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31/08/2026

✨ Chicago speaker announcement 🎉

We are excited to announce that Emily Andrews, VP of Global Product Management at McDonald's, will be taking the stage at our conference in Chicago, on October 7.

For her talk, The Product Purity Trap, Emily draws on her experience leading product at McDonald's, and she makes the case for a different kind of product leadership: one built on pragmatism, business acumen, and the trust you earn. The principles still matter. The question is how to apply them when the org chart doesn't cooperate.

What you will take away:

🔹 Why chasing the "perfect" operating model often gets in the way of doing great work
🔹 How to apply core product principles when ownership is shared and influence matters more than authority
🔹 Practical approaches to building the cross-functional trust that makes hard decisions easier
🔹 A more honest framework for what effective product leadership looks like inside large, complex organizations

Get your ticket 👉 https://bit.ly/3SJs3Io

28/08/2026

In this community contribution, Andrey Lokot shares how he did something most engineers would argue against: he moved the complexity to the front end.

"The defensibility came from solving a tedious technical problem correctly, not from any strategic thinking about lock-in."

He covers the architectural decision that eliminated loan application fatigue at UMI, and what it taught him about building on top of external partners.

Read the full article 👉 https://bit.ly/4wRMTDk

26/08/2026

✨ BELIEVE ✨

The Ted Lasso Season 4 finale drops on October 7th. So does our Chicago conference 👀. In case you missed it, Brendan Hunt, Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, and co-creator of Ted Lasso, will be joining us in Chicago for a fireside chat with Mike Belsito.

As Coach Beard, he spent four seasons showing what it looks like to lead without ego: showing up, staying curious, and making everyone around him better. As co-creator and executive producer, he knows what it took to actually build that story: the collaboration, the risk-taking, the willingness to stay in the room with strong opinions and not let them flatten you.

In this fireside chat, they will pull apart the leadership principles woven into Ted Lasso, and what they look like in practice for people building products and teams today.

We believe there is only one place to be on October 7th.

Get your ticket 👉 https://bit.ly/3SJs3Io

25/08/2026

✍️ From our community

"The real architects of product design today aren’t only the engineering team, the product manager, or even the CMO. It’s also the algorithm."

Eksh*ta Kumar, VP of Strategy & Growth at ZAGG, introduces the Algorithmic Cost Compression Loop: the invisible force quietly dictating hardware specs, costs, and quality before a single CAD drawing begins.

Read now 👉 https://bit.ly/3TYjbiB

24/08/2026

✨ Chicago speaker spotlight ✨

Build AI Products as Systems of Trust

Alexis Zheng, Chief Product and Technology Officer at G2, will make the case that the next bottleneck in AI adoption isn't data or compute, it's trust.`

She's spent over a decade building AI/ML systems at scale at companies like LinkedIn, Uber, Grab, Cruise, HPE, and now leads product and technology at the company that verifies the software world trusts.

In Chicago, she'll break down how to how to build trust directly into the product.

What you will take away:

🔹 Why trust — not data or compute — is the bottleneck of AI adoption
🔹 How to evaluate the whole system, not just the model, and why benchmarks pass while the product still fails in front of a customer
🔹 What can be verified can be automated — how evals are the key to building AI products of trust
🔹 How trust is even more important when agents — not their humans — are making the decisions in modern enterprise products

Get your ticket 👉 https://bit.ly/3SJs3Io

21/08/2026

Govind G Nair, Senior PM working on AI for regulatory compliance, shares how a B2B product can solve a real problem and still fail: if the buyer has no incentive to act, if the packaging is not right, or if the channel cannot reach them.

His conclusion: product-market fit is actually product-market-buyer-channel fit.

"The mistake was not building something useless. The mistake was assuming that usefulness was enough."

Read the full article 👉 https://bit.ly/46cijJO

20/08/2026

✨ Chicago speaker spotlight ✨

Product Management Has Never Held Still

Product management has been reinvented every decade since it began. Alicia Dixon's keynote isn't about the core PM tenets — it's about how to actually run them when leadership is chasing the latest hype cycle and your job looks safer if you just go along with it.

Drawing on two decades across six industries, she's bringing concrete tactics for protecting discovery, user focus, and business outcomes when the pressure to skip them is coming from your boss, not the market.

Don't miss our Chicago conference, October 7 at Harris Theater.

Check out the agenda and grab your ticket 👉 https://bit.ly/3SJs3Io

19/08/2026

, aka Coach Beard, co-author of Ted Lasso, is coming to Chicago 🎉

Link in bio

18/08/2026

Akash Rathi, Product Manager for Pixel Phones at Google, argues that most AI hardware products fail not because of poor ex*****on, but because they should never have been built in the first place.

He shares the 4C Viability Test: a simple Stage 0 filter (Customer, Competition, Cost, and Capabilities) to pressure-test whether a product deserves to exist at all.
If a product fails even one of these, that’s usually a signal to rethink, pivot, or simply walk away.

"In software, you can often iterate your way out of a bad idea. In hardware, that is simply not possible."

Read the full article 👉 https://bit.ly/3U7f2Zw

17/08/2026

Guess who’s joining our Chicago conference line-up?
Wrong answers only👇

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