CANTERBURY TECH SUMMIT 2023

Opening Keynote Speaker

Rich Mironov is a 40-year veteran of Silicon Valley product management, including six startups. He coaches product leaders, helps design software product organizations, and sometimes parachutes into software companies as the interim VP Products or CPO. He’s been blogging about product management since 2002 here and wrote “The Art of Product Management.”

Hear from Rich on Product Waste and how Product Management adds value. Product adds most value by doing relentless discovery/validation before we start any development, spend 5% to see if it’s really worth building.

Tiffany is an experienced international leader, focused on driving customer business outcomes, transformation, innovative strategy and leveraging partnerships to drive growth.

Currently the country manager for AWS in New Zealand, leading the commercial sales team across large enterprise, Software as a Service providers, small to medium businesses and start-ups, Tiffany coordinates 150+ employees to deliver assistance across thousands of customers and partners as they leverage cloud-based operating models to transform their overall architecture with AWS services. Her teams work hand-in-hand with customers and AWS partners to provide deep expertise in the architecture, design, development and implementation of cloud computing initiatives that result in real business outcomes. Over the last 8 years AWS has been helping New Zealand organizations to innovate, succeed, and grow globally. Our focus in Aotearoa is to help unleash further innovation, drive greater productivity, increase our skilled workforce, and truly position New Zealand at the forefront of digital commerce for generations of Kiwis to come.

Tiffany has 24+ years’ experience in Services and Technology businesses with international roles in the US, Europe and Asia.