AIPMM in association with Adaptive Marketing take great pleasure in inviting you to the monthly series of Product Professionals networking event.SAP Labs India will be our gracious host (thanks Venky!). The discussion theme for this session will be how technology capabilities not just market research should drive roadmaps. 

We have heard from the community things like -
Its best practice to have  Product Managers pursue strong market research but how can they factor in technial architecture input before drawing up roadmaps?

Should engineering have a reserved quota for "architecture" features in every release or sprint? 

I am Product Manager. I trust my Engineering colleagues to build the right technology, but how do we ensure that the architecture and platform are future proof beyond the current version of the product?

I am an Engineering lead. I need to understand where this product is going to go in the future so that we can architect it correctly and not have to throw away bits later. How do we ensure this? 

Get these and other questions answered candidly from "real" practitioners who have helped launch technology driven roadmaps successfully in the marketplace and have struck a balance between market research and technical capabilities in productizing  innovation.

Speakers
Rahul Abhyankar  is a well regarded high-tech product executive spanning 19 years delivering enterprise and consumer software, hardware, client-server, Internet and cloud based systems.
Most recently, Abhyankar was Vice President of Product Management at McAfee Inc., responsible for driving innovation in core security technologies, as well as cloud-based reputation services. Collectively branded as McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, this portfolio of technologies was deployed to McAfee’s large global customer base of over a hundred million consumers, governments, and small and large enterprises worldwide.
Prior to McAfee, he was Director of Product Management at FaceTime Communications, where he led the launch of a new market category of managing and securing the use of Instant Messaging and Peer-to-Peer applications within enterprises.
Abhyankar started his professional career as an engineer, and led the design and development of large scale transaction processing systems at MasterCard, Union Pacific Railroad, Ameren Energy, and Tata Motors (India).
He graduated with a bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from University of Mumbai, and further completed his MBA from Washington University, St. Louis.
Abhyankar recently moved to India. He enjoys being an early adopter of new technologies, and doing photography in his spare time.

Logistical request - Please don't sign up unless you are absolutely sure you are able to attend, we have limited seats!

Rahul Abhyankar

Schedule
10:00 am-11:30 am: Introductions & Discussion
11:30 am: Q&A Session
followed by networking 

Date & Venue
Saturday,Nov 12th, 2011 

Dining with Panache

Kormangala 4th block, 4th main,Bangalore, India

For location details call  +91-9886301161 or +91-9980923057

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