Leading product teams in the age of AI

About this event

Hi Product People, We are excited to open the season of product talks after the summer break! In September, will discuss how AI is changing how product teams work. AI tools enable product leaders to independently explore data, validate assumptions, and more. This isn't a talk about AI hype, it's about practical ways AI is reshaping how product leaders ramp up and contribute from day one. ABOUT THE TALKS • The First 90 Days as a Product Leader: A Repeatable Playbook for Building a Point of View Before You've Earned the Context and Trust Speaker: Renata Zacarias (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renata-zacarias-1a4098b/), Director of Product Growth at Manychat (https://manychat.com/) The first months in a product leadership role can feel like a paradox: you're expected to make meaningful decisions before you've built deep context or earned organizational trust. While new leaders are often advised to "listen and learn" for an entire quarter, that approach rarely works in fast-moving companies. In this session, Renata will share a practical, repeatable playbook for becoming effective much earlier—forming informed opinions, creating value, and building credibility without disrupting what's already working. Drawing on her experiences leading product at Miro, VEED, and now Manychat, she'll share lessons from multiple leadership transitions, including insights from her current role just months into the journey. • Leading PMs in an AI-Pilled Teams Speaker: Nik Tkachev (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ntkachev/), Head of Product at Jetbrains (https://www.jetbrains.com/) Nik will show how product management and PM work are changing as entire organizations adopt AI agents and begin using them as their primary interface. We’ll explore how to understand what is going on, which interfaces agents require, and how to avoid the uncontrolled spread of AI slop. Nik is Head of Product for Air at JetBrains, where his team is exploring how agentic development is reshaping the way software teams work—moving from writing code with AI assistance to delegating meaningful parts of the development process to coding agents. Before joining JetBrains, he worked on various machine-learning products in the pre-AI era at AliExpress, Yandex, and Microsoft. SCHEDULE
 5:45 Arrive, grab a bite & drink
 6:00 Welcome from ProductTank Amsterdam team and Manychat
 6:15 - 8:00 Talks and Q&A with speakers Afterward, we’ll have plenty of time to mingle and talk product over drinks.
Location, Food & Drinks are sponsored by Manychat (https://manychat.com/). Thank you for supporting ProductTank Amsterdam!