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Ivelin
Zvezdov
AVP of Product Development
Verisk
Ivelin Zvezdov is AVP of Product Development and Head of Financial & Aggregate Modeling at Verisk, where he has spent nearly two decades leading the development of advanced catastrophe and financial risk modeling solutions for the global insurance industry. His work sits at the intersection of AI, quantitative analytics, and product innovation, helping insurers better understand and prepare for complex, large-scale risks. With previous leadership roles in energy trading and risk management at Calpine, Sempra Energy, and the American Bureau of Shipping, Ivelin brings a unique perspective on applying mathematical modeling to real-world business challenges. He studied Economics at the University of St Andrews and holds an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford. Alongside his work at Verisk, he contributes to environmental and public policy initiatives through the IUCN and as a writer for Modern Diplomacy.
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28 October 2026 10:15 - 11:00
Panel | Activation that converts: What actually gets users to their first win
Time-to-value is the metric that kills more PLG ambitions than any other. Teams obsess over sign-up flows and onboarding sequences, but the real problem is almost always deeper: they have not defined what the first win actually looks like for their user, or they have defined it in terms of their own business goals rather than the user's job to be done. This panel brings together practitioners who have rebuilt activation from the ground up and are willing to talk honestly about what they got wrong first. Panelists will share specific examples of activation changes that moved the needle, the data they used to identify the problem, and the organisational friction they had to overcome to fix it. Expect a practical, example-driven conversation rather than high-level principles. This is a session for product people who are in the weeds on conversion and want real benchmarks and approaches to take back to their teams.