Conference Speakers

Teresa Torres

Teresa Torres is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and coach. She teaches a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery that helps product teams infuse their daily product decisions with customer input. She’s coached hundreds of teams at companies of all sizes, from early-stage start-ups to global enterprises, in a variety of industries.

She has taught over 16,000 product people discovery skills through the Product Talk Academy.

She’s the author of the book Continuous Discovery Habits and blogs at ProductTalk.org.

Christian Idiodi

Christian has been a product leader for over 20 years, building teams and developing enterprise and consumer products that have shaped companies such as CareerBuilder and Merrill Corporation and clients such as Microsoft, Starbucks, and Squarespace. Christian is passionate about helping companies implement the discipline of product management to build world-class products and new technologies. Before joining Silicon Valley Product Group, Christian was the Global Head of Product for Merrill Corporation. He built the company's product organization and led them through a transformational, large-scale industry launch of the first SaaS app for due diligence in the finance industry. Christian is co-author of SVPG’s book, Transformed and host of the SVPG podcast, Product Therapy.

Elaine Kasket

Dr Elaine Kasket is a leading cyberpsychologist and Counselling Psychologist.

Elaine is an expert in how our digital choices shape our experience and relationships across the lifespan, at home and at work. Recognising the unprecedented nature of the psychological and social dilemmas we face in a technologically saturated world, she focuses on how we can deepen our wellbeing, maximise connection and relational depth, and retain our fundamental humanity in the digital era. Central to her philosophy is recognising and challenging our narratives of helplessness in the face of technology; realising the fuller extent of our power; and building more meaningful lives with and through tech.

Radhika Dutt

Radhika Dutt is the author of Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter which has been translated into Chinese and Japanese. The methodology she introduced in her first book is now used in over 40 countries. She is an entrepreneur, speaker, and product leader who has participated in five acquisitions, two of which were companies that she founded. She is currently Advisor on Product Thinking to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Singapore’s central bank and financial regulator), and does consulting and training for organizations ranging from high-tech startups to multinationals on building radical products that create a fundamental change. Radhika has built products in a wide range of industries including broadcast, media and entertainment, telecom, advertising technology, government, consumer apps, robotics, and even wine. She graduated from MIT with an SB and M.Eng in Electrical Engineering, and speaks nine languages.

Radhika is now working on her second book – it’s about why goals and targets backfire and what actually works.

Simonetta Batteiger

Simonetta is a product leadership coach helping product people figure out steps to advance their career while building thriving and successful products and teams. She is passionate about diversity in leadership and believes doing good things in the world, delivering value to users, building products ethically AND business success go hand in hand.

Thomas Brouwer

‍Thomas is a product leader based in Cologne, focused on AI and data products. After completing his PhD in machine learning at the University of Cambridge, he has worked as a product manager at Yelp, Apheris, and Blinkist, leading applied machine learning projects that bridge the gap between technology and strategy. He now works as a freelance product manager, helping teams build AI products that deliver real value, not just hype.

Surbhi Marwa

Surbhi is a product and commercial leader known for building platform businesses at the intersection of commerce, technology, and ecosystem partnerships. She is currently Head of Product at Zalando, where she leads strategic initiatives that strengthen partner integrations, retail capabilities, and scalable digital growth.

Her work focuses on turning complex systems into durable customer and business value — aligning commercial strategy, platform architecture, and product execution. With experience across marketplaces and enterprise ecosystems, she brings a pragmatic approach to modern product leadership: balancing long-term platform thinking with disciplined delivery.

Surbhi is particularly interested in how product leaders operate in ambiguity — from AI-driven transformation to evolving customer expectations — while staying anchored in core product principles.

She speaks about platform strategy, decision-making under uncertainty, and building ecosystems that scale value for customers, partners, and businesses.

Hayder Schneider

Hayder is a product leader in AI and predictive computing with over 15 years of experience spanning scientific computing, machine learning, and generative AI. He has driven product initiatives across corporate innovation and high-growth startups, building product organizations and platforms that translate advanced technology into measurable business impact.

He has overseen the development of scalable, compute- and data-intensive platform products for developers and end users, including two core platforms that accelerated application delivery through self-serve DevOps and MLOps practices and generated eight-figure business value and cost savings.

Most recently, Hayder served as Head of Product Management at Aleph Alpha, leading government and enterprise AI platform initiatives at the forefront of sovereign, foundation model adoption in Europe.

Jan Werner

Last year, Jan merged AI-generated code into production for the first time – as a non-developer. It was terrifying. Today, it's part of every product manager's toolkit at Instaffo. That shift fundamentally changed how he thinks about the PM role. When technical execution is no longer the bottleneck, the real questions take center stage: not "Can we build this?" but "Should we build this at all?".

With over 10 years in product management, Jan has always believed in a hands-on mentality – you don't just discuss the future of product work, you get your hands dirty and figure it out yourself. He previously led product management at Facelift and today serves as Lead Product Manager at Instaffo, a recruiting marketplace.

Pippa Topp

Pippa Topp is Chief Product Officer at giffgaff, a leading UK digital mobile network, recently stepping into the role permanently after serving as Interim CPO. Her career spans a journey from hands-on Product Manager to executive product leader, focused on evolving product teams from feature delivery to meaningful customer and commercial impact. Alongside leading at scale, Pippa founded EQ Product Group, where she has coached leaders and partnered with organisations to build modern, empowered product practices. She also supports MOLO, an AI-powered start-up helping families rebalance the mental load at home, and is a contributor to the King’s College London Product Accelerator Program. Pippa cares deeply about building the future of product in a way that keeps us human; advancing our technology while also growing our self-awareness, empathy, and connection. Because no matter how digital our world becomes, we still live, work, and create in deeply human ways.