17 June 2026 12:00 - 12:30
The new product equation: Why growth now depends on intelligence, cost, and speed
Product leadership is undergoing a fundamental shift. In the pre-AI era, great products were defined by user experience and feature velocity. Today, that’s table stakes.
In an AI-native world, every product decision is also an infrastructure decision, a cost decision, and a latency decision.
The best product leaders are no longer just builders—they are operators of complex economic systems.
In this talk, Nitin T Bhat (SVP Salesforce/former CPO and COO of Heroku, CPO of Workiva) introduces a new framework for modern product leadership:
Growth = Intelligence × Cost × Speed
He will share:
- Why AI is collapsing traditional product moats
- How inference cost is becoming the new gross margin lever
- Why speed is now an architectural constraint, not a team metric
- How the best companies are designing “economic feedback loops” into their products
This session is for leaders who want to move beyond shipping features—and start building products that scale profitably in the AI era.