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Antonella
Stellacci
VP of Product Lounge
Zalando
Antonella has spent more than 20 years building products. At Zalando, she leads the product and technology organisation behind Lounge, spanning product, design, research, applied science and engineering across the full supplier and customer experience. Before that, she ran product, product ops and design at Appex, and spent four years at ASICS scaling global e-commerce and building out a 100+ person consumer tech division. Her earlier career took her through Wayfair, Microsoft, and Nokia, where she grew the App Store's global downloads from 1M to 17M a day. She's worked in both large corporations and startups, led teams of 100+ and worked solo as an IC, and is a committed mentor now looking to extend that beyond her immediate network.
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21 October 2026 09:10 - 09:40
Fireside chat | How AI is transforming product discovery at scale
AI changes the economics of product discovery by reducing the cost of exploring questions, analysing evidence, and testing ideas. This empowers product teams to investigate more possibilities before committing to solutions, leading to better-informed decisions while still requiring human judgment and critical thinking. Key takeaways include: - Explore more before committing by making expensive discovery work accessible to challenge assumptions early. - Accelerate learning rather than delivery by using rapid prototyping to identify ideas worth investing in. - Understand where AI helps since analysis accelerates, but validation remains essential because plausible outputs are not always trustworthy evidence. - Keep discovery a human and collective discipline where customer contact and critical debate turn information into insight.