Mind the Product is THE product management conference where we bring together product leaders from around the world to explore the intersection of design, technology and business - inspiring you to build better products.
The Hottest Open Mic + Jam Session in LA is heading to the BAY for a special edition of Soulful Sundays!
New Location, Same Good Food, Good Music, & Good Vibes!
No Lines, No Hollywood BS. This is Southern Hospitality with West Coast weather. The place will fill up fast so come early!
FREE w RSVP Before 3p
Only $5 After
On view May 19–September 2, 2019
Floor 4
Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again — the first Warhol retrospective organized in the U.S. since 1989, and the largest in terms of scope of ideas and range of works — will be an occasion to experience and reconsider the work of one of the most inventive, influential and important American artists. With more than 300 works of art, many assembled together for the first time, this landmark exhibition, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, will unite all aspects, media and periods of Warhol’s 40-year career.
Come see Charlie and Kathie! Will be dynamic, I already can tell!
How many times have you seen a project go down one path only to realize it addresses the wrong problem? How do you know that your idea or solution is going to be successful before investing a lot of time and effort into it? Will this actually be something that people find valuable and useful? Are you asking the right questions so that you tackle the right problems?
Join us for a conversation with Charlie Sutton, Design Director at Facebook and Kathie Pham, User Researcher at Twitter where we unpack the process they use to make hard product decisions and discuss how to keep people and their problems as the central priority.
by Charlie Sutton
We are given so many forms of advice on how to define, advocate and protect our design decisions. In the rapid pace and organizational complexity of actually making products, it is challenging to hold fast to that advice - and to bring all the functions necessary for making the product, to some point of agreement.
Charlie will be sharing a methodology that can help both simplify the process, as well as provide some kind of cohesion between all the people involved. He will walk through examples from his design teams and the lesson they learned along the way.
by Kathie Pham
In this talk, Kathie will share how Twitter starts with the customer – from problem definition, prioritization, to execution – when working through one of the most challenging problems on the internet. She will walk through how her research enabled the team to understand the complexity and nuance of the problem, but also how to make meaningful progress when grappling with varied customer needs.
Charlie Sutton is a Design Director at Facebook, looking after the Video and Gaming design work. As a leader, he has grown and managed teams for almost twenty years at companies including Apple, Nokia, and Samsung. He specializes in interaction design for mobile, as well as AR / VR - and lectures at California College of the Arts.
Kathie Pham is a researcher based in the Bay Area. She works at Twitter and leads research initiatives for abuse, safety, spam and misinformation, as well as encouraging healthier conversations. During her time at Twitter, she has helped define Twitter’s abuse and safety work, ensuring that policy and product decisions are grounded in the needs of customers first and foremost. Before joining Twitter, Kathie’s spent time researching a broad array of topics, including questions related to healthcare, privacy, and how children learn.
Will be there with Sean Krepp!
The annual Marketplace Conference on March 27th, 2019 in San Francisco unites marketplace founders, VCs, and subject matter experts.
About this Event
Join us for thought leadership on fundraising, growth hacking and strategy, legal issues and more, as well as 1:1 access and office hours with top VCs. People in functional roles who should attend include founders, CEOs, product professionals, marketers, growth hackers and operations executives.
Organized by
Broadway visionaries meet ballet royalty. Five-time Tony Award®-winning director and choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers, Contact), Tony Award®-winning authors Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Once On This Island), and acclaimed New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck invite you backstage into 19th-century Paris, where glittering opulence hobnobbed with underworld dangers.
In this era of groundbreaking artistry, a girl named Marie (Peck) dreams of being the next star of the ballet. Despite the odds of her hard-scrabble life, she scrimps, saves and steals in pursuit of her ambitions. But when fate leads her to the studio of Impressionist Edgar Degas, she unknowingly steps into immortality—becoming the inspiration for his most famous sculpture ever: Little Dancer.
Also starring Tony Award® nominee Terrence Mann (Pippin), Tony Award® nominee Louise Pitre (Mamma Mia!) and Tony Award® winner Karen Ziemba (Contact), Marie, Dancing Still - A New Musical is the gorgeous new musical poised to conquer the stage—and your heart.
Saw this in previews. Can’t wait for it to open on Broadway next year! Great mash up of ballet and musical theater.
CCA Design Lecture Series + MBA in Design Strategy presents
Changed By Design: Tim Brown (IDEO) + Barry Katz on humanizing technologies in the 21st century
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth St. in SF - 6:30pm
"This is a moment for 'the visible hand' of design to make intentional choices about how we wish technology to serve humanity."
—Tim Brown
A gifted songwriter and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene in the early 2000s with a dynamic vocal range that earned her early comparisons to Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, and Ingrid Michaelson. Her breakthrough sophomore effort, 2007's Little Voice, went platinum, while follow-up Kaleidoscope Heart topped the charts in 2010. In addition to her pop pursuits, Bareilles also delved into the world of theater, writing the music for the 2015 Tony-nominated stage production Waitress (she later starred in 2017/2018 engagements); starring in the 2018 Emmy- and Grammy-nominated Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert!; and contributing to pop reimaginings of tracks from Hamilton and The Greatest Showman.
Immerse yourself in creative culture with over 800 exhibits and 8+ presentation and performance stages— all showcasing the creative and experimental folks who make, play, tinker and hack in areas like:
+ Robotics
+ Large-scale and kinetic art
+ Digital & analog fabrication
+ Electronics
+ Cosplay
+ Craft, fashion & design
+ Food
+ Science
+ Tools & materials
+ Much much more!
Plus TONS of hands-on making and learning with drop-in and scheduled workshops for all ages. Literally hundreds of opportunities to try tools, techniques, and materials like nowhere else!
Dates & Hours
— Friday, May 17, 2019: 1 pm – 5 pm; Special Preview Day "FRIDAY@MakerFaire"
— Saturday, May 18, 2019: 10 am – 7 pm
— Sunday, May 19, 2019: 10 am – 6 pm
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOHN DOE BY WAAJEED continues with a ONE NIGHT ONLY EVENT featuring HOUSE SHOES who will be sharing RARE VIDEO and a SPECIAL DJ SET.
HOUSE SHOES, AKA Michael Buchanan, isn’t concerned with popularity. Unfailingly outspoken, the Detroit-born DJ and producer condemns and exalts music with equal vigor. If he hates your record, expect soul-atomizing honesty. If he loves it, he’ll play it endlessly. House Shoes spun Dilla beats ad infinitum at famed Detroit venues like St. Andrews Hall, and during his years in the Motor City, House Shoes also championed rappers like Danny Brown , Guilty Simpson, and Quelle Chris, far before they were known to the general public. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2006, he’s become a fixture in the city’s perennially vibrant music scene, releasing his own music (2012’s Let it Go), DJing in over 40 countries and hosting a weekly radio show, Magic. Since 2013, he’s released nearly 50 projects from upcoming producers and artists to multi-platinum producers through his record label, Street Corner Music. With an ear for beats that deconstruct rote boom-bap templates and defy the limits of sample-based sounds, he’s shaping the future of the music he’s devoted his life to promoting and protecting.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOHN DOE BY WAAJEED w/ HOUSE SHOES
Thursday 14 March
6PM - 10PM
FAMILY AFFAIR 683 Haight Street SF (Next door to Groove Merchant Records)
