5th of May 2021

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

They say that all good things must come to an end. Today we’re announcing that after six wonderful years, Jam is closing down.

To this day, we have thoroughly enjoyed everything we’ve done together. Our events were fun, different, and a pleasure to organise and run. You brought them to life and we couldn't be more grateful for all the great moments we enjoyed in your company.

In this announcement, we’d like to share the rationale behind this decision.

2020 has had a disastrous impact on society and the economy as a whole. From a business standpoint, companies operating in the events industry have been hit particularly hard.

Our revenues crashed, and we lost a considerable amount of money in deposits paid to venues – including Hawker House, who we were saddened to hear, are also in the process of closing down.

We successfully ran several online events throughout the year, but it quickly became clear to us that it was going to be impossible to recreate the experiences we'd created in the past, online.

But we didn't throw in the towel. At the end of the year, we attempted a pivot, and launched – Jam Club – an online community for our most committed members.

Our vision was to build a thriving space for growth-minded product leaders, offering intimate virtual workshops every month.

Pivoting from an in-person events company to an online community has proven significantly harder than we’d originally hoped, and the losses we accumulated in 2020 have proven too significant for us to overcome. And so now we’d rather stop here, celebrate the journey, and say a proper goodbye.

What now?

We’ll keep Jam Club open for the next six months. We won’t be moderating it or running any workshops, but you'll be able to access all workshop recordings, discussions, and member profiles. We hope you’ll be able to use it to reconnect with friends made at past events.

To claim your free invite just drop us a note at hello@makingjam.io.

You can also find all past talk videos on our YouTube channel.

Thank you

A huge thank you to our amazing team of staff and volunteers; Marta, Sunil, Jessie, Maria, Francesca, Stephen, Joan, Monica, Ecem, Steve, David, Michael, Mahtab, Eva, Gizem, Antoine, Jeff and all those that helped run our events every year. We’re deeply grateful for the friendship, shared memories, and support you’ve shown us over the years. We couldn’t have achieved everything we did without you.

Thank you to Doug and Chris at Intelligent People. You supported us from day one, and have always been a pleasure to work with.

Thank you to all our speakers and workshop instructors for all the brilliant content you’ve delivered over the years.

And thank you, for the good times we created together.

Seb & Mathilde

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JAM Barcelona 2019

2 days of talks, stories and activities to make better products, in the heart of Barcelona.
26 Sep 2019
26 Sep 2019
26 Sep 2019
Barcelona

The line-up

Jonny Burch

Founder, Progression

Jonny is a designer and the founder of Progression, a product focused on helping folks in tech teams to describe, map and grow their skills. Progression allows leaders to create flexible and industry-tested progression frameworks for current and future team members to measure themselves against. For the last seven years Jonny has led product design teams in tech. Most recently he scaled the consumer and growth groups at Deliveroo as the company grew from 150 to 2000 employees and 12 countries around the world. Having experienced first hand the pain of scaling teams fast, Jonny took the plunge from design leader to founder. In February 2018 he resigned from Deliveroo and launched Progression with the mission of helping to answer the age-old question: How do I grow at work? Since starting late last year —and with zero funding —he's enlisted a number of London tech's most celebrated design teams. But this is just the start. Next up? A future where anyone can build their skills with the same care and autonomy that they do their work. Better, fairer, more fulfilling careers for all.

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Sebastien Phlix

Product Manager, Typeform

Sebastien is a Senior Product Manager at Typeform in Barcelona, one of Europe's fastest growing SaaS companies. He is responsible for improving the experience for the 50mn+ monthly form respondents on mobile & desktop. He loves well-designed, simple products that make people's lives better. Sebastien advises startup founders across Europe, and writes about Product Management for brands like Hackernoon. Prior to joining Typeform 3 years ago, Sebastien worked in Consulting and completed a Master's in Management degree from HEC Paris.

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Ana Ferreira

Product Lead, Doist

Ana is Head of Design at Doist he company behind Todoist and Twist. Doist is a fully remote company, with more than 60 employees, from 30 different nationalities, and focuses on creating tools that promote a calmer, more balanced, more fulfilling way to work and live. Ana oversees the work of the design team, dispersed between Portugal, UK, Greece, Germany, Luxemburg, and Taiwan. And she believes remote work will be the future, where location, family, or personal preferences isn't a limitation.

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Marco Sousa

Product Designer, Facebook

Marco Sousa is a product designer at Facebook. He leads multiple projects across the growth team for Workplace, Facebook's SaaS collaboration platform. Initially developed as an internal tool, Workplace has been adopted by some of the world's biggest companies, from Walmart and Starbucks to Booking.com and the WWF. Before joining Facebook in 2017, Marco spent almost 10 years creating consumer and enterprise apps for organisations like Transport for London, Unilever, ING and Ford and redesigning mobile apps for what was Spain's most popular social network, Tuenti.

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Miriam Thomas

Product Designer, Facebook

With over 10 years' experience as a Product Designer, Miriam is currently putting her skills to use on Facebook's Workplace team. Before moving to London, she was Design Director at Metalab (famous for designing Slack) where she helped startups ship innovative products. With a passion for creating and facilitating hands-on workshops, Miriam has had the pleasure of working with teams as diverse as Uber, Cirque du Soleil, Visa, Zoom and Intel. In her spare time, Miriam gives back to the community by helping to educate the next generation of designers. She loves teaching practical skills to those interested in design-oriented problem solving and co-creation.

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Tom Greever

Product Strategy & Design Consultant, Tom Greever

Tom Greever has been designing interfaces and leading design teams for 20 years. His experience as a UX designer, executive design leader, and consultant has given him a broad perspective on how better communication yields great design. He has coached and mentored teams on design practices and communication at both large enterprises and small start-ups all over the world. He lives in Illinois in the US with his wife and five kids. He is probably cleaning up the house right now.

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Anna Miedzianowska

Principal Product Manager, Ocado Technology

While Anna's names might seem unpronounceable at first (it's pronounced A-N-A, by the way), she is defiantly not someone who is hard to understand. Making complex things simple is at the core of what she does. For the past 4 years, Anna has been applying that principle at Ocado Technology. Her first role at Ocado was to improve the lives of their delivery drivers by providing software that helps them be the best they can be. She did this by regularly asking them what they needed (I know, who does that?). Now Anna is Head of Product and her goal is to keep Ocado at the bleeding edge of customer experience by tightening feedback loops, assessing value and validating delivery. Sounds simple? It is, thanks to Anna.

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Lindsey Jayne

VP of Product, Yoco

Lindsey is a former VP Product at Monzo - the bank that does more than you'd ever expect to make you effortlessly financially savvy. Lindsey heads up a growing a team of product managers, drawing on her experience scaling and developing teams at luxury retail tech company Farfetch, and at the UK Government Digital Service. She's happiest in the world of interdisciplinary product development, and has resolved to do more non-exec and charitable work this year.

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Hristina Racheva

Head of Localisation, Skyscanner

As a Head of Localisation at Skyscanner, Hristina’s main focus is building a strong localisation team and robust processes. Today, a team of over 15 localisation managers and engineers is building tailor-made solutions to enable Skyscanner’s teams build products and create experiences in over 35 languages.

Call her crazy but she thinks that localisation is a fascinating discipline and crucial for any business, being at the intersection of languages, technology, product, design and UX. And she is on a mission to get everyone else excited about it. After all, how can a business or a product be successful and truly global if it doesn’t respond to the needs of all its users no matter where in the world they are from or what language they speak.

Hristina is a strong believer in the power of building communities so when not solving problems for global travellers, she leads Locommunity, an online mentoring community for localisation professionals and co-hosts a Localisation Meetup in Barcelona. A global citizen at heart, she speaks 5 languages and has lived in 10 different countries, so far.

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Amir Salihefendic

Founder, Doist

Remote-first CEO of Doist, the company behind Todoist, and Twist. Born in Bosnia, grew up in Denmark and now living in Barcelona. Soon 2x dad. He believes that a product stands a better chance of resonating with a global workforce when it's created by people around the world. For him, working remotely is the way of the future. Doist has been operational for more than 10 years now, having nearly 70 people in about 25 different countries.

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Jordi Valls

Co-founder, Mentor VR

Jordi is a tech entrepreneur. In 2012 he co-founded Startup Embassy in Palo Alto - one of the most important entrepreneurs communities in Silicon Valley, according to Enterpreneur.com. He also founded his first company, 1sleeve Inc. He went on to work for several companies evolving from Digital Business to Head of Product at Carnovo, a company born in the largest venture builder of the south of Europe. Currently based in Barcelona is the CEO and founder of Mentor-VR, a VR production company focused on innovative solutions for HR and training.

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Gemma Lord

Designer, IDEO

Gemma crafts narrative through design at IDEO. With a penchant for making movements, she explores emerging futures for different companies, while also designing delightful everyday experiences for people... But in reality, she just wants a dog. Prior to joining IDEO, Gemma worked as an interaction designer at Native, designed kettles in Hong Kong, was an Assistant Art Director at the BBC, and researched synthetic biology and designed speculative creatures for Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. She earned her stripes at Normally as a data explorer, strategist and interaction designer. Aside from being a designer, Gemma is a keen cyclist, illustrator and horse rider.

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Gabriel Prat

Head of Product, DocPlanner

Augustin Bosso

CPO, Parantis

Agustin Bosso is the CPO at Pagantis in Barcelona, he leads a product team that is making financing easier and more affordable for everybody. He has been working in product during the last 9 years in both big and small companies and has been a full-stack developer before that. He found his product vocation after reading the Cluetrain Manifesto, still his favourite book. He previously worked in Zyncro, a Barcelonian start-up and Skyscanner as product manager for the Hotels vertical. He does not consider himself expert at anything but more a "Jack of all trades and master of none" which he feels very useful for the product role. Following the same line, he has dozens of hobbies, from space exploration to hiking, not being an expert on any of them.

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Lucas Isern Lopez

Head of Product Management, Marfeel

Lucas is Head of Monetization Product at Marfeel, a leading publisher platform and one of Europe's fastest growing tech start-ups. He leads multiple projects in the areas of monetization, mobile apps, user retention & engagement, adtech among others. Previously he worked as Director of Programmatic at Grupo God, one of the largest media groups in Spain. He is also member of S2S Product Management Committee at Prebid.org. Currently he is focused on building products that ensure the right reader experience while yielding the highest revenues possible, letting publishers focus on what they do best, writing great content.

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What people said

Wow. What an event. It had Barcelona's vibe, while bringing international perspectives on what it means to build great products. And a truly diverse audience! Loved it.
Maria Stylianou
Engineer Manager at Monzo
It was my first time attending JAM conference and it totally exceeded my expectations. The venue was incredible and the quality of the talks was superb. I cannot wait to join JAM Barcelona 2020!
Antonio González Sanchis
VP Product
JAM Barcelona made me realise I wasn't alone out there in the crazy product management world. I learned tons from speakers and attendees.
Gintare
Digital Product Manager
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