The great reset - How to leverage AI as Product Manager

A quiet but profound transformation is happening: AI is not just taking over partial tasks – it is actively shaping our products, decisions, and processes. Hypotheses emerge automatically from user data, prototypes are generated and tested in real time, and decisions are prepared and executed – without anyone ever opening Jira or Figma.

What used to be separate or closely linked phases is merging into an AI-driven product loop. Discovery happens „on the fly,“ validation runs continuously, and code is created almost effortlessly. Technologies like Agentic Meshes and adaptive interfaces are making products more fluid, context-aware, and dynamic than ever before. For product leaders, this means that simple method updates are no longer enough. We are facing a structural reset – requiring us to rethink our role, our understanding of products, and our entire setup.

Björn & Dominik will look into this from different angles - what you can do today, and why you can embrace the opportunity in 2026 – before the wave of automated decisions, feedback loops, and triggered changes overwhelms you.

Agenda:

7pm: Arrive and networking
7:30pm: Talk of Björn Schotte & Dominik Rose (in person)
8:15pm: Q&A about everything you wanna ask
8:45pm to end: open networking

We're proud to present REWE digital (yet another time!) as our location host! Let's kickoff 2026 with a lively conversation with an engaged audience in their beautiful offices in Cologne-Mülheim.

Shehrina, Simonetta, Tim, Alkaios, & Dominik
Your ProductTank Cologne Team