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Syam
Nair
Chief Product Officer
NetApp
Syam Nair is Chief Product Officer at NetApp, where he leads the company’s product and engineering teams to accelerate innovation in hybrid cloud and AI offerings and advance NetApp’s strategic vision for data-driven business growth. Mr. Nair is renowned as a disruptive innovator in the industry, bringing over 25 years of experience in scaling cloud platforms and driving hyper-growth. Mr. Nair has an exceptional track record in incubating new technologies from the ground up and leading large teams through transformations at scale. During his tenure at Microsoft, Mr. Nair was part of the leadership team that built and expanded globally distributed Azure data services. At Salesforce, his leadership pioneered industry-defining innovations including Salesforce Data Cloud, the next generation Agentic platform. Prior to joining NetApp, Mr. Nair doubled the scale of the world’s largest inline security cloud as Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research & Development at Zscaler. Mr. Nair holds a master’s degree in computer science and applications engineering from Goa University in India and an MBA in strategy and leadership from Indiana University – Kelley School of Business.
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24 September 2026 09:15 - 10:00
Panel - The great product reset: Leading in the agentic AI era
Generative AI may have captured the headlines, but agentic AI is poised to fundamentally reshape how products are built, experienced, and monetized. As autonomous agents move from experimentation to real-world deployment, product leaders face a new set of challenges: rethinking user experiences, redesigning product architectures, redefining team structures, and establishing new measures of value and trust. In this panel discussion, senior product executives will explore how leading organizations are adapting their product strategies for an era where AI can act, decide, and execute on behalf of users. From platform design and governance to customer adoption and organizational change, panelists will share practical lessons on what needs to be rebuilt—and what should remain unchanged—as product teams prepare for the next wave of innovation. Key Takeaways: - Understand how agentic AI differs from traditional generative AI and why it represents a major shift for product strategy. - Learn which aspects of the product experience, operating model, and technology stack require the most significant rethinking. - Discover how leading organizations are balancing innovation, trust, governance, and customer value. - Explore new opportunities for growth, differentiation, and competitive advantage in an AI-first market. - Gain practical insights for preparing your product teams, roadmaps, and organizations for the agentic future.