Open Tech Calendar

#CyberSecurity: Fortinet (ZoneFox), PhotoBox Group, PrivacyKit & Trace

Our next ProductTank Edinburgh event will be held on the 30th April at CodeBase with a focus on Cyber Security. We have the following exciting speakers lined up who will be sharing their experiences and challenges of building cyber security products, as well as the importance of building security into existing products.

Matt Little
Matt is currently a VP of Engineering for Security Analytics within Fortinet. Prior to this he was the CTO and one of the founding members of ZoneFox which was recently acquired by Fortinet. While CTO he helped build and launch the ZoneFox portfolio and was a key driver in the growth and scaling of ZoneFox. Matt is also on a number of boards and was recently on the judging panel for Scottish Edge. Matt will cover the challenges of building successful cyber security products while being a new-entrant to the market and a largely unknown start-up located in Scotland.

Stu Hirst
Stu is currently Head of Cloud Security at PhotoBox Group and has also worked at CapitalOne and Skyscanner. He is also the founder of Cyber Scotland Connect, a 1400-strong cyber community which promotes the sharing of experiences and lessons learnt amongst the cyber security experts in Edinburgh. Stu's talk will focus on security considerations when building a new website or mobile app product.

Kirk J. Torrance
Kirk has over a decade of working at the forefront of digital and social media, and has consulted domestically and internationally for politicians and political parties. As a result of that experience Kirk went on to design and develop PrivacyKit , a personal privacy toolset to help protect individual web users when using the Internet which consists of both physical and digital components. Kirk will be speaking about how developing physical products is analogous to the process required of digital products; whilst also sharing insights he garnered in bringing PrivacyKit to market.

Sorcha Lorimer
Sorcha is founder of Trace, a data protection SaaS start up based in Edinburgh. She has previously worked with digital agencies as Global Head of Digital Strategy at Standard Life, and has broad consultancy experience. Sorcha is now focused on developing user-centred data compliance and discovery products which take the pain and inefficiency out of governance. Her talk will focus on pragmatic Privacy by Design, taking a holistic and business centric view, as well as looking at getting the balance right between regulation and innovation.

18.00 - Doors open; free pizza, beer, wine, soft drinks & networking

18.30 - Talks

20.15 - Q&A

20.45 - Networking

21.00 - Close

This event is supported by our partners: Cultivate, Eagle Labs and CodeBase.

Cultivate build the highest quality web applications for clients including Deliveroo, GOV.UK and 38 Degrees (http://www.cultivatehq.com)

Barclays Eagle Labs are spaces set up by Barclays to help businesses create, innovate and grow. Visit their state-of-the-art Lab at CodeBase. (https://labs.uk.barclays/locations/edinburgh)

CodeBase is the UK’s largest startup incubator, home to more than 100 of the country’s best technology companies. (http://www.thisiscodebase.com)

To stay up to date please join our social channels:

- https://twitter.com/producttankedi
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https://www.meetup.com/ProductTankEdi/events/260154489/

Tue 30th Apr 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 30th Apr 2019 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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#DataAsProduct: Mallzee, The List & Mark to Market

Our next event explores ‘Data as Product’ with the CEOs & founders of Mallzee, The List & Mark to Market.

Cally Russell, CEO of Mallzee reveals how their community of 1.5m users provide over 500 million data points and how their platform Mallzee Insights (https://www.mallzeeinsights.com) distills that into actionable intelligence for their retail customers; affording gross margin gains of 3 - 6%.

Simon Dessain, CEO of The List discusses how their live events data about 500,000 performances of some 35,000 events at 85,000 venues, is now accessible for new business products and services, via their API. Their site The List (https://www.list.co.uk) attracts 2.2million unique users.

Martin Clarke, CTO of Mark to Market (https://www.marktomarket.io) explains how they surface valid signals from a cacophony of financial data. Their platform is allowing financial professionals to perform accurate, auditable valuations in a fraction of the normal time.

https://www.meetup.com/ProductTankEdi/events/251183712/

Tue 12th Jun 2018 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Tue 12th Jun 2018 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Travel Tech Special - TravelNest, Skyscanner & Backpack Chat

Product Tank Edinburgh is back on Wednesday 29th November with a #TravelTech special. We have speakers from three companies at different stages of growth, revealing the secrets of successful product management. From Skyscanner we have Usability Specialist David Hamill speaking on the importance of understanding user needs; Stefan Sabev of TravelNest will help you decide whether to keep or kill your product darlings; while Martin Jeret describes the challenges & pitfalls he is facing in the earliest days of his app BackpackChat.

Join us for these free fascinating talks, networking, pizza & drinks in the events space at CodeBase Ltd - all made possible by generous sponsorship from Registers of Scotland.

Places are going fast, so sign up quickly at:
https://lnkd.in/gRJCT-s

https://www.meetup.com/ProductTankEdi/events/244785742/

Skyscanner Special: Getting B2B Sales Off to a Flying Start

How Skyscanner is using innovative B2B channels to reach new users and help drive YOY business growth of 60%.

In this Skyscanner Product Tank special, Matt Smith & Ross McNairn, the Product Managers for two of Skyscanner’s innovative B2B products, will deep dive into how they are evolving a B2C product to reach new users and deliver new value.

18.00 - Doors open; free pizza, beer & networking.

18.30 - Talks begin, followed by Q&A

20.30 - Networking.

21.00 - Close.

NB. earlier opening time of 6pm for talks from 6.30pm. Pizza & drinks provided!

Wed 29th Nov 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 29th Nov 2017 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Skyscanner Special: Getting B2B Sales Off to a Flying Start

How Skyscanner is using innovative B2B channels to reach new users and help drive YOY business growth of 60%.

In this Skyscanner Product Tank special, Matt Smith & Ross McNairn, the Product Managers for two of Skyscanner’s innovative B2B products, will deep dive into how they are evolving a B2C product to reach new users and deliver new value.

18.00 - Doors open; free pizza, beer & networking.

18.30 - Talks begin, followed by Q&A

20.30 - Networking.

21.00 - Close.

NB. earlier opening time of 6pm for talks from 6.30pm. Pizza & drinks provided!

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTankEdi/events/231193038/

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTankEdi/events/231193038/

Thu 26th May 2016 6:00pm (Europe/London)

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STV - A Tale of Two Apps (Player & News).

ProductTankEdi is back this month with talks from Will Jones, Product Manager of STV Player and Mike Kinsella, Product Manager of STV News.

They will each talk about developing digital products that help users discover & consume relevant rich content. Together they will talk about balancing user needs with those of the business and the importance of context to consumption, as well as creating products relevant to the Scottish market, in the face of larger UK wide competition.

Join us for these fascinating talks & networking with free pizza & beer in the new events space at CodeBase (NB. entrance is 38 Castle Terrace).

To attend, please click on the meetup link below. Places go fast, so sign up quick.

Huge thanks to our sponsors BitWink & CodeBase!

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/events/229757600/

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/events/229757600/

Thu 31st Mar 2016 6:30pm (Europe/London)

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STV - A Tale of Two Apps (Player & News).

ProductTankEdi is back this month with talks from Will Jones, Product Manager of STV Player and Mike Kinsella, Product Manager of STV News.

They will each talk about developing digital products that help users discover & consume relevant rich content. Together they will talk about balancing user needs with those of the business and the importance of context to consumption, as well as creating products relevant to the Scottish market, in the face of larger UK wide competition.

Join us for these fascinating talks & networking with free pizza & beer in the new events space at CodeBase (NB. entrance is 38 Castle Terrace).

To attend, please click on the meetup link below. Places go fast, so sign up quick.

Huge thanks to our sponsors Bitwink & CodeBase!

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/events/229757600/

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/events/229757600/

Thu 31st Mar 2016 9:30pm (Europe/London)

Money Dashboard & Float - Fintech Product Special

ProductTankEdi is back this month with talks from Phill Gillespie, Product Director of Money Dashboard & Colin Hewitt, CEO of Float Cashflow Forecasting.

They will each talk about how they develop software products that give users powerful visibility of expenditure and cashflow forecasting. These products are addressing comparable needs in contrasting B2C and B2B markets. Our speakers will afford great insight into the different product strategies required.

Join us for these fascinating talks & networking with free pizza & beer at Skyscanner's offices at Quartermile.

To attend, please click on the meetup link below. Places go fast, so sign up quick

Thu 31st Mar 2016 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Thu 31st Mar 2016 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Money Dashboard & Float - Fintech Product Special

ProductTankEdi is back this month with talks from Phill Gillespie, Product Director of Money Dashboard & Colin Hewitt, CEO of Float Cashflow Forecasting.

They will each talk about how they develop software products that give users powerful visibility of expenditure and cashflow forecasting. These products are addressing comparable needs in contrasting B2C and B2B markets. Our speakers will afford great insight into the different product strategies required.

Join us for these fascinating talks & networking with free pizza & beer at Skyscanner's offices at Quartermile.

To attend, please click on the meetup link below. Places go fast, so sign up quick

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/events/226816517/

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/events/226816517/

Tue 24th Nov 2015 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Tue 24th Nov 2015 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Amazon Storyteller – Disrupting Hollywood from Edinburgh

Amazon Storyteller – Disrupting Hollywood from Amazon’s Development Centre in Scotland

Graeme Smith and Archie Binnie will talk about product management at Amazon’s Development Centre in Scotland. They will use the example of Amazon Storyteller, a web application for Amazon Studios that makes it easy for anyone to create a storyboard from their movie/TV script.

http://www.amazondc.com/

Event schedule
18.30 - Doors open, food and drink and mingling
19.00 - Event begins
Note: please arrive by 19.00 or there may not be anyone to let you in!
21.00 - Head to the pub!

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/events/216784862/

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/events/216784862/

Rightscale - from Startup to Enterprise Platform

Scaling from Startup to Enterprise Platform

Ali from RightScale will give a talk on ‘Scaling from startup to global enterprise platform’. Ali was cofounder of ‘PlanForCloud’, a company that he and his brother built to sell; achieving acquisition within 1 year of founding. Now an Engineering Director at RightScale - backed with $60M VC funding - Ali works on the RightScale platform that's used by enterprise clients include EA Games, Pearson Publishing, Intercontinental Hotels Group, PBS and Zynga. Ali’s talk will focus on the changes in tools & processes required as they scaled from two founders to working in company with 14 engineering teams worldwide. Ali is planning on relocating from Edinburgh to Santa Barbara; this is a unique chance to hear his story before he goes.

http://www.rightscale.com

Tue 25th Nov 2014 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Tue 25th Nov 2014 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Scaling from Startup to Enterprise Platform

Ali from RightScale will give a talk on ‘Scaling from startup to global enterprise platform’. Ali was cofounder of ‘PlanForCloud’, a company that he and his brother built to sell; achieving acquisition within 1 year of founding. Now an Engineering Director at RightScale - backed with $60M VC funding - Ali works on the RightScale platform that's used by enterprise clients include EA Games, Pearson Publishing, Intercontinental Hotels Group, PBS and Zynga. Ali’s talk will focus on the changes in tools & processes required as they scaled from two founders to working in company with 14 engineering teams worldwide. Ali is planning on relocating from Edinburgh to Santa Barbara; this is a unique chance to hear his story before he goes.

http://www.rightscale.com

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Rightscale - Scaling from New Start to Enterprise Platform

Scaling from New Start to Enterprise Platform

Ali from RightScale will give a talk on ‘Scaling from new start to global enterprise platform’. Ali was cofounder of ‘PlanForCloud’, a company that he and his brother built to sell; achieving acquisition within 1 year of founding. Now an Engineering Director at RightScale - backed with $60M VC funding - Ali works on the RightScale platform that's used by enterprise clients include EA Games, Pearson Publishing, Intercontinental Hotels Group, PBS and Zynga. Ali’s talk will focus on the changes in tools & processes required as they scaled from two founders to working in company with 14 engineering teams worldwide. Ali is planning on relocating from Edinburgh to Santa Barbara; this is a unique chance to hear his story before he goes.

http://www.rightscale.com

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/events/211172492/

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/events/211172492/

Tue 28th Oct 2014 6:30pm (Europe/London)

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Winning in your Home Market - Itison

Winning in your Home Market

September's #ProductTankEdi has Oli Norman of Itison giving a talk on 'How to Win in your Home Market'. Oli is Founder & CEO of Itison; the largest daily deals site in Scotland. He will tell us how he pivoted a new product to take on Groupon & Living Social & beat the global leaders in his home market. He will focus on the importance of market knowledge, customer engagement and building your technology & team from the ground up. https://www.itison.com/

Join us for Oli's talk & networking with free pizza & beer.

To attend, please join the meetup group. Places go fast, so sign up quick!

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/events/203931072/

Tue 30th Sep 2014 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Tue 30th Sep 2014 9:00pm (Europe/London)

What Makes a Successful Product? - 4C Design

What Makes a Successful Product?

#ProductTankEdi this month has Will Mitchell of 4C Design talking about 'What Makes a Successful Product?'. Will is a founder of 4C Design who have designed products for companies as diverse as Tannoy, Honeywell & Hasbro. They recently designed the Queen's Baton for the Commonwealth Games.
http://www.4cdesign.co.uk/

Join us for Will's talk & networking with free pizza & beer.

To attend, please join the meetup group. Places are going fast, so sign up quick!

Tue 28th Oct 2014 6:30pm (Europe/London)

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What Makes a Successful Product? - 4C Design

What Makes a Successful Product?

#ProductTankEdi this month has Will Mitchell of 4C Design talking about 'What Makes a Successful Product?'. Will is a founder of 4C Design who have designed products for companies as diverse as Tannoy, Honeywell & Hasbro. They recently designed the Queen's Baton for the Commonwealth Games.
http://www.4cdesign.co.uk/

Join us for Will's talk & networking with free pizza & beer.

To attend, please join the meetup group. Places are going fast, so sign up quick!

Tue 30th Sep 2014 6:30pm (Europe/London)

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What Makes a Successful Product? - 4C Design

What Makes a Successful Product?

#ProductTankEdi this month has Will Mitchell of 4C Design talking about 'What Makes a Successful Product?'. Will is a founder of 4C Design who have designed products for companies as diverse as Tannoy, Honeywell & Hasbro. They recently designed the Queen's Baton for the Commonwealth Games.
http://www.4cdesign.co.uk/

Join us for Will's talk & networking with free pizza & beer.

To attend, please join the meetup group. Places are going fast, so sign up quick!

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4C Design - Product Tank Edi #20

Will Mitchell of 4C Design will tell us about designing the Queen’s Baton for the Commonwealth Games, as well as developing products for clients as diverse as Hasbro and Tannoy. http://www.4cdesign.co.uk/

Event schedule:
18.30 - Doors open, food and drink and mingling
19.00 - Event begins
Note: please arrive by 19.00 or there may not be anyone to let you in!
21.00 - Head to the pub (we usually head up the road to Doctors)!

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/events/170537132/

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/events/170537132/

Tue 26th Aug 2014 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Tue 26th Aug 2014 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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