The product manager is known as the CEO of the product, and in a startup, the CEO often plays the product manager role. The product manager’s job is to make sure that the apps and websites being made are what customers actually want and that they have a viable commercial future. Product managers work with engineers, designers, analysts, marketers and community managers to make the digital products we are all using today.

Join us to hear from Rags Vadali, Product Manager at Facebook, to learn what product management is, how to work with PMs and how to break into this fascinating career. Rags has worked at startups, as well as at Google and Facebook, and will cover how the PM role evolves as the company grows.

Rags began his career as a software engineer, before doing his MBA at Chicago Booth and transitioning to product management. Rags is one of the few people who is great at explaining tech to business people and business to tech people. You can learn more about Rags here.

This session will be presented by Sophia Matveeva, Enty founder, Forbes contributor and Chicago Booth MBA (seen in Financial Times, Wall Street Journal etc). You can find out more about Sophia here.

Come for the knowledge and stay for the network! After the talk and Q&A there will be an opportunity to meet the community over drinks and snacks.

This event is part of the Tech For Non-Techies series. To join more events and see useful resources, like our Facebook page or join our MeetUp group.

Online Course For Non-Techies

If you are interested in learning about tech, but do not have a technical background, the online Tech for Non-Technical Founders Course is a great addition to this event. Ran over 5 weeks, packed full of content, exercises and live sessions, the course will give you the skills you need to get your tech idea off the ground, while learning at a time and place right for you. See here for info and booking. The course starts on 29 January and spaces are very limited.

Event sponsored by Wayra Accelerator

Founded in 2011, Wayra is Telefónica's Open Innovation Hub and with presence in 10 countries, is the largest global corporate accelerator run by entrepreneurs. Marry this with unparalleled access to networks, capital and corporations, Wayra turns start-ups into scale ups​.

Telefónica provides unprecedented access to business development opportunities with some of the world’s largest companies. It operates in 15 countries, it has 352 million customers and 122,000 employees, which are all accessible to Wayra’s start-ups​.