Speaking Engagements

Where you might have seen me before.

Guest, Fireside Chat, Amplitude Product Team (January 2023)

Speaker, Teaching Teams to Budget Time for the Bottom Line, Reforge Speaker Series (November 2022)

Keynote Speaker, Finding the Next Wave of Growth: When to invest in new products and new growth opportunities, TCV Engage (October 2022)

Guest, The Startup Podcast (August 2022)

Speaker, 5 Steps to Drive a Sustainable User Acquisition Strategy, Traction Conference (August 2022)

Guest, The Founder’s Foyer (August 2022)

Guest, Two-Sided – The Marketplace Podcast (May 2022)

Guest, Lenny’s Podcast with Lenny Rachitsky (July 2022)

Speaker, Fireside Chat, Google App Excellence Summit (April 2022)

Guest, 20Growth Podcast with Harry Stebbings (September 2021)

Speaker, Fireside Chat, Google APAC Product Summit (July 2021)

Speaker, What is Good Product Strategy?, Point Nine Virtual Summit (June 2021)

Speaker, Growth Workshop on Loops, Shopify Growth Speaker Series (June 2021)

Host, Auth0 CPO Executive Forum (April 2021)

Speaker, Fireside Chat, Nextdoor ProdDev Speaker Series (March 2021)

Speaker, Fireside Chat, Airtable Growth Speaker Series (February 2021)

Co-Speaker, Product Strategy Workshop, Black Product Managers Network (January 2021)

Special Guest, Growth Hour on Clubhouse (January 2021)

Speaker, What Type of Job is This: The Life of a Chief Product Officer, Glassdoor Product Speaker Series (December 2020)

Speaker, Fireside Chat: Growth with Casey Winters and Fareed Mosavat, Sweat Equity (August 2020)

Speaker, Fireside Chat, Coinbase Growth Speaker Series (August 2020)

Special Guest, First Round Network AMA with Casey Winters, First Round Capital (August 2020)

Mentor, Plato Mentorship Circle, Plato (July 2020)

Special Guest, From Senior PM to Group PM, Reforge (June 2020)

Guest, All Things Marketplaces podcast, Venture Stories (March 2020)

Speaker, How to Make Sure Your New Features Succeed, Lean Product & Lean UX Silicon Valley Meetup (October 2019)

Speaker, Growth Workshop, Bay Area Product Leader Summit (September 2019)

Speaker, Fireside Chat, Chicago Booth PM Series (April 2019)

Speaker, Why Onboarding is the Most Crucial Part of Your Growth Strategy, Slush Conference (December 2018)

Speaker, Why Onboarding is the Most Crucial Part of Your Growth Strategy, Dropbox Speaker Series (November 2018)

Speaker, B2B Growth Loops, Empower Conference (October 2018)

Speaker, Why Onboarding is the Most Crucial Part of Your Growth Strategy, Impact Conference (October 2018)

Speaker, Using Loops for Sustainable Growth, GrowingIO China Conference (October 2018)

Speaker, The Funnel is Dead: How to Model Sustainable Growth, Amplitude Amplify Conference (October 2018)

Speaker, Why Onboarding is the Most Crucial Part of Your Growth Strategy, Segment Synapse Conference (September 2018)

Speaker, How to Measure Retention and Introduce People to Your Product, Techstars Chicago (August 2018)

Speaker, Retention, Adobe Speaker Series (June 2018)

Speaker, Building Loops: Lessons from My Time @Pinterest, Atlassian Speaker Series (March 2018)

Speaker, Feature/Product Fit, Slack Product Speaker Series (March 2018)

Guest, Hack to Start Podcast (February 2018)

Speaker, W18 Growth and Sales Bootcamp, Y Combinator (January 2018)

Speaker, Onboarding Comes First: The Retention Strategies That Make All the Difference, Growth Marketing Conference (December 2017)

Panelist, Building a VC Competitive Advantage through Portfolio Services, Pre-Money Conference (December 2017)

Speaker, Finding Growth: Lessons Learned from Pinterest & Grubhub, Hypergrowth (September 2017)

Speaker, How to Measure Retention and Introduce People to Your Product, Techstars Chicago (August 2017)

Speaker, How to Measure Retention and Product/Market Fit, Launch Incubator (August 2017)

Guest, How to Create Long-Term Growth, Intercom Podcast (August 2017)

Speaker, Go To Market Strategy & Growth, Founder University (July 2017)

Speaker, Growth Teams: What They Are, Why They’re Valuable, and How to Start and Scale Them, Refresh Miami (June 2017)

Speaker, Converting The World: Three Years of Conversion Experience at Pinterest, Traction Conference (June 2017)

Speaker, Go To Market Strategy & Growth, Founder University (April 2017)

Speaker, How Pinterest Drove 50% of Traffic Through SEO, Advanced SEO Summit (April 2017)

Panelist, Game Thinking Live (March 2017)

Guest, Scaling Users, Products, and Growth Teams with Casey Winters, Greymatter (March 2017)

Speaker, Branch Mobile Growth Webinar (February 2017)

Speaker, How growth teams are revolutionizing UX and product development, UserTesting Webinar (January 2017)

Speaker, Growth Jam Session, This Week in Startups (January 2017)

Speaker, GGV Growth Masterclass (January 2017)

Speaker, Reprogramming Growth and Design to Include Each Other, Designers + Geeks (January 2017)

Panelist, Growth in 2017, Growthstack SF (December 2016)

Speaker, The Evolution of Growth Teams and Data Driven Decision Making, Startcon (November 2016)

Speaker, Running Growth for a 150 Million User Social Network, FINIT Brazil (November 2016)

Speaker, Constant Rejection: A Lesson in Retaining Users, Weapons of Mass Distribution by 500 Startups (November 2016)

Guest Speaker, Reforge Growth Series (July 2016)

Special Guest, GrowthHackers.com AMA, GrowthHackers.com (June 2016)

Panelist, Breaking Down Silos Between Mobile Product and Marketing Teams, VB Roadshow (May 2016)

Speaker, Pinterest Growth Migrates to Mobile, Naspers Mobile Summit (May 2016)

Speaker, Retention: It’s What’s For Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, 500 Startups Marketing Hell Week (May 2016)

Speaker, Mobile Lightning Round: The Mobile Equation, VentureBeat Mobile Summit (April 2016)

Speaker, Beating Kate Upton: Two Years of Conversion Experience at Pinterest, Launch Festival (March 2016)

Panelist, Emerging and Declining Acquisition Channel Opportunities, Growth Hackers Conference (February 2016)

Speaker, A Crash Course in Growing A Startup, or WTF is Growth?, Launch Incubator/This Week In Startups (January 2016)

Speaker, Beating Kate Upton: Two Years of Conversion Experience at Pinterest, Launch Scale (October 2015)

Guest, Growth Everywhere (September 2015)

Panelist, Growth and Product, Greylock Partners “Offsite” (August 2015)

Speaker, SEO Is Dead?, Traction Conference (June 2015)

Guest, Daily Hunt (May 2015)

Panelist, Mobile Growth Hacker Meetup, Pinterest (April 2015) (Video)

Guest, GrowthHacker.TV (February 2015)

Speaker, SEO at YC, Y Combinator (February 2015)

Panelist, Search Metrics Visibility 14 (July 2014)

Speaker/Mentor, Scaling Startup Marketing, Polsky Center Summer Accelerator Program, University of Chicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship (July 2014)

Speaker, Growth & User Acquisition, Founder Field Day (May 2014)

Speaker, Product Optimization: Conversion, Engagement, and Happiness, The Designation (October 2013)

Speaker, Beyond Page Views: Modern Analytics for Online Marketing, Marketing Roundtable, University of Chicago Booth School of Business (August 2013)

Speaker, Up and to the Right: How the Drive for Growth is Changing Marketing and Product Functions, Chicago Booth Marketing Club, University of Chicago Booth School of Business (May 2013)

Judge/Presenter, Behavioral Economics and Design, Chicago Innovation Chase (September 2012)

Mentor, Polsky Center Summer Accelerator Program, University of Chicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship (July 2012)

Judge, GrubHub Debate, The DePaul Center for Strategy, Execution, and Valuation (March 2012)

Speaker, Access and Engagement: Marketing Strategy for the New World, CADMEF (February 2012)

Speaker, The Digital Media Roadmap: Are You Off-Roading?, Chicago American Marketing Association (November 2011)

Speaker/Panelist, Entrepreneurial Marketing for the Internet Age, Chicago Booth Marketing Club, University of Chicago Booth School of Business (October 2011)

Special Guest, This Week In Marketing, ThisWeekIn.com (July 2011)

Co-Presenter: Marketing in a Small Space: Startup Marketing Evolution, Loyola University Chicago (February 2011)

Co-Presenter: Integrating Social Media into the Marketing Mix, University of Chicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship (August 2010)

Co-Presenter: Integrating Social Media into the Marketing Mix: Lessons from GrubHub.com, Online Marketing Summit Chicago (June 2010)

Co-presenter: Marketing in a Small Space: Startup Marketing and Social Media, Loyola University Chicago (February 2010)

Co-Presenter: Delivery is Social. Trust Us, Loyola University Chicago (January 2010)

Speaker/Panelist, Google Analytics User Conference (November 2009)

Speaker, Marketing in a Small Space: The Startup Marketing Plan, Loyola University Chicago (February 2009)

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