Product Manager SmackDown!What do you get when you put together Four Teams of Product Managers, Three Esteemed Judges, One Mystery Product, and a Very Noisy Crowd? No, it’s not the Twelve Days of Christmas. It’s a knock-down, drag-out, no-holds-barred Product Manager SmackDown! In This Corner....Four Teams of Product Managers who think they’re very smart, very hip, very confident, but very unsure of what’s coming next. Let’s Get Ready To Rumble…A mystery product, a dozen minutes to plan, then five ultra-short minutes to be creative and deliver their best “product pitch” to the waiting judges. Product, Price, Place, Promotion...plus Prayer and a few Pitchers. Pump Up The Volume…the crowd goes crazy, cheers & jeers, laughs & laments, who will be the Champion? Down For The Count…Off-the-wall commentary, tough questions, who will score a lowly 1, who will score the ultimate 10 - the all-star judges are ready to cast the unworthy out of Eden. Three Teams will fall by the wayside, unable to cut the mustard, failing to make the grade. Undisputed Champion...Gold Medal, Slammy Award, Brass Ring, Bragging Rights (or something equally interesting and valuable). The victorious team will be crowned, the mob will cheer, bows will be taken, and more Pitchers for all. A night to remember. Esteemed JudgesPaul YoungPaul is a product management professional with over a decade of experience in hardware, software, and services product management and marketing. Currently, he runs product management and business development for Dell's SaaS products. He has also held a variety of product management and marketing roles in technology startups and Fortune 50 companies such as NetStreams and Cisco Systems. Paul is the founder of ProductCamp Austin, attracting hundreds of product management and marketing professionals from the Central Texas area. He has helped the leaders of over a dozen other ProductCamps around the U.S. launch over the last year. You can read his blog at productbeautiful.com. Olivier Thierry, CMO, ZenoosOlivier Thierry “OT” has over thirty years of experience in several areas of computer technology and software systems. He has direct experience in developing, implementing, selling and marketing high-end software solutions, both domestically and internationally. Prior to Zenoos, he has held numerous executive positions with leading vendors including most recently as CEO of FiveRuns. Other positions held by Olivier include: Sr. VP of Marketing with NetIQ/Mission Critical Software, VP of Marketing with Antares Alliance Group (JV EDS-Amdahl), Director of Product Management with Boole & Babbage and Senior Manager with KPMG Peat Marwick.. Throughout his career he has been called upon to be the key spokesperson in technical, executive and internal forums. Olivier received his Bachelor of Commerce degree with a joint major in both Marketing and Computers and Systems from McGill University (cum laude) in 1977.
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