Name: From Research to Reality: How Product Managers Turn Innovation into Impact
Start: 2025-08-18T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-18T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Transform Labs

The session will focus on how PMs can create influence even when there’s no roadmap, how to shape ambiguous ideas into business-aligned narratives, and how to bridge the gap between R&D and product teams.

This topic is especially relevant to early and mid-career PMs who want to learn the art of being strategic and understand how product thinking applies beyond feature delivery.

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**Bhuvana Lakshmi Dharani** is a strategic product manager in Dell Technologies’ Office of the CTO, where she turns early-stage AI research into real-world impact. With over a decade of experience spanning enterprise infrastructure, cloud, security, and artificial intelligence, Bhuvana specializes in navigating ambiguity to create alignment between research, advanced development, and business stakeholders.
 
Working within Dell’s Research and Development organization, she brings a product mindset to shaping technology direction in emerging areas like multi-agent systems and agentic interoperability. She is known for bringing clarity to complex technical initiatives, shaping business-aligned narratives from early ideas, and building roadmaps even when one doesn’t yet exist.
 
Bhuvana is passionate about helping product managers lead confidently in unstructured, high-stakes environments, especially when success isn’t defined by shipping features but by influencing strategic direction. Her work has helped accelerate research-to-product transitions, align multi-year R&D efforts with customer and portfolio needs, and elevate the role of product thinking in deep tech organizations.
 
She brings a rich cross-domain background, with experience in healthcare, retail, telecom, and public sector transformation. Her approach blends product strategy, stakeholder influence, and a strong foundation in research commercialization.
 
Outside of work, Bhuvana is a devoted mom, a Pilates enthusiast, and a champion for balancing innovation with well-being. She believes that leading with authenticity and strategic clarity is the key to long-term impact.

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