New York City |
| Oct 30 | Next Insurance vibe coding workshop | Silicon Valley |
| Oct 23 | Product Leader Summit | Silicon Valley |
| Oct 21 | Product LatAm Summit | Mexico City |
| Oct 16 | SurveyMonkey vibe coding workshop | Silicon Valley |
| Oct 10 | ProductCamp Chicago | Chicago |
| Oct 9 | Vibe Coding Workshop | Chicago & Zoom |
| Sep 31 | Walmart Mexico | Mexico City |
| Sep 24 | IDEXX workshop | Maine |
| Sep 17 | Vibe Coding Hackathon | Mountain View |
| Sep 16 | Product-Led Summit | Silicon Valley |
| Sep 11 | DesignOps Summit | Online |
| Sep 1-2 | Walmart Chile | Santiago |
| Aug 28-29 | Walmart Mexico | Mexico City |
| Aug 26 | Shipt Product Summit | San Francisco |
| Aug 23-24 | Vibe Coding Workshop | Online |
| Aug 21 | Fireside Chat on AI | Mountain View |
| July 24 | Vibe Coding Hackathon | Mountain View |
| July 16 | 10 Years of The Lean Product Playbook | Online | June 21 | Product Calgary | Calgary |
| June 20 | Public training workshop | Calgary |
| June 5 | Product Manager Summit | San Diego |
| May 16 | AI Product Summit | Palo Alto |
| May 12 | Women in Product UK | Online |
| Apr 30 | CPO Summit | Palo Alto |
| Apr 29 | Product Analytics Summit | Santa Clara |
| Apr 25 | CMU PM Program | Online |
| Apr 24 | Sidebar Summit | Online |
| Mar 4-5 | Walmart | Bentonville |
| Feb 24 | Stanford GSB | Stanford |
| Feb 10-12 | Public training workshop | Online |
| Feb 4-5 | Cook Medical | Bloomington |
| Jan 29-30 | Walmart | Sunnyvale |
| Jan 22 | Bol.com | Online |
| Jan 16 | Fireside chat with Mike Maples | Online |
| 2024 | ||
| Nov 21 | Equinix | Redwood City |
| Nov 14-15 | Product Aotearoa | Wellington, NZ |
| Nov 12 | Lightspeed | Auckland, NZ |
| Nov 11 | ProductTank Auckland | Auckland, NZ |
| Nov 7 | Mastercard | Online |
| Nov 6 | Genentech | South San Francisco |
| Nov 4 | One Knight at the Pub | London |
| Nov 4 | Mastercard | London |
| Oct 30 | Datadog | Online |
| Oct 28 | Mountain View | |
| Oct 22 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Charleston |
| Oct 8 | Product Drive Summit | Online |
| Sep 19 | Product Leader Summit | Silicon Valley |
| Sep 10 | CX Circle | New York City |
| Sep 4 | Product Led Summit | San Francisco |
| Aug 22 | Mastercard | Online |
| Jul 2 | NASDAQ Center | Online |
| Jun 5 | ProductTank LA | Pasadena |
| May 20 | HP | Barcelona |
| May 16 | ProductTank Barcelona | Barcelona |
| May 13 | Palo Alto Networks | Silicon Valley |
| Apr 18 | Lean Product Meetup | Mountain View |
| Apr 17 | Avetta | Lehi, UT |
| Apr 17 | Weave | Lehi, UT |
| Apr 16 | Product Hive | Lehi, UT |
| Apr 4 | JPMorgan Chase | Online |
| Mar 18 | Me2We | Stanford |
| Mar 13 | Ask Me Anything | Online |
| Mar 5-7 | Public Workshop | Online |
| 2023 | ||
| Dec 7 | Product Management Today | Online |
| Dec 5-6 | eBay workshop | San Jose, CA |
| Nov 17 | Stanford | Stanford |
| Nov 15 | Sopheon Webinar | Online |
| Nov 14 | Game Thinking Webinar | Online |
| Oct 25 | PM Happy Hour | Crystal City, VA |
| Oct 19 | Mind the Product workshop | London |
| Oct 18 | PM Happy Hour | London |
| Oct 12 | Product Leader Summit | Palo Alto |
| Oct 10 | Lean Product Meetup | Mountain View & Online |
| Oct 2-4 | INDUSTRY Global | Cleveland |
| Sep 21 | Lowe’s workshop | Charlotte |
| Sep 19 | ABS Wavesight workshop | Oregon |
| Aug 29 | eBay workshop | San Jose |
| July 13 | Mixpanel AMA webinar | Online |
| July 10-12 | Lean Product Management Workshop | Online |
| June 1 | Demystifying MVP: Lean Product Meetup | Online |
| June 1 | Talk at PwC | Online |
| May 24 | Sendbird Product Leader event | Redwood City |
| May 15-16 | Nexio workshop | Online |
| May 11 | Chat with Hiten Shah | Online |
| May 9 | JPMC Product Day | Brooklyn |
| May 2-4 | Equinix workshop | Online |
| Apr 20 | Chat with Lenny Rachitsky | Online |
| Apr 19 | MTP Leaders event | San Francisco |
| Mar 16 | ProdPad webinar | Online |
| Mar 14 | Chat with Melissa Perri | Online |
| Mar 7-9 | CarGurus workshop | Online |
| Mar 1 | Clip workshop | Mexico City |
| Feb 16 | Chat with Ben Foster | Online |
| Feb 15 | ProductWorld | Oakland |
| Feb 7 | Fanatics workshop | San Mateo |
| Jan 26 | Chat with Marty Cagan | Online |
| 2022 | ||
| Dec 14 | Product Collective Coaching | Online |
| Dec 7 | Chat with Deb Liu | Online |
| Dec 7 | Chat with Tony Ulwick | Online |
| Dec 6 | JustAnswer workshop | San Francisco |
| Nov 13 | PDMA Workshop | Orlando |
| Nov 12 | PDMA Conference | Orlando |
| Nov 2 | Chat with David Bland | Online |
| Nov 2 | Chat with Christina Wodtke | Online |
| Oct 26 | Clip | Online |
| Oct 19 | Lean Product Meetup | Online |
| Oct 18 | Chat with Geoffrey Moore | Online |
| Oct 17 | GSK | Online |
| Oct 12 | Product Collective Coaching | Online |
| Oct 11 | Workday | Online |
| Sep 22 | Sendbird webinar | Online |
| Sep 21 | Lean Product Management Workshop | Denver |
| Sep 20 | Denver Startup Week | Denver |
| Sep 20 | Colorado Product Happy Hour | Denver |
| Sep 9 | LinkedIn Learning | Online |
| Aug 24 | Chase | Online |
| Aug 17 | Heap webinar | Online |
| Aug 9 | Gainsight webinar | Online |
| Jul 12-13 | HP workshop | Barcelona |
| Jun 14-17 | AT&T workshop | Dallas |
| Jun 1 | SDX | Online |
| May 25 | Mind the Product SF | San Francisco |
| May 17 | Lean Product Meetup | San Francisco |
| May 10-12 | Lean Product Management Workshop | Online |
| May 4 | Wiley | Online |
| Apr 20 | UserVoice Webinar | Online |
| Apr 11 | Stanford GSB | Stanford |
| Mar 24 | Capital One | Online |
| Mar 22 | Lyft | Online |
| Mar 17-18 | Startup Workshop | Online |
| Mar 1-4 | Deloitte Workshops | Arlington, VA |
| Feb 15-17 | Lean Product Management Workshop | Online |
| Feb 1-10 | Taco Bell Workshops | Online |
| 2021 | ||
| Dec 8 | Cisco | Online |
| Nov 15-18 | Taco Bell Workshop | Online |
| Nov 10 | Product Leader Summit | Online |
| Nov 2-4 | Lean Product Management Workshop | Online |
| Sep 28 | INDUSTRY Product Webinar | Online |
| Sep 22 | Product Makers | Online |
| Aug 24 | TechCrunch Startup Alley+ | Online |
| Aug 17-19 | Lean Product Management Workshop | Online |
| Aug 11 | Product Coffee | Online |
| Jun 29 | Traction | Online |
| June 11 | ProductCamp Online | Online |
| June 10 | ProductCamp Panel | Online |
| Jun 8-9 | ProductBC Workshop | Online |
| May 27 | Productized Masterclass | Online |
| May 26 | Hard things about product | Online |
| May 11-13 | Lean Product Management Workshop | Online |
| Mar 25 | Google Growth Forum | Online |
| Mar 23 | Productized Fireside Chat | Online |
| Feb 9-11 | Lean Product Management Workshop | Online |
| Jan 28 | Lean Product Meetup | Online |
| Jan 28 | Webinar with Heap | Online |
| 2020 | ||
| Nov 30 | Product Book Club | Online |
| Nov 9-12 | Lean Product Management Workshop | Online |
| Nov 6 | ProductCamp Seattle | Online |
| Oct 27 | ProductTank San Diego | Online |
| Sep 22 | Industry Product Conference | Online |
| Sep 17 | Product Leader Summit | Online |
| Sep 2 | Product School Fireside Chat | Online |
| Aug 25-27 | Lean Product Management Workshop | Online |
| Aug 12 | Product & Growth Summit | Online |
| May 27 | Virtual Product Summit | Online |
| May 21 | My online workshop | Online |
| May 14 | PM Book Club Online Fireside Chat | Online |
| Apr 16 | ProductCon SF | San Francisco, CA |
| Apr 8 | The Everyday Innovator Summit | Online |
| Mar 30 | Mind the Product | Singapore |
| Mar 19 | Virtual Product Summit | Online |
| Mar 17 | Product workshop with Walmart | Online |
| Mar 4 | Product workshop at Careem | Dubai, UAE |
| Jan 14 | Optimizely webinar | Online |
| 2019 | ||
| Dec 11 | Growth Marketing Conference | San Francisco, CA |
| Nov 13 | Women in Product Workshop | San Francisco, CA |
| Nov 7 | Front Workshop Series | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Oct 24 | Product School Virtual Summit | Online |
| Sep 28 | ProductCamp Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Sep 27 | Lean Product Workshop | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Sep 19 | Product Leader Summit | Redwood City, CA |
| Sep 10 | Pendomonium | Raleigh, NC |
| Aug 15 | ConveyUX | Boston, MA |
| Aug 7 | Traction Conference | Vancouver |
| Jul 31 | Box | Redwood City, CA |
| Jul 31 | UserTesting webinar | Online |
| Jul 25 | Lean Product | Mountain View, CA |
| Jul 18 | Walmart | Bentonville, AR |
| Jul 15 | Mind the Product | San Francisco, CA |
| Jun 21 | ITX Product Momentum | Rochester, NY |
| Jun 18 | Optimizely webinar | Online |
| May 25 | ProductCamp Silicon Valley | Santa Clara, CA |
| May 21 | Gainsight Pulse | San Francisco, CA |
| May 15 | UserTesting Product Breakfast | Palo Alto, CA |
| May 9 | ProductCraft | San Francisco, CA |
| Apr 15 | Industry Europe | Dublin, Ireland |
| Apr 11 | Atlassian Summit | Las Vegas, NV |
| Mar 28 | Optimizely webinar | Online |
| Mar 21 | Decisions by Split | Online |
| Mar 8 | Lean Product Management Workshop | San Francisco, CA |
| 2018 | ||
| Dec 11 | Growth Marketing Conference | San Francisco, CA |
| Nov 30 | Agile Camp | San Francisco, CA |
| Nov 27 | Open Mobile Summit | Burlingame, CA |
| Nov 16 | Product Leader Summit Workshop | Redwood City, CA |
| Nov 15 | Product Leader Summit | Redwood City, CA |
| Nov 1 | Empower B2B PM Conference | San Francisco, CA |
| Oct 24 | Lean Product Management Workshop | San Francisco, CA |
| Oct 19 | Mind the Product | London, UK |
| Oct 11 | Fireside Chat with Pendo | Online |
| Oct 3 | BGV CEO Summit | Santa Clara, CA |
| Oct 2 | Decisions Conference by Split | San Francisco, CA |
| Jul 26 | Analytics Webinar with Split | Online |
| Jul 17 | Mind the Product | San Francisco, CA |
| Jun 21 | Lean Product Workshop | Palo Alto, CA |
| May 17 | Amplitude Product Roadmap Summit | San Francisco, CA |
| Apr 3 | Growth Marketing Summit | San Francisco, CA |
| Mar 31 | ProductCamp Silicon Valley | Santa Clara, CA |
| Mar 21 | ProductCon Silicon Valley | Santa Clara, CA |
| Mar 20 | ProductCon SF | San Francisco, CA |
| Mar 19 | Amazon | San Francisco, CA |
| Mar 15 | General Dynamics | Fairfax, VA |
| Jan 18 | Product Leader Summit NYC | New York, NY |
| 2017 | ||
| Dec 15 | Product Marketing Conference | San Francisco, CA |
| Dec 14 | Women in Product at PayPal | San Jose, CA |
| Nov 30 | Lean Product Workshop | San Francisco, CA |
| Nov 29 | Product School SV | Santa Clara, CA |
| Nov 16 | Product School SF | San Francisco, CA |
| Nov 15 | Mastering Product Adoption & Growth | San Francisco, CA |
| Nov 14 | Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH |
| Nov 6 | Agile Camp | Santa Clara, CA |
| Nov 1 | Lean Startup Week | San Francisco, CA |
| Oct 26 | Productized | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Oct 11 | MURAL Webinar | Online |
| Oct 3 | Lean Startup Webinar | Online |
| Sep 21 | Lean Product | Mountain View, CA |
| Sep 14 | Industry Product Conference | Cleveland, OH |
| Sep 7 | Mind the Product | London, UK |
| Aug 17 | UserVoice BASiS Product Conference | San Francisco, CA |
| Aug 3 | Creative Product Managers | Online |
| Jun 28 | Growth Marketing Conference B2B | San Francisco, CA |
| Jun 13 | True Ventures University | Berkeley, CA |
| Jun 12 | Mind the Product | San Francisco, CA |
| May 31 | Traction Conference | Vancouver, Canada |
| May 25 | Lean Product Management Workshop | Palo Alto, CA |
| May 23 | New Zealand Trade & Enterprise | Online |
| May 19 | Product Leader Summit | Redwood City, CA |
| May 12 | International Business Model Competition | Mountain View, CA |
| May 10 | DFJ Product Leaders | San Francisco, CA |
| Apr 25 | Product Strategy Workshop | Redwood City, CA |
| Apr 11 | MIT Sloan | Cambridge, MA |
| Apr 10 | Lean Startup Circle | Boston, MA |
| Apr 10 | Harvard Business School | Boston, MA |
| Mar 31 | Game Thinking Live | Burlingame, CA |
| Mar 30 | ProductTank SF | San Francisco |
| Mar 25 | Silicon Valley Product Camp | Santa Clara, CA |
| Mar 24 | VetCon | Redwood City, CA |
| Mar 14 | Slack AMA with Product School | Online |
| Mar 2 | Omidyar Network | Online |
| Feb 28 | NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center | San Francisco, CA |
| Feb 21 | Northwestern University | Evanston, IL |
| Feb 1 | Northwestern Alumni Marketing Panel | San Francisco, CA |
| Jan 31 | Lean Product Management Workshop | San Francisco, CA |
| Jan 18 | GrowthX Academy | San Francisco, CA |
| 2016 | ||
| Dec 8 | Growth Marketing Conference | San Jose, CA |
| Nov 1 | The Lean Startup Conference | San Francisco, CA |
| Oct 25 | Leading the Product | Sydney, Australia |
| Oct 20 | Leading the Product | Melbourne, Australia |
| Sep 29 | Mind the Product | London, UK |
| Sep 13 | SV Agile Leadership Network | Sunnyvale, CA |
| Jun 26 | Traction Conference | Vancouver, Canada |
| Apr 27 | InVision Design Talks | Online |
| Apr 23 | Silicon Valley Product Camp | Santa Clara, CA |
| Apr 12 | Stanford d.school | Stanford, CA |
| Mar 28 | O’Reilly Cultivate | San Jose, CA |
| Mar 2 | SVPMA | Santa Clara, CA |
| Feb 9 | Northwestern University | Evanston, IL |
| Jan 26 | Pivotal Labs | Palo Alto, CA |
| Jan 20 | Menlo Park, CA | |
| Jan 12 | Product Austin | Austin, TX |