World Congress 2026 North America
Building Pragmatic AI: 10 AI Features Your Users Actually Want
Jonathan "J." Tower
.NET Foundation Board | 12x Microsoft MVP | Founder & Consultant
World Congress 2026 North America
World Congress 2026 North America
September 23–25, 2026 · San José, CA
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Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping how digital products are conceived, designed, and delivered. Yet the most transformative innovation is not driven by AI alone, it emerges from the effective orchestration of human expertise and machine intelligence.
Drawing on product leadership experience across global technology organizations including Google, DocuSign, and Coinbase, this session explores how leading companies are integrating AI into product development workflows to accelerate innovation while preserving human judgment, creativity, and strategic decision-making.
Attendees will learn how AI is transforming engineering, product management, research, and operational processes; where human leadership remains indispensable; and how organizations can build scalable systems that maximize the strengths of both people and AI. The talk will also examine the emerging paradigm of human-AI collaboration, where AI automates routine and data-intensive tasks, enabling teams to focus on customer understanding, product strategy, cross-functional alignment, and high-impact decisions.
Key Takeaways
Understand how AI is reshaping the product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch.
Learn practical frameworks for integrating AI into product, engineering, and operational workflows. Identify which product development activities are best suited for AI augmentation versus human leadership.
Discover how leading technology organizations are balancing automation with creativity, judgment, and accountability.
Explore strategies for building high-performing teams that leverage AI to increase speed, quality, and innovation.
Gain insights into the future of product leadership in an increasingly AI-enabled world.
World Congress 2026 North America
Jonathan "J." Tower
.NET Foundation Board | 12x Microsoft MVP | Founder & Consultant
World Congress 2026 North America
Tomislav Tipurić
Chief Technology Officer, Nephos
World Congress 2026 North America
Manu Gurudatha
Manu Gurudatha, VP of Engineering at PagerDuty
World Congress 2026 North America
Viktoria Semaan
Principal Technical Evangelist at Databricks