24 February 2025 14:45 - 15:45
Elevate your professional network: Interactive roundtable discussions
Join us for an exclusive opportunity to engage in interactive roundtable discussions. One of our expert speakers will lead each discussion giving you a chance to deep dive into your chosen topic with our star-studded lineup and your fellow attendees.
Discover fresh insights, explore best practices, and forge valuable connections with peers who share your passion for driving innovation and growth. In these highly structured sessions, you'll have the chance to tackle your most pressing challenges head-on, celebrate recent successes, and engage in dynamic conversations with like-minded product leaders.
Topics:
- Data vs. Gut, when to ignore the metrics
- The rise of Product Ops, what does this mean for PMs?
- Ethical red line, features designed for addiction
- Roadmapping in hyper-volatile markets
- The PM-engineering tension, who owns the "How"?
- Work-life balance, managing the PM burnout backlog
25 February 2025 10:15 - 10:45
Strategic Storytelling : Lead with Influence Without Owning the Roadmap
This keynote explores how senior product leaders drive strategic outcomes without formal authority by mastering the craft of strategic storytelling. In complex, matrixed organizations, owning the roadmap is rare; but owning the narrative is powerful. Through real-world international growth examples, the talk demonstrates how leaders can identify untapped opportunities, anchor instinct in data, distinguish table stakes from true needle movers, and design 18-month horizons that align engineering, sales, finance, and regional teams around a coherent future.
At its core, the session reframes influence as clarity rather than politics. Instead of persuading through pressure or pre-alignment tactics, effective product leaders translate the same strategy into stakeholder-specific language, reduce strategic ambiguity, and make others the hero of the story. The result is alignment that feels rational, momentum that compounds over time, and growth that emerges not from authority ; but from narrative precision.