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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.
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…
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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…21 votes -
The 5 Real Skills of Product Managers That Nobody Teaches (in the Age of AI)
Product management is often taught through frameworks, roadmaps, and prioritization techniques - but the skills that truly drive impact are rarely discussed. In the age of generative AI and emerging agentic systems, these skills are becoming even more critical. As AI accelerates execution (writing specs, analyzing data, and even generating product ideas), the role of the PM is shifting toward judgment, alignment, and decision-making. This session explores five essential capabilities that differentiate high-performing PMs: narrative thinking, influence without authority, decision-making under ambiguity, stakeholder alignment, and product judgment, and how these evolve when AI becomes a core collaborator in your workflow.
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The PM Energy Problem: Why Great PMs Burn Out (and How AI Changes the Equation)
The Product Manager is one of the few roles with unlimited scope, constant context switching, and ambiguous success metrics - making burnout a common but rarely addressed challenge. With the rise of GenAI tools, PMs now face a paradox: while AI can automate documentation, analysis, and coordination, it also accelerates the pace of work and increases expectations. This session introduces the “PM Energy Problem” in an AI-driven environment: why even high-performing PMs struggle to sustain impact, and explores how decision fatigue, invisible work, and competing priorities evolve with AI. Attendees will learn practical strategies to manage energy, leverage AI effectively,…
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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:
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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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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…
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Product Discovery in the Age of AI
AI can assist, augment and even automate much of a traditional PM's job. So what's left? Talking to customers, clients, prospects! Testing assumptions before they become deliverables.
Let's explore how AI augmented product discovery improve your speed to delivery AND ensure real customer needs are being met.
I will share some great tips on how to use AI as part of this process that you can use immediately.
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We Shipped Agentic AI in a Regulated Enterprise. The Hard Part Wasn't the AI
January 2025, Agentic AI was in its infancy — Gartner put significant enterprise investment at 19%, Manus hadn't shipped yet, and there was no playbook for Agentic AI. We started building one for a regulated government entity anyway.
Six months later, we had our 1st agentic app in production. Most don't get there. Only 15–20% of enterprises move agents past pilot, and Gartner expects 40%+ of agentic projects to be canceled by 2027.
This talk is about what was actually hard. Not the model. Not the agents. The users. The productization. The gap between a demo that dazzles and a…
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I Make Purple Kool-Aid, but I Don't Drink It - Lessons from the Trenches of Healthcare AI: Promise, Pitfalls, and Progress
"People should stop training radiologists now. It’s just completely obvious that within 5 years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists… It might be 10 years, but we’ve got plenty of radiologists already.” -Geoffrey Hinton (Presentation to the American Association of Physicists in Medicine - Oct 2016)
“I consider autonomous driving to be a basically solved problem… We’re less than two years away from complete autonomy.” -Elon Musk (Time Magazine/Code Conference 2016)
Yet here we are in 2026, radiologists still driving their Tesla to the hospital.
This talk presents an overview of how AI is being used in…
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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…
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The Hidden Costs of Vibe Coding: 500K+ lines, Four Apps, and What Broke?
Everyone's showing you the weekend demo — "I built an app in one prompt, watch." Over the last several months I've vibe-coded 500K+ lines across four apps and two open-source libraries and several private libraries. The marketing narrative and the operational reality are very different things, and nobody is talking about the second one.
This session is a field report on what actually breaks at scale — and what I had to build around each problem to keep shipping.
What we'll cover together:
Context management. What it looks like at 50K lines vs. 500K with multiple projects, and when you…
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Product Discovery Doesn't Just Work on Software
At ProductCamp 2024, I announced my new business (idea) and spent the day talking to PMs about it 1-on-1. The enthusiasm was overwhelming. All the highly experienced product managers I talked to thought it was an excellent idea. It turns out we were all wrong. Eighteen months later, I'd completely changed what I was building, because I actually did the research. This is a case study in applying software product validation principles to a non-software product: what I tested, what failed, what surprised me, and how the business I launched looks nothing like the one I was pitching in those…
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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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Breaking Into Product: Lessons from 50 Real Transitions into Product Management
When you look closely at how people actually transition into a PM role, the paths vary widely: Associate PM programs, MBAs, internal transfers, or moving from adjacent roles like engineering, project management, or customer success.
After speaking with 50 people who moved into product, one thing stood out: while their backgrounds were different, the behaviours that helped them break in were consistent.
This session explores those patterns:
- Where people came from before becoming PMs
- Whether product was their first role or a transition later in their career
- What kinds of companies enabled their first PM opportunity
- How long it typically…
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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…2 votes
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