Product Unleashed London: Closing language gaps + Product Process in the AI age

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Event Description:
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Welcome product enthusiasts!

We're a meet-up group that hosts regular speaking events for those interested in the world of digital products and doing things differently!

Each meet-up features new guests from some of the most influential product companies around the world, providing unique insights, tangible ideas, and new techniques to help drive change from the inside out.

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Event Format:
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🚨 This is an in-person event only. 🚨

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Venue:
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Our Product Unleashed London Event: We are hosted in the beautiful event space @ Youlend.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

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What to expect:

⚡ This event will be made up of 2 speakers dropping knowledge bombs in the form of 20 minute talks straight into your minds 🤯

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SPEAKER 1
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Alison Howard

Alison Howard is a Principal Product Design Consultant with 14 years of experience working across some of the UK's most complex and fast-moving products. As an independent consultant, she has partnered with organisations including Trainline, Expedia, BP, HSBC and Emirates to untangle messy problems, align teams and deliver design that actually gets built.

Outside her consultancy work, Alison manages PD Ladies, a community of 800+ women in Product Design.

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About the Talk:
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Learn the Language, Win the Room

If you've ever left a meeting feeling like no one understood what you were saying, this talk is for you. Alison explores the gap between how designers communicate and how everyone else does, and what happens when you close it.

Expect practical tools and honest reflections on learning to speak the language of product, commercial and engineering teams, so your work gets the traction it deserves.

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SPEAKER 2
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Anna Popova

Anna Popova is Head of Product at [Judge.me](https://judge.me/), one of Shopify’s most installed apps, helping over 600,000 e-commerce brands build trust through customer reviews.

With more than a decade of experience across product management, data science, and delivery, Anna focuses on how product teams can increase leverage and build better systems for decision-making and execution. Recently, her work has centred on exploring how AI can reshape the product development process — from discovery and research to prototyping, UX design, and creating high-quality requirements for engineering.

She is particularly interested in how small product teams can use AI to dramatically increase output while preserving strong product thinking, judgement, and product craftsmanship.

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About the Talk:
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When Building Becomes Cheap: Rethinking Product Process in the Age of AI)

Software is becoming dramatically cheaper to build. AI tools are rapidly reducing the cost of prototyping, coding, and experimentation — faster than many product teams realise.

But while the cost of building is collapsing, the cost of process remains high. Many teams still rely on workflows designed for a world where engineering time was scarce: heavy discovery phases, long specification cycles, and complex coordination structures. In the AI era, these processes risk becoming the real bottleneck.

In this talk, Anna explores how product teams may need to rethink how they operate when building becomes cheap. At [Judge.me](https://judge.me/), they've started asking a provocative question: what if a product team should never grow beyond 10 people — even when serving millions of users?

Drawing from experiments with AI-assisted workflows, Anna will share how AI can augment product work — from rapid prototyping and spec generation to creating a “digital twin” of a product manager.

Get ready to explore which parts of the product process should be automated, which should remain human, and how product leaders can adapt.

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Support from:
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We are kindly hosted by our friends at Youlend.

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About your hosts:
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Product Unleashed is brought to you by your hosts John Griffin and Dominic Port.

The duo has worked on the design of products of all shapes and sizes and bring their energy and enthusiasm to this unique meet-up, packed with great guests and knowledge - for anyone interested in levelling up their game in the world of products.