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Want to level up your engineering career? Product management and ownership skills will help you showcase the business value of IT investments and align technical solutions with company goals. Learn how modern engineering teams—regardless of size or industry—can thrive by adopting a product thinking mindset.
Join Stéphane (Cloud Engineer applying product thinking) and Cat (once engineer, now Product Manager) as they share actionable insights from their journey. You'll discover how embracing product management principles can help your team deliver more impactful results and gain greater ownership of what you build.
What you'll learn:
- How to use product discovery techniques to better understand user needs
- Which metrics matter most when measuring product success
- Practical frameworks for identifying real problems before jumping to solutions
- Tips for bringing product thinking to your engineering role
Speaker
Cat Morris
Staff Product Manager @Syntasso | Previously Platform and Enterprise Modernization Specialist @ThoughtWorks
Cat is the Product Manager at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms. She has worked in tech for over 10 years, the last 6 have been in Platform Engineering across all kinds of domains. She specialises in bringing Product Mindset to technical teams that serve developers and other internal users - their user experience matters too!
Away from her work endeavours, Cat is an avid plant enthusiast with dozens of houseplants. She also shares her home with Opal, her equally adored and occasionally demanding feline companion.
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Speaker
Stéphane Di Cesare
Senior Platform Engineer, Platform Experience @DKB | Aspiring Platform-as-Product Specialist | Previously @Accenture and @VMware
Stéphane Di Cesare is a Senior Platform Engineer in the Platform Experience team at the German online bank DKB, where he is helping to increase the adoption of the bank's cloud native platform.
Stéphane is focusing on bridging the gap between engineering and users by making the value of technology clear, and helping bringing a product mindset to the platform.
He has background with technology consulting at Accenture, infrastructure engineering at VMware, and in Sales Engineer, Support Engineer and QA Engineer roles.
