Panel: AI in Product Development

Join us for an engaging panel discussion exploring how AI is reshaping the product development landscape.

Artificial Intelligence is no longer a distant concept. It’s here, transforming the way we design, build, and deliver products. From enhancing internal workflows to unlocking entirely new customer experiences, AI presents both exciting opportunities and complex challenges for product teams.

In this session, three leading experts will share their perspectives on how AI is influencing the product space today, and where it’s headed next. They’ll unpack real-world applications, lessons learned, and practical tips to help you harness AI to deliver better products and improve the way your teams work.

Our panel includes:

• Greg van Baast – Chief Technology Officer, Healthengine
  Greg Van Baast is the Chief Technology Officer at Healthengine, where he leads software development, infrastructure, data, and compliance teams as the company embraces the transformative era of AI.
  Having spent most of his career in the US, Greg has held leadership roles in large retail marketplace companies like RetailMeNot, the Los Angeles Community College District — the largest community college network in the country — and a diverse mix of startups, some thriving, some battle-scarred, all rich with lessons.Now based in Perth, Greg is passionate about building high-performing engineering cultures, navigating complex technical landscapes, and turning big ideas into real-world impact.

• Jarrad Grigg – Chief Product Officer, Adapptor
  Jarrad has over 17 years experience in creating digital products and services. From workshopping, team management, UX design, releasing, iterating and more. But mostly he loves working with teams to dream big, execute on a plan and see it being loved by people.
  Jarrad co-founded Juicebox, an award winning digital agency in Perth, who has worked with a large range of local and national clients. Right from initial engagement through to multi-year maintenance contracts for application support. After Juicebox, Jarrad co-founded Menuzen, the world's leading no-code menuboard design software built to help businesses of all sizes, shapes, and locations create connected, professional menus. He was an early adopter of AI, utilising it to generate food imagery and menu structure and items for templates.Now as Chief Product Officer at Adapptor, Jarrad’s remit is to dream up what the product is, how it works, release it and iterate based on customer usage. He utilises AI to super charge the product process by speeding up all aspects of the product lifecycle. From aiding with requirements generation, to probing codebases to help with comprehension through to deriving insights from customer usage data, its a key part of how he operates day to day.

• Josh Armitage – Modern Engineering Practice Lead, Cognizant
  The author of The Cloud Native Security Cookbook, Josh is a vastly experienced leader, technologist, consultant and international speaker.Currently, he's the Chief Engineer as part of Cognizant's largest strategic partnership in the Asia Pacific region. Driving a hands-on revolution in modern engineering practices, SRE, and product engineering.Previously he delivered the world's first event-sourced serverless architectures on AWS that propelled a startup to a successful exit, spearheaded the first Australian production usage of Amazon EKS to support some of the world's largest online gaming sites and created the world's first cloud-provisioned virtualised mainframe environments.

Following the discussion, stick around for drinks, nibbles, and the chance to connect with fellow product people from across Perth.

Event timing
Doors open: 5:15pm
Intro & Panel Start: 5:30pm
Q&A: 6:45pm
Networking: 7:00pm
Event end: 7:45pm

Logistics & Venue
The event will be held at VGW Perth offices. Access is via the lifts in Australia place - event organisers will be on hand to provide access to level 11. On arrival attendees will be required to sign in and sign an NDA. RSVP to this event is essential.

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Thanks to our sponsors:
Healthengine, Hatchd, Bankwest, VGW, and Pendo.
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