With the addition of Cliff Gilley, the Product + Design Conference Keynote Day speaker lineup is complete! Cliff is a VP Research Analyst at Gartner. It may seem peculiar to invite a research analyst to an event tailored to product managers and UX designers. But attendees who hear Cliff’s keynote will quickly understand how good a fit he is among our roster of thought leaders.
In his role at Gartner, Cliff collaborates with product teams to offer practical research and guidance to product leaders in enterprise organizations. Cliff’s insights are grounded in 5+ years at Gartner, complemented by boots-on-the-ground experience as a product manager.
Cliff was then and remains today a big believer in user-focused product management. Like other leaders in the product field who share this philosophy, he worked with his team members to become the resident experts on their customers and work to understand the end user point of view. By doing so, team position themselves to ensure the products they create are for the customer, not at the behest of someone in their organization.
While Cliff’s work today is not entrenched in building products, he’s advising teams and clients on how to continuously improve the products they build. He’s a proponent of Agile methodologies and applies them to product management processes, which helps balance the innovation and evolution aspects of product planning and development.
In addition to delivering a keynote, Cliff is hosting our Fireside Chats, a new segment added to the Product + Design Conference this year. Joining him will be some of our other conference speakers and workshop leaders, including Denise Tilles, John Haggerty, and Patricia Reiners. Cliff will guide conversations around topics that explore more deeply the topics covered in their keynotes or workshops.
With his data-driven expertise and a knack for sharing insights – evident from his blog writing as The Clever PM – Cliff Gilley is a fantastic addition to our 2024 Conference lineup of thought leaders. This year’s conference promises to be one of our largest gatherings of product and design knowledge-sharing enthusiasts yet.
This month brings the 2024 ITX Product + Design Conference.
Join us on Keynote Day to learn from Cliff Gilley, Ryan Rumsey, Denise Tilles, John Maeda, and more.
Megan Lawson is a Marketing Content Specialist at ITX. She focuses on creating content that solves problems and engages audiences. Megan received her BA in Communication from the State University of New York at Geneseo.
