Guest speaker25 Jan 2024
Quick Prototyping and Testing
MS&E 265: Introduction to Product Management
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Speaking, podcasts & press
Practical strategy sessions, public talks and media appearances on pretotyping, rapid experimentation and building the right ideas before you build them right.
Leslie Barry designs speaking sessions to feel like practical strategy workshops, not presentations. He helps senior technology, product and innovation leaders leave with something they can act on immediately.
Leslie begins with focused context, then works directly on the challenges in the room. Before each session, he researches the attendees and their organisations so he can connect their priorities with relevant examples from large, regulated and complex environments.
His CTO, innovation and executive roundtable sessions are built around evidence over opinion, fast decision-making and concrete ways to test ideas within days rather than months.
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Leslie Barry guest lectures at Stanford
Leslie has been invited as a guest lecturer at Stanford. His sessions sit within MS&E 265: Introduction to Product Management, taught by Professor Edison T S Tse, and focus on quick prototyping, pretotyping and rapid experimentation using live student ideas.
4 guest lectures
MS&E 265
Introduction to Product Management
Professor Edison T S Tse
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Emeritus.
Live class session
Stanford, 2024
Guest lecture26 Jan 2023
Quick Prototyping and Testing
MS&E 265: Introduction to Product Management
Guest lecture13 Oct 2022
Quick Prototyping and Testing
MS&E 265: Introduction to Product Management
Guest lecture14 Oct 2021
MS&E 265 guest lecture
MS&E 265: Introduction to Product Management
Archive
Past events, podcasts and recordings
A curated public archive of talks, webinars, interviews, podcasts and press coverage. Public items link to the original article, event page or recording where available.
Recorded talks & webinars
Public sessions with recordings or event pages.
9 items
Interview
12 Oct 2025
Pretotyping Superpowers Full Interview
A long-form conversation on pretotyping, prototyping, MVPs and the origins of the global pretotyping summit.
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Webinar
9 Oct 2025
The Two Adams and the Pretotyping Problem
A LinkedIn webinar with Adam Murphy, Adam Norris and Leslie on pretotyping, prototyping and MVPs.
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Community video
5 Sep 2025
How AI Is Really Being Used in Innovation & Pretotyping
A Fast Track Community conversation on AI, innovation and pretotyping.
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Webinar
13 Jul 2022
Pretotyping: Scaling innovation through rapid experimentation
A Sooner Safer Happier session on designing experiments, using failure well, and getting started with pretotyping.
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Webinar
7 Jul 2022
Pretotyping and Rapid Experimentation with Leslie Barry
Untap Strategy hosted Leslie for a session on finding winning ideas faster and at lower cost.
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Conference
22 Mar 2021
Experimental Voices Clubhouse Conference
A 24-hour Clubhouse conference on innovation, design, entrepreneurship and experimentation.
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Online talk
9 Jun 2020
Win by Failing Like Google
An online session on using pretotyping to decide whether an idea should be built.
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Interview
12 Aug 2019
Interview with Alberto Savoia @Stanford University
Leslie interviews Alberto Savoia at Stanford on pretotyping and real-world customer work.
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Talk
10 Oct 2018
ProductTank: Hack your pipeline like Google
A ProductTank Melbourne talk on creating value and killing weak product ideas earlier.
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Press & podcasts
Third-party coverage and podcast appearances that establish the public record.
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Podcast
Mar 2023
Naked Innovation Podcast
Fiona Triaca interviews Leslie on de-risking ideas and saving money with pretotyping.
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Podcast
20 Jun 2021
The Business Agora #30
A workspace365 conversation about Leslie's journey helping organisations adopt pretotyping thinking and innovation strategy.
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Podcast
27 Jan 2021
Leslie Barry
The Official Pretotyping Podcast covers the story behind Exponentially, ideal uses of pretotyping, and how Leslie met Alberto Savoia.
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Podcast
10 Mar 2020
The Corporate Innovator
A conversation on pretotyping's evolution, data over opinion, and measuring risk against reward.
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Press
2018
The new face of product testing
Australian Financial Review feature on pretotyping, RACQ, REA Group and product testing before building.
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Podcast
2016
Future Squared: From Theatre to Disruption
Steve Glaveski interviews Leslie while he was Head of Innovation at Sportsbet.
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Press
18 Aug 2014
BigColors acquires GetViable
TechCrunch coverage of BigColors acquiring GetViable, the startup platform Leslie co-founded.
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The Australian
Press
The Australian
Learning to disrupt like a startup
The Australian / Business Spectator article quoting Leslie on startup-style disruption and experimentation.
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Profile
Pretotyping.org
The #1 evangelist for pretotyping
Alberto Savoia's official pretotyping history names Leslie as a key Asia-Pacific practitioner and collaborator.
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Workshops, breakfasts & community events
Public workshop and event writeups from the Exponentially archive.
8 items
Breakfast
13 Nov 2019
Pretotyping Breakfast in Melbourne
A Melbourne breakfast on experiment design, market demand and skin in the game.
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Talk
9 Oct 2019
Talk: Pretotype to Grow
A session with a global leadership strategy team on using pretotyping for growth.
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Breakfast
29 Aug 2019
Pretotyping Breakfast in Sydney
A Sydney breakfast on designing pretotype experiments and testing demand in 24 hours.
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Talk
14 Aug 2019
Talk: Immunity to Failure
A leadership session with the global team behind leading skincare brands in Asia-Pacific.
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Workshop
13 Aug 2019
Pretotyping Workshop: Break Out Melbourne 2019
Two Break Out Melbourne workshops on playful chaos, experimentation and intelligent failure.
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Breakfast
27 Jul 2019
Breakfast with Industrie&Co: Win by Failing like Google
An Industrie&Co breakfast on testing whether you should build an idea before asking whether you can.
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Summit
8 Jan 2019
Pretotyping Global Summit : San Francisco, Las Vegas and LA
A customer-backed trip through CES, San Francisco and time with Alberto Savoia.
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Workshop
1 Nov 2018
Corporate Traveller at QANTAS: An innovative prize
A Corporate Traveller and Qantas Business Rewards innovation workshop prize.
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Private sessions
Selected roundtables and client sessions
Not every engagement has a public event page or recording. These selected private sessions are included as a compact reference, not as public media tiles.
5 Sep 2022
Bupa DRP Offsite - Guest Speaker
8 Mar 2022
Pretotyping and rapid experimentation, NSW Health / eHealth
3 Feb 2022
Leadership Collective CTO Roundtable
17 Jun 2021
Leadership Collective CTO Roundtable: Hacking your innovation pipeline like Google using Pretotyping
12 Mar 2020
Brownbag: PEXALabs and Pretotyping