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PAST WEBCASTS:
Lean for Product Development and Portfolio Management
When: Thursday, February 11th 10 am PT / 1 pm ET Featuring: Sonja Kresojevic, SVP, Global Product Lifecycle, Pearson
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Sonja is an award winning senior executive with extensive global experience in the online media and publishing industries both with startups and corporates. She’ll chat with Aubrey Smith, a faculty member with Lean Startup Co., and answer questions about implementing Lean for product development and portfolio investment management.
Building Products That Customers Love
When: Thursday, October 29th 11 am PT / 2 pm ET Featuring: Tom Nguyen, Principal at Adobe
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Ahead of his talk at The Lean Startup Conference, Tom Nguyen chats with us about the lessons he learned introducing Lean Startup to create one of Adobe’s most successful mobile apps, Adobe Voice. It was also named by Apple as one of the best apps of the year. We’ll chat with Tom about how empathetic design, radical simplicity, and iteration will help you build products that bring people joy.
Lean Startup and the Modernization of Dun & Bradstreet
When: Thursday, October 15th 11 am PT / 2 pm ET Featuring: Rishi Dave
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In this webcast, we’ll chat with Dun & Bradstreet CMO Rishi Dave about how he’s modernized the 173-year old brand by redefining customer development, internally and externally.
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Rishi is Chief Marketing Officer at Dun & Bradstreet. Rishi joined Dun & Bradstreet in February 2014 from Dell where he was Executive Director of Digital Marketing. In that role, Rishi had global responsibility for implementing marketing, lead generation, media, and content strategies for Dell.com, social media, communities, and mobile. He also managed the digital support of Dell’s events. Prior, Rishi led Dell’s global web analytics strategy and worked on Dell’s CEO level strategy as part of Dell’s Corporate Strategy group.
Rishi has spent his career in the technology industry with marketing, business development, and consulting roles at Rivio, Inc., Trilogy Software, eBay and Bain & Company. Rishi holds degrees in Chemical Engineering and Economics with Honors from Stanford University and an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
How to Build Products Customers Love
When: Thursday, September 24th 11 am PT / 2 pm ET Featuring: Dan Olsen
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In this webcast, we’ll chat with Dan Olsen, author of The Lean Product Playbook. Dan’s book is “the missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup” – a practical guide to building products that customers love. Dan will provide some practical tips from his experiences working with founders and CEO’s to build products and teams, and give us a preview of the workshop he’ll be leading at The Lean Startup Conference.
Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, this webcast will provide guidance on how to apply the Lean Startup principles to develop winning products.
Turbocharge Your Path Towards Product/Market Fit
When: Thursday, September 10th 11 am PT / 2 pm ETFeaturing: Amy Jo Kim
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It’s easier than ever to create a new, innovative product, game, app or service. But most innovative projects never take off and reach their intended audience. What differentiates the ones that DO? What do teams who create genre-defining hits do differently? In this webcast, Amy Jo Kim, social game designer, entrepreneur, and startup coach gives us a peek into what she’ll be talking about at The Lean Startup Conference. Based on her successful coaching program, she’ll discuss design hacks that can help you find and delight your aspirational audience.
In this webcast you’ll learn:
How to inject early product design with game design smarts
What differentiates genre-defining products
Design hacks that will delight your prospects
Get Buy-In to Drive Change: Bringing Lean Startup to Enterprise
When: August 27, 11 am PT / 2 pm ET Featuring: Cindy Alvarez (Microsoft leader and long-time startup veteran), with Kirsten Cluthe (Lean Startup Co.) as moderator
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Big companies aren’t like startups — they’re like dozens of small companies, each with existing products, customer relationships, and established processes. But that doesn’t mean Lean change can’t happen. Lean Startup advisor, speaker, and mentor Cindy Alvarez will talk about what has (and hasn’t) worked to drive change within big enterprises. As a current Microsoft leader (and a long-time startup veteran), Cindy knows the right balance of skunkworks and reassurance to foster experiment-driven cultures. In this webcast you’ll learn:
• Getting people to think problem first, not solution
• What NOT to say when you’re pushing for change
• Scrappy ways to settle product (and culture) debates without HiPPO input
Measuring Lessons in Dollars: A Finance-Approved Approach to Innovation Accounting
When: July 23rd, 11 am PT / 2 pm ET Featuring: David Binetti with Kirsten Cluthe (The Lean Startup Conference) as moderator
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Nothing strikes fear in the heart of an entrepreneur like the simple question, “What’s the ROI?” You have to answer or you won’t get funded. Answering using traditional approaches forces you to fabricate revenue assumptions that have no basis in reality — and you’ll be held accountable. It’s a no-win scenario that kills innovation.
Lean Startup mentor and speaker David Binetti will focus on this specific issue at the Lean Startup Conference in November. In this webcast we’ preview his talk with a one-on-one discussion and learn how to get Product and Finance teams speaking the same language while achieving their individual objectives.
Lean UX for Growth
When: July 9th, 11 am PT / 2 pm ET Featuring: Laura Klein (Users Know) and moderated by Kirsten Cluthe (Lean Startup Co.) Who it’s for: Enterprise companies, Non-profit, Government, both Young & Established Startups
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Growing users, or customers, no longer belongs to marketing. It’s now an emerging practice, and a skill set that everyone on a product team should understand.
Lean Startup advisor and speaker Laura Klein joins us to discuss how to design for product growth, and create a user experience that converts visitors into users. She’ll discuss three drivers of growth mentioned in The Lean Startup, and how they affect product and design strategies. Whether you’re a product manager, designer, engineer, or marketing executive, this webcast will help you understand where your users come from, how they find your products, and how to encourage more of them to visit.
Speed as a Competitive Advantage
When: June 19th, 10 am PT / 1 pm ET Featuring: Mark Little (GE Global Research) and Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) Who It’s For: Enterprise companies, Non-profit, Government, both Young & Established Startups
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Join Mark Little, head of GE Global Research, and Lean Startup’s Eric Ries as they discuss GE FastWorks, an initiative at one of the world’s largest companies inspired by the Lean Startup method. Mark and Eric will discuss the challenges faced as they implemented the program, which launched innovative businesses like GE Fuel Cells.
Mark and Eric will cover:
Strategies to convince your finance team the importance of focusing on speed to market vs cost
How to bypass legal issues that can delay progress
Specific ways to deploy Lean Startup to the rest of the organization
Much more
From Lean Government to Lean Healthcare: Broader Applications of Lean Startup
When: June 4, 11am PT Featuring: Aneesh Chopra (Nav Health) and Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) Who It’s For: Enterprise companies, Non-profit, Government, both Young & Established Startups
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Join Aneesh Chopra and Eric Ries on June 4th as they discuss how to apply Lean Startup principles beyond technology and business.
As companies are increasingly pushed to do more with less, adopting methods that shorten the path to innovation and allow quick iteration is critical. Lean Startup is a method designed to increase experimentation, alleviate uncertainty, and minimize risk in organizations large, small, new, and established.
In our first webcast to kick off 2015, Eric Ries and Aneesh Chopra, the former CTO for the United States, will discuss how Lean Startup is being used in government organizations and healthcare companies to reform their services, and improve how they do business.
Aneesh is a past speaker and Lean Startup Conference faculty member, and this webcast will be a great way to get a taste of the caliber of learning and content available at the 2015 Lean Startup Conference, coming up in November.
Whether you’re starting a new business, are an innovator working inside a larger organization, or are leading change for a non-profit, you’ll take away key lessons from this discussion on how to apply Lean Startup principles in an entirely new way.
Sustain Innovation by Training In-house Mentors
When: November 25, 10a PT Featuring:Brant Cooper and Carie Davis Who It’s For: Enterprise
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Lean Startup is proving to be an effective innovation management practice–but mastering it requires fresh leadership. Transforming your organization into one that continuously innovates requires leaders who can create change. They must possess the ability to influence internal systems and to affect the culture of your organization. These leaders play a specific role: they are mentors.
Mentorship is not the same as management and does not come easy to most. But effective mentoring is critical to the success of internal innovation programs. The good news: your organization already has these future mentors in its midst. The trick: identifying them, nurturing them and empowering them to make a difference for others.
In this webcast, Carie Davis, Global Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Coca Cola, and Brant Cooper, founder of Moves The Needle and author of The Lean Entrepreneur, discuss the challenges of developing new leadership skills to support transformation within your organization. Join us to learn why the future of innovation leadership is mentorship!
An Introduction to Lean Impact
When: Oct 28, 10a PT Featuring:Leanne Pittsford and Sarah Milstein Who It’s For: Non-profit, government and education leaders
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We’ll look at how mission-driven organizations can apply Lean Startup to more effectively meet their goals. In describing the key ideas, we’ll show real-world examples and tackle the tough question of working with funders and other stakeholders when your organization changes the way it measures progress. You’ll come away with a sense of why and how to use Lean Startup techniques for social good.
What Should You Really Measure?
When: Oct 2, 10a PT Featuring:Alistair Croll, Eric Ries and Danielle Morrill Who It’s For: Standalone startups; corporate innovators; non-profit, government and education leaders
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When you’re developing a new product, or if you work in a mission-driven organization, measuring profit isn’t usually an appropriate way to gauge success. Instead, you need innovation accounting or learning milestones to figure out whether your product is gaining traction. But what should you actually measure? In this advanced discussion, we’ll debate the idea that there’s just one metric that matters for any given kind of product. You’ll come away with fresh ways to approach measurement
Lean Startup 101
When: September 25, 10a PT Featuring:Janice Fraser and Sarah Milstein Who It’s For: Standalone startups; corporate innovators; non-profit, government, and education leaders
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We’ll explain the important concepts of Lean Startup, demystify the jargon and supply examples to help you understand what Lean Startup is good for and when you can use it. You’ll come away with an understanding of the method and what frequently-used terms like MVP, pivot and innovation accounting are really about.
Where Cloud Infrastructure Meets Lean Startup, sponsored by Rackspace
Speakers:Eric Ries and Wayne Walls
Date: January 17, 2014, 11:00 am – 11:45 am PST
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Join Eric Ries and Wayne Walls for a conversation about using cloud infrastructure to support Lean Startup practices. This discussion will help developers and executives learn how to turn cloud technologies into tangible returns with rapid experiments and other proven Lean Startup methods. Come with your questions, as the webcast includes live Q&A with attendees.
Applying Lean Startup to Enterprise Product Development Practices, sponsored by Modus Create
Join Eric Ries and Pat Sheridan for a conversation about how Lean Startup methodologies combine with Agile principles to get innovation off the whiteboard and into your product portfolio. This webcast addresses management issues, identities best practices for team structure and collaboration, and goes through real-world lessons. Come with your questions, as the webcast includes live Q&A with attendees.
Slow product cycles, massive bureaucracy, customers with conflicting interests–those are just a few of the challenges facing leaders in the education sector. And none of those conditions would seem to support Lean Startup principles. But sectors with the most entrenched systems often need innovation the most, and we’re impressed with the work Steven Hodas and Diane Tavenner have done to apply Lean Startup methods in New York and California schools, respectively. Join us for a webcast conversation about what’s worked and what hasn’t. Their conversation will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
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Putting the “Lean” in Lean Startup
Speakers: Eric Ries and John Shook Date: November 18, 2013, 10:00am – 10:40am PST
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Although people sometimes think the “lean” part of Lean Startup refers to bootstrapping a company, it actually refers to the lean production systems pioneered decades ago by Toyota. John Shook, CEO of the Lean Enterprise Institute–the MIT spinoff that resulted from the research that coined the term “lean”–will join Eric for a conversation on the origins of the idea, how it relates to Lean Startup practices today and how understanding the connection can make your company’s approach much more profitable. More than just a theoretical discussion, this webcast will include deep insights for advanced entrepreneurs. John and Eric’s conversation will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
Speakers: Eric Riesand Kent Beck Date: November 14, 2013, 1:00pm – 2:00pm PST
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Few people have as much insight as Kent Beck–a creator of Agile software development–into how product teams work, and how they can work better. In this webcast conversation, Kent and Eric Ries will talk about change: how to make your work more valuable as a product team leader or team member, and what succeeds and fails in getting people to adopt new ideas. This session is most directly relevant for engineering teams but will also have useful ideas for any product group. Kent and Eric’s conversation will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
Lean Impact: Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-driven Organizations
Lean Startup ideas are being applied more and more often in non-profits, B-corps and other mission-driven organizations. As the ideas have spread in this world, they’ve come to be known as Lean Impact, and best practices are emerging. In this webcast, Christie George of New Media Ventures and Akash Trivedi of Kiva.org will discuss key Lean Impact approaches. Their conversation will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
A key concept in Lean Startup is the Build-Measure-Learn loop. But what if you don’t know what to measure? All companies face challenges in determining useful metrics, but non-tech companies often have fewer benchmarks than their tech counterparts. In this free webcast, analytics experts Alistair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz will discuss practical approaches to the this problem. Their conversation will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
Lean Startup methods are obviously applicable among young companies and teams that are looking to reduce uncertainty for new products. Once you’ve hit product-market fit, though, it’s tempting to shift out of the learning mode and focus fully on execution. But that invites a boom-and-bust cycle and prevents maturing organizations from finding steady sources of growth. In this webcast for advanced entrepreneurs, Eric Ries will talk with Palantir’s Ari Gesher and Shutterstock’s Wyatt Jenkins about the challenges of scaling a learning organization. Their discussion will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
Lean Startup techniques aren’t just for young companies. In fact, they’ve been profitably applied in established companies like Intuit, GE, and Toyota. But there are particular challenges in bringing Lean Startup to enterprise corporations, and they aren’t always obvious. In this webcast, Eric Ries, Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits – all of whom have worked closely with Fortune 500 companies – will discuss some of the most common mistakes and paths to success that established firms can take in implementing Lean Startup methods. Their conversation will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
Beyond Silicon Valley: Applying Lean Startup Around the Globe
Entrepreneurs outside Silicon Valley – including those in other countries – face unique challenges in successfully applying Lean Startup techniques to their businesses. To help you address those challenges, international Lean Startup experts Kevin Dewalt, Takashi Tsutsumi and Justin Wilcox will come together for a candid conversation. Their discussion will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
Brought to you by The Lean Startup Conference, this live webcast goes back to our roots with deep information for developers. Featuring a conversation about Lean Startup engineering with Eric Ries and Dan Milstein, one of our most popular speakers last year, the session also includes ample time for live Q&A with attendees.
