Product Dakini

Your Technology is Brilliant. Your Go-to-Market Experimentation Isn't. A meetup on GTM Experiment Co-Design for Critical Industries Deep Tech

You've built something technically remarkable. The IP is protected, the TRLs are progressing, and the roadmap keeps growing. So why does getting it to market feel like hitting a wall?
Because technical readiness and go-to-market readiness are not the same thing — and in critical industries, confusing the two is costly.
In highly regulated sectors like energy, defence, aerospace, nuclear, and advanced manufacturing, go-to-market validation gets deferred again and again — until the window to course-correct has almost closed. Procurement cycles run 12–24 months. Internal agility is limited. And by the time teams reach their first real customer conversation, they've often built for the wrong buyer, priced for a market that doesn't pay, and solved a problem that isn't anyone's top spending priority.

This session introduces Go-to-Market Experiment Co-Design as the overlooked practice that sits between insight and investment — and makes the difference between technologies that ship and breakthroughs that actually matter.

What we'll cover:

• The consistent failure pattern in critical industries deep tech — and why it keeps repeating
• The 12 GTM anti-patterns that quietly kill commercialisation
• The ORBIT+ Method: a practical, human-centred framework for short, hypothesis-driven cycles of market learning
• Why the MVP isn't enough — and what an MVVVP changes
• Three tools you can use immediately: Problem Statement design, the GTM Experiment Co-Design Canvas, and Market Arena Framing
• The difference between a GTM Experiment Co-Design and a full GTM strategy — and which one you actually need right now

Who this is for:
This session is for deep tech founders, corporate innovation leads, technical leads, and leaders in critical industries who are operating in technically sophisticated, commercially under-tested environments — and who need to build market learning capability without waiting for a full commercial infrastructure to exist first.

Come ready to think differently about what it means to take your technology to market — and leave with tools you can apply the following week.

Rooted in eight years of go-to-market experimentation across startups, corporate innovation, government programmes, research organisations, and social enterprises in critical industries.

Learn more at: www.productdakini.com

The Future of Advanced Media Production in the UK
Ideas. Innovation. Honest Conversation.

The UK has long punched above its weight in media production. But the sector is at an inflection point — and the decisions made now, about technology, talent, investment, and collaboration, will shape the next decade.
This Meetup is a space to face that moment together.
We're creating a space to do something the industry rarely makes time for: slow down, zoom out, and think collectively about where we're headed and how we get there well.

What we'll explore together:

• Ideas & Trends — What does the near future of advanced media production actually look like? What shifts in technology, audience behaviour, and production practice are quietly becoming impossible to ignore?

• Companies, Products & Innovations to Watch — Who's doing something genuinely new? We'll spotlight examples of UK companies, tools, and initiatives that are pushing the boundaries of what advanced media production can be — and open the floor for attendees to share their own.

• Challenges & Risks — Growth, talent pipelines, funding, infrastructure, the pace of technological change — the sector is navigating real headwinds. This is a candid space to name them, not gloss over them.

• Learning from Each Other — The most valuable thing in this room will be the people in it. We'll create break-out rooms for you to mingle and to share about your work, your hopes for the sector, and where collaboration — the kind that actually happens — might be possible.

Who this is for:
If you work in, build for, invest in, or think continuously about the future of media production in the UK — this is your room. Whether you come with answers, questions, or simply curiosity, you'll find people worth talking to.

No panels. No pitches. Just good conversation with people who give a damn about where this sector is going.

Learn to Make AI Do Real Work for You
2.5 hours of hands-on building with Claude and Lovable — for people who are ready to go further.

You're not new to AI. You've tried the tools, followed the conversation, maybe built a few things. But there's a gap between using AI as a fancy search engine and using it as a genuine force multiplier for your work — and you know it.
This session is designed to close that gap.

In 2.5 focused, hands-on hours, you'll move from thinking about AI to building with it. You'll leave with a robust working tool, a practical framework for knowing when and how to use AI well, and the kind of instincts that only come from actually doing it in a room with other sharp people.

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What the session covers:

• Is This an AI Problem? Not every problem is an AI problem — and knowing the difference is the first real skill. A practical framework for identifying where AI genuinely adds value, followed by a live exercise and a chance to brainstorm and rank your own ideas.
• Write Your Spec Product thinking for AI: before you touch a tool, define what success actually looks like, how you'll test your way there, and what can go wrong. The step most people skip — and the one that separates good builds from wasted afternoons.
• Prompting That Actually Works Context engineering, iterative prompting, and the practical difference between outputs that are useful and outputs that are noise. Learn the thinking behind prompts that produce real results.
• The AI Toolkit What Claude, Lovable, and the wider toolkit each do well — and when to reach for which. How professionals in different roles stack and sequence them to get actual work done.
• Happy Mingle A proper break with interesting people. The conversations that start here tend to be worth having.
• Build Your Idea This is the main event. Take your spec and build it — three quick mini sprints with coach circulating the breakout rooms to unblock, challenge, and push you further. Ends with a 60-second share-out from every builder.
• Demos See what's possible. Get ideas. Leave inspired.

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Who this is for:

• You're good at what you do. You've been paying attention to AI — maybe using it a little — but you know there's more.
• You want to learn by doing, not by watching someone else's polished demo. And you'd rather spend a few hours with thoughtful, interesting people building and experimenting than sit through another panel discussion about the future.

If that sounds like you, this session was designed with you in mind.

Spots are limited to keep the room genuinely collaborative. Bring a problem worth solving , ideally you already have Claude and Lovable— and expect to leave with something real.