ON-SITE: ProductTank Hamburg - October 2026

We're beyond excited to kick off fall with two great speakers with tales from the product frontlines. Join us in October to hear about shaking grounds and what parts of product management remain the same, even when the world around us is changing at rapid speed...

Eva Gao: Out of the trench - empowering your team when the ground is shaking
No one in product is leading in stable conditions right now. The ground is moving for everyone. Eva spent years in a deep trench of an unstable market, AI software challengers, and organisational restructuring.
This talk is about what actually got her team executing again. Not a framework from a book, but a repeatable method that works. Told end to end through real stories: from a team in the deep trenches to shipping the first AI feature to the full team AI fluency that followed.
You'll leave knowing how to spot friction that hinders execution before it announces itself, how to build ownership without pressure, and how peer-teaching is what makes empowerment scale.

About Eva
Eva is a product leader with ten years' experience building SaaS across three continents. Currently leading an international team spanning Canada and Germany, she puts team development and success in strong focus. With passion and track records to show for it, she proves that building a thriving product organisation and strong product outcomes is not a trade-off.

Grigory Miroshnikov: Building AI Products: What Changes for Product Managers
Building products with AI or ML does not fundamentally change the product management process: understand the user problem, build a solution, and validate that it creates value. What does change is the need to explicitly define and manage the quality of the AI or ML component of the product.
In this talk, Grigory will focus on how PMs can define what “good” means, choose useful offline metrics and evals, and connect model quality to real user and business outcomes. He'll illustrate this with practical examples from ML-powered products he's worked on across different industries, including telecom, consumer video, marketplaces, and logistics.

About Grigory
Grigory is a product leader with 10+ years of experience building B2C and B2B products. Building AI/ML-powered products is a particular passion of his, with experience applying ML across search, recommendations, marketplaces, and logistics. He is currently a Senior PM at Zalando, where he is building an ML-based product for warehouse steering and logistics optimization. Prior to moving to Germany, he spent five years leading product teams at Yandex, one of Russia’s largest tech companies.

Who is this event for?
ProductTanks are open to all curious product folks: whether you're in Product Management, UX, Engineering, or simply want to connect with your peers in Hamburg's vibrant product scene, this evening is for you. We’re all about genuine connections, so please come ready to network and share, not just for the drinks...

Attendance is free, but please register to help us plan.

Location and drinks will be kindly provided by 1KOMMA5°- thank you so much for your support!