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Richard
Bedford
Senior Vice President, Product Lead
Citi
Richard Bedford is a senior executive at Citi, serving as Senior Vice President within Core Accounts. He brings experience in financial services and enterprise banking, with a focus on supporting core account operations and delivering effective solutions within a global financial institution.
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02 December 2026 09:45 - 10:30
Panel | Prioritisation without the ceremony: Roadmap frameworks that survive stakeholder pressure
Every product team has a prioritisation framework. Most of them fall apart the moment a senior stakeholder pushes back. This panel brings together product leaders who've built roadmaps that hold up under real pressure, without turning planning into a quarterly ceremony. Expect a practical, occasionally blunt conversation about what to cut from your prioritisation process, and what to protect at all costs when the room disagrees with your priorities. Attendee takeaways - A lighter-weight alternative to heavyweight scoring frameworks - How to defend a roadmap decision without re-running the whole analysis - Where to draw the line between stakeholder input and stakeholder control
03 December 2026 14:30 - 15:00
The evolving PM role: Leading product through compressed teams and AI delegation
Product teams are getting smaller while AI takes on more of the work product managers used to do themselves. This closing keynote is a reflective look at what the PM role becomes when both of those things are true at once. Rather than tactics, the session focuses on how leading product managers are redefining their own value as teams compress and AI takes on discovery, specs, and research work that used to be theirs alone. Attendee takeaways - What AI delegation changes about the PM's day-to-day role - How to lead a compressed team without simply doing more yourself - A framing for where human judgement still matters most in product