Your event is a critical piece in your organization’s success. You love to bring speaker with real world experience, and a way to deeply engage with your audience.
I worked with founders, executives, authors, speakers, and presented to many fortune 500 and 100 companies during my time at Google and beyond.
Topic I frequently engage an audience with:
- Product management & product culture
- Leadership & innovation culture
Simply email me at stefan@theproductinsider.com with your request.
About me:
- 15+ years experience as a Product Manager at IBM, Goldman Sachs, and Google
- Launched multi-million user products across various industries including banking, technology, consumer, B2B.
- Co-founded products grossing triple digit million $ annual revenue growth
- Coach for founders, authors, leading professionals, fortune 500 company executives
Past speaking engagements
2023
Agile Product Discovery in an Enterprise Environment – How we iteratively launched features in Google’s most valuable product
In this talk I’ll speak about how we led highly iterative, experiment-based product discovery in Google’s most valuable product – AdWords. I share stories of how Google, as a large-scale enterprise company remains agile and innovative, even in its most valuable and high-traffic product surfaces. The tools and techniques presented are transferable, so listeners learned how to apply these with your own product teams. https://www.productfestival.com/
2021
“Innovation Insights from #SiliconValley” at the Executive MBA program of Central European University (CEU)
Speaking on the topic of innovation culture, and innovation mindset inside growth companies.
2020
Leadership in Uncertainty – Führung von virtuellen Teams mit digitalen Tools
Talk in German mainly about how to leverage planning tools (such as OKRs) to help navigate organizations in times of increased uncertainty.
2019
November – Workplace learning in the digital age – Virtual Conference
The future of learning is digital and networked. New opportunities and challenges arise for companies, training providers and individuals. In order to create a platform for discussion on this hot topic, the MCI Management Center Innsbruck is organizing a virtual conference on “Digital Learning” on 19 November 2019, this year with a focus on “Digital Learning at the Workplace”.
October – Leadership Garage – Stanford, CA, USA
Keynote speaker at the leadership garage workshop at Stanford university campus on the topic of Innovation Culture and Psychological Safety. Why are some organizations more successful than others? What makes a an organizational culture outstanding, and motivational? How can you influence your employees without micro-managing them?
August – SVI Hub Talk
Keynote on the topic of Innovation Culture and Psychological Safety.
March – Zukunftsreise – Stanford, CA, USA
Presenter on the topic of Innovation Culture and Psychological Safety, as well as innovations in Educational Technology. A group of executives from Austrian Educational institutions and governmental agencies visit the Silicon Valley to learn about updates, news, and important innovations.
2018
October – Leadership Garage – Stanford, CA, USA
Keynote speaker at the leadership garage workshop at Stanford university campus on the topic of Innovation Culture and Psychological Safety. Why are some organizations more successful than others? What makes a an organizational culture outstanding, and motivational? How can you influence your employees without micro-managing them?
April 19th, 2018 – Analytics Konferenz – Vienna, Austria
Speaking at the Vienna Analytics Conference, organized by e-dialog, our long-standing Analytics partner in the DACH region. The conference is the biggest Analytics event in the german speaking region, and covers a whole host of topics in the field of web- and app analytics. I will speak on the topic of marketing attribution.
March 22nd, 2018 – Leadership Garage – Stanford, CA, USA
Keynote speaker at the leadership garage workshop at Stanford university campus on the topic of Innovation Culture and Psychological Safety. Why are some organizations more successful than others? What makes a an organizational culture outstanding, and motivational? How can you influence your employees without micro-managing them?
2017
July 14th, 2017 – Data Science, Statistics, and Visualization DSSV2017 – Lisbon, Portugal
Speaking at the DSSV conference in Lisbon, Portugal on the importance of keeping Attribution Models ‘honest’ through the process of scientifically ‘Evaluate Attribution Models’. Understanding how precise we can measure causality in observational data (correlations) is one of the hardest problems in modern day data analytics. Very excited to have the opportunity to present with our talented engineering and research teams.
May 24th, 2017 – Google Marketing Next – San Francisco, California, USA
Google’s largest yearly ads conference, bringing together digital marketing leaders from around the world to explore the future of Ads, Analytics and DoubleClick. I was speaking with colleagues ont eh topic of ‘Smarter Attribution’, helping advertisers and marketers make sense of the ever more complex marketing analytics landscape.
March 8th, 2017 – Leadership Garage – Stanford University, California, USA
The LeadershipGarage Experience “Inside Silicon Valley” is an expert symposium in the heart of digital progression, Silicon Valley. The structured multi-day intensive program analyzes the challenges of the digital future through the modules “Experience – Understand – Leverage”. As one of the invited thought leaders, I discussed the innovative work culture in the Valley, and helped the audience understand how it relates to challenges within their organizations, and how they can make concrete steps to solve them.
2016
June 24th, 2016 – Ovative MN Search Summit – Minneapolis, Minnesota
Speaking on behalf of Google on the topic of Multi-channel Attribution. My talk focuses on how marketing attribution can be used as a tactic to improve marketing effectiveness, but also is a highly strategic topic for senior marketing executives.
March 10th, 2016 – InOrbit Google Analytics Summit – Ljubljana, Slovenia
Speaking to a diverse audience of marketing and web analytics executives and practitioners on the topic of ‘The Future of Attribution’.
February 15th, 2016 – Leadership Garage – San Francisco, California, USA
The LeadershipGarage Experience “Inside Silicon Valley” is an expert symposium in the heart of digital progression, Silicon Valley. The structured multi-day intensive program analyzes the challenges of the digital future through the modules “Experience – Understand – Leverage”. As one of the invited thought leaders, I discussed the innovative work culture in the Valley, and helped the audience understand how it relates to challenges within their organizations, and how they can make concrete steps to solve them.
2015
November 19th, 2015 – Trakken Google Analytics Summit – Hamburg, Germany
October 1st, 2015 – Digital Intelligence Lab Google Analytics Summit – Santiago de Chile, Chile