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Folkert
de Vries
Global Director Product Management
AkzoNobel
Folkert de Vries is a Product Management Director at AkzoNobel, overseeing a €1B+ coatings portfolio in the automotive and vehicle refinish sector. With 9 years experience in marketing, business development and strategy consultancy across multinational environments, he leads a team of 15 with a strong focus on strategy, innovation, and execution. Folkert is passionate about building value-driven product strategies and exploring sustainable opportunities in industrial sectors. He is based in the Netherlands and recently became a proud new father.
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28 May 2026 16:00 - 16:45
Panel: The search for product-market fit 2.0: Finding demand in saturated categories
The era of easy growth through incremental features is over. For senior product leaders operating in mature, saturated markets, the challenge is not just competition—it's market inertia. This panel explores advanced frameworks for achieving Product-Market Fit 2.0: a radical pivot or expansion that unlocks entirely new demand. We will dissect how to: - Identify and combat the three forms of saturation: Market, Product, and PMF Degradation. - Move beyond standard user interviews to find unarticulated needs that generative AI and competitors haven't already addressed. - Design "disruptive wedges" that can crack open a mature category versus building complex, incremental features. - Define new growth metrics that measure the depth of value capture, not just the breadth of adoption.