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1. Inference Economics: The Hidden Constraint Shaping AI Product Strategy

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   Inference Economics: The Hidden Constraint Shaping AI Product Strategy

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   Many teams rushing to build AI products focus on the visible layers: models, prompts, and user interfaces.

   But in practice, the hardest product decisions often emerge elsewhere — around cost unpredictability, model reliability, latency, governance, and how these constraints shape what products can realistically deliver.

   For product managers, this creates a new challenge:
   AI capability is no longer the main constraint, operational reality is.

   This session explores how these invisible constraints influence product strategy and roadmap decisions when building AI-powered products.

   Topics we’ll explore together:
   - Why many AI product ideas fail after the prototype stage
   - The new trade-offs product leaders must manage when shipping AI features
   - How infrastructure realities influence product design decisions
   - Lessons emerging from teams building real AI products today

   This session is intended as a discussion with the audience, not a lecture, where we share experiences and perspectives from teams navigating AI product development.

   SPEAKER
   George Nie
   Product Marketing Strategist at CLōD (clod.io)

   George Nie is Product Marketing Strategist at CLōD, where he explores how AI infrastructure quietly shapes the way products are built and shipped. He partners with engineering and business leadership to translate emerging shifts in AI inference into narratives that empower developers to move from experimentation to real-world impact.

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   Inference Economics: The Hidden Constraint Shaping AI Product Strategy

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   Many teams rushing to build AI products focus on the visible layers: models, prompts, and user interfaces.

   But in practice, the hardest product decisions often emerge elsewhere — around cost unpredictability, model reliability, latency, governance, and how these constraints shape what products can realistically deliver.

   For product managers, this creates a new challenge:
   AI capability is no longer the main constraint, operational reality is.

   This session explores how these invisible constraints influence product strategy and roadmap decisions when building AI-powered products.

   Topics we’ll explore together:
   - Why many AI… more

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2. A Game of Thrones: Hacking Politics at Large Orgs - From Ex-Adobe Product Head and Stanford MBA

   TL;DR: A brutally honest and counter-intuitive guide for turning visibility, timing, and narrative into promotions, buy-in, and real impact.

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   I didn't want to name-drop, but all the highest voted ideas last year all named-dropped - so please forgive me. :)

   Before I started at Adobe, I had never worked for a company I didn't start myself, and my friends found the idea of me joining a behemoth enterprise company so ridiculous that they created a pool for how long I'd last before I'd quit - with the most optimistic of the bunch betting 6 months.

   4 years, 5 bosses, 5 promos and 10 org changes later, I realized that while most people cared about building great product, what is much more important is being at the right place and time, saying the right things, to the right people.

   That strategy may or may not include waiting outside the head-office bathroom, casually working on my laptop, and 'accidentally' bumping into an SVP to pitch an idea.

   Things I'd like to talk about:

   • Why the only KPI that matters is lowering stress
   • How naming an idea is more important than having the idea
   • You care about data. Everyone else just cares about slogans about data.
   • How 80% of my work was unimpactful, and how I just stopped doing them
   • Do the right thing - but only when everyone else cares about doing the right thing (but also secretly do the right thing)
   • Build social capital - then SPEND IT

   Yes. This is mostly a indulgent therapy session where I get to recount all the ways I realized that my good product ideas were not going to be good enough on their own to get buy-in. I just hope that you have as much fun listening to it as I will have unloading and that some of these lessons will be valuable to you in your career and the wonderful things you want to build.

   The session will be participatory and I hope you bring your unfiltered stories with you.

   It's going to be fun.

   TL;DR: A brutally honest and counter-intuitive guide for turning visibility, timing, and narrative into promotions, buy-in, and real impact.

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   I didn't want to name-drop, but all the highest voted ideas last year all named-dropped - so please forgive me. :)

   Before I started at Adobe, I had never worked for a company I didn't start myself, and my friends found the idea of me joining a behemoth enterprise company so ridiculous that they created a pool for how long I'd last before I'd quit - with the most optimistic of the bunch betting 6 months.

   4 years, 5 bosses, 5… more

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3. Power is Not a Dirty Word: Know It, Build It, Use It Well

   Most people in tech don't think much about power. They focus on doing good work and hoping the organisation recognises it. That worked for a while. It's working less and less.

   With the pace of change accelerating and technology drastically reshaping careers, power is consolidating fast - in organisations, in industries, in the hands of people who understand how it works. The PMs and operators who consistently shape outcomes aren't just more skilled. They've learned how to build and use power.

   This session is a practical look at how power really works inside modern product and technology organisations.

   We'll cover:

   • Where power actually sits - formal vs. informal
   • Why some people consistently have more influence than others
   • Research-backed principles for building power deliberately

   You'll leave with:

   • A clear view of your current power position
   • The gaps limiting your influence today
   • 2-3 concrete moves you can apply immediately

   We'll also address the uncomfortable question: should you pursue power at all? Because if people who care about outcomes avoid power, they don't stay out of politics - they just lose to it.

   Ben Reuhman is a digital transformation executive with 12+ years leading large-scale technology programs across biotech, marine services, and utilities. He has spent his career navigating the gap between doing good work and making it matter.

   Format: Presentation.

   Most people in tech don't think much about power. They focus on doing good work and hoping the organisation recognises it. That worked for a while. It's working less and less.

   With the pace of change accelerating and technology drastically reshaping careers, power is consolidating fast - in organisations, in industries, in the hands of people who understand how it works. The PMs and operators who consistently shape outcomes aren't just more skilled. They've learned how to build and use power.

   This session is a practical look at how power really works inside modern product and technology organisations.

   We'll cover:

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4. Early Career PM: Expectations, Realities, and the Roll of a Dice

   Product management is one of the most romanticized roles in tech and one of the most variable, especially when you're just starting out.

   I'm a student who's interned across startups, public sector, and big tech in product, software development, and research roles. From a Series A startup to a government agency to Intuit – no two experiences looked the same.

   The title "PM" can mean wildly different things depending on the company, the team, and honestly, a bit of luck. Especially with employers looking at our generation as the up and coming "AI Native" graduate glasses, there is more variability in what might look like and it is important to gauge it, prepare of it and decide if it is it for you.

   This session is a candid, discussion-based conversation for anyone early in their PM journey or thinking about breaking in.

   Topics we'll explore together:

   • What early career PMs are actually expected to do and how much that varies by company size, industry, and team
   • How to make decisions and drive influence when you have no authority and no track record yet
   • The gap between the PM role you imagined and the one you actually land — and how to navigate that uncertainty

   I'll share what I've seen across very different environments, and I want to hear from the room too including especially from folks who've hired, managed, or mentored early career PMs.

   SPEAKER
   Avni Kapoor, PM Intern at Intuit | BSc Cognitive & Computer Science, SFU

   Avni is a student at Simon Fraser University with internship experience spanning startups, public sector, and big tech across product management, software development, and AI research.

   Most recently, she's been on the Intuit Agent Chat team driving mobile rollout across QuickBooks and TurboTax. Previous roles include PM and SWE intern at WorkSafeBC, APM at CoPilot AI, and AI research assistant at SFU's Rosie Lab. She's also Co-President of SFU Blueprint and Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science. More here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/avni-kapoor/

   Product management is one of the most romanticized roles in tech and one of the most variable, especially when you're just starting out.

   I'm a student who's interned across startups, public sector, and big tech in product, software development, and research roles. From a Series A startup to a government agency to Intuit – no two experiences looked the same.

   The title "PM" can mean wildly different things depending on the company, the team, and honestly, a bit of luck. Especially with employers looking at our generation as the up and coming "AI Native" graduate glasses, there is more variability… more

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5. NOPE! When Collaboration Doesn't Work

   Ever wonder why collaboration is supposed to be a core company value but stuff still doesn’t get done? Or why fire drills disrupt YOUR VERY IMPORTANT INITIATIVE for the third time this month? Or why an ideal customer doesn’t buy your stuff, even though they’re in pain?

   You may have “alignment” in theory. You may have the right messaging when working with your colleagues. You may even have the right messaging for your customers.

   But you may not have the right value at the right time.

   In a follow on to last year’s “Make Your Messaging Suck Less” we will go beyond “Who cares and why is that important?” into why your value may not be your colleague’s or customer’s value - even though you have the same goals. It turns out compensation plans and metrics matter.

   Attendees will come away with a framework for defining the value (and non-value) of their own workloads and how to get more stuff done, say NO with confidence, or maybe even sell more stuff. As with last year, no AI will be used or harmed during this session.

   Ever wonder why collaboration is supposed to be a core company value but stuff still doesn’t get done? Or why fire drills disrupt YOUR VERY IMPORTANT INITIATIVE for the third time this month? Or why an ideal customer doesn’t buy your stuff, even though they’re in pain?

   You may have “alignment” in theory. You may have the right messaging when working with your colleagues. You may even have the right messaging for your customers.

   But you may not have the right value at the right time.

   In a follow on to last year’s “Make Your Messaging Suck Less” we will… more

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6. How I use Claude skills to automate PMM & Sales Enablement tasks

   A walkthrough of how I use Claude skills and Obsidian to establish a clear positioning & differentiation playbook, which is used as the foundation to generate call prep notes, competitive analysis, battlecard, and more.

   This is a 15-min walkthrough followed by an open floor discussion for others to share their tips and tricks.

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7. You Are the Bottleneck Now

   AI made building stupidly fast. Deciding what to build didn't get faster. The bottleneck moved, and it moved onto you.

   LinkedIn killed its Associate PM program, replacing it with Product Builders. Stripe's AI Minions ship 1,300 pull requests a week from one Slack emoji. Andrew Ng's team proposed twice as many PMs as engineers. That's the opposite of every team structure you've ever seen. The most important question now is: should we even build this, and for whom?

   I'm Tony Hui, Head of Product at vidIQ. We stopped hiring traditional PMs since 2025 and only hire Product Engineers now. 80-90% of our code comes from Slack prompts. Our CEO talks straight to engineers without any middle management. The PM title disappeared but the actual work of figuring out what to build and why, that part matters more now than it ever did.

   AI can build pretty much anything. So the only real constraint left is knowing what to build. That's you.

   This talk covers why that makes you the most important person in the room and what you need to do to succeed. I'll go through what changed in the last 12 months, what the new PM role looks like in practice, and how to make the shift if you haven't already.

   Aspiring and early-career PMs: the PM role you've been studying for in all those YouTube videos doesn't exist anymore. The one that replaced it sits closer to the product and is way more technical. The playbook changed. Judgment is all you need now.

   If you disagree, come find me after. I gave last year’s End of Product Management talk and not enough of you did.

   AI made building stupidly fast. Deciding what to build didn't get faster. The bottleneck moved, and it moved onto you.

   LinkedIn killed its Associate PM program, replacing it with Product Builders. Stripe's AI Minions ship 1,300 pull requests a week from one Slack emoji. Andrew Ng's team proposed twice as many PMs as engineers. That's the opposite of every team structure you've ever seen. The most important question now is: should we even build this, and for whom?

   I'm Tony Hui, Head of Product at vidIQ. We stopped hiring traditional PMs since 2025 and only hire Product Engineers now. 80-90%… more

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8. Revenue Before Raise

   Valuable insights for first-time and early-stage startup founders focusing on "revenue-before-capital-raise". Practical tips for creating value before borrowing.

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9. The Intentional Career - Using strategic thinking & a hypothesis driven mindset to unlock your career & life

   Too often, our career choices, big and small, are reactions to events in life and work - this reactive approach often results in unsatisfying zig zags that causes you to miss your goals, both professional and personal. On the other hand, thinking about the future when there’s so much uncertainty is HARD.

   This session, an iteration on last year's popular talk of "Whatcha Doing Over There?”, shows you how you can create a long term, proactive approach to your career that can be tackled in small, achievable, hypothesis driven actions in your day to day work and life. Whether you want to get into management, start your own company, or want to have tonnes of personal freedom, it's possible to get there faster through this talk.

   You will learn how to:
   * Create a long term plan that can be deconstructed to actionable short term activities.
   * Learn a hypothesis driven mindset that let’s you learn from results without overthinking them
   * Treat work as something you test and improve, not something you judge
   * Better prepare yourself for the “waves” that come.

   About the Speaker: Eric Bin is a 25 year veteran of the tech industry with leadership roles at companies like Amazon, eBay, and Clio under his belt. Today he’s a career and leadership coach that helps mid-career professionals navigate the workplace by improving their craft, growing their leadership, and getting clarity on their careers.

   Too often, our career choices, big and small, are reactions to events in life and work - this reactive approach often results in unsatisfying zig zags that causes you to miss your goals, both professional and personal. On the other hand, thinking about the future when there’s so much uncertainty is HARD.

   This session, an iteration on last year's popular talk of "Whatcha Doing Over There?”, shows you how you can create a long term, proactive approach to your career that can be tackled in small, achievable, hypothesis driven actions in your day to day work and life. Whether you… more

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10. Nobody Claps When the Payment Goes Through.

    Every PM wants to ship something people love. But some products aren't built to be loved — they're built to disappear.
    Payments. Compliance. Tax infrastructure. ERP integrations. These are the products that run quietly in the background until they don't — and when they break, it's not a bad review or a drop in DAU. It's a frozen checkout, a regulatory audit, or a finance director on the phone at 3am.
    This talk is for PMs who build in the invisible lanes — or who want to understand what it actually takes to get there.
    Through real war stories from a TSYS-to-Stripe payments migration and a 0-to-1 India GST compliance launch, we'll unpack the mental models that separate PMs who survive high-stakes infrastructure work from those who don't: why edge cases are your real product, why documentation is a deliverable, why reversibility beats velocity, and why "I forgot your product existed" is the best thing a stakeholder can ever say to you.
    If you've ever shipped something critical and heard nothing — no celebration, no Slack emoji, just silence — this talk is about why that silence is the win, and how to build for it on purpose.

    Every PM wants to ship something people love. But some products aren't built to be loved — they're built to disappear.
    Payments. Compliance. Tax infrastructure. ERP integrations. These are the products that run quietly in the background until they don't — and when they break, it's not a bad review or a drop in DAU. It's a frozen checkout, a regulatory audit, or a finance director on the phone at 3am.
    This talk is for PMs who build in the invisible lanes — or who want to understand what it actually takes to get there.
    Through real war stories from… more

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