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Working Products 2025

2025 was great!

With over 110 participants and speakers, more than 20 sessions, and two intensive days on site, it was—as always—a celebration!
We are still completely thrilled: the atmosphere was approachable, open, and full of energy. With AI as the big topic, Working Products was even more intense than in previous years: a place of genuine connection and honest exchange.

It felt like the conversations had already started before the opening. The participants already knew each other from the remote workshops on Monday and Tuesday, so they immediately had familiar faces and points of connection.
The Goldbekhaus was once again the perfect location—outside by the canal, vegetarian catering from the Altona production school, and the perfect setting for trusting exchanges.
In 2025, it was clear once again: at Working Products, everyone probably talked to everyone else.

Program highlights

AI, attitude, and responsibility: The big questions in the product world

AI meets organization—with real consequences for collaboration and leadership

Once again, the range of topics covered was broad, spanning social responsibility, leadership culture, design ethics, accessibility, and inner work. However, AI was clearly the central theme.

Jan Rombolotto's presentation on AI as an explosive force in traditional organizational models in particular gave many people food for thought: What if our departments no longer fit the tasks at hand? What if we have to completely rethink our structures?

At the same time, there were sessions on practical tools, new forms of collaboration, team empowerment, mindful working, new decision-making processes – and the recurring question:
How do we keep people at the center?

Beate's conclusion

💬 Inner clarity and genuine connection—that's what you could feel

A space where there was also room for doubt, searching, and humanity

I was deeply impressed by how personal the conversations were. It wasn't just about better tools—it was about meaning, attitude, trust. Many came with the question: What can I do—as an individual, in a team, in this changing world?

The fact that topics such as accessibility and anti-racism moved so many people shows that there is a real need for guidance, for depth. And we are privileged to provide this space for that.

I was particularly moved by the feedback on "inner work" – how much people are searching for focus, for attitude, for genuine connection.
And yes, it's also nice that our plants are now growing in many gardens. The conference lives on. 🌱

Rolf's conclusion

Communication as we would like it to be—honest, open, lively

When it comes to AI, we need to learn from each other!

I don't think there has ever been such an intense discussion. Thanks to the remote workshops, many people were "in the loop" right from the start. There was no fear of contact, just genuine interest.

The number one topic was – of course – AI. But not in the sense of hype, but with real depth: How is my role changing? What will remain of my job? How will I work tomorrow?

The fact that we were also able to experience live how our donation goal for Ambulance for Kids was achieved was a real emotional highlight.

And the fact that the desire to take responsibility, shape things, and make things better was so clear in so many people really encouraged me.

Participant feedback

💡 "A space for reflection like this is simply beneficial."

"Small stage, big impression: personal, effective, inspiring."

A few comments that particularly resonated with us:

"Not a conference marathon, but a cleverly curated space for reflection." – Konrad Sörgel
"A real highlight: informal, approachable, honest – with genuine insights instead of glossy slides." – Dennis Kolberg
"I've been to many conferences – but rarely have I really talked to so many people." – Petra Perry
"Thank you for the space you create – for real conversations, critical questions, and quiet thoughts." – Nasanin Montazeri

And heard very often:
"Please keep going – this conference is different."

Outlook for 2026

🚀 More lead time, more connection—and a fixed date

See you on September 10 and 11, 2026—back at the Goldbekhaus

We're taking all of this with us—the positive, the critical, the inspiring.
And we have plans:

Earlier start of ticket sales
First pre-events in spring 2026
More community formats in the run-up
Even more space for reflection, responsibility, and genuine conversations

Pictures from Working Products 2025

Working Products 2025 lineup

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Category	Title	Speaker(s)	Year
Workshop	Inner Work for Product Impact – Think clearly, act responsibly	Beate Schulte Strathaus	WP 2025
Workshop	AI-powered product discovery: How AI is revolutionizing customer feedback analysis	Stefan Haas	WP 2025
Workshop	Creative freedom instead of prompt obedience	Andreas Ollmann	WP 2025
Workshop	Confidence Forum: Dealing with the climate crisis & what does this mean for product people?	Stefan Gertz Stefan Roock	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Empowering product teams is not a one-way street	Norman Merten	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Beyond Autopilot: Human-Led Product Leadership in the AI Age	Arne Kittler	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Product Management Ikigai – An opportunity for everyone to make the world a little better. Slidedeck (PDF)	Christian Fahl	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Generative AI for Product & Tech Teams – Build Smarter, Not Harder	Zamina Ahmad	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Exploring Shape Up in Practice Slidedeck (PDF)	Corinna Riederer	WP 2025
	Session planning		WP 2025
Workshop	Scrum Law Clinic	Patrick Zurheide	WP 2025
Offene Sessions	Sessions		WP 2025
Sessionergebnisse	Presentation of session results		WP 2025
Meditation	Mindfulness and Qigong	Beate Schulte Strathaus	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Keynote: AI in Product		WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Anti-Racist Design Practice Slidedeck (PDF)	Christoph Hassler	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	AI as a disruptive force for traditional organizational structures – why departments as we know them will disappear.	Jan Rombolotto	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Intelligent genug für die Zukunft? Unser Human-Embedded System neu beleuchtet Slidedeck (PDF)	Melanie Wohnert	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Space Camp: How AI coworking creates spaces for experimentation	Karla Schönicke	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	From idea to superhero – AI products for better rail travel	Simon Krackrügge	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Product people person - The path to finding your identity as a Product Team Lead	Piet Herbertz	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Panel discussion: AI in Product	Rolf Schulte Strathaus	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Why tickets create silos and prevent real collaboration - and how to do it better Slidedeck (PDF)	Klaus Breyer	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Building Impact-Driven Products Across Markets and Teams	Kris Lohmann Isabel Moning	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Barrierefreiheit: Vom Extra zur Selbstverständlichkeit	Noémie Sei	WP 2025
Talk / Q&A	Don't just build products – design categories. Why true innovation begins with the customer. Slidedeck (PDF)	Konrad Sörgel	WP 2025

All speakers at the Working Products Conference 2025

Amrei Schulze

responsible design lab

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Andreas Maring

PromptingBirds GmbH

AI Product Manager

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Andreas Ollmann

MINISTRY GmbH

New Worklife Evangelist and Inhaber Ministry Group and Gründer Hacker School

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Arne Kittler

freelancer

Director Mobile Product Management

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Beate Schulte Strathaus

Working Products Konferenz

Co-Founderin Working Products, Coach, Mediatorin

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Christian Fahl

Loql - B2B lokale Lebensmittel

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Christoph Hassler

H:DEI

Produktmanager, Designer für Diversity und Inclusion and lecturer for Design (Macromedia Hamburg

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Corinna Riederer

Haiilo

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Isabel Moning

Engel & Völkers Technology GmbH

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Jan Rombolotto

Vaillant GmbH (Vaillant Group)

Director Group Digital Strategy

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Karla Schönicke

karlawithakey UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

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Kira Tschierschke

responsible design lab

User Experience Konzeption

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Klaus Breyer

edding

Head of Product & Technology

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Konrad Sörgel

E-T-A Elektrotechnische Apparate GmbH

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Kris Lohmann

Engel & Völkers Technology GmbH

Director Global Digital Products

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Melanie Wohnert

MLI Mindlead Institut (Mindful Leadership Institut)

Mindfulness trainer

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Nasanin Montazeri

YOUNA | Ersthilfe bei Rassismus

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Noémie Sei

MaibornWolff GmbH

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Norman Merten

beyonnex.io

Head of Customer Success

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Patrick Zurheide

Taylor Wessing

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Piet Herbertz

LichtBlick SE

Lead Product Owner B2C

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Rolf Schulte Strathaus

Working Products Konferenz

COO

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Simon Krackrügge

DB InfraGO AG

Produktmanager,

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Stefan Gertz

Gertz Projektmanagement & Beratung

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Stefan Haas

PoDojo GmbH

Co-Founder

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Stefan Roock

it - agile GmbH

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Zamina Ahmad

Shades & Contrast

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Working Products 2024

2 days of sunshine, laughter and learning in Hamburg

This was the Working Products conference 2024

With over 14 participants and speakers, 19 presentations and 6 workshops, it was just like always:-)
We are still absolutely thrilled about the great atmosphere, the many people laughing and talking and the many compliments we received.
The date in June was brilliant. Two sunny days at 26°, just perfect. Everything took place outside. The remote workshops the day before made sure that nobody had to miss lectures or the open space because of a workshop.
The atmosphere in the Goldbekhaus was super nice as always. Catering from the Altona production school was great and everyone loved the decorations made from herbs and bee plants.
The special character of Working Products was once again perfectly reflected in 2024: an informal, intensive exchange of experiences between all participants. We are certain that everyone spoke to every other participant at some point in 2024.

The format

We have slightly adapted the format. We already offered the workshops on Wednesday as remote workshops. This made the conference a little more intensive on Thursday and Friday, as all participants were able to attend the presentations, discussions and OpenSpace sessions. At the OpenSpace, we also held two shorter session blocks instead of one long block. This gave everyone the opportunity to participate in two topics. We tried this out last year and it worked well.
But apart from that, it was always about providing as much space as possible for discussions and exchanges. The Speakers Corner was really well attended after every presentation and there was always intensive discussion right up to the last minute.

The talks

Once again this year, the 19 presentations were roughly divided into two sections: "Product and team culture" and "Product management: experiences, tools and methods". One focus this year was on the topic of "Customer Journeys". It was inspiring to talk about whether and how customer journeys can steer product development as a central element. Jens Scharnetzki's presentation was particularly instructive. The exchange and detailed questions in the Speakers Corner after each of the presentations was super detailed on the topic of "Customer Journeys".
As always at Working Products, there was a Speakers Corner after each presentation. Here, participants were able to talk shop with the speaker for another 30 minutes, ask questions and share their experiences. The Speakers Corner went down really well again. It was full at every presentation and we always had to end the discussion because the next presentation was about to start.

The workshops

On Wednesday we had 6 remote workshops on various topics. It was really good not to offer the workshops during the two conference days. We will keep this up. We will probably even offer the workshops remotely on several days during the week of the conference to make it easier to travel to the conference on Wednesday afternoon.

OpenSpace

On Thursday afternoon, we collected 16 topics for the OpenSpace sessions, ranging from the "classic: product owner vs. product manager" to A/B testing for international services. We were able to cover 8 topics each in two 45-minute session blocks. We introduced this back in 2023 and it has proven its worth.

Meditation/mindfulness

We started both days with meditation and mindfulness exercises in the morning. Plus movement exercises during the lunch break. Meditation and movement exercises were led by Beate Schulte Strathaus (Arbeitsfrische). Beate co-founded Working Products in 2006 and is a co-organizer of the conference.

Sustainability

Climate protection and sustainability are close to our hearts and we have tried to make the conference as sustainable as possible. This year, for example, the barbecue on Thursday evening was once again purely vegetarian.
On Friday morning, we also had a keynote speech by Christoph Hassler on "Omnicrisis: Understanding the urgency as an opportunity
".

Highlighs of the Working Products conference 2024

All talks and workshops of 2024

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Category	Title	Speaker(s)	Year
Offene Sessions	Sessions		WP 2024
Sessionergebnisse	Presentation of session results		WP 2024
Workshop	Agile Games Facilitation - How to achieve impact with games!	Anne Hoffmann	WP 2024
Talk / Q&A	From spark to conflagration - the story of the Viva con Agua wave	Benjamin Adrion	WP 2024
Talk / Q&A	METRO.digital as the software house of the METRO wholesale business, is on a journey from a classical IT provider towards a true product organization. However, product management by the books in a corporate B2B environment goes hand in hand with a lot of challenges in the ways of thinking and acting. In this session Christina will share with you the way how METRO.digital hacked the culture code through discovery and experimentation. Slidedeck (PDF)	Christina Lange Annette Greil	WP 2024
Talk / Q&A	Omnicrisis: Understanding the urgency as an opportunity Slidedeck (PDF)	Christoph Hassler	WP 2024
Talk / Q&A	OTTOs Portale Slidedeck (PDF)	David Behlich	WP 2024
Workshop	How intelligent is artificial intelligence? - A look behind the scenes of the hype	Franziska Herrmann	WP 2024
Workshop	Double Your Team's Productivity with a Better Use of Sprint Goals	Jan Hadrava	WP 2024
Vortrag	Beyond Products: The paradigm shift to Journey Owner	Jens Scharnetzki	WP 2024
Vortrag	Which time travel would you like to do? Slidedeck (PDF)	Lisa Schulz	WP 2024
Vortrag	The Product Organisation - Organisation as a Product Slidedeck (PDF)	Marcel Semmler	WP 2024
Vortrag	Navigating the AI Hype: Balancing FOMO with Business Value in Product Management	Marinela Qeraca	WP 2024
Workshop	The Inclusive Path - New dimensions for ethical design	Michelle Lubnau Stefanie Angele	WP 2024
Vortrag	Manage up: How to get better product leads	Petra Wille	WP 2024
Vortrag	Everybody's heard: Erfolgreiches OKR Alignment in der Matrixorganisation Slidedeck (PDF)	Piet Herbertz	WP 2024
Vortrag	JIRA hacks: How to create the perfect tool for product management Slidedeck (PDF)	Rabea Schildt	WP 2024
Workshop	Freeze or Flow! - How to use team conflicts as a catalyst for unstoppable growth.	Ruben Gotthardt	WP 2024
Vortrag	Beyond the comfort zone: Why product people should dare to do more Slidedeck (PDF)	Silke Kanes	WP 2024
Vortrag	One Size fits all. Slidedeck (PDF)	Stefan Brinkmann	WP 2024
Vortrag	From Talk to Action: 10 Strategies to Integrate Digital Sustainability Slidedeck (PDF)	Stefanie Kruse	WP 2024
Vortrag	Behavior beats productivity: A pep-talk to put more emphasis on the team culture and personal development. Slidedeck (PDF)	Sy Schmitz	WP 2024
Vortrag	Inclusive Leadership.. or the secret ingredient to level up your career	Tereza Iofciu	WP 2024
Vortrag	Customer journey maps in real life (a success story)	Thorsten Steinbach	WP 2024
Vortrag	Why it pays to develop products with a human-centered approach and learn from 160,000 opinions	Ulf Schubert	WP 2024
Vortrag	How to become a product-led organization with OKRs Slidedeck (PDF)	Victoria Sheer	WP 2024

All speakers 2024

Speakers will be announced soon.

Working Products 2023

2 days of sunshine, laughter and learning in Hamburg

Working Products 2023 - highlights

In summary

With over 120 participants and speakers, 19 presentations and 8 workshops, it was actually just like always :-)
We are still completely thrilled about the great atmosphere, the many laughing and talking people and the many compliments we got.
The change to June was definitely worth it. Two sunny days at 26°, just perfect. Everything took place outside, only for the lectures and workshops we went inside.
We were again in the Goldbekhaus in Hamburg and again with the catering of the Produktionsschule Altona and the decoration of herbs and bee plants.
The special character of Working Products again came through impeccably in 2023: Familiar, intensive exchange of experiences between all participants. We are sure: In 2023, too, everyone talked to every other participant at some point.

The format

We did not change anything in the format. There were two additional workshops and an Afro-Cuban drum circle on the first evening. At the OpenSpace we held two shorter session blocks instead of one long block. This gave everyone the opportunity to participate in two topics. We'll probably keep that up.
But otherwise, it was always about giving as much space as possible for conversation and exchange. The Speakers Corner was really well attended after each presentation and there was always intense discussion right up to the last minute.

The lectures

Once again this year, the 19 presentations were roughly divided into the two areas of "Product and Team Culture" and "Product Management: Experiences, Tools and Methods". One focus this year was on the topic of "product organization" in larger companies. It was exciting to learn how "product" is organized at Otto (presentation by David Behlich), Tchibo (presentation by Kathleen Theelke and Ulla Klaffs) and at CTS Eventim (presentation by Steffanie Kambach). Anyway, the exchange and detailed questions in the Speakers Corner after each of the presentations was super detailed.
Silke Kanes' plea to value the competencies of colleagues "not yet" working in an agile way was also enriching.
As always at Working Products, there was a Speakers Corner after each presentation. Here the participants could talk shop with the speaker for 30 minutes, ask questions and share experiences. The Speakers Corner was again very well received. Each presentation was packed and we always had to end the discussion because the next presentation was about to start.

The Workshops

Parallel to the lectures and the Openspace we had 8 workshops in the program.
All workshops were very practice-oriented. The range was wide: from Sustainable UX to contract design for agile projects.

OpenSpace

On Thursday afternoon, we collected 12 topics for the OpenSpace sessions, ranging from the "classic: product owner vs. product manager" to A/B testing in international services. We were able to cover 8 topics in two session blocks of 45 minutes. This was a change from previous years. The shorter blocks allowed participants to collaborate on two topics.

Meditation/Mindfulness

We started both days in the morning with meditation and mindfulness exercises. In addition, movement exercises during the lunch break. Meditations and movement exercises were led by Beate Schulte Strathaus (Working Products). Beate co-founded Working Products in 2006 and is a co-organizer of the conference.

Sustainability

Climate protection and sustainability are close to our hearts and we tried to make the conference as sustainable as possible. This year, for example, the barbecue on Thursday evening was again purely vegetarian.
On Friday morning we also had a keynote by Ole Langbehn and Martin Grotzke (inoio / Entrepreneurs for Future) about "sustainable business".

Highlighs of the Working Products conference 2022

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All talks and workshops of 2023

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Category	Title	Speaker(s)	Year
Workshop	Discover the potential of agile frameworks through analog tools	Maike Vocke Lukas Moessner	WP 2023
Vortrag	Bridging the Gap between Modeling and Business Impact in Product Development: Leveraging User-Centric Approaches Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Luiz Leitao Martins	WP 2023
Vortrag	What "job" does sustainability do? Aligning product strategy with customer needs. Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Eckhart Böhme	WP 2023
Vortrag	Culture eats everything for breakfast Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Thorsten Steinbach	WP 2023
Vortrag	Creating an Effective Product Strategy Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Roman Pichler	WP 2023
Workshop	Change of the contract setup as an essential companion to the change of the corporate culture	Patrick Zurheide	WP 2023
Vortrag	Building a team is like raising children Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Antonia Mancheva	WP 2023
Vortrag	Not another Product Ops Talk! Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Antonia Landi	WP 2023
Workshop	How to show competence and communicate effectively as a product manager/product owner	Oliver Winter Dominique Winter	WP 2023
Workshop	Mental Hacks: brain-friendly communication	Stefanie Grashoff	WP 2023
Offene Sessions	Sessions		WP 2023
Sessionergebnisse	Presentation of session results		WP 2023
Vortrag	About skills for sustainable business and the art of prioritization Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Ole Langbehn Martin Grotzke	WP 2023
Vortrag	Product changes. Why users reject them and what we can do about it Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Rainer Gibbert	WP 2023
Workshop	Using difficulties for self-improvement	Armin Torbecke	WP 2023
Vortrag	How to establish & protect a product bubble inside your company Video Slidedeck (PDF)	David Behlich	WP 2023
Vortrag	Agile Your Mind - Agile Change Starts in People Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Melanie Wohnert	WP 2023
Vortrag	Anyone who doesn't work agilely is stupid!? Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Silke Kanes	WP 2023
Workshop	Master Product Discovery in the B2B world	Stefan Schüßler	WP 2023
Vortrag	Agile teams and the challenge with cross-functional projects - can it work? Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Kathleen Theelke Ulla Klaffs	WP 2023
Vortrag	JTBD - (another) love Story. How we successfully managed to use Jobs to be Done both as a Northstar and for concrete product development. Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Manuela Risch Tamara Jeutner	WP 2023
Workshop	Cross Mindset - being able to use the best of both worlds	Carina Schmalenberg	WP 2023
Workshop	Mit Sustainable UX zu nachhaltigen digitalen Produkten	Thorsten Jonas	WP 2023
Vortrag	Be courageous, you are born to create! Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Hanane Bouzidi	WP 2023
Vortrag	Ways to scale - Why product owners alone are not enough Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Steffanie Kambach	WP 2023
Vortrag	Global brands in local markets. Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Angelina Dellara	WP 2023
Vortrag	Startups in the company - controlled irritations for more innovation! Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Christoph Hüning	WP 2023
Vortrag	How we efficiently and effectively combine cross-functional agile collaboration with regulatory issues and publications Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Anna Hummert Janosch Oltmanns	WP 2023
Vortrag	Afrishore - Building Development Teams in Sub-saharan Africa Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Marie Ohnesorge	WP 2023

All speakers 2023

Angelina Dellara

Delivery Hero SE

Head of Culinary Product

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Anna Hummert

ODAS IT GmbH

Head of Productmanagement DELOS

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Antonia Landi

productops

Product Operations Consultant & Coach

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Antonia Mancheva

CHECK24 Vergleichsportal GmbH

Head of Department Product Management

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Armin Torbecke

KonfliktTransformation

Trainer for mediation and non-violent communication, mediator

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Beate Schulte Strathaus

Working Products Konferenz

Co-Founderin Working Products, Coach, Mediatorin

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Carina Schmalenberg

Vaillant GmbH (Vaillant Group)

Agile Coach

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Christoph Hüning

NMA Venture Capital GmbH

Managing Partner

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David Behlich

Otto

Head of Product

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Dominique Winter

OBI Smart Technologies GmbH

Product Development Coach

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Eckhart Böhme

unipro solutions GmbH & Co. KG

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Hanane Bouzidi

Telekom MobilitySolutions

Head of Productmanagement Germany

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Janosch Oltmanns

ODAS IT GmbH

Head of Software Development

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Kathleen Theelke

Tchibo GmbH

Head of Productmanager

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Luiz Leitao Martins

Softgarden Gmbh

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Lukas Moessner

D-LABS GmbH

Consultant Process & Innovation

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Maike Vocke

D-LABS GmbH

Senior Consultant Process & Innovation

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Manuela Risch

manuelarisch.de

Product Researcher and Strategist

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Marie Ohnesorge

ojemba.com

Managing Director

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Martin Grotzke

INOIO GmbH

Architect, Coach, Still Managing Director

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Melanie Wohnert

MLI Mindlead Institut (Mindful Leadership Institut)

Mindfulness trainer

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Ole Langbehn

INOIO GmbH

Team player, advisor, still managing director

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Oliver Winter

Produktwerker

Agile Coach / Product Owner

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Patrick Zurheide

Taylor Wessing

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Rainer Gibbert

Star Finanz-Software Entwicklung und Vertriebs GmbH

Head of Private Customer Business

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Rolf Schulte Strathaus

Working Products Konferenz

COO

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Roman Pichler

Pichler Consulting

Product Management Expert Lean, Agile, Scrum

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Silke Kanes

silkekanes.com

Former Board member. Expert on agile leadership (silkekanes.com)

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Stefan Schüßler

Luccid

Product Coach and Consultant, Head of Product

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Stefanie Grashoff

Goodmood-Change

Head of Creation

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Steffanie Kambach

Sparkasse Südholstein

Head of Product eCommerce

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Tamara Jeutner

kununu

Senior Produktmanager

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Thorsten Jonas

Strategic UX Consultant and Coach

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Thorsten Steinbach

verivox.com

Interim Manager I Experienced Product Manager

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Ulla Klaffs

verivox.com

Senior Product Owner

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Working Products 2022

This year live again at the Goldbekhaus in Hamburg

In summary

With over 130 participants and speakers, 18 presentations and 6 workshops, we broke all Working Products records this year:-)
We are still quite euphoric about the good mood, the engagement and interactions of all participants and the great feedback we got.
Even though the weather luck let us down a bit for the first time this year, a lot still took place outside.
We were again in the Goldbekhaus in Hamburg and again with the catering of the production school Altona and the decoration of herbs and bee plants.
The special character of Working Products has worked live 2022 again extremely well: Familiar, intensive exchange of experiences between all participants. We are sure that in 2022, too, everyone talked to every other participant at some point.

The format

We went back to the old familiar format of 2 days. This year we held the OpenSpace only on Thursday afternoon and used the second day completely for presentations and workshops.

The lectures

This year, the 18 presentations were roughly divided into the two areas "Product and Team Culture" and "Product Management: Experiences, Tools and Methods". However, the focus was more on the culture topics. There, the interest of the participants was also very high. The presentations on conflict management, coaching attitude for product managers and empathy were definitely very well attended.
As always at Working Products, there was a Speakers Corner after each presentation. Here the participants could talk shop with the speaker for another 30 minutes, ask questions and share experiences. The Speakers Corner was again very well received. Every talk was full and we always had to end the discussion because the next talk was starting.

The workshops

Parallel to the lectures and the Openspace we had 6 workshops in the program. Participants could register in advance. There were so many registrations that we had to draw lots for the places. Especially for the workshop on Stakeholder Management the interest was huge.
The workshops covered the entire range of topics, from technical issues (product strategy, stakeholder management, customer value, event storming) to organizational/team issues (dragon dreaming, change through improv theater). In any case, the feedback from the workshop participants was very positive. Let's do it again next year :-)

OpenSpace

On Thursday afternoon we collected 7 topics for the OpenSpace sessions ranging from "Ethical products" to "Solutions for hybrid working environments". The participants worked in each session for 90 minutes and presented their results later in the afternoon. We got some good insights for each of the session topics. We publish those results in a (hopefully short) while. Stay tuned...

Meditation/Mindfulness

We started both days in the morning with meditation and mindfulness exercises. Plus movement exercises during the lunch break. Meditations and movement exercises were led by Beate Schulte Strathaus (Working Products). Beate co-founded Working Products in 2006 and is a co-organizer of the conference.

Sustainability

Climate protection and sustainability are close to our hearts and we tried to make the conference as sustainable as possible. This year, for example, the barbecue on Thursday evening was purely vegetarian.
On Friday morning, we also had a keynote by Ella Lagé from TheDive about the responsibility of product managers to promote the path to a renewable economy.

Highlighs of the Working Products conference 2022

All talks and workshops of 2022

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Year


Category	Title	Speaker(s)	Year
Sessionergebnisse	Presentation of session results		WP 2022
Offene Sessions	Sessions		WP 2022
Vortrag	We want agile innovative product development - but still know exactly when it's done and what you do all day. Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Claudia Johannes	WP 2022
Vortrag	Role change from PM to manager - What is in store for you, how do responsibilities and tasks change and do you even want that? Slidedeck (PDF)	Traian Kaiser	WP 2022
Vortrag	Arguing with each other instead of fighting against each other Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Silke Freitag	WP 2022
Vortrag	Failed to Success - A field report you won't find in any textbook Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Patrick Büch	WP 2022
Vortrag	How do we actually want to work? Slidedeck (PDF)	Christian Korff	WP 2022
Vortrag	From client individual solution provider to standard products - success depends on cultural change Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Katrin Klaetke	WP 2022
Workshop	Event Storming - Co-Design in Software Development or "The Art of Talking to Nerds" Slidedeck (PDF)	Franziska Herrmann Elena Hermann	WP 2022
Workshop	The art of good stakeholder management - an important skill for successful agile teams	Simone Karweina Jutta Hübener	WP 2022
Workshop	Customer value is crucial for business success - but how do you get the customer glasses into the digital product?	Benno Lœwenberg Claudia Friedrich	WP 2022
Workshop	Embracing change & uncertainty - Learning from Improvisational Theater	Birte Loeckel	WP 2022
Vortrag	Business Stories - effectively develop truly valuable products Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Wolf-Gideon Bleek	WP 2022
Vortrag	Building for everyone - expand your market with Product Inclusion Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Zamina Ahmad	WP 2022
Vortrag	Tracking Lean Experiments Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Thomas Gläser	WP 2022
Vortrag	Culture Matters - Successfully bringing the design system into the company Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Florian Gaefke	WP 2022
Vortrag	Domains are the new silos!? - Domain Driven Design in Practice Video Slidedeck (PDF)	David Liebefinke	WP 2022
Vortrag	The customer-empathic organization: much more than UX and a bit of product discovery Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Rolf Schulte Strathaus	WP 2022
Vortrag	Every team is different Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Holger Koschek Markus Trbojevic	WP 2022
Vortrag	Empathy - The underestimated superpower of product people Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Dominique Winter	WP 2022
Vortrag	Why didn't Lufthansa build zoom? Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Johannes Mainusch	WP 2022
Vortrag	Start working! Don't run after the specialist topics. Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Arne Hopf Tim Scheumann	WP 2022
Vortrag	Could Tribes, Squads, Guilds work in a German Enterprise? Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Patrick Dahlmann	WP 2022
Vortrag	Coaching attitude as a product owner: A key to more product focus in the team Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Oliver Winter	WP 2022
Workshop	Product strategy that uses dynamics to advantage	Johannes Schartau Franziska Knorr	WP 2022
Workshop	Make love, not war – braking the rules with dragon dreaming. Or: What the digital world can learn from the ecovillage. Slidedeck (PDF)	Ilona Koglin	WP 2022

All speakers 2022

Arne Hopf

Hermes Germany GmbH

Teamlead Application Development Web, Mobile, API

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Beate Schulte Strathaus

Working Products Konferenz

Co-Founderin Working Products, Coach, Mediatorin

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Benno Lœwenberg

Loewenberg Infodesign

Experience Strategy and Service Design

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Birte Loeckel

Birteloeckel

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Christian Korff

UX&I GmbH

Senior UX-Consultant

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Claudia Friedrich

Zweigrad GmbH & Co. KG

Geschäftsführerin Und Designerin

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Claudia Johannes

Rolf Schulz HR Consultants AG

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David Liebefinke

Relaxdays

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Dominique Winter

OBI Smart Technologies GmbH

Product Development Coach

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Elena Hermann

effective webwork

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

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Ella Lagé

The Dive GmbH

Team Lead Stellar Approach

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Florian Gaefke

immowelt Hamburg GmbH

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Franziska Herrmann

mindful-digital.de

Research Associate

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Franziska Knorr

Holisticon AG

Consultant / Agile Coach

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Holger Koschek

Freelance (Self employed)

Fortschrittliches Management Für Projekte

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Ilona Koglin

WHOOPEE CONNECTIONS

Freelance Journalist, Author, Blogger, Project Facilitator

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Johannes Mainusch

kommitment GmbH & Co. KG

Interim Chief Technology Officer

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Johannes Schartau

Holisticon AG

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Jutta Hübener

Margitpeters

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Katrin Klaetke

Riverty

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Markus Trbojevic

SIGNAL IDUNA Allgemeine AG

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Oliver Winter

Produktwerker

Agile Coach / Product Owner

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Patrick Büch

Atlassian

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Patrick Dahlmann

DKV MOBILITY SERVICES Group

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Rolf Schulte Strathaus

Working Products Konferenz

COO

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Silke Freitag

freelancer

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Simone Karweina

Freelance (Self employed)

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Thomas Gläser

XING Events GmbH

Director Product Experience

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Tim Scheumann

Implico Group

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Traian Kaiser

CTS EVENTIM Sports GmbH

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Wolf-Gideon Bleek

it - agile GmbH

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Zamina Ahmad

Shades & Contrast

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Working Products 2021

Corona-related again as an online event, spread over 4 days to avoid online overload. We have used the experience from 2020 to further improve technology and processes.

In summary

It was another great four days. By choosing Hopin as the conference platform, the exchange among the participants worked really well. The spontaneous Session of Publishing People was fun, because product managers from different publishing houses found each other at the conference.
The special character of Working Products worked well again in 2021 remote: Familiar, intensive exchange of experiences between all participants. We are sure that in 2021, too, everyone spoke with every other participant at some point.
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The format

We stuck with the 4 day split. However, we had 10 workshops in the early afternoon and so the 4 days were completely filled after all.
This year the conference was completely remote. No speakers on site with us.
Before each lecture block there were also meditation and movement exercises led by Beate Winter from Working Products. Beate co-founded Working Products in 2006 and is a co-organizer of the conference.

The lectures and workshops

Again this year, the presentations were roughly divided into the two tracks "Product and Team Culture" and "Product Management: Experiences, Tools and Methods". Since we only had one presentation track, each attendee was able to view each presentation.
We found Daniel Neuberger's talk to be very important. Daniel advocated that we all take our responsibility and be mindful of precious design and development capabilities. "Build the right/important products. Work where you have a real impact. Change jobs when you need to."
We recorded the talks and made them available on YouTube: talks WP 2021

Sustainability Roundtable

On Friday, there was another roundtable on "Developing Sustainable Digital Products". For more than two hours, Karel Golta (INDEED Innovation), Thorsten Jonas and Florian Grote (CODE University) moderated by Beate talked about what responsibility designers and product managers have to make digital products and services as sustainable as possible. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

All

Year


Category	Title	Speaker(s)	Year
Vortrag	Empowering People - True Product Innovation in Agile Teams	Volker Gersabeck	WP 2020
Vortrag	Four fists for one sprint target Slidedeck (PDF)	Jan Köster	WP 2020
Vortrag	Prioritize - how does that actually work? Slidedeck (PDF)	Lars Klingelhöfer	WP 2020
Vortrag	The limits of user-centeredness Slidedeck (PDF)	Christian Becker	WP 2020
Vortrag	With images, principles and assumptions for product organization Slidedeck (PDF)	Andree de Boer	WP 2020
Vortrag	Agility and Hierarchy - Strange Bedfellows Slidedeck (PDF)	Henriette Wienges	WP 2020
Vortrag	Tips for the right way to deal with difficult stakeholders Slidedeck (PDF)	Roman Pichler	WP 2020
Workshop	Are you already coaching or still consulting?	Sabine Reinecke	WP 2020
Workshop	User Research completely remote	Peer Langermann	WP 2020
Vortrag	The endless summer of transformation	Jens Scharnetzki	WP 2020
Vortrag	Alignment in product teams	Babak Hosseini	WP 2020
Workshop	Outcomes are more important than outputs Slidedeck (PDF)	Oliver Nachtrab	WP 2020
Workshop	Mindful agile	Beate Schulte Strathaus	WP 2020
Vortrag	Persona-driven product development Slidedeck (PDF)	Dominique Winter	WP 2020
Workshop	Basics with miro	Johanna von Stebut	WP 2020
Vortrag	Transforming Towards Product Slidedeck (PDF)	Alexander Schardt	WP 2020
Workshop	Ask Me Anything: Leadership im Produktmanagement	Roman Pichler	WP 2020
Vortrag	User experience and design for non-designers Slidedeck (PDF)	Irene Schick	WP 2020

The lineup for the first remote Working Products conference

Peer Langermann

eparo Gmbh

Senior UX Consultant

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Dominique Winter

OBI Smart Technologies GmbH

Product Development Coach

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Christian Becker

leanproductable GmbH

Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter

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Andree de Boer

qurix Technology GmbH

Finanzcoach

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Jan Köster

RTL Deutschland GmbH

Agile Coach

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Oliver Nachtrab

namasas GmbH

Chief Executive Officer and Owner

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Roman Pichler

Pichler Consulting

Product Management Expert Lean, Agile, Scrum

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Irene Schick

SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG

Senior User Experience Designer

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Sabine Reinecke

freelancer

Agile Coach, Trainerin für Agile Coaches, Unternehmensberaterin, Coach

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Johanna von Stebut

User Experience Consultant

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Babak Hosseini

freelancer

Director Product Management

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Jens Scharnetzki

Yellow Strom GmbH

Chief Product Owner

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Alexander Schardt

Holiday Pirates Group

Head of Product Development

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Volker Gersabeck

camunda services GmbH

Senior Product Manager

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Lars Klingelhöfer

HR Pioneers GmbH

Agile Coach, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Transformationsbegleiter

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Henriette Wienges

the-elephant-in-the-room.de

Agile Coach

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Beate Schulte Strathaus

Working Products Konferenz

Co-Founderin Working Products, Coach, Mediatorin

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Working Products 2020

A real Corona experiment. Spread over 4 days to prevent digital overload. The great surprise: We could keep up the very special, friendly and familiar atmosphere in the digital world. Ok, the great outdoor experience from the Goldbekhaus is just not there on a flat screen...

In summary

It was a great four days. The special character of Working Products also works remotely: familiar, intensive exchange of experiences between all participants. Presumably, in 2020 again, everyone talked to every other participant at some point.
Tweets about #wpkonf

The format

For the remote conference, we stretched the program over 4 days because we believe that NOBODY can watch talks on screen all day. Therefore, we offered the presentations in the morning and late afternoon on each of the four days. This way we could do without the parallel tracks and every participant had the chance to see all presentations live. During the day, there were also a number of workshops.
We had almost half of the speakers live in our office for the presentations. The others were "only" present via zoom. After each presentation, of course, the Speakers Corner. This worked almost better than live, because every audience member could hear and see everything and it was easier to discuss.

Before each lecture block there were also meditation and movement exercises led by Beate Winter from Working Products. Beate co-founded Working Products in 2006 and is a co-organizer of the conference.

The lectures and workshops

Again this year, the presentations were roughly divided into the two tracks "Product and Team Culture" and "Product Management: Experiences, Tools and Methods". Since we only had one lecture track, each participant was able to view each lecture.
Personally, I liked Christian Becker's talk, where Christian presented that user-centricity means taking care of the most important/profitable customers for the company and not fulfilling every user's every wish....
We recorded the presentations and made them available on YouTube: Presentations WP 2020

The social stuff

Since barbecue, music and being outside unfortunately didn't work this year, we did an online game night instead. I didn't think that could be so much fun.

All

Year


Category	Title	Speaker(s)	Year
Vortrag	Empowering People - True Product Innovation in Agile Teams	Volker Gersabeck	WP 2020
Vortrag	Four fists for one sprint target Slidedeck (PDF)	Jan Köster	WP 2020
Vortrag	Prioritize - how does that actually work? Slidedeck (PDF)	Lars Klingelhöfer	WP 2020
Vortrag	The limits of user-centeredness Slidedeck (PDF)	Christian Becker	WP 2020
Vortrag	With images, principles and assumptions for product organization Slidedeck (PDF)	Andree de Boer	WP 2020
Vortrag	Agility and Hierarchy - Strange Bedfellows Slidedeck (PDF)	Henriette Wienges	WP 2020
Vortrag	Tips for the right way to deal with difficult stakeholders Slidedeck (PDF)	Roman Pichler	WP 2020
Workshop	Are you already coaching or still consulting?	Sabine Reinecke	WP 2020
Workshop	User Research completely remote	Peer Langermann	WP 2020
Vortrag	The endless summer of transformation	Jens Scharnetzki	WP 2020
Vortrag	Alignment in product teams	Babak Hosseini	WP 2020
Workshop	Outcomes are more important than outputs Slidedeck (PDF)	Oliver Nachtrab	WP 2020
Workshop	Mindful agile	Beate Schulte Strathaus	WP 2020
Vortrag	Persona-driven product development Slidedeck (PDF)	Dominique Winter	WP 2020
Workshop	Basics with miro	Johanna von Stebut	WP 2020
Vortrag	Transforming Towards Product Slidedeck (PDF)	Alexander Schardt	WP 2020
Workshop	Ask Me Anything: Leadership im Produktmanagement	Roman Pichler	WP 2020
Vortrag	User experience and design for non-designers Slidedeck (PDF)	Irene Schick	WP 2020

The lineup for the first remote Working Products conference

Peer Langermann

eparo Gmbh

Senior UX Consultant

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Dominique Winter

OBI Smart Technologies GmbH

Product Development Coach

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Christian Becker

leanproductable GmbH

Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter

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Andree de Boer

qurix Technology GmbH

Finanzcoach

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Jan Köster

RTL Deutschland GmbH

Agile Coach

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Oliver Nachtrab

namasas GmbH

Chief Executive Officer and Owner

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Roman Pichler

Pichler Consulting

Product Management Expert Lean, Agile, Scrum

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Irene Schick

SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG

Senior User Experience Designer

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Sabine Reinecke

freelancer

Agile Coach, Trainerin für Agile Coaches, Unternehmensberaterin, Coach

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Johanna von Stebut

User Experience Consultant

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Babak Hosseini

freelancer

Director Product Management

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Jens Scharnetzki

Yellow Strom GmbH

Chief Product Owner

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Alexander Schardt

Holiday Pirates Group

Head of Product Development

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Volker Gersabeck

camunda services GmbH

Senior Product Manager

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Lars Klingelhöfer

HR Pioneers GmbH

Agile Coach, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Transformationsbegleiter

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Henriette Wienges

the-elephant-in-the-room.de

Agile Coach

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Beate Schulte Strathaus

Working Products Konferenz

Co-Founderin Working Products, Coach, Mediatorin

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Working Products 2019

Zwei Tage mit strahlendem Sonnenschein haben die Working Products 2019 zu einem Open-Air-Event gemacht. Nur die 12 Vorträge waren drinnen, alles andere fand im Freien statt. Dafür war das Goldbekhaus der perfekte Ort. Vor allem natürlich auch mit den Kanus und Bogenschießen.
Die Vorträge waren wieder sehr schön. Nach jedem Vortrag gab es noch intensive Diskussionen und Fragerunden mit den Speakern in der Speakers Corner.
Nachmittags wurde in den Sessions zu den verschiedensten Produktmanagement-Themen gemeinsam gearbeitet. Natürlich im Freien.

In diesem Jahr gab es zusätzlich noch 4 Workshops zu Produktmanagement und Achtsamkeit.
Aber das Wichtigste waren wieder die vielen Gespräche zwischen den Teilnehmern. Vermutlich hat wieder jeder irgendwann mal mit jedem anderen Teilnehmer gesprochen.
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Highlights Working Products 2019

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Year


Category	Title	Speaker(s)	Year
Workshop	Mindful in the team	Beate Schulte Strathaus	WP 2019
Vortrag	Achtsamkeit in der Mittagspause – Nur eine Mitarbeiterinitiative?	Anne Hoffmann	WP 2019
Vortrag	What if you are mistaken? Why products managers need to understand statistics OR: So what? And other useful questions for creating efficient financial models Slidedeck (PDF)	Anastasia Blazhenova	WP 2019
Workshop	Mindful in everyday work	Michael Merks	WP 2019
Vortrag	From manager to agile team member - dealing with the culture change Slidedeck (PDF)	Ronni Wildfang Matthias Blaß	WP 2019
Vortrag	User-centered product development - strategy and organization at Chefkoch Slidedeck (PDF)	Carsten Bokemeyer Jörg Nastelski	WP 2019
Vortrag	The path to value-based product development	Michael Palzer	WP 2019
Vortrag	What Does a Product Manager Do (And Not Do)? Slidedeck (PDF)	Jock Busuttil	WP 2019
Workshop	Product management in practice	Oliver Nachtrab	WP 2019
Vortrag	From business hypothesis to products with high customer value	Markus Hofmeier	WP 2019
Vortrag	The self-organization formula Slidedeck (PDF)	Kim Duggen	WP 2019
Vortrag	Our long and bumby road to AI (artificial Intelligence) Slidedeck (PDF)	Sebastian Tiesler	WP 2019
Workshop	Workshop: Meaningful Product Roadmapping	Jock Busuttil	WP 2019
Vortrag	Let go of the plan, but don't act without a plan Slidedeck (PDF)	Torsten Voller	WP 2019
Vortrag	Change as a normal state Slidedeck (PDF)	Stefanie Cortinovis	WP 2019
Vortrag	Complex? Of course! Slidedeck (PDF)	Sina Holzberger Falk Engelmann	WP 2019

Again a list of speakers to be proud of. Thanks that you made the Working Products 2019 possible

Anastasia Blazhenova

RichPeach

Chief Operating Officer

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Anne Hoffmann

Siemens Smart Infrastructure

Customer Success Manager Digital Airport

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Beate Schulte Strathaus

Working Products Konferenz

Co-Founderin Working Products, Coach, Mediatorin

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Carsten Bokemeyer

SmartRecruiters

Senior Product Manager

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Falk Engelmann

freelancer

Selbstständig

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Jock Busuttil

Product People Limited

Founding Director

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Jörg Nastelski

Generali Health Solutions GmbH

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Kim Duggen

Embarc Software Consulting GmbH

Organizational Development Coach, Consultant, Trainer, CBDO

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Markus Hofmeier

Agency Y

Principal UX and CX Consultant

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Matthias Blaß

Simpligi GmbH

product owner

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Michael Merks

Inszena New Consulting Group GmbH

Senior Management Consultant and Coach

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Michael Palzer

Hermes Germany GmbH

Head of Digital Channels Und Services

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Oliver Nachtrab

namasas GmbH

Chief Executive Officer and Owner

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Ronni Wildfang

Hanseatic Bank GmbH & Co KG

Solutions Developer Digital Services Line

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Sebastian Tiesler

Star Finanz-Software Entwicklung und Vertriebs GmbH

Head of Solution Engineering and Go to Market

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Sina Holzberger

OTTO Group Holding

Domain Lead

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Stefanie Cortinovis

MOIA GmbH

Human Resources Business Partnerin

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Torsten Voller

GLEICH ANDERS

Speaker, Moderator, Trainer, Schauspieler, Coach, Autor

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Working Products 2018

2 days of sun, being outside, exchange and good talks.
Two days of bright sunshine made Working Products 2018 an open-air event. Only the 12 presentations were indoors, everything else took place outdoors. For this, the Goldbekhaus was the perfect place. Especially of course with the canoes and stand-up paddling.
All lectures were of course great. After each presentation there were intensive discussions and Q&A sessions with the speakers in the Speakers Corner.
In the afternoon, we worked together in the sessions on various product management topics. Outdoors, of course.
But the most important thing was again the many conversations between the participants. Probably everyone talked to every other participant at some point.

All

Year


Category	Title	Speaker(s)	Year
Vortrag	Product Leadership Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Rainer Gibbert	WP 2018
Vortrag	Building Data Products with Agile Data Science Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Christoph Tempich	WP 2018
Vortrag	Survival of the Fittest Slidedeck (PDF)	Daniel Brenner Désirée Gold	WP 2018
Vortrag	How WE Work Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Bernadette Losert Andreas Rappold	WP 2018
Vortrag	Narrative in strategy and product development Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Florian Grote	WP 2018
Vortrag	The organization (culture) is and makes the product Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Anke Nehrenberg Matthias Blaß	WP 2018
Vortrag	Mind design before product design	Michael Merks	WP 2018
Vortrag	Product Culture Needs Time Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Marcel Semmler	WP 2018
Vortrag	Innovative product development in the Group	Oliver Wegner	WP 2018
Vortrag	A prototype as a babel fish Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Simon Krackrügge	WP 2018
Vortrag	Product Culture in a Growing Organisation Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Christina Schreck Lucia De Angelis	WP 2018
Vortrag	Wirkung statt Features Video Slidedeck (PDF)	Sonja Mewes	WP 2018

All speakers of the Working Products 2018 (first time at the Goldbekhaus)

Marcel Semmler

Bauer Media Group

Chief Product Officer

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Matthias Blaß

Simpligi GmbH

product owner

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Daniel Brenner

FNT GmbH

SAFe Programm Consultant , ScrumMaster

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Lucia De Angelis

New Work SE

Senior Product Manager

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Bernadette Losert

will haben GmbH & Co KG

Business Development Manager

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Michael Merks

Inszena New Consulting Group GmbH

Senior Management Consultant and Coach

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Sonja Mewes

Freelance (Self employed)

Consultant, Trainerin

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Andreas Rappold

will haben GmbH & Co KG

Agile Coach

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Christina Schreck

XING AG

Director Product

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Christoph Tempich

v. Rundstedt & Partner GmbH

Director Digital

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Oliver Wegner

Deichmann SE

Director Online Platform and Technology

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Anke Nehrenberg

kommitment GmbH & Co. KG

Refactor Your Organization

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Simon Krackrügge

DB InfraGO AG

Produktmanager,

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Rainer Gibbert

Star Finanz-Software Entwicklung und Vertriebs GmbH

Head of Private Customer Business

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Désirée Gold

FNT GmbH

User Experience Konzeption

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Florian Grote

CODE University of Applied Sciences

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Working Products 2017

2 days with 100 participants, 12 presentations, 14 open sessions and countless conversations and discussions about good digital product development and the everyday life of product managers.
We liked it a lot and also the participants were super satisfied through the bank.

We invited Susanne Kreuz, a UX designer friend, to Working Products and asked her to summarize her personal impressions in a blog post:
Review of Working Products 2017

All

Year


Category	Title	Speaker(s)	Year
Vortrag	One for all and all for one Slidedeck (PDF)	John-Paul Herrmann	WP 2017
Vortrag	Objects in the rear view mirror may appear more distant than they are ... Slidedeck (PDF)	Winald Kasch	WP 2017
Vortrag	One year DigiLab at Hermes Germany Slidedeck (PDF)	Tim Rudolph	WP 2017
Vortrag	MVPs are too expensive Slidedeck (PDF)	Tim Herbig	WP 2017
Vortrag	Transformational products Slidedeck (PDF)	Matthias Schrader	WP 2017
Vortrag	The red thread Slidedeck (PDF)	Marc Kadish	WP 2017
Vortrag	Product strategy and product success Slidedeck (PDF)	Roman Pichler	WP 2017
Vortrag	Linde Evos CI: Revolutionizing the invisible	Karel Golta	WP 2017
Vortrag	Techno, hip hop and agile product development Slidedeck (PDF)	Florian Grote	WP 2017
Vortrag	I adopt products! Slidedeck (PDF)	Heide Peuckert	WP 2017
Vortrag	Management vs. product Slidedeck (PDF)	Christian Becker	WP 2017
Vortrag	We estimate today times not. Or: how does the weather forecast do it? Slidedeck (PDF)	Mathias Schröder	WP 2017

Great list of speakers in year 2 of the Working Products conference

Christian Becker

leanproductable GmbH

Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter

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Tim Herbig

Iridion

I Empower Product Teams to Be the Best Version

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John-Paul Herrmann

PAYBACK GmbH

Product Manager Mobile

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Winald Kasch

OTTO Group Holding

Berater Für Organisationsentwicklung, Gründer OrgaNeo

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Heide Peuckert

Feels like Yoga

Founder

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Roman Pichler

Pichler Consulting

Product Management Expert Lean, Agile, Scrum

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Tim Rudolph

Seven Senders

Divison Manager Operations Development

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Matthias Schrader

Magnetars Capital

Head Accenture Interactive DACH and Chief Executive Officer SinnerSchrader

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Mathias Schröder

it - agile GmbH

Berater Für Zukunftsfähige Organisationen and Kanban Coaching Professional

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Marc Kadish

Zalando

Group Product Manager

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Karel Golta

Indeed Innovation GmbH

Geschäftsführer

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Florian Grote

CODE University of Applied Sciences

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Working Products 2016

On the first conference day there were 12 presentations in two tracks. After each presentation there was time to exchange with the speaker and other conference topics in the "Speakers Corner".
At the end there were two discussion rounds and afterwards there was some partying. On the second day, the participants were able to discuss product management topics and develop solutions together in 9 sessions in the ProductSpace.

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Year


Category	Title	Speaker(s)	Year
Vortrag	One for all and all for one Slidedeck (PDF)	John-Paul Herrmann	WP 2017
Vortrag	Objects in the rear view mirror may appear more distant than they are ... Slidedeck (PDF)	Winald Kasch	WP 2017
Vortrag	One year DigiLab at Hermes Germany Slidedeck (PDF)	Tim Rudolph	WP 2017
Vortrag	MVPs are too expensive Slidedeck (PDF)	Tim Herbig	WP 2017
Vortrag	Transformational products Slidedeck (PDF)	Matthias Schrader	WP 2017
Vortrag	The red thread Slidedeck (PDF)	Marc Kadish	WP 2017
Vortrag	Product strategy and product success Slidedeck (PDF)	Roman Pichler	WP 2017
Vortrag	Linde Evos CI: Revolutionizing the invisible	Karel Golta	WP 2017
Vortrag	Techno, hip hop and agile product development Slidedeck (PDF)	Florian Grote	WP 2017
Vortrag	I adopt products! Slidedeck (PDF)	Heide Peuckert	WP 2017
Vortrag	Management vs. product Slidedeck (PDF)	Christian Becker	WP 2017
Vortrag	We estimate today times not. Or: how does the weather forecast do it? Slidedeck (PDF)	Mathias Schröder	WP 2017