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Presenters Nikita Miller Source ProductCon London 2026 Navigating the AI Tsunami: How Perk’s CPO Nikita Miller is Building for the Future 🚀💡 The tech world often feels like a rollercoaster, especially when a new wave of innovation hits. Right now, AI is that wave, and it’s bringing a mix of panic and unparalleled opportunity. Nikita Miller, CPO at Perk, a leading travel and spend management platform, recently shared her “spicy takes” on how product leaders can not only survive but thrive in this transformative era. ...

Presenters Kerry Small Source ProductCon London 2026 Navigating AI Transformation at Scale: BT’s Blueprint for Product-Led Growth 🚀 In the fast-paced world of technology, where startups often grab headlines with their agile “fail fast” mantras, how does a colossal, century-old incumbent like BT, the UK’s leading telco, innovate and transform with AI? Kerry Small, COO of a BT business unit, shares an insightful blueprint for evolving product management, fostering a unique product-engineering dynamic, and embracing a full-stack AI transformation. It’s a masterclass in balancing speed with responsibility, and growth with critical infrastructure. ...

Presenters Ashley Nutter Source ProductCon London 2026 Designing Smarter AI Workflows: The Strategic Power of Human-in-the-Loop 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever feel like AI is moving at lightning speed, but sometimes leaves us scratching our heads about how it makes its decisions? Ashley Nutter, a seasoned product leader at CNN, recently shed some light on this fascinating challenge, especially when it comes to designing “agentic workflows” – AI systems where an agent makes decisions or takes actions. ...

Presenters Carlos González de Villaumbrosia Source ProductCon London 2026 🚀 Beyond the Hype: Building the AI-Native Product Operating Model Since we started ProductCon in 2019, the world of software has transformed. But today, we find ourselves in a startling AI Paradox. On one hand, the “SaaS-pocalypse” wiped out $1 trillion in market value in a single week as investors feared AI agents would displace giants like Salesforce and Adobe. On the other hand, AI companies like XAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI are seeing valuations skyrocket toward the $800 billion mark. ...

Presenters Thomas Betts Madelyn Olson Source InfoQ podcast From Redis to Valkey: Engineering the Future of In-Memory Data 🚀 In the fast-moving world of software architecture, few events trigger as much immediate action as a major licensing shift. When Redis moved away from its open-source roots in March 2024, the community didn’t just complain—they built. Thomas Betts recently sat down with Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and Principal Engineer at AWS, to discuss how a dedicated group of engineers birthed a new industry standard in just eight days. Beyond the drama of the fork lies a story of deep technical refinement, where modernizing a 2009-era hashmap design led to staggering memory savings and performance gains. ...