What I Learned at ProductCamp (and why I went)

Shawn is a learning junkie…and what’s not to love about a free conference that emphasizes information sharing and collaboration? See what Shawn says about her ProductCamp Toronto experience!

4th ProductCamp Toronto Another Successful Event!

The 4th ProductCamp Toronto was held on Saturday with a full house on hand to network, learn and have some fun! A REALLY BIG thanks to all our sponsors and to all the fantastic volunteers who helped plan, setup, photograph, speak, facilitate and cleanup as well as all the attendees for helping make the day a success.

Watch this site for links to the presentation slides, photos and other content related to the event.

ProductCamp Toronto 2011 has started!

ProductCamp Toronto 2011 is underway with a great crowd up early on a beautiful day. We have setup Ideavibes – the Crowdsourcing platform for you to comment and vote on sessions today. Follow, comment and vote on sessions with

Proposed Session Topics Are Now Posted

Tracks have now been set up based on the session topics proposed and voted on by pre-registrants. You can still propose a topic and/or vote here. The final agenda will be posted at the beginning of the event on Saturday morning with an Open Grid for scheduling and last minute changes. We still need a few volunteer presenters/facilitators for some of the session topics.

Share your idea in 5 minutes at ProductCamp Toronto

At the last ProductCamp Toronto we introduced the “5 minute” talk to give more people the opportunity to speak and share their knowledge with others. They were a great success so we’re going to do it again! If you want to share your knowledge, but want a shorter format than the full sessions, then here’s your chance to present.

Ideavibes Crowdsourcing Platform Sponsors ProductCamp Toronto 2011

Ideavibes™ has joined the sponsor team for this year’s ProductCamp Toronto and will be providing their popular Crowd Engagement Platform™ for participants during the event.

Ideavibes founded the crowdfunding initiative Fundchange with TELUS in February 2011 and has been helping organizations create crowdsourcing and crowdfunding campaigns that use the power of social media to strengthen relationships through engagement and participation.

Ideavibes will be publishing a new whitepaper, “Crowdsourcing for Product Managers: Bringing the Social into the Product Development Process” following ProductCamp Toronto. Sign up here to receive your copy.

Blueprint Software’s John Stetic to Kickoff ProductCamp Toronto 2011

Blueprint Software Systems has joined the team of sponsors for ProductCamp Toronto 2011 and will have its SVP Product Management, John Stetic, kick off the day with a keynote on Building Products for Product Managers. John will talk about the interesting challenges in building products for product managers and just how many different kinds of product managers there are.

Blueprint is a Toronto-based ISV that sells to IT and business teams in the Fortune 2000. Its comprehensive requirements management tool helps companies define and manage software requirements to drastically improve software quality and accelerate project delivery.

Find out more about John’s background.

Pragmatic Marketing Joins as Platinum Sponsor – again!

A big thank you (again) to Pragmatic Marketing for their ongoing support for ProductCamp Toronto. We’ve had 4 ProductCamps here in Toronto and Pragmatic has sponsored all of them…and this year again as a Platinum sponsor. We really appreciate this level of ongoing support.

We welcome other sponsors who support our goal of helping educate and connect product management, marketing and development professionals in the Greater Toronto Area.

If you would like to be a sponsor, you can find more details on our sponsor’s page, or you can contact us directly. (productcamptoronto@gmail.com)

Announcing Product Camp Toronto 2011

The date has been set for Product Camp Toronto 2011! Join us on Saturday July 23^th at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University for some great discussions on Product Development, Product Management, Product Marketing, Innovation, Startups and other related topics.

ProductCamp Toronto is a collaborative, user-organized, unconference focused on education, networking and open discussion around product management and related topics.

There is no cost to attend ProductCamp Toronto, but your participation is required to make this a great event. We will be looking to you to lead a session or actively participate in the session discussions. We’ve set up a Google Moderator site so you can suggest and vote on sessions.

Please register for ProductCamp Spring 2011 here.

A big thank you to the IT Management Student Association (ITMSA) at Ryerson for hosting us again this year!

ProductCamp Toronto 2010 Keynote – Stephen Pollack

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Here’s the slide deck for the keynote talk that Stephen Pollack gave at ProductCamp Toronto.

View more presentations from ProductCamp Toronto.