What is an AI Product Manager anyway? The OneNZ AI journey

We're back for 2026! Are you wondering what an 'AI Product Manager' actually does? Continuing our theme of real world AI product stories, come to hear from 5 amazing One NZ product people, some of whom have this title...

One NZ has one of the largest and broadest AI transformation programmes in NZ spanning all areas of its business - from finance to customer service to software engineering to back office processing. With almost 50 new AI solutions launched in the 2025, they are learning at a rapid pace what it takes to build and run AI.

The speakers will share the learnings, gotchas and wins. They're all using AI in their own work and teams so along with learning how to build and run AI they are also learning how to work with AI - it's been a HUGE change!

Natalie Burrows, AI Transformation Programme Director
Nat will share an overview of the AI Transformation Programme across One NZ - the mission, the mandate, and operating model.

Steph Randell, Senior AI Product Manager
Steph will share her learnings from developing & scaling our AI Concierge for 1 million+ mass market customers and what's different about managing AI products.

Kavita Nandha, AI Product Manager
Kavita will share her learnings from developing, scaling our suite of AI agents for all enterprise & business customers and co-creating agentic B2B experiences.

Ethan Li, AI Product Chapter Lead
Ethan will share his workbench for AI product management and experimenting with blending product & engineering crafts.

Neeharika Chowdhary, GM AI Product & Value
Neeharika will share her perspectives about the future of product management and learnings from scaling AI products & experiences across CX, AX, & EX.

Huge thanks to One NZ for hosting and sponsoring this event!

We're figuring out the livestreaming details - watch this space for updates on that. As always the livestream will kick off from just before 6pm.

And please take a moment to fill out the ProductTank Auckland 2026 topic survey! We'd love to hear what topics you'd like to see at an event this year. Click here for the survey: https://forms.gle/dNUKUf6bDaoTApJz5

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