ANNOTATION
The Future of PM: Skills, Trends, and AI – How to Navigate Change and Succeed?
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized many industries, and product management is no exception. Over the past 2–3 years, we have witnessed significant changes in the role of product managers and the expectations placed upon them.
In this panel discussion, we will explore the key skills and competencies that will be essential for product managers in the coming years. We will discuss what remains relevant and timeless, which additional trends (such as sustainability, ethics, remote work, and geopolitics) are shaping product management, and how the interaction with customers is evolving in the product development process.
Key Questions We Will Address:
- How are AI and LLMs reshaping expectations for product managers in terms of innovation, efficiency, and strategic decision-making?
- Which product management tasks can be automated with AI and LLMs, and which require a human touch?
- What traditional product management approaches and skills remain relevant and timeless?
- What additional trends (beyond AI and LLMs) are impacting the role of product managers (e.g., sustainability, ethics, remote work, geopolitics)
- How is customer interaction evolving in the product development process (e.g., personalization, customer involvement in development, feedback loops)?
- How is teamwork collaboration changing, and what leadership qualities are required in product management
What to Expect:
- Real-world case studies and practical insights.
- A discussion covering a wide range of trends and competencies in product management.
- An interactive session with audience engagement.
- A deep dive into how to adapt to the rise of AI and LLMs.
Who Should Attend:
- Product managers at all levels
- Developers and designers
- Business owners
- Anyone interested in the future of product management and emerging trends in the field
Helge Tennø
Helge is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of experience as a founder and consultant specializing in Busienss Design and customer centricity. He just finished after five years at the pharmaceutical company MSD where he as the Global Head of Customer Experience Strategy led the research and design of the commercial organization’s Customer Transformation.
Timoté Geimer
Timoté is the CEO of a leading consulting firm specializing in product management. With extensive experience as a startup operator, Timoté has successfully navigated the challenges of scaling, exiting, and sometimes crashing businesses. As a business angel via dualoop Ventures, Timoté invests in early-stage startups alongside a network of loopers and friends.
A frequent speaker at conferences and universities, Timoté trains, coaches, and advises tech companies of all sizes and shapes, focusing on strategy, organisational design, and product management.
Passionate about innovation, Timoté often says, “Never postpone to tomorrow what you can do today.” Proud achievements include a loving family, a vibrant team of loopers, satisfied customers, and successful events.
Under Timoté’s leadership, dualoop, founded in September 2021, has become the benchmark for product management in Belgium, serving clients across Europe with expertise in product and engineering transformation, coaching, product discovery, and staffing seasoned professionals.
Nigel Thurlow
Nigel previously served as the first-ever Chief of Agile at Toyota, where he created the World Agility Forum award-winning “Scrum the Toyota Way” and co-created The Flow System™, a holistic FLOW-based approach to delivering customer-first value built on a foundation of The Toyota Production System. He has also taught Scrum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
While at Toyota, Thurlow worked to frame Scrum as more than just a standardized behavioral process by applying and advancing fundamental methodologies to spur innovative, forward-thinking solutions to Toyota’s most complex challenges. He also founded the Toyota Agile Academy in 2018. These efforts signaled a transformative phase for Toyota, leading the company towards organizational agility and helping its team members better understand this concept in an automotive production context.
Thurlow is currently the Chief Executive Officer at The Flow Consortium, a collection of highly regarded companies in the Lean and Agile world — as well as the scientific and academic communities at large. The Flow Consortium strives to expand the boundaries of current Lean and Agile thinking through the understanding of complexity thinking, distributed leadership, and team science by tapping into the minds of top thought leaders from these concentrations.
As an author, Thurlow was named a Forbes top 10 author for co-authoring the book “The Flow System™” in 2020. He has recently co-authored “The Flow System Playbook” published in 2023 which presents a practical study guide and reference book to all the concepts covered in the first book.
Go to nigelthurlow.com for his complete biography.
Discussion Moderator
Jiří Tůma
Jirka se poprvé dostal ke správě produktů v AVG, kde odstartoval svou kariéru v oblasti produktového managementu. Ve společnosti Y Soft dále rozvíjel své zkušenosti s vedením B2B produktů, stavbou a vedením týmu produktových manažerů, designérů a částečně i product marketingu. Později pomáhal s rozvojem data-analytické platformy v GoodData. Aktuálně působí jako Principal Product Manager ve společnosti Invicti Security, která se zaměřuje na kybernetickou bezpečnost.
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