MailChimp, The World’s Leading Email Marketing Platform, Is Announced As Diamond Sponsor Of The Product Summit Oakland: Transforming Ideas Into Products "We're delighted to welcome MailChimp as a sponsor for the first Product Summit Oakland, California," states Cindy F. Solomon, Producer of The Product Summit and Founder of Startup Product Academy. "MailChimp's email platform has helped the movement for product excellence grow to showcase product leaders and nurture the worldwide community of product enthusiasts." MailChimp's values embrace the diversity and inclusiveness found in the strong Oakland business and growing tech culture that has a rich history of community involvement. "We value thoughtful communicators and great ideas. We value learning and innovation. We value excellence and personality. And we value community—neighbors, friends, and organizations who make our cities like Oakland better, weirder, and more human," shares Lain, Brand Manager at MailChimp. About MailChimp More than 9 million people and businesses around the world use MailChimp. Our features and integrations allow you to send marketing emails, automated messages, and targeted campaigns. And our detailed reports help you keep improving over time. MailChimp has been around since 2001. We started as a side project funded by various web-development jobs. Now we send more than 600 million emails a day. We love seeing businesses start small, fund themselves with paying projects, and build up a strong API, so that's how we run MailChimp. We create products and features that empower our customers to grow. http://mailchimp.com About The Product Summit Oakland The focus of The Product Summit Oakland is “Transforming Ideas Into Products.” It takes place on Friday, October 9, 2015. It is followed by an Afterparty at Tech Liminal, Oakland's original technology hot spot, tech education salon and coworking space at 555 12th Street. October 9, 2015 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Oakland City Center Conference Paramount Room 500 12th Street, Oakland, CA 94607 Register: http://www.productsummit.org Sponsor The Product Summit http://productsummit.org/sponsor Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/productsummit Email: info@productsummit.org

1. MailChimp Sponsors
The Product Summit Oakland, California
on October 9, 2015
MailChimp, The World’s Leading Email
Marketing Platform, Is Announced As
Diamond Sponsor Of The Product Summit
Oakland: Transforming Ideas Into Products
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2. For Immediate Release
http://productsummit.org
OAKLAND, Calif. - Sept. 25, 2015 - PRLog -- The Product
Summit brings together the people behind excellent products
in the Oakland, California vicinity. The one day event includes
product visionaries, leaders and practitioners who share their
first-hand experience for achieving product excellence, from
creation to release and beyond, in all kinds of industries and
product categories. The provocative event showcases unique
viewpoints and lessons learned at all stages in the process of
designing, developing, making, manufacturing, managing,
marketing, scaling and consuming products of all kinds
including software, hardware and consumer goods.
The focus of The Product Summit Oakland is “Transforming
Ideas Into Products.” It takes place on Friday, October 9, 2015.
It is followed by an Afterparty at Tech Liminal, Oakland's
original technology hot spot, tech education salon and
coworking space at 555 12th Street.
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3. Shared Values
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"We're delighted to welcome MailChimp as a sponsor for the
first Product Summit Oakland, California,"states Cindy F.
Solomon, Producer of The Product Summit and Founder of
Startup Product Academy.
"MailChimp's email platform has helped the movement for
product excellence grow to showcase product leaders and
nurture the worldwide community of product enthusiasts."
MailChimp's values embrace the diversity and inclusiveness
found in the strong Oakland business and growing tech
culture that has a rich history of community involvement.
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4. About MailChimp
http://productsummit.org
"We value thoughtful communicators and great ideas. We
value learning and innovation. We value excellence and
personality. And we value community—neighbors, friends,
and organizations who make our cities like Oakland better,
weirder, and more human," shares Lain, Brand Manager at
MailChimp.
About MailChimp
More than 9 million people and businesses around the world
use MailChimp. Our features and integrations allow you to
send marketing emails, automated messages, and targeted
campaigns. And our detailed reports help you keep improving
over time.
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5. http://productsummit.org
MailChimp has been around since 2001. We started as a side
project funded by various web-development jobs. Now we
send more than 600 million emails a day. We love seeing
businesses start small, fund themselves with paying projects,
and build up a strong API, so that's how we run MailChimp.
We create products and features that empower our
customers to grow. http://mailchimp.com
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6. About The Product Summit Oakland
http://productsummit.org
The focus of The Product Summit Oakland is “Transforming
Ideas Into Products.” It takes place on Friday, October 9, 2015.
It is followed by an Afterparty at Tech Liminal, Oakland's
original technology hot spot, tech education salon and
coworking space at 555 12th Street.
October 9, 2015 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Oakland City Center Conference Paramount Room
500 12th Street, Oakland, CA 94607
Register: http://www.productsummit.org
Sponsor The Product Summit
http://productsummit.org/sponsor
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/productsummit
Email: info@productsummit.org
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7. Speakers
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"We’ve assembled an eclectic group of speakers representing the best
from the San Francisco East Bay Area. Expect to learn about product
development, management, founding, designing and delivering
products, strategic thinking, scaling and sustaining growth over time
and much, much more!" shares Cindy F. Solomon, Producer of The
Product Summit and Founder of Startup Product Academy.
Beau Oyler, Founder, Urbio
Anca Mosoiu, Founder and CEO, Tech Liminal
Jeffrey McGrew, Architect, Co-Owner, Because We Can
Jennifer Heller, Creative Director & Brand Strategist, Artsy Geek
Rose Linke and Tyler Doyle of A Hundred Monkeys
Susan Mernit, CEO, Hack the Hood
Ed Dua, Investor, Tilden Capital Partners
David Ordal, CEO, Everbooked
Ryan Merket, Product Manager, reddit Inc
Vaneese Johnson, Personal & Online Brand Strategist, OTM Careers
Jordan Hart, Co-founder, LearnTech Labs
James McBryan, CEO, Track it Forward
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10. Opportunities
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There are ample opportunities for showcased speakers,
sponsors, product demos, product launches and hiring
opportunities. There is no other event of this nature that
provides attendees not only opportunities to expand their
network, but also rub shoulders with professionals outside
their expertise and discover new ways to forward their
careers and products available right here within Oakland's
vicinity.
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11. Sponsors include
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Sponsor: http://productsummit.org/sponsor

12. About
http://productsummit.org
The Product Summit Oakland: Transforming Ideas To Products
October 9, 2015 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
at Oakland City Center Conference Paramount Room
500 12th Street, Oakland, CA 94607
Register: http://www.productsummit.org
Sponsor: http://productsummit.org/sponsor
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/productsummit
Email: info@productsummit.org
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14. Venue
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The Product Summit Oakland: Transforming Ideas To Products
October 9, 2015 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
at Oakland City Center Conference Paramount Room
500 12th Street, Oakland, CA 94607
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Venue Map: http://bit.ly/1FhD8Uz

15. Oakland City Center
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16. Oakland City Center Conference
Paramount Room
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Oakland City Center is truly the heart of Oakland’s steadily growing downtown
business district and the East Bay’s premier business destination. It is situated in
an irreplaceable, transit-oriented location directly above the primary hub for the
entire Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system.
“The downtown Oakland market is very attractive to companies who seek
unparalleled access to public transportation and a first in class business
environment.”
Oakland City Center is a convenient location minutes from San Francisco and Bay
Area business locations consisting of 12 blocks of office, shopping and a hotel
complex in Downtown Oakland.
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