Twenty-five years of conference talks, keynotes, and workshops, on four continents. Selected highlights below; video where it exists.
Upcoming
- Y Oslo, Chateau Neuf, 26–27 October 2026 — Optimize for Joy
Keynotes
- MTP Engage Hamburg, 2022 — closing keynote, The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Agile, Lean, and Now OKRs Went from Useful to Stoopit
- FWD50, 2020 — Lead, Don’t Manage
- NUX7, Manchester, 2018 — It’s Complicated: Designing in the Age of Emergence
- mtpcon San Francisco, 2018 — opening keynote, Reboot Your Team
- UXDC, Washington DC, 2018 — Design the Team You Need to Succeed
- Interaction 17 Education Summit, 2017 — closing keynote, Teaching Game Design to Teach Interaction Design
- UX Lausanne, Switzerland, 2016 — opening keynote, Design All the Things! (Or, Design is a Verb)
- UXI Live, Tel Aviv, 2016 — Radical Focus
- UX Week, 2016 — In Defence of Childish Things
- World IA Day DC, 2015 — opening keynote, The Architecture of Advocacy
Recent talks
- Lean Product Meetup, 2026 — Better OKRs with AI
- Reimagining Product Leadership Summit, 2025 — Fighting AI Giants with Their Own Tools
- ProductTank SF, 2025 — OKRs and Impact-First Product Teams, with Matt LeMay
- Product at Heart Leadership Forum, Hamburg, 2023 — OKRs session and workshop
- Lean Product Meetup, 2023 — Tiny Strategy for Nimble Product Teams
- IxDA Oslo, 2022 — full-day OKR workshop
- Lean Product Meetup, 2022 — How to Turn Bad OKRs into Good OKRs, plus a fireside chat with Dan Olsen
- Lean Product Meetup, 2021 — When Things Get Chaotic: Flexible Planning with OKRs, plus a fireside chat with Dan Olsen
- Lean Product Meetup, 2019 — How to Influence Without Authority
- Lean Product Meetup, 2017 — Beyond OKRs: The Formula for High Performing Teams
- Mind the Product Digital, 2020 — four-day Empowered Teams workshop
Workshops
- Interaction 19, Seattle — Visual Thinking for Interaction Designers, with Stephen P. Anderson. Sold out.
- Women in Product, 2019 — team and Radical Focus workshops
- mtpcon San Francisco, 2019
- World IA Day Boston, 2018
- UX Immersion, 2018 — Visual Thinking Bootcamp, with Stephen P. Anderson
- Women Talk Design at Google, 2018 — with Danielle Barnes
- UX London, 2016 — Design Thinking for Innovation
- UXI Live, Tel Aviv, 2016 — Design for Change
- Fluxible, Canada, 2015 — Design Thinking for Innovation
- LEAN 15, Wellington, 2015 — Designing for Change
- The Lean Startup Conference, 2015 — with Laura Klein
Earlier
- GDC, San Francisco, 2016 — The Design of Everyday Games (also in the GDC Vault)
- World IA Day Mexico City, 2017 — Making the Complex Clear
- ConveyUX, Seattle, 2016 — Working with Story and Designing for Change
- IA Summit, Atlanta, 2016 — Quickstart to Sketchnoting
- Strata + Hadoop World and O’Reilly Cultivate, San Jose, 2016
- Interaction South America, Buenos Aires, 2014
- EuroIA, Brussels, 2014
- UXLx, Lisbon, 2014 — The Mechanics of Magic
- Interaction14, Amsterdam — The Executioner’s Tale
- The Lean Startup Conference, 2014 — Design Your Way to Product/Market Fit
- WebExpo, Prague, 2013 — The Executioner’s Tale. The first public outing of the OKR material, three years before Radical Focus.
- SXSW Interactive, 2011 and 2013
- IDEA, Toronto, 2009 — Social Spaces: Lessons from Radical Architects
- IA Summit — speaker 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. Conference chair, Portland, 2003.
- BayCHI, 2001 and 2012
Booking
Talks on OKRs and team execution, game design and play, visual thinking, and storytelling for product work. Get in touch at cwodtke.com.