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.