Hey Alexa, can you research, write and prioritize those stories for me?

We're excited to host an amazing panel of Product Managers who have experience working at the intersection of AI and Product. Thank you to our host, Shopify, and to our esteemed speakers! Please read below to learn more about our upcoming talk:

Agenda:
6:30PM - Doors Open / Newcomers Mix & Mingle
7:00PM - Introductions + Community Annoucements
7:10PM - Panel Starts
7:50PM - Q&A
8:00PM - Mix & Mingle

Topic Title:
Hey Alexa, can you research, write and prioritize those stories for me?

Panel Description:
In a data-first world, the job requirements for being a product manager are rapidly shifting and the type of personalities we will start seeing around the backlog review table evolving. Or are they? Isn't curiosity and keeping up with advancements relevant to your industry part of the job?

For this Product Tank meetup we have assembled a panel that is spending its days at the intersection of product and AI to provide their perspective on the how AI is (not) changing the product management function. Expect a lively debate with the ultimate goal being an attempt to answer whether AI will kill the product management function.

About our moderator:

Mihnea Galeteanu / Manager of Possibility, Points
Bio: Mihnea has spent the past 15 years imagining, building, breaking and marketing Software products of all shapes and sizes, currently serving as a Director of Strategic Partnerships at Points, adviser to a couple of startups and instructor at BrainStation. Whether at work or at home, he splits his time equally between making and creating a culture of making and entrepreneurship. “Why” is his favorite question.He values “What if” over “No”. Walk and talk over stuffy rooms with slides. He’ll take the word/data of your current or future users about you over your own words about yourself. Mihnea holds a Bachelor of Enginneering in Software from Carleton University, an MBA from the Rotman School of Management and is hard at work on earning a “Father of the Year” mug.

About our panelists:

(1) Alec Singleton / Vice President, Product Management, InteraXon Inc.
Bio: Design -> UX -> Product Management -> Making it up as I go

(2) Nahla Salem / Product Manager
Bio: Nahla specializes in large-scale Enterprise technically-complex products leveraging technologies such as AI and IoT. She has envisioned, built, and shipped products; managed delivering large-scale award-winning software implementations for Fortune 500 companies; engineered a partnership with Cloudera; and been a software engineer herself. Her last role was in Rubikloud Technologies where she led a cloud-based AI product in the Retail Marketing space. In a previous capacity, she started a Social media sentiment analyzer product. She holds a Masters of Business Analytics, an EMBA and a B.Sc in Computer Engineering.

(3) Xinyi Zhao / Senior Product Manager, Shopify
Bio: Xinyi is currently a PM in the Platform product line at Shopify, managing marketplace search and personalization products. Prior to Shopify, she spent 6 years working in New York in various roles from software engineering to technical product management. She has a computer science degree from the University of Waterloo and MBA from UofT.