Name: ProductTank Lightning Talks
Start: 2026-09-30T17:30:00.000Z
Location: Penta Hotel, RG

**Liebe Produkt-Enthusiast:innen aus Bielefeld und OWL,** 🎉
wir laden euch herzlich zum nächsten ProductTank Bielefeld ein!
Freut euch auf einen inspirierenden Abend voller spannender Impulse, Networking in entspannter Atmosphäre und den Austausch mit Gleichgesinnten aus der regionalen Product-Community. 🤝🌐
In diesem Jahr mit neuer Location.
Danke an unseren Partner die Founders Foundation gGmbH, WEGE (Wirtschaftsförderung für Bielefeld) und an VDI OWL.

**Wann?**
16.09.2026 um 17.30 Uhr

**Wo?**
Founders Foundation - [Obernstraße 50, 33602 Bielefeld](https://www.google.com/maps/place//data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x47ba3d19c1aafa6d:0x36b8fb2a6b699fcd?sa=X&ved=1t:8290&ictx=111)

**Thema:**
1\. Der Flaschenhals von Enterprise AI ist nicht das Modell“ – Warum Dateninfrastruktur den Unterschied macht

2\. "Lasst uns einfach eine eigene KI\-Lernplattform bauen" – Rückblick auf ein Jahr Produktentwicklung zwischen Kundenanforderungen und Feature\-Rausch

**Speaker:**
1\. Tobias Rebert \- Co\-Founder und CO\-CEO der Tentris GmbH\, einem Deep\-Tech\-Spin\-off der Universität Paderborn\. Gemeinsam mit seinem Team entwickelt er TentrisDB\, eine neuartige RDF\-Graphdatenbank\, die die Grundlage für die nächste Generation von Enterprise AI schafft\. Tentris ermöglicht Unternehmen\, vernetzte Daten deutlich schneller und ressourceneffizienter zu analysieren und baut damit die semantische Infrastruktur für intelligente\, vertrauenswürdige KI\-Anwendungen\.

2\. Andreas Kansy – AI Adoption Manager bei der Unfuture GmbH\, einer Bielefelder Beratung für unternehmensweite KI\-Transformation im Mittelstand\. Er verantwortet die AI Academy\, eine KI\-native Lernplattform\, die KI\-Kompetenz über Videos\, interaktive Übungen und einen persönlichen KI\-Tutor vermittelt\. Heute lernen rund 2\.500 Mitarbeitende weltweit über die Plattform\. Als Mathematiker mit langjähriger Entwicklungs\-\, aber ohne Produkterfahrung hat er die Academy mit KI als Hebel vom ersten Prototypen bis zum Produktivsystem aufgebaut\.

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**Kurz nochmal, worum es bei ProductTank Bielefeld/ OWL geht**
Unser Ziel ist es, eine lebendige Product Community aufzubauen, die gemeinsam in allen Bereichen rund um das Produkt lernen und wachsen möchte. ProduktTank Bielefeld wird der Ort sein, an dem wir uns von inspirierenden Vorträgen inspirieren lassen, Ideen und Herausforderungen in einer unterstützenden Gemeinschaft teilen und einfach Gleichgesinnte treffen können.
Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche Teilnehmer, einen spannenden Vortrag und interessante Gespräche. Teilt das Event auch gerne mit Freunden und Arbeitskollegen.

Lasst uns gemeinsam die Welt der Produktentwicklung in Bielefeld & OWL entdecken!

Herzliche Grüße,
Sonja Retzlaff, Alexander Pfaffenrot und Ingo Roßdeutscher

ProductTank Bielefeld/ Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL)

Alexander Pfaffenrot

Sonja Retzlaff

Ingo Roßdeutscher

Tobias

Fernando Santa Cruz

Victoria Balinski

silvioibraimi584

Asher Baig

Julia Eichhorn

Mustafa Pakir

Andreas

Marvin Stute

Thomas John

Julian Mayland

Hendrik

16.09.26 - Tentris & Unfuture - ProductTank Bielefeld/ OWL - Founders Foundation

Founders Foundation

We're back with another in-person **ProductTank Oxford** meetup at the **King's Arms** in central Oxford. This month, we're delighted to feature two great speakers with talks on roadmapping and AI assurance.

6:00pm Doors open, drinks, and networking
6:50pm Welcome
7:00pm **Phil Hornby** \- Going beyond the "Now\-Next\-Later" Roadmap
7:45pm Break
8:00pm **Claire Woodcock** \- Nobody Should Trust Your AI\, How to build systems people can rely on
8:45pm Wrap-up
8:50pm Close (but you're welcome to stick around!)

We hope you can join us!

**Going beyond the "Now-Next-Later" Roadmap**
Roadmaps are a visual tool used to communicate and align many audiences. Yet why do most of them just look so boring? Now-Next-Later is a great start in breaking bad patterns but there’s more to rethinking the roadmap. Great ones show goals, priority and optionality. They capture direction, discovery and delivery. Yet they stay simple enough for everyone to understand. Learn about 14 visual styles you can choose from to deliver the message and keep the audience interested. Let’s turn your roadmaps from dull documents into powerful tools.

**Phil Hornby** is a highly experienced product leader, coach, and technologist with over 20 years in the industry. His career spans various roles, including product management, project management, operations, development, sales, and marketing across diverse sectors like SaaS, IoT, and Automotive. Phil's mission is to help product leaders think clearly, make strong decisions, and take powerful action that drives high-impact outcomes. Phil has helped thousands of individuals across hundreds of companies, combining technical, business, and human skills to empower teams and leaders. His expertise lies in delivering complex solutions that elegantly solve customer problems at scale. His approach emphasises collaboration, context-driven leadership, and continuous learning.

**Nobody Should Trust Your AI: How to build systems people can rely on**
You can hardly move for people telling you to become AI-native. Vibe coding feels like magic. Your customer service team is suddenly handling twice as many queries. And yet, you can’t shake the nagging feeling that at any moment one of these systems might confidently let your product, your customers and ultimately, you, down.

You shouldn’t trust AI, and neither should anyone else.

Drawing on lessons from years of working in high stakes AI products, Claire will explore why hallucinations are only the obvious failure; how evals can reassure you without testing what actually matters; and how to build safeguards, monitoring and recovery paths that help you sleep at night.

Drawing on stories from real AI products, we’ll look at how to add AI without surrendering control, and build systems people can rely on without asking them simply to believe.

This is not a talk about email summarisation. Bring your own stories from the trenches to share.

**Claire Woodcock** is an AI product leader who has spent her career building products in domains where being confidently wrong matters. Most recently VP of Science & ML at Climate X, she previously led AI Products at Mozilla, Twitter, Onfido and Babylon Health across climate risk, recommendations, biometrics and healthcare. She has a postgrad in the Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute and has published research on explanations and trust in AI. Claire specialises in turning complex machine learning into useful, commercially successful products, whilst asking awkward questions about what they're good at.

ProductTank Oxford

Lucie Barouillet

Chris Jones

Jo Potts

Thor Mitchell

Ieuan Teh

Matthew Standage

Laura O'connor

Peter Mulley

Mariana Morris

Paul Ovington

Rob Eyre

Emma

Allison Joyce

Alex

Ian Campsall

debbiej_10

Katy

Sarah Finnegan

James Turnbull

mshairani

Making product roadmaps and AI work for you

Kings Arms

On **23rd September**, join us at **ProductTank Birmingham** for an evening of product conversations with an experienced Product Management career coach.
In this session, **"Managing Your Career Like a Product,"** you'll discover how to apply product thinking to your own career whether you're breaking into Product, aiming for leadership, navigating a career transition, or looking to create greater impact. Learn practical frameworks to continuously discover, build, measure, and grow your career with the same mindset you use to build great products.

We’ll be joined by:

**SPEAKER**
James Gunaca

**The Talk:** *Managing your career like "Product"*

**Talk Description:**
In this session, you'll discover how to apply product management principles to your own career:

* Think of your career as a product, not a CV.
* Build your personal value proposition and positioning.
* Prioritize career opportunities like a product roadmap.
* Validate assumptions before making career decisions.
* Prepare for interviews using a hiring manager's perspective.
* Create a repeatable system for long-term career growth.

Whether you're actively looking for your next opportunity or simply want to future-proof your career, you'll leave with practical frameworks you can apply immediately.

**SPEAKER BIO**

**James Gunaca**
With over **12 years of Product Management experience**, our speaker has built products used by millions, including **Amazon Echo, Alexa, AppleCare+ Subscriptions, and Xbox All Access**. As a former hiring manager and **Amazon Bar Raiser**, he has screened more than **2,500 Product candidates**, conducted **300+ interviews**, and hired Product Managers at every level—from PM to Senior PM and Manager.
Today, he dedicate his time to helping Product Managers accelerate their careers, combining real hiring insights with practical coaching that has helped professionals around the world secure roles with greater impact, purpose, and compensation.

👥 **Agenda**

* 6:30 PM - Arrival, Networking & Food
* 7:00 PM - Welcome
* 7:10 PM - Talk - James Gunaca
* 8:00 PM - Q&A
* 8:15 PM - Networking
* 9:00 PM - Event Ends

🍕 **Food & Drinks**
Thanks to our sponsor **AND Digital**, we’ll have **pizza and drinks** available, and we'll be ready to connect!

**🤝 Thanks to our Sponsors**

**[AND Digital](https://www.and.digital/)** – A digital delivery partner helping ambitious companies build world-class digital capabilities and close the digital skills gap.

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**Stablezact** – An entirely new payment infrastructure, built with blockchain technology, to simplify global crypto transactions, empowering modern businesses with crypto payments.

**[IntelStream UK](https://intelstream.co.uk/)** – A Birmingham-based content and storytelling company, providing professional photography, videography and PR content for events.

ProductTank Birmingham

Janice

Mahdi Barkhordari 

Matt Vercauteren

Max Laverty

nohit arora

Roshany Shahzad

Tony

Hamzah Khan

Jas Singh

Kamyar Sehati

Leon Barrett

Karthik

T S Krishnan

Femi Mahzoun

Kinshi

Nirmal

Muhammad Javad Najafi

Managing your career like a "Product"

x+why Foundry

In September, ProductTank will be returning to 5 Degrés to talk about AI with a fresh perspective. Pushing beyond the tools and tech, we'll be discussing real adoption. Kevin Stewart will be joining us all the way from the UK, and the 5 Degrés team will share their experiences of real transformations.

And of course, we'll finish things off with a customary apéro!

The meetup will be primarily in English, with a short discussion in French from the 5 Degrés team to close out.

**Designing for Adoption: Turning AI Strategy Into Live Value**
**\- Kevin Stewart\, Chief Strategy Officer @ Format\-3** \- \(English\)

*In a recent engagement with a UK critical infrastructure organisation, we were asked to shape an AI strategy. The obvious move was to start with data platforms and tooling. We didn’t.*

*Instead, we treated AI as a business-wide capability, horizontal, decentralised, and designed for real teams to adopt, not a vertical programme owned by “tech”. That shift forced us to look through multiple lenses: value and prioritised use cases, people and culture, risk and ethics, operating model changes, enabling tech foundations, and the measures that would prove it was working, or equally wasnt.*

*This talk is a story: the frameworks we used, what surprised us, and the choices that moved AI from “interesting” to meaningfully in production and adopted, rather than a bolt-on gimmick. You’ll leave with a practical framework you can reuse, plus a few workshop patterns to get started quickly.*

*And we’ll end with a provocation: at a moment when product people feel threatened by AI, they may be the best placed to lead intelligence transformation.*

**Implémenter l'IA chez 5 Degrés : un regard croisé Product, Design & Dev**
**\- Marion Hurel \(Product Management\)\, David Touzain \(Product Design\)\, Mehdi Abkhoukh \(Product Engineering & Data\) @ 5 Degrés \- \(French\)**

Comment l'IA transforme-t-elle concrètement notre manière de servir le business ? Lors de cette intervention, les Practice Leaders Product, Design et Development de 5 Degrés croisent leurs perspectives pour partager leur retour d'expérience sur l'implémentation de l'IA chez 5 Degrés : des cas d'usage business aux défis techniques et humains que cela soulève (building, fine-tuning, intégration dans les workflows existants).

**Agenda**
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM — Doors open
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM — Talks
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM — Networking & apéro

**Photos & Videos**
Photos and videos will be taken during the event. By attending, you consent to the possible use of your image for promotional or social media purposes.
If you prefer not to appear in these materials, please inform the organizers at check-in.

ProductTank Paris

Nesrine Changuel

Anna Drennan

manveebhansali

Aalisha Padhy

Tejas Badani

Théo Le Besnerais

cpritika

dagmara

Bruno Resseguier

Florence ARNAL

AdLgr

Lucie Bec

Margarita S

GOKUL

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TImothée Choplin

Sebastián García Tapia

Pritesh BHEEMANEE

Maria Mazlova

Shubham Dahat

Turning AI Strategy Into Live Value

5 Degrés Paris

**⚡ProductTank Reading - Lightning Talks⚡**
Join us for an evening of fast-paced, practical lightning talks at ProductTank Reading.

Lightning talks are **short talks (up to 15 minutes)** designed to share a single idea, lesson, or experience — no long lectures, no hard sells, just useful insights.

**Let us know if you would like to contribute a talk!**

This meetup is all about **learning from each other** — short talks, real experiences, and plenty of opportunity to connect with fellow product people in a friendly, informal setting.

Whether you’re new to product or have years of experience, you’ll find something valuable here.

* Learn practical insights you can apply at work
* Hear honest, real-world product stories
* Meet the local product community
* Enjoy short, engaging talks in a relaxed environment

Talks start at 7pm. Food and drinks are available to buy at the hotel bar.

⚡ **RSVP now and join us for a great evening of product learning and conversation!** ⚡

ProductTank Reading

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James Moore

Debbie Kite

Anne Lancaster

George Obed

Jason Cheung

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Nicole Zhen

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Simon Date

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Christopher Priest

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