ProductTank Chd | Jul 2026 Meetup | The Product Paradox 2.0

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in product discovery, prioritization, design, and execution, product leaders face a new challenge: determining where data and AI should guide decisions, where human judgment must remain decisive, and how to recognize the difference.
This edition of ProductTank Chandigarh explores the evolving relationship between human intuition, data-driven insight, and AI-powered decision-making.
The discussion will move beyond simplistic debates of “human versus AI” to examine how product teams can build better decision systems: combining customer understanding, evidence, experimentation, domain expertise, and machine intelligence without surrendering accountability or critical thinking.
The focus will remain practical, with real-world stories, operating models, frameworks, experiments, failures, and lessons from teams navigating this transition.

## What We’ll Explore

• Where human judgment adds value that data and AI cannot replace
• How AI is changing product discovery, prioritization, and decision-making
• The limitations, biases, and false confidence created by data and AI systems
• Balancing customer insight, quantitative evidence, and product intuition
• Designing effective human-in-the-loop decision processes
• Building accountability and trust into AI-assisted product decisions
• Lessons from teams already using AI across the product lifecycle

## Event Details

Date: Saturday, 18 July 2026
Venue: STGI, Seventh Floor Plot No. 16, IT Park Sector-22, Panchkula

## Agenda

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM
Registrations

11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Talks from our speakers:
• Manu Sharma – Distinguished Engineer, STGI
• Amit Manchanda – Senior Technical Product Manager, Netsolutions
• Abhishek Singh – Lead Cloud Architect, STGI
• Nikhel Bansal – Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI), Workato

2:00 PM onwards
Open discussions and networking

## Who Should Attend?

• Product Managers and Product Leaders
• Founders and Startup Teams
• Engineering and Technology Leaders
• UX Researchers and Designers
• Data and AI Practitioners
• AI Product Builders
• Developers interested in product thinking
• Anyone exploring how modern product decisions are changing

A focused community meetup for practical discussions, thoughtful disagreement, real-world learning, and meaningful conversations about how products should be built and led in the age of AI.