Upcoming Speaking Engagements

I am ready to provide business leaders and product managers the information, access, and expert guidance that they wish they had earlier in their product journey. I share my passion for product through workshops, published articles and speaking engagements.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur with 1 successful exit
Leading advisor on Product Management and Leadership
Worked with over 50 Stratups and Scaleups across countries
Previous work in Engineering, Advertising, Omnicom/GSP, WPP/Blast Radius, Edelman and others

Interested in having me speak or attend an event? Reach out to me. Below is a list of my upcoming and past speaking engagements.

Podcasts:

Product Voices Relationships with the Leadership Team - A Must for Product Managers
Product Science Podcast Informal conversations are key to building influence
ProductBeats live show about discipline in product management.
One Knight in Product podcast: cleaning up after professional services and becoming truly product led
The Product Bakery Podcast: asking powerful stupid questions
The Product Manager Podcast: cultivating momentum
Get Your AI On! Podcast with MorphL
ProductThinking interview series w/ Input Logic

Speaking:

E-AI Conference June 2021 , Optimizing Organic Reach is a Must!, Montreal, Canada
South Summit October 2021, Sustainability in Product Management Lecture, Madrid, Spain
Forum Ventures (Formerly Acceleprise) Summer 2021, Strategic Product Baseline and Roadmap, San Francisco, New York, Toronto
Next AI 2021, How to Prioritize Features and Create Product Roadmaps, Montreal Canada
Startup Grind Montreal - The Future of Product Management - Fireside Virtual Event
Centech Acceleration Summer 2021, Strategic Product Baseline and Roadmap, Montreal Canada
Zu International 2021, Product Strategy and intellectual property from A to Z, Montreal Canada
Ecofuel Accelerator 2021, Strategic Product Baseline and Roadmap, Montreal Canada
Centech Propulsion 2021, Connect & Explore Workshop for Centech Propulsion Teams, Montreal Canada
Acceleprise Winter 2021, Strategic product baseline and roadmap, San Francisco, New York, Toronto
Centech Acceleration Winter 2021, Strategic product baseline and roadmap, Montreal Canada
Cooperathon 2020 - The Art of Product Development, Montreal Canada
Centech Acceleration 2020 - Atelier «Design sprint», Atelier «Product Blueprint», Montreal Canada
Acceleprise Accelerator 2020 - Strategic product baseline and roadmap, Toronto, Canada
McGill University MBA 2020 - Faculty talk, Desautels Faculty of Management, Montreal, Canada
Holt Accelerator 2020 - Strategic Product Baseline, Blueprint and Roadmap, Montreal, Canada
Next AI 2020 - What Goes Into a Good Product Roadmap? A Guide to Narrowing Your Focus, Montreal Canada
Women’s Founder Project 2020 - Product/Market Fit, Montreal, Canada
Agile Testing Days 2019 - Generate your product roadmap, Potsdam, Germany
Techstars AI 2019, 6 week process to generate your product roadmap, Montreal, Canada
Holt Fintech Accelerator 2019, 6 week process to generate your product roadmap, Montreal, Canada
Osmo L’Oreal 2019, 6 week process to generate your product roadmap, Montreal, Canada
Institute of Product Leadership 2019, Empathy - Lead With Your Ears and not With Your Mouth, Bangalore, India
Mile High Agile 2019, Empathy - Lead with your EARS and not with your MOUTH, Denver, USA
ProductCamp Silicon Valley 2019 - Lead with your EARS and not with your MOUTH, San Francisco, USA
Founder Fuel 2019, Can’t prioritize? use this 6 week process to generate your product roadmap, Montreal, Canada
Founder Institute 2019, Essential Ingredients to Reach your Product Goals, Montreal, Canada
TechnoCompetences 2019 Artificial Intelligence day for SMB leaders, Montreal, Canada
Impact Conference 2018, Empathy - Lead with your EARS and not with your MOUTH, Budapest, Hungary
Product Circle #2, "Finding the Narrative in numbers", Montreal, Canada
Product Management Festival 2018, Tomorrow’s Product Managers Will Need Solid Data, Model, and Problem Understanding, Singapore (canceled)
Founder Institute 2017, Great companies are built on great products, Montreal, Canada

Interested in having me speak or attend an event? Reach out to me at info@bainpublic.com

About Paul Ortchanian

Paul Ortchanian is a pro in injecting strategies and tactics to monetize his client's businesses. He held leadership roles at Bay Area startups and high growth organizations like WatchMojo, LiveScale, Blaise Transit -- helping establish product functions, as well as large strategic consulting companies such as Edelman where he organized product-led initiatives across national/regional offices. A consultant, coach, keynote speaker, and author all wrapped up in one, Paul shares his transition out of the corporate world and into starting his own business Bain Public, revealing the extreme challenges of unblocking company structure and policies from doing the right thing.

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About Bain Public

Bain Public, acquired by X Machina-AI Inc. in January 2022, offers consistent roadmap planning processes & tools for business leaders and product managers organized around what motivates, inspires and improves growth. Bain Public offers a variety of articles, e-books and approaches designed to help organizations understand their digital strategies, introduce elements of roadmapping and establish product-led change amongst the senior leaders and managers. Our approach, product, expert advice and coaching helps entangle complex technology, people and roadmap dynamics.

About XMachina

X Machina-AI seeks to provide a platform for the acquisition of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") entities in North America. The company’s thesis is based on an aggregation strategy to acquire successful AI targets and make them better through the addition of growth capital, streamlining of corporate processes and human capital acquisitions. The current sector focus of the Company is on enhancing supply-chain efficiencies, logistics and manufacturing.