Product & Technology

With the explosion of excitement around generative AI, many companies are asking how it will affect them. While not every company has a strategy to become an AI company, every company can use AI to be more efficient. In this session, Tony Aug, Co-Founder and CEO of Nimble Gravity, walks through how generative AI models work, use cases for a non-AI company, and how to refine your use of generative AI.

Audrey Crane is a Partner at DesignMap, and has worked with companies like Salesforce, Docker, NetApp, and eBay over her 25 years in tech. In this guide, she explains how to build out a design function, including how many designers you need, what skills to look for in a hire, and how to leverage third-party design firms.

Mary Thengvall leads developer relations at Camunda, and has long been a thought leader in the guide, authoring the book, "The Business Value of Developer Relations" and publishing DevRel Weekly. In this guide, she describes what DevRel is, and how to stand up a function to drive developer awareness, enablement, and engagement.

Nimble Gravity is an international data science, engineering, and digital transformation advisory firm. They leverage business acumen, data acquisition and engineering, and AI/ML techniques to generate impactful insights. In this guide, Co-Founder Joe Ackert walks through how to build out a global engineering team, outlining the pros and cons of each global region, management tips for a global engineering team, and how to integrate global engineering into your home operations.

Dave Boyce is a go-to-market-focused advisor and board member with over 20 years of experience leading SaaS companies. Dave is the author of Product That Sells Itself, the forthcoming book from Stanford Business Press. Previously, Dave was the Chief Strategy Officer at InsideSales.com, CEO of ZenPrint, and the GM Consulting and PLG Practice Lead at Winning by Design. In this guide, Dave walks through the different approaches to building product-led growth and outfitting teams and your product to support self-service sales, renewal, and onboarding.

Bob Flores is the Founder and CEO of CyberSweep, a cybersecurity firm. Bob specializes in PE carve-outs, mergers, and acquisitions, and has designed IT and IS solutions for the Carlyle Group, KKR, and Thoma Bravo. Previously, Bob was Chief Information Officer at Accuris and Coalfire. In this guide, Bob walks through the foundations of strong cybersecurity programs, the role of security risk assessments in M&A, and the importance of governance and risk mitigation for companies with sensitive data.

Crafted is a product development consultancy that partners with growth-stage companies to deliver custom software. Their radical approach to continuous collaboration helps teams see tangible outcomes within 30 days and impacts aggressive growth targets. Crafted does this with experienced teams of engineers, product managers, and designers who believe in transparency and trust. In this guide, the team from Crafted walks through building an AI chatbot, including choosing use cases, deciding on a training approach, and managing deployment risks.

Sara Zalowitz is Managing Director and Sr. Advisor/Coach at Prodify. Sara has 20+ years of experience in product management, including roles such as the CPO at Rent the Runway, VP of Product Management at WeddingWire and Barnes & Noble, and VP of Digital and Tech Innovation at Marriott. In this guide, Sara walks through building and scaling a product management function for consumer tech, including hiring, structuring teams, and roadmapping.

Rich Mironov is the CEO/Product Management Executive at Mironov Consulting where he has advised more than 190 tech companies and Heads of Product. In this guide, he walks through building and scaling a product org at a software company, including how to hire, reducing the distance between customer feedback and engineering, and product org structure.

Vignesh Mohankumar is the founder of Nila, an AI engineering firm that partners with technical leaders to ship production AI systems. He specializes in implementing AI across the dev process and training technical teams to work more efficiently by leveraging AI. Previously, Vignesh led the growth engineering team at Drift, a conversational AI company that was acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.2B. In this guide, Vignesh explains how to scope your first AI use case, identify applications based on risk profile and feasibility, and approach building and training your solution.