CINTONA

Agenda

7 October 2026

From Prep to Presence: How Personal AI Is Changing Product Management

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 Said, SAP

AI Is Creating Operational Debt Faster Than Companies Can Measure It

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

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 for innovation. Transforming traditional service offerings into scalable platform-based business...
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Yves Beutler, Bühler Group
10:30 - 11:15

Networking Sessions & Coffee Break

Leading Product Transformation in Healthcare: Modernization, AI and Building Resilient Product Teams

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

Building Products for Digital Ecosystems

How digital ecosystems, ERP integration and virtual services are reshaping established products. Managing products across partners, platforms and complex stakeholder networks. What product managers can learn from the evolution of...
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Timothy Widmer, Viseca Card Services
12:15 - 13:15

Lunch

How to Create Product DNA in Product-Hostile Organizations

How to introduce product thinking where it meets skepticism instead of support. Lessons learned from changing mindset, culture and ways of working. Practical steps for building lasting Product Management capabilities.
Felix Schymetzko, NTT Data Germany

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

Who Owns the Product in a Project Organization?

Why product principles such as ownership, prioritization and roadmaps often collide with project-driven organizations. Why Product Owners spend more time aligning stakeholders, governance and technical constraints than actually building products....
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Dominik Zausinger, Digitales Bauen (Drees & Sommer)