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Mind the Product Chicago 2026

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Mind the Product Chicago 2026 ran on Oct 7, 2026 at Harris Theater in Chicago, United States. It is a Product conference. ConferenceGrid lists 29 speakers, 10 sponsors and 173 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Oct 5, 2026 · dates verified May 4, 2026

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

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29Speakers
10Sponsors
173Sessions
29Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Mind, in alphabetical order.

Angus Allan
April Dunford
Author of the best-selling books Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch · Ambient Strategy
Axel Sooriah
Product Management Evangelist · Atlassian
Ben Cook
Deputy Director of Product · NHS England
Brian Cox
Professor · CBE FRS
Brianne Kimmel
Founder · Worklife
Caroline Clark
Charity Ibhadon
Global Product Director · WPP
Christian Idiodi
Partner · Silicon Valley Product Group
Dan Dalton
Director of Product Management · Sage
Dave Killeen
Field CPO, EMEA · Pendo
Dharmesh Raithatha
Emma Mulholland
Eric Simons
CEO and Co-Founder
Faith Forster
Founder and Chief Maker · Discoveree
Gary Crawford
Founder and Chief Advisor · Owendale Advisory
Hugo Raymond
Designer Advocate · Figma
John Moriarty
Design Director · Fin
Jonathan Evens
Product Lead · Google Deepmind
Kathy Pham
Vice President of AI at Workday · Workday
Kevin Stewart
Chief Strategy Officer · Format 3
Martin Eriksson
Author of Decision Stack · Mind the Product

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

Airfocus
Amplitude
Greenhouse
Heap
Miro
Mixpanel
Pendo
Productboard
UserTesting
Zendesk

Agenda

Selected from 173 sessions.

  • 09:00–17:00

    Building AI Experiences in Your Product

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

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00

    From Burnout to Breakthrough - Resilience and Stakeholder Relationships

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

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00

    How Product Creates Value: A Financial Lens

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

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00

    Metrics for Product Managers

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

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00

    Modern Product Strategy & Discovery for the AI-Native Era

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

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00

    Practical AI for Product Managers

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

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00

    Product Delight

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

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00

    Product Management Foundations

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

    Workshop
  • 09:00–17:00 8h

    Building AI Experiences in Your Product

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

    Workshop

Quick answers

When is Mind the Product Chicago 2026?
Mind the Product Chicago 2026 ran on Oct 7, 2026 at Harris Theater in Chicago, United States.
Where is Mind the Product Chicago 2026 held?
Mind the Product Chicago 2026 was held at Harris Theater in Chicago, United States.
Who is speaking at Mind the Product Chicago 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 29 speakers, including Angus Allan, April Dunford (Author of the best-selling books Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch, Ambient Strategy) and Axel Sooriah (Product Management Evangelist, Atlassian).
Who sponsors Mind the Product Chicago 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 10 sponsors, including Airfocus, Amplitude, Greenhouse, Heap and Miro.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 29 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

29 companies. one are betting more than once.

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

Who's in the room
1All threespeak · spons · exh
9Sponsoringsponsor only
19Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Pendo

Speakers by seniority

48% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite517%
  • Founder / Owner310%
  • VP-level13%
  • Director / Head of517%
  • Manager / Lead27%
  • Product13%
  • Engineer · IC13%
  • Other roles1138%

Of 29 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1PendoSponsor1
2AirfocusSponsor-
3AmplitudeSponsor-
4GreenhouseSponsor-
5HeapSponsor-
6MiroSponsor-
7MixpanelSponsor-
8ProductboardSponsor-
9UserTestingSponsor-
10ZendeskSponsor-
11Student Loans Company2
12Ambient Strategy1
13Atlassian1
14CBE FRS1
Sponsors by tier
unspecified10
100% of 10
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.