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Liz
Goulding
Chief Product Officer
The Economist
Liz Goulding is Managing Director of Economist Education and Chief Product Officer at The Economist, where she leads digital product strategy and performance across its global subscriber business while also building new growth opportunities across executive education and corporate partnerships. With a career spanning media, sport, education and consumer platforms, Liz has led product and technology teams across some of the world's most recognised digital brands. Her experience includes leading digital sports products across 69 markets at Discovery, shaping the digital experience for three Olympic Games, and heading digital platforms at Sky Sports. At The Economist, Liz leads teams across product, engineering and design, driving AI-led product development, new revenue lines and the evolution of the organisation's digital platforms.
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01 December 2026 13:45 - 14:30
Panel - Everyone’s building faster. Who’s building better? Product judgment in the Age of AI.
Ideas become prototypes in hours. Products evolve overnight. Agents are starting to decide and act on our behalf. But building faster doesn’t mean building better. As products shift from tools people use to systems that act for them, the hard question changes: what deserves to exist, when is it ready, and will people trust it enough to rely on it? That trust is earned or lost in the quality of what AI generates, and customers notice every time it falls short. Drawing on new research into how AI is reshaping product development, and on the first-time moments that defined earlier technology shifts, our panel explores why judgment gains value as creation becomes cheap, what human evidence should inform it, and what it takes to build AI experiences people come back to.