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Nitin T
Bhat
SVP & General Manager
Salesforce
Nitin operates at the rare intersection of hyperscale infrastructure, enterprise SaaS, and applied AI. As a veteran C-suite executive and "Single-Threaded Leader," he has a career defined by driving "hockey-stick" monetization and transforming complex organizations to build innovative products at scale. Currently, Nitin serves as SVP and General Manager at Salesforce, leading Heroku, where he manages the full P&L across Product, Marketing, and Data Science. Previously, as Chief Product Officer at Workiva (NYSE: WK), Nitin led a global organization of over 300+, overseeing the product strategy and strategic M&A that cemented the company as the global standard for GRC and financial reporting. With a portfolio of over 50 world-class B2B and B2C products launched at Amazon, Microsoft, and Smartsheet, Nitin blends deep operational experience with academic rigor. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Washington, teaching Data Science and AI to the next generation of tech leaders—a role that allows him to cut through AI hype and focus on strategies that deliver tangible ROI.
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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.