Build an ugly MVP and watch your startup win
Modern product thinking inside a 270-year-old
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Join our conversation with Sam McCarthy, VP of Product Management at Sotheby’s, to learn what it takes to build technology inside the oldest and largest internationally recognized fine art auction house.
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Going once: a rare peek behind the curtain of digital product management inside a 270-year-old fine art auction house.
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Understand the challenges of building complex digital products inside a non-technical, legacy organization
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Learn how Sotheby’s balances tradition with the speed of modern product development
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Discover how Sotheby’s leverages technology to improve client experience and stay ahead
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Find out what’s most difficult to modernize in a legacy company: systems, processes, or mindset
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Explore how Sotheby’s leverages AI and data to track artworks and verify provenance across decades
Unlike most tech companies, Sotheby’s doesn’t ship fast and break things. The auction house has been selling rare art and luxury objects for almost 270 years, and their clients expect a white-glove experience at every touchpoint. When your buyer pool is small and consists of ultra-high-net-worth individuals, you can’t afford to lose their trust with a feature rollout that’s a little buggier than it should be. At Sotheby’s, trust took centuries to build.
So how do you run a product team inside a company like that? Join our conversation with Sam McCarthy, VP of Product at Sotheby’s, to find out. Sam started her journey into product by complaining about bad UX until someone handed her a Jira ticket. Now she leads a team building technology that turned a full year’s worth of manual work into just a few hours.
Don’t miss this chance to learn from a product manager with nearly a decade of experience, get a rare look inside one of the world’s most storied institutions, and walk away with lessons you can apply no matter what kind of company you’re building for.
SAM MCCARTHY
VP OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT,
SOTHEBY’S
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sam is a VP of Product Management at Sotheby’s, the leading auction house for fine art and luxury objects. She leads a team developing a platform and data services, taking decades of data around unique objects and making it accessible and actionable.
Her work at Sotheby’s is informed by previous experience at art & entertainment startups, as well as education in architecture and urban planning.
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