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Kaushal
Shukla
Vice President, Product
Moniepoint Group
Kaushal Shukla is a fintech product leader currently serving as VP of Payments at Moniepoint Group, where he focuses on building payment products that make financial access simpler, more human, and more inclusive. Based in London, Kaushal brings more than a decade of cross-industry experience spanning fintech, ecommerce, consulting, and public health, with a strong focus on solving meaningful problems in underserved markets. Before joining Moniepoint, Kaushal worked across organizations including Deloitte and Klarna, alongside public health initiatives with governments and UN agencies. His diverse background gives him a unique perspective on building customer-centered financial products at scale, combining operational rigor with empathy-driven product thinking across emerging markets and complex systems.
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18 June 2026 09:15 - 09:45
PM 2029: Not the CEO, but a Solopreneur
The "CEO of the product" was always a comfortable lie. CEOs have authority, budget, and ownership. Product managers have responsibility without any of the three. The role was designed for coordination — not creation. And the best PMs have always known it. That changes by 2029. AI is collapsing the distance between product thinking and product reality. One person with the right skills and an AI stack can now do what once required an entire funded team — research, design, build, ship, and iterate — at a speed and cost that would have been unimaginable five years ago. The solopreneur PM isn't a side hustle or a startup fantasy. It's the next evolutionary form of the role — and it's already here.