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521: Leadership Crossroads–What Every Product Manager Must Know Before Their Next Move – with Kimberly Bloomston, CPO

Product Innovation Educators

Growing up in a tech-friendly household with an entrepreneurial father who owned retail businesses gave her early exposure to both technology and business operations. As VP of Operations, Kim worked with third-party engineering consultants to improve the platform’s ROI and customer outcomes.

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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Drawing from his 20+ years of technology experience and extensive research, Nishant shared insights about how these activities vary across different organizational contexts – from startups to enterprises, B2B to B2C, and Agile to Waterfall environments.

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527: The truth behind “CEO of the Product” – with Francesca Cortesi

Product Innovation Educators

Recently, at Hemnet, Sweden’s beloved property platform, she led product development that drove a 130% increase in top line revenues, making it the growth engine of the business. Leadership doesn’t always mean management Many professionals enter product management from technical backgrounds, such as engineering or development.

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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Additionally, he played a key role as a founding engineer at the online coding school Codecademy. For example, a sales engineer can rapidly spin up applications to showcase how your product works with APIs or other integrations. Use AI-powered platforms for quick prototyping. AI is powerful, but it’s not perfect.

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At Last, the Secrets to Effective Stakeholder and Board Member Communications are Revealed!

Speaker: Heather Wilde, Coach, Speaker, and CTO at theDifference | Pandora Ovanessian, CIO, VP of Technology, and Technology Consultant | Steve McConnell, Author of Code Complete and CEO at Construx Software

Translating engineering and technological jargon in an accessible way, one that encourages contribution for improvement and helps your stakeholders understand your organizations achievements, is difficult. Choose the right engineering KPIs. Make the case that engineering goals are in sync with business goals.

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Product Managers Misunderstood: We Don’t ‘Rule’ Silicon Valley—We Navigate Its Complexities

The Product Guy

Rather than rulers, product managers are navigators—balancing the competing demands of customers, engineers, designers, sales teams, and executives to ensure the right product gets built for the right reasons. The reality of product management is far from the commanding caricature the title suggests.

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528: From startup founder to product success and why interacting with people is the big change – with Anya Cheng

Product Innovation Educators

This approach has informed her success across different industries and roles, from retail to technology. This approach has informed her success across different industries and roles, from retail to technology.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation metrics for at-scale production guardrails.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward. There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into impactful products! There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Using this case study, he'll also take us through his systematic approach of iterative cycles of human feedback, engineering, and measuring performance. . 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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A Product Manager's Guide to Working Effectively with Engineering Teams

Speaker: Sayanti Ghosh, Product Manager – AI/ML at Teck Resources Ltd.

“There’s probably no more important relationship for a successful product manager than the one with your engineers" (INSPIRED by Marty Cagan). Behind every great product there is not one but many people, all of whom work tirelessly to combine technology and design to solve customer problems and meet business needs.

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Discover How Senior Technology Leaders Can Secure the Budget That They Need

Speaker: Kevin Goldsmith, Chief Technology Officer at Anaconda | Peyman Pouryekta, CEO and Technology Advisor | Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

With the ever-evolving technology landscape, CTOs are being presented with new services, technologies, and tools every day. This can be challenging, as engineering is often seen as a cost center, making it difficult to gain management buy-in for strategic investments. Determine the success of an investment.

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Is Your Test Automation Keeping Up With Your Codebase?

This guide illustrates how engineering leaders leverage AI to enhance the resilience and scalability of testing. Whether facing tight release cycles, fragile frameworks, or limited QA resources, this resource offers practical steps to improve test velocity and coverage without expanding your team or rebuilding your technology stack.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are less understood.