The new manifesto for product builders - Faith Forster (Chief Product Officer)
Faith Forster has spent 15 years in product leadership. She was VP of product at Dex, acquired for approximately $600 million, and went on to serve as CPO at Legal, a payments and compliance platform. She now runs discovery.com, an AI-native platform that helps product leaders and teams make fast...
What your developers aren't telling you - Cat Hicks (Psychologist)
Dr Cat Hicks is a psychological scientist and the founder of Catharsis, a human-centred research consultancy that works with engineering organisations. After self-funding her first open-access study into developer motivation, she was recruited to lead the Developer Success Lab at Pluralsight — a ...
What OpenAI taught me to unlearn — Blaine Billingsley (OpenAI, Slack, YouTube, Airbnb)
Blaine Billingsley is a Member of Technical Design Staff at OpenAI whose path into the field ran through music composition, spare-change website work at college, and a decade across Gmail, Airbnb, YouTube and Slack. At OpenAI he was hired to work on Presence, then redirected to solve a more immed...
How to lead a product team through AI adoption - Tiama Hanson-Drury (CPTO, Opus 2)
Tiama Hanson-Drury is CPTO at Opus 2, the legal technology company behind the systems that run some of the world's largest and most high-stakes litigation. She started her career in sales, moved into product in 2010 and has spent the last 16 years split roughly evenly between individual contribut...
Four mistakes scaling teams make - Julia Barham (Author and Product Executive)
Julia Barham leads a CX acquisition team at Progressive Insurance and is the author of The Product Management Playbook, published by Rosenfeld Media in July 2026. She wrote it to close what she sees as a coaching gap in the profession: a decade of product transformations has produced far more peo...
What I learned from building, and exiting a startup — Kirsten Mann (Strategic Advisor)
Kirsten Mann is a board director, product leader and, with this episode, a three-time guest on the podcast. Last time she was here, she was building Vizory, an AI tool that helps company directors get through board packs. This time she's back to explain why she isn't building it any more. Talking...
What is AI product management, really? Jonathan Evens (AI Product Lead, Google DeepMind)
Jonathan Evens is a product lead at Google DeepMind, where he has spent more than a decade applying machine learning and AI across industries — from the smart grid at AutoGrid, to detecting roads and buildings from satellite imagery at Planet, to recommender systems, Google Search's AI Overviews ...
How to fix your product roadmap — Matt Feczko (Director of Product Ops, Ocado Technology)
Matt Feczko is director of product operations at Ocado, the UK grocery technology company whose warehouse robots and delivery automation now run for retailers including Kroger in the US and Coles in Australia. He spent the first half of his career as a customer-facing product manager, starting on...
Four questions to ask before building AI into your product — Kendra Vant (Chief Product Officer, Tapi)
When you use an AI tool, how much time do you spend correcting it? And would your customers be willing to do the same?
Kendra Vant, Chief Product Officer at Tapi, joins Randy Silver to explore the “reliability layer”: the people, checks and engineering that make AI products dependable. She explai...
Evals, Analytics, and How to escape the feature factory: Francois Lopitaux (SVP Product Management, ThoughtSpot)
Francois Lopitaux is SVP of Product at ThoughtSpot, the analytics company built on the premise that you should be able to search your data like you search Google. He began his product career 18 years ago, when Salesforce acquired his Paris company, and went on to lead customer service, analytics ...
