Product Management Festival

What Product Management Festival does

Product Management Festival (PMF) is a privately organized annual conference targeting senior product practitioners, operated by the Swiss legal entity Momentum Shift GmbH (CHE-282.026.030) from Uitikon-Waldegg, Switzerland. The flagship event is a single-day conference with 12 hand-picked speakers across three tracks (Shifting, Skills, External Views), capped at approximately 300 attendees to maintain an intimate, peer-driven format. The conference is differentiated structurally: the program is built from the community up, with open speaker applications, community voting, and board curation replacing traditional sponsor-driven agendas. No booths, no sales pitches, and no attendee data sharing are core operating principles, with sponsors funding only venue, catering, and party costs.

The underlying technology stack is minimal and non-proprietary: the website is hosted on Vercel, ticketing is outsourced to Eventfrog AG (Switzerland's leading event platform) via an embedded widget, and the venue information uses standard Google Maps embeds. The product is the event itself rather than a software platform, and PMF does not develop, license, or resell technology products. Distribution is exclusively direct-to-consumer ticket sales through Eventfrog, with no third-party resellers, bulk enterprise channels, or geographic distribution partners beyond the Zürich venue.

The business model is event-driven rather than recurring SaaS. Revenue derives from individual ticket sales; sponsors fund cost recovery but do not pay for programming access or attendee data. There is no published pricing, no enterprise tier, no membership product, and no disclosed financial figures. The festival is organized on a 100% pro-bono basis by a small team of organizers (Agnes Szeberenyi, Cosima Lefranc, Pawel Kowalski) under a three-person board, leveraging 10+ years of accumulated community equity (15,000+ LinkedIn followers, 400+ alumni speakers including executives from Walmart, Statista, and Personio) rather than paid marketing. The PMF 2026 edition is scheduled for November 27, 2026 at Technopark Zürich and is positioned as a revival of the event under new leadership.

Name

Product Management Festival

Legal name

Momentum Shift GmbH

Website

https://productmanagementfestival.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Product Management Festival is a Switzerland-based annual one-day conference for 300+ senior product practitioners, operated by Momentum Shift GmbH. It runs a community-curated program with no sponsor booths, funded by ticket sales and cost-recovery sponsorship.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Conferences and Events

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Technology & Developer Conferences (MPAGAGAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Professional & Association Conferences (MPAGAGAB)

Keywords

• Product management conferences
• Professional community events
• Practitioner-led conferences
• Technology conference services
• Product builder meetups

Headquarters

HQ city

Zürich

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Others

Revenue model

1. Ticket Sales: Revenue generated from selling tickets to the one-day Product Management Festival event. Tickets are sold via Eventfrog ticketing platform. No attendee data is shared with third parties.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Product Management Festival operates a one-day, community-curated product management conference (PMF 2026) scheduled for 27 November 2026 at Technopark Zürich, built around three tracks (Shifting, Skills, External Views), three keynotes, one panel, and six hand-picked talks. The festival is sold via individual tickets through the Eventfrog platform and is deliberately run without sponsor booths or sales pitches, with the program shaped by speaker applications, community voting, and board curation.

Product overview

Product Management Festival is a single unified event product (PMF 2026) — a one-day community-driven conference scheduled for 27 November 2026 in Zürich, Switzerland. The event serves 300+ product builders with a program built from the community up: talks are submitted, the community votes, and the board curates the final lineup. The conference is structured around three distinct tracks — Track 1 (Shifting / The Shift is Happening), Track 2 (Skills / Show me the Skills), and Track 3 (External Views / Burst the Bubble) — plus three keynotes and one panel. No sponsor booths, no sales pitches, no attendee data sharing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PMF 2026 Conference A one-day community-curated product management conference for senior product practitioners, featuring three tracks (Shifting, Skills, External Views), three keynotes, one panel, and six talks, with no sponsor booths or sales pitches. Tickets are sold individually through the Eventfrog platform.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% Community-curated program with no sales pitch
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Technopark ZürichcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTechnopark Zürich serves as the venue partner for PMF 2026. It is one of Switzerland's leading innovation hubs, home to around 260 high-tech companies and research institutions. Located at Technoparkstrasse 1, 8005 Zürich. The venue is directly accessible by tram from Zürich HB (2 stops, ~4 minutes).
• EventfrogcoreTechnology or IntegrationEventfrog AG (Switzerland) provides the ticketing platform for PMF 2026. Processes ticket purchases including name, email, and payment data. Hosts the embedded ticket widget on the PMF homepage. Eventfrog acts as the data controller for ticket purchases on its platform.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Reforge: A professional education and community platform for senior product, growth, and engineering leaders, with conferences, cohorts, and courses. Comparable in audience (senior PMs) and in monetizing content from leading practitioners.
• Mind the Product: The leading global community and conference series for product managers, operating ProductTank meetups, annual flagship conferences, and workshops. Direct competitor for the same senior product practitioner audience and sponsor pool that PMF serves.
• ProductCon (by Product School): A free, large-scale product management conference series organized by Product School in multiple cities globally. Targets the same senior PM demographic, offers practitioner talks, and competes for the same speakers and sponsors.
• Leading the Product: A product management conference and community focused on senior product leaders, with a practitioner-led, no-sales-pitch ethos. Direct overlap with PMF's positioning and target attendees.

Broad incumbents

• Web Summit: One of the largest global tech conferences, covering product, startups, and enterprise software with massive sponsor booths. Represents the commercial, vendor-driven end of the spectrum against which PMF positions itself as a no-sales-pitch alternative.
• INBOUND (HubSpot): HubSpot's annual marketing, sales, and product conference. Draws on overlapping product and growth audiences and competes for sponsor dollars in the European and global PM ecosystem.
• Hatch Conference (by Intercom): Intercom's product management and customer support conference featuring talks from senior PMs. Comparable in focusing on the PM craft, but backed by a single large vendor rather than being community-led.
• SaaStr Annual: The largest community and conference for SaaS founders, executives, and product leaders. Comparable audience in B2B SaaS PMs, but much larger scale and heavier sponsor presence than PMF.

Emerging players

• Lenny's Newsletter (Lenny Rachitsky): A widely-followed subscription newsletter and product community run by Lenny Rachitsky, with paid events and an annual conference. Targets the same senior product practitioner audience and has become a major node in the PM content ecosystem.
• Config (by Figma): Figma's annual design-and-product conference featuring practitioner talks and community-voted sessions. Overlaps with PMF in curating practitioner content for product builders, though broader in scope to include design.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/product-management-festival
• Xx.com/prodmgmtf
• Facebookfacebook.com/productmanagementfestival

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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