About
The Product Group is the world’s most engaged product management community, bringing together product managers, leaders, and enthusiasts to connect, share experiences, and explore the evolving landscape of product management. Founded by Jeremy Horn, The Product Guy, The Product Group has been thriving since 2009, now spanning 7 countries, 12 cities, and 41,000+ members worldwide.
💡 What Happens at Our Meetups?
Our monthly in-person gatherings create a space for engaging, no-pressure discussions about the challenges and opportunities in product management today.
- Roundtable Format – Conversations explore topics like stakeholder management, AI-driven workflows, and product strategy.
- Featured Product Spotlight – Companies and teams showcase their products, gaining valuable feedback and insights from a room full of passionate product professionals.
🎟 Always Free to Attend
The Product Group is committed to keeping events 100% free to ensure open access to knowledge and networking. We rely on sponsors to provide space and refreshments—if your company is interested in supporting a future event, let’s talk!
🌍 Beyond our meetups, The Product Group offers a vibrant online presence, including YouTube content, mentorship programs, and active Slack communities, ensuring product people can learn and collaborate from anywhere.
🚀 Who Should Join?
- Product Managers at all levels
- Aspiring PMs looking to break into the field
- Senior product leaders shaping strategy and teams
- Anyone passionate about building and improving products
💡 What You Need to Know:
✅ Always free to attend – Our community is built on open knowledge sharing.
✅ Supported by sponsors – We rely on sponsorships to provide space and refreshments.
✅ Global reach – Chapters in NYC and beyond, with new cities launching regularly.
✅ More than just meetups – Join our YouTube channel, mentorship programs, and active Slack & Patreon communities.
Whether you’re looking to grow your career, connect with peers, or gain insights into the evolving world of product management, The Product Group is where product people thrive.
Images from Past Events
Some past topics we have covered …
Product Development Cycle: tips, challenges, advice
Google Wave: the strategy behind it, Google, and online collaboration
Product Focus & Organization: tips for keeping your product on track and how to avoid the problems of the ‘heads down’ dilemma
Product Management Career: resources people use, how everyone go to where they are, and much more
Yahoo!: the strategy of ‘all in one place,’ and its larger implications for the Internet and companies like Google and Microsoft
Product Positioning: from the ‘what’ to the ‘when’ and ‘why’
Event Planning Product: brainstorming solutions to the chicken-or-egg problem of a real-world startup product with the founder
Credibility Online: establishing, maintaining, and the importance of
Product Management: just what exactly it means to do ‘product management’
On NOT Missing Important Market Trends: learning from the mis-steps of the newspaper industry
Managing Documentation: what people use, why they use it, and what is recommended
Identifying Your Core: understanding who your users are and distinguishing what they need vs. what they want
Requirements Management: from challenges to software and solutions
Featured Product: Postabon: explored the product, its challenges and successes with guest Product Person, Shaneal Manek, Postabon’s Product Person
Product Management & Politics: explored scenarios and challenges and sharing advice on how to obtain buy-in and overcome
Featured Product: LanguageMate: discussed everything from shaping a product culture to improving the user experience with Ilya Blokh, Product Manager of LanguageMate
Virtual Product Management, Virtual Offices, and Outsourcing: delving into the debate of ‘if’ and ‘what’ of product management can or should come from the outside
Featured Product: HomeField: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from user acquisition and marketing to user testing and social strategy with the whole team, Reece Pacheco, Dan Spinosa, Joe Yevoli
Product Process: from the benefits and challenges of agile to feature prioritization to bug and idea management techniques
Featured Product: Knewton: discussing a variety of topics from dashboard design to effective team management with the Knewton product team, Sara Petry, Brian Fitzgerald
Creating and Building Relationships with Customers: from the customer strategies of popular products, Mint, Zappos, Twine, and others, to the values of surveying
Featured Product: 4Food: exploring the product, exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from managing the supply chain of a restaurant to crafting engaging user stories with the 4Food team: Rex Sorgatz, Matthew Sheppard
What makes a Product Manager Great: from the lacking characteristics of Microsoft product managers to the KPI’s of accountable visionaries
Featured Product: Market Publique: exploring the product, exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from the importance of selling to establishing and tracking key metrics with the Market Publique team: Jonathan Berger, Pamela Castillo
What makes a Product Great: from happiness and usability to community and context
Featured Product: ALOT: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from the understanding one’s customers to establishing a new business model with the ALOT team: Sean Conrad, Jim Sanders
Pricing Strategies: from models and methodologies to communicating change
Featured Product: Yipit: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from growing organically to exploring alternate business models Yipit Product Person: Vin Vacanti
Minimum Viable Product: from misconceptions to lean methodology w/ Guest Expert Joe Chin of SourcePad
Featured Product: Switch2Health: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from building habits to social recognition with Switch2Health Product Person:Goutham Bhadri
Featured Product: Wind Products: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from renewable energy challenges in NYC to optimizing usability and price with Wind Products Product Person: Cullen Kasunic
Featured Product: Dinevore: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from automation to UX with Dinevore’s Product Person: Jeremy Fisher
The Best Product Person of 2010 Awards: Giff Constable of Aprizi
Featured Product: Thomson One exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from managing a mature product to user research with Thomson Reuters’ Person: Jonathan Weinberg
To Kill a Product: from the challenges of pulling the trigger to inside Google
Featured Product: NearSay: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from the scaling the product to guiding technical decisions with NearSay Product People Trevor Sumner and Joshua Mack
Product Management Learning: from great books to moderating success
Featured Product: TouchGraph: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from visualizing connections to reaching new customers with TouchGraph Product Person Alex Shapiro
Product Management for Scale: from accountability to revenue
Featured Product: Journey Bar: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from identifying the key influencers to honing the core message with Journey Bar Product Person Marguarette Dau
Being a Good Customer of Mine: from wasting time to communicating vision
Featured Product: LocalBonus: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from leveraging less to building their base with LocalBonus Product Person Derek Webster
Describing Product: from napkin methodology to establishing the framework
Featured Product: Paperless Post: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from customer engagement to mobile strategy with Paperless Post Product Person Itai Ram
Accelerating Product: from the immersion week to separating roles
Featured Product: Betterment: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from retirement to feedback loops with Betterment Product person Anthony Schrauth
Supporting Product: from aligning expectations to product education
Featured Product: Harvest: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from challenging support to open API’s with Harvest Product people Sri Vemuri and Shawn Liu
The Future: from pervasive offline to the death of XML
Featured Product: Gojee: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from evoking emotions to preparing those monetization switches with Gojee product people Michael LaValle and Adam Meisel
Managing & Maintaining the Roadmap: from”what” to “how”
Featured Product: Liquid Fare: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from pivoting the bar scene to success in execution with Liquid Fare product person Jon Zanoff
The Best Product Person of 2011: Chris Sarette of Invisible Children and Mend
Featured Product: BridesView: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from branding to understanding the market with product people Alex Toplier and Danny Maloney
Managing with Limited Resources: from expanding the pool to driving customer priorities
Featured Product: CityMaps: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from evolving the business model to going mobile with BridesView product person Aaron Rudenstine
Managing with Market Focused Product Management: from emotional connections to problem solving
Featured Product: CNN Money: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from reliability to product-as-content with product person Jeffrey Frese
Brand Management: from consistency to reputation
Featured Product: Everyday Health: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from mobile strategies to pay models with product person Deepesh Banerji
Value Creation: from discovery to measurement
Featured Product: Meetup.com: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from working task forces to optimizing activity with product person Andres Glusman
Expanding Innovation: from empowering to enacting
Featured Product: Ben Franklin: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from unique twists to taking action with product person Jack Sherry
Personas: from personifying the consumer to data driven validation
Featured Product: Voltaic Systems: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from fashion to power with product person Jeff Crystal
Incite-ful Customers: from the duality of passion to growing the advocates
Featured Product: Onepager: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from fashion to power with product person Matt Moore
Scrum v Kanban: from form to function
Featured Product: Sprint: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from Broadband2Go to Rate Cards with product person Ty Abonil
Sales and You: from relating to inclusion
Featured Product: Liz Chan Christmas: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from diversification to focus with product person Elizabeth Chan
Customer Acquisition Strategies: from incentives to community
Featured Product: Weight Watchers: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from lifestyle to the institutionalization of measuring with product person Jared Raskin
Product Management Know How: from networking to why-ing
Featured Product: Advisoray: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from service models to promotional messaging with product person Jacqueline Thong
Millennials: from understanding to catering
Featured Product: Vitogo: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from communication and motivation to subscriptions with product person Arel English
Leveraging Disagreement: from numbers to environments
Featured Product: It’s My Bag: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from production to positioning with product person Tonia Torrellas
Ideas & Pre-Build: from new idea pitfalls to decision planning, with guest expert Beth Temple
Featured Product: Bizzabo: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from focus to the motivated experience with product person Alon Alroy
Customer Development Strategies: from the right questions to training the masses
Featured Product: SPUN: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from Apple to the “inner scoop” with product person Scott Lindenbaum
Roadmapping: from keepin’ it fresh to stretch goals
Featured Product: WellcomeMat: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from differentiation to the 2-sided marketplace with product person Phil Thomas Di Giulio
To Launch: from timing to climate
Featured Product: Case Commons: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from agile to growth with product person Patrick Colgan
Risk Management: from identifying to quantifying
Featured Product: Shutterstock: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from marketplaces to empowerment with product person Wyatt Jenkins
Communication & Transparency: from co-working to color coding
Featured Product: MPP: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from APIs to competion with product people Meghan Wright and Scott O’Neil
Product Management Positioning (and the Future): from testing to working together
Featured Product: Moven: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from financial wellness to distribution strategy with product manager Mohamed Khalil
New Skills. New Year: from engaging customers more to being more lean
Featured Product: Moven: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from being the official sport of startups to find the right partners with product manager Marco Santini
The Best Product Person of 2013: Adrian Jank: launched in 2010, this annual award recognizes excellence in Product Management
Featured Product: VenueBook: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from search to not giving it away with product person Kelsey Recht
Innovation: from structuring to measuring
Featured Product: Validately: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from lean to name changes with product person Steven Cohn
Market Research and Competitive Analysis: from value validation to posing as a customer
Featured Product: Vidaao: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from driving referrals to homepage design with product person Justin Park
What’s Next: from vision to confirmation
Featured Product: Reliant: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from rebranding to Redbox with product person Richard Newman
Customer Retention: from subscription models to communication strategies
Featured Product Person: Matthew Smith of Offset.com: exploring the product management, processes, and more with 2013’s runner-up to The Best Product Person
Minimizing Cost: from switching to opportunity
Featured Product: Vintage: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from activation to rebranding with product person Andy Kennedy
Execution: from lean ux to onboarding
Featured Product: Guesterly: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from the importance of every cutomer to beyond the wedding with product person Rachel Hofstetter
Delightfulness: from humanizing to the smiley
Featured Product: Ziggeo: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from the API pricing models to moderation with product person Susan Danziger
Activation / Customer Engagement: from purchase funnels to scoring
Featured Product: VitalsChoice: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from managing deal flow to moving forward with product person Jessica Fredican
Quality: from creating to measuring
Featured Product: Hot Girls Pearls: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from business models to physics with product person Constance Sherman
Product Management Mistakes: from the invisible to Windows 8
Featured Product: Pinks & Greens: exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from full phone service to customer segmentation with product person Allison Dorst
…and more…
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Enjoy & See You Soon!
Jeremy Horn
The Product Guy
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