Conference Speakers

Marty Cagan

Before founding the Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising and coaching, Marty Cagan served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay.

During his career, Marty has personally performed and managed most of the roles of a modern technology product organization, including product management, software development, product marketing, user experience design, software testing, engineering management, and general management.

As part of his work with SVPG, Marty is an invited speaker at major conferences and top companies across the globe. Marty is the author of INSPIRED: How To Create Tech Products Customers Love, co-author of EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products, and co-author of TRANSFORMED: Moving To The Product Operating Model

Elena Verna

Elena Verna is a seasoned growth and B2B SaaS operator with over 15 years of experience scaling companies through product-led strategies. She has held leadership roles at companies like Miro, SurveyMonkey, Amplitude, and Dropbox, overseeing growth, marketing, and analytics. Additionally, Elena has advised numerous companies, including Superhuman, Sanity, Veed, and MongoDB. She is an avid learner and a dedicated Reforge enthusiast, where she has also contributed as a course creator.

Afonso Malo Franco

Based in Norway, Afonso is a former VP of Product in one of the world´s largest edtech for healthcare companies and a former Product Director at one of the fastest-growing scaleups in Europe.

He is the founder of Scandinavian Product Group, working as a Product Coach helping companies discover value and transform to a product operating model within their context.

Afonso serves on several advisory boards and is the host of the Scandinavian Product Podcast - the #1 Product podcast in the Nordics with thousands of listeners - where he interviews global product & growth thought leaders and Scandinavian-based product minds.

Henrik Knieberg

Henrik Kniberg is Chief Scientist and cofounder of Ymnig.ai. He is an AI whisperer, trainer, product developer, and author. He created the viral video "Generative AI in a Nutshell" and the book with the same name. He is also famous for his videos "Spotify Engineering Culture", "Product Ownership in a Nutshell", and for silly metaphors such as the skateboard metaphor for product development, and for his work as Minecraft developer. He lives in Stockholm with his wife and four kids and a bunch of random music instruments.

Ronnie Varghese

Ronnie is the Principal Coach, Advisor, and Founder of Mindful Leadership Coaching and Consulting. He has over 21 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur, tech leader, transformation advisor, and leadership coach. He founded and scaled multiple tech startups to acquisition as CEO/CPO. He then joined Almosafer in its growth and transformation from a small, founder-driven startup to an empowered organization using the Product Operating Model.

Over seven years, he matured into the Chief Digital Officer, leading B2C and B2B products and platforms, design, data analytics, data science, partner platforms, and business process design. During his tenure, Almosafer grew from a scaling startup into a profitable $9 billion enterprise with over 70% market share.

Marc Roulet

Marc Roulet is the Vice President of Data and Analytics at sevdesk, where he leads the Data Science, Data Engineering and Analytics teams as part of the company’s management. In this role, Marc ensures that data is leveraged effectively to drive business growth and operational excellence. With over a decade of leadership experience at companies such as eBay, mobile.de and XING, Marc is a data evangelist at heart, focussed on building high-impact data organizations and fostering a truly data driven culture. His expertise lies in transforming complex datasets into actionable insights and developing data products that deliver measurable value to businesses.

In addition to his role at sevdesk, Marc is the founder of Roulet D&A Consulting, where he serves as a Data & Analytics Consultant. Through this venture, he supports organizations on their data transformation journeys, helping them unlock the full potential of their data ecosystems.

Stephanie Leue

Stephanie is a seasoned Product Executive with 17+ years of experience driving product vision, strategy, and leadership. She has built impactful products at PayPal, Contentful, Doodle, and now serves as CPO at Ringier Medien Schweiz.

Andrew Skotzko

Andrew Skotzko is a product leadership coach, writer, and host of the Make Things That Matter podcast. As a coach and strategy advisor, he helps tech execs navigate complexity and build highly effective, empowered, and ethical tech product companies. Previously, he led product teams for 15 years across 9 different industries and across all company stages ranging from small startups to the Fortune 100. He’s endlessly fascinated by what makes people tick, helps them thrive, and how to enliven creative potential.

Yi-Wei Ang

Yi-Wei is on a mission to build product-led organizations.

Product-led organizations are customer obsessed, data-driven, and experimentation-focused organizations that leverage the power of technology to solve problems across the company.

Yi-Wei is currently the Chief Product Officer at talabat, the largest Food Delivery and Q-Commerce company in the MENA region. talabat has 4000+ employees and is headquartered in Dubai, with Tech Hubs in Dubai & Cairo.

Yi-Wei has lived in Dubai, Singapore, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, Beijing, Hong Kong, And Kuala Lumpur.