Ducks in a Row

A global community for people who build product.

For the conversations that don’t happen on stage: the messy middle, the hire that changed everything, the launch you’d do differently.

Ducks in a Row is a global community for the people who build product: CPOs, product managers, and the engineers, designers, and operators stepping into product work. We meet in person, in the cities where we work, around the moments that matter. A major conference. A launch week. A hiring crunch. A quiet Tuesday that needed a better conversation.

We exist because product is a people problem, and Slack threads do not fix that. The most useful exchanges in our careers happen in small rooms with people who have done the thing. So we build those rooms.

No panels. No pitches. No thought-leadership theatre. Just honest conversation with people doing the work.

Upcoming events

What we believe

  1. In-person beats online. We invest in fewer, better, real-life gatherings.
  2. Curation over scale. We would rather have 30 of the right people in a room than 300 of anyone.
  3. The interesting stuff is off-record. Chatham House by default at every event.
  4. No selling, no recruiting, no pitching. If you came to hunt, you are in the wrong room.
  5. The IC who shipped is as interesting as the CPO who hired them. Seniority is not the filter; substance is.
  6. Sponsorship without theatre. QuackStack pays for the venue. They do not get a slide.