CINTONA

Agenda

7 October 2026

The AI-Powered Product Manager: A Decision-Aware Operating Model

How AI takes over routine PM work: meeting prep, status updates and decision retrieval—freeing time for higher-value conversations. A simple four-label system (decided, aligned, proposed, contested) to separate real decisions...
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Aviral Vaid, SAP

Building an AI-Native Product Organization for Scalable Delivery

Why traditional product operating models break down as AI dramatically accelerates delivery. How AI exposes hidden organizational bottlenecks across ownership, governance and decision-making. Why conventional QA, testing and release processes...
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Swati Gurbani, ZenaTech

Business Model Innovation: From Machinery to Digital Service Platform

From feature to outcome: Product Management for digital service platforms. How product management creates value in digital B2B service ecosystems. Using customer pains, gains and operational realities as the foundation...
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Yves Beutler, Bühler Group
10:30 - 11:15

Networking Sessions & Coffee Break

AI Meets Legacy: Modernizing Digital Healthcare Products in a Regulated Environment

Managing a portfolio of digital healthcare products through large-scale technology modernization. Lessons learned from introducing AI through proof-of-concept initiatives in a highly regulated environment. Balancing legacy product retirement with the...
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Daniel Wilmers, AOK Systems

Customer Capabilities Above Features: Managing a Platform Product

Understanding the needs, pain points, and success criteria of product teams. Translating those insights into capabilities such as observability, security, automation, and platform services. Lessons learned from taking ownership of...
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Wahib Ul-Haq, diconium (Volkswagen Group)
12:15 - 13:15

Lunch

Data-Driven Product Management Is an Organisational Challenge

Why perfect data models alone do not lead to better product decisions. How Data-Driven Product Management can be embedded organizationally within the PM team and across the company. How to...
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Tobias Güttler, Sick

AI-Supported Product Lifecycle Management: Rethinking Portfolio Decisions

How AI supports Product Lifecycle Management and improves portfolio transparency and decision-making. Practical insights from implementing an AI-powered PLM solution and the expectations behind the initiative. Lessons learned on how...
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Kevin Christmann, RHI Magnesita
14:15 - 15:00

Networking Sessions & Coffee Break

Consensus Is Not a Strategy: The Hidden Cost of Alignment

Many organizations unintentionally slow innovation through excessive coordination, stakeholder management, and unclear decision ownership. This session examines why consensus often becomes the enemy of progress, how successful product organizations establish...
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Patrick Boenig, Draeger Safety

What AI-Native Really Means: Building Self-Improving Products

A working definition of AI-native, and a short test to check your own product against it. Why “we added AI features” and “we are AI-native” are two different products, not...
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Arnon Cavaeiro

Building Products Around Human Needs in the Age of AI

How behavioral science and unmet human needs can reveal opportunities for differentiation in mature product categories. Turning an unconventional idea into a new product: lessons from creating Opera Air, a...
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Mohamed Salah, Opera

The Invisible 90%: Why AI Projects Fail After the Demo

Demos have never been easier to build. Production has never been harder to reach. AI projects fail twice as often as traditional IT, and 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots return...
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Stefan Ojanen
17:00

Networking & Drinks