GConferenceGridThe Conference Catalogue · Vol. 2026Folio № 8B6ADF
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Mind the Product Chicago 2026

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ind the Product Chicago 2026 is a high-impact, one-day conference for product professionals, formerly known as INDUSTRY and hosted in a new city and format. The event brings together builders, leaders, and product people to share cutting-edge insights, foster meaningful conversations, and develop practical tools for building the future of product. Attendees…

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5Voices
0Underwriters
0Exhibitors
30On the bill · sessions
2Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at Mind, in alphabetical order.
April Dunford
Author of the best-selling books Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch
Brianne Kimmel
Founder · Worklife
Eric Simons
CEO and Co-Founder
Kathy Pham
Vice President of AI at Workday · Workday
Martin Eriksson
Author of Decision Stack
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The Programme

Selected from 30 sessions on the bill.
  • 09:00–17:00

    Building AI Experiences in Your Product

    Learn practical tools and frameworks to confidently scope, design, and iterate on AI features to improve experiences and create business value.

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00

    From Burnout to Breakthrough - Resilience and Stakeholder Relationships

    Learn how to build stakeholder relationships grounded in trust and mutual respect, while maintaining your own capacity to recover and adapt when pressure is high.

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00

    How Product Creates Value: A Financial Lens

    A hands-on workshop that builds commercial fluency by connecting product decisions, roadmaps, and KPIs to real financial outcomes.

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00

    Metrics for Product Managers

    Gain confidence that you're measuring the right things and making data-backed decisions. Go back to work armed with the toolkit you need to develop a clear metrics plan for your pr…

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00

    Modern Product Strategy & Discovery for the AI-Native Era

    Learn concrete techniques for AI-accelerated discovery, including strategy-reframing workflows, rapid research and synthesis methods, and a practical prompt library to turn weeks o…

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00

    Practical AI for Product Managers

    A hands-on workshop designed to help product managers integrate generative AI to transform their daily workflow.

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00

    Product Delight

    Gain the practical tools and strategic understanding necessary to move beyond functional excellence and systematically craft truly lovable products.

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00

    Product Management Foundations

    Learn to apply core product management frameworks and experimentation to deliver customer and business value.

    Workshop
  • 09:25–09:50

    The era of the product creator

    In this keynote, Christian Idiodi argues that the defining competency of the next decade is product creation. This is not a talk about tools. It is a call to return product to its …

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 2 companies, parsed from the program.

Two companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
2Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

60% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite120%
  • Founder / Owner120%
  • VP-level120%
  • Other roles240%

Of 5 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Workday1V
  2. 02Worklife1V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this convocation.