 All right. Hi, everybody. My name is Musa and I'm very excited to be here and talking to you. I will start with a brief introduction and I have over 10 years of experience in the industry in different roles, delivered both Greenfield 021 as well as Brownfield products. It kills millions of millions of people. I joined Amazon right after my MBA degree and as of this month, completing my 54 months here and during this tenure, I have been to multiple roles and as of latest, I'm a senior technical product manager in Amazon fulfillment technologies. With this presentation, I am hoping to give some value in 20 to 25 minutes under these three take-ons, which are enjoying the journey, letting your curiosity guide you and be proud of your individual progress towards your goal to be a technical product manager. I would like to start with a short story. The person you see on the screen is Reid Hoffman. After graduation from Stanford, Reid Hoffman wanted to be an academician, but he had other plans for him, gigantic plans to be precise. He joined Apple Computers where he worked on a project called E-World, which was more or less than an early version of what we now associate and understand as a social network. Post-Apple, he created another social networking platform by the name of SocialNet. Reid kept on inculcating his learnings, and thus at the ripe of age of 35, and this is important, he used all his past failures as the building blocks of his Megasuccess, which we all now know as LinkedIn. His network is estimated to be $3.2 billion, rest, as they say, is history. I would like to keep this story in your mind that we will tie at the end of the presentation. Now to start, let's take a step back and start with the innovation happening, the opportunities, and why you as a current product manager, or a product manager candidate needs to be excited learning these opportunities, innovation, and technologies happening around us. It will move us closer to our career goals, team goals, or individual goals. I would like to pay attention to this innovation platform. This is not all exclusive and there are still many more, but these are the bigger ones that we can classify under these categories between 2020-20 and as you can see, these are the platforms that incorporates AI, better technology, gene sequencing, blockchain, and robotics. As you can see, the growth expected to between 26 percent to 51 percent year over year, compared to 3 percent growth of non-innovation areas. We can easily say that if this expected growth happens, there are a lot of technologies that will 10x. In this case, it is why you need to be excited to explore these areas whichever speaks to you, as well as being in a space, an elevator that is going up so that both yourself, your teams, your friends, or anybody you work closely will benefit. In this space, I would like to briefly talk about the AI that I personally, I am personally excited, which incorporates machine learning, deep learning, cloud computing, internal of the things, and mobile connected device. We can see that accelerating these computational technologies, integration into all economic sectors, media platform, and other knowledge worker or other spaces, will be immensely affected from this. I still believe we are at the very early stages of this. This is an area for me to explore, and I recommend to take a look that can make you also excited. Moving on, it is especially important to ask great questions about ourselves and the team or people that we are working, so that we can get great answers. In order to have these great questions, we need to start with a simple question. In your journey to be a technical product manager, we'll start with, do you need to come from a technical background to be a technical product manager? The short answer is no, it really depends on where you want to move, what you are willing to learn and explore. As a second question, do we need to be technical to be a tech product manager? My short answer to this will be yes, you need to have a thorough understanding of the area that you are working on to communicate your ideas or other opportunities to other team members in a simple manner. To further expand, we started with the high level overview of the technologies, now going a little bit deeper here. What does it mean to be a technical product manager? Came up with a couple of categorization over here. This is not all exclusive, as you might guess, that there are still other areas that can be incorporated, but it is safe to say when you look at what the customer pain points needs to be solved and what companies really need in order to drive their products, they need product managers that can understand either data science, engineering, which is either in software, hardware, mechanical, product managers understand design, product design UX, as well as the people with the domain knowledge, such as e-commerce, cloud or banking. You might need only one or you might need more of these. And it really depends on what you are excited and willing to explore. But it is important to remember that as a product manager, you are the visionary one, the creative one, long-term thinker, the connector that forces and pushes the team and makes everybody's job easier. Because at the end of the day, a successful product is a product of a successful team, which means you are successful. And in this situation, you are in a position to tie the business goals with customer pain points in a graceful manner. So at this point, you might be thinking, is it necessary to come from a technical background? In some cases, it really helps. But again, personally, even though I was an electrical engineer, I came from another form of engineering. I wasn't very familiar with the software, the backend systems, the AI, the front-end and other technologies that I currently work. It just started with a simple step. Going back to four to five years ago, that I started came excited and exploring these areas. It's important to remember that your ROI as a product manager is goals beyond these technical specialties. Because at the end of the day, another engineer or a data science or designer can step up and do the product manager roles. In some cases, they do. But as a product manager candidate or a current product manager, your value to the team, customers and business came from your ability to be communication and being a visionary, that pretty much understand what's going on with all the teams, either tech or business side. So I will give some examples of where you can start, your journey, that you can combine your technical and product manager skills. This is specific to what I do. It is not by all means that you can start with these recommendations or anything, but it can give you an idea where you can start and where you can go dive in and explore. So in my journey, again, as you might be familiar, I started with the CS50 on Harvard course, which is one of the most popular computer science courses. It is promoted by many articles and roadmaps on programming. And here, the differentiation factor for me was, unlike many other boot camps or programming courses that teach beginners several tricks for one of the programming languages, CS50 from Harvard really focused on the concepts that can really give you an edge to understand high level of the software and computer programming language that helps you communicate. And I started this course two times first when I was learning to program and then when I did 20 years of professional experience. Another one that really can help you is understanding the latest trend in the cloud computing. In here, there are a lot of vendors incorporating Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. And I personally started exploring AWS, got certification with both solutions architecture and data analytics. And as you might guess, cloud computing is the next frontier of the digital transformation. And it really has changed the way the companies and customers view and interpret the data. And as of right now, it is increasingly became the backbone of many IT solutions and operation for the past decade. And when you work with either solutions, architecture or software engineers or data science, you might see a lot of terms. In cloud computing, that you need to be get familiar. Beta, networking, databases, the data warehouses, data lakes, security or mobile devices. Going a step further, if you are started your prep in your journey to be a technical product manager, you might heard that some companies require system design runs during their interview. And no matter what type of role you are, knowing system design will definitely make you more well-rounded and get you more success in your carrier. If you know what's going on under the hood, you are more likely to build solutions that are better suited to the needs and limitations of your system. In this case, for example, if you are working on a, or going to an interview with a company that has works on class storage, the questions might be similar to design a drop box. And over here, it is understand how this backend system connects to each other. And next tool will be, I want to briefly mention about learning SQL and Python. Starting with the SQL, again, beta developer, the product manager or a business analyst, SQL helps in obstacle in the career. And I still remember to this day, one of the questions I get is, what if I know how to write SQL? And it's really helped during my tenure in Amazon, the skill to understand the pool of data whenever I need manipulated. And it is the most in-demand skill as it is robust and easy to learn programming language. And if you're interested in machine learning area, like me, Python is a very popular programming language today and often needs an introduction level. You don't need to go very detailed, but it is widely used in various business sectors, such as programming and web development, machine learning, especially data science. So given it's vice spread use, again, you can either also start with other languages such as R or Java, but Python comparatively easy to learn and one of the top programming language that I will encourage you to take a look and start exploring and if needed, go deeper into this programming language. And another areas of expertise that you might need is being a data-minded product manager, especially in the tech space. And over here, understanding the AB, testing that allows individuals or companies to make careful changes to their user experiences while collecting data on the result, using statistical testing and speaking with the data is a cutting-edge skill I highly encourage you to start exploring. And other powerful design tools such as FIGMATA-BXD, it really depends on your team or what companies are trying to bring up, but you can have a good overview understanding with these tools to speak with the data. Another important skills that we can really categorize as a technical skill for a product manager is writing in English, Chris writing. And especially if English is your second language like me, it is important to try to get better and better every day and it can be tougher. But once you start writing in a clear and concise manner, it can really help you to communicate to the business leaders and other teams around you. One recommendation I can say is keeping the purpose clear in your mind. And as we say, the simplification is a form of innovation. So you can reinvent a complex or seeming to complex product issue or subject by trying to simplify writing good and that can really give you an edge. And lastly, again, this is not something that can really give huge advantage, but if you wanna explore, side projects are a great way to build your portfolio and showcase what you can do. It can help you learn new skills, develop your technical skills and honestly get around to the uncertainty because starting something is pretty challenging. And if you want to become a product manager, I highly recommend that you work on side projects. And they will help you with marketing yourself as a product manager candidate, show off the important traits like accountability, leadership, and problem solving ability, which is extremely important in product management space. And another recommendation over here I come to find on the online that I'm building the resource here is these radar charts. And to understand the evaluation of your technical business skills as a product manager, you can use something similar and match it with the requirement of the job description. And as you progress towards your career, starting with the associate product managers, product manager, senior towards director, you can look the progress that you have made, what you need to work on, what's your areas of strength and opportunities. And combining this, again, going back to our high level overview of the areas that is exciting, such as blockchain, battery technology, autonomous mode, and 3D printing, combining this, the lower level learning that can really propel your technical product manager careers. And finishing up, like how these skills can enable or enhance you, at the end of the day, these skills are here to motivate you so that you can drive decisions making across teams, working backwards from customers, helps you with your critical thinking and root cause identification, setting and driving strategy, anticipating the future needs of the business as we discussed. A lot of days you will manage the complexities and ambiguity. And establishing a clear communication cadence inside your team as well as cross-functional it. So I will add that the more you are away from the shore, the deeper oceans get. And it's important to understand where you need to explore more and where you need to stop. But it is never too late to explore, you just need to start with a simple step. So thank you very much for bearing with me and feel free to connect me on LinkedIn and have a great day.