Sign In
Register

Partner with us

Register now

Call to action
Your text goes here. Insert your content, thoughts, or information in this space.
Button

Back to speakers

James
Colgan
Operating Partner
Cathay Innovation
James devoted his entire career to maximizing the customer experience. While doing so, teams he’s led have dominated markets, implemented transformational strategies, strengthened customer relationships, and inspired cross-functional teams to deliver exciting product innovations. James has a history of rapidly growing business for revolutionary startups, unicorn scale-ups, respected organizations, and multibillion-dollar juggernauts at breakneck speeds by optimizing the entire customer and user journey. Respected for demonstrating deep customer empathy while developing highly rated user-centric products, James is known for leveraging disruptive technologies and analytic-based knowledge of user behaviors/needs to spur tremendous growth.
Button
22 September 2026 13:30 - 14:15
Interactive roundtables: Your biggest PLG challenge (and how others solved It)
Join us for an exclusive opportunity to engage in interactive roundtable discussions. One of our expert speakers will lead each discussion giving you a chance to deep dive into your chosen topic with our star-studded lineup and your fellow attendees. Discover fresh insights, explore best practices, and forge valuable connections with peers who share your passion for driving innovation and growth. In these highly structured sessions, you'll have the chance to tackle your most pressing challenges head-on, celebrate recent successes, and engage in dynamic conversations with like-minded product leaders. Discussion topics to be announced soon. Previous topics include: Driving activation and reducing time-to-value, retention strategies that actually move the needle, product-led growth in the enterprise, building products customers love in the AI era, and scaling experimentation without slowing delivery.
22 September 2026 16:15 - 16:45
The future of product design is emotional
In a world obsessed with speed, automation, and shipping faster, many products are becoming functionally impressive — but emotionally forgettable. So what actually makes people connect with a product? Drawing from experience at Microsoft, Spotify, and across 0-to-1 product initiatives, Yan Liu explores how modern product teams can design experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and genuinely engaging for users — not just optimized for metrics. Rather than focusing purely on tools or trends, this session examines the evolving relationship between product thinking, design systems, growth, and user behavior. Attendees will leave with practical ways to build products that not only perform well — but create lasting user connection.