Louron serves as the Editor at Mind the Product, bringing 11+ years of experience in editorial roles across business and technology publications. For any editorial inquiries, you can connect with him on LinkedIn or email him at louron.pratt@pendo.io 

Louron Pratt

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

The Hidden UX of AI - How to build trustworthy AI products: Nina Olding at INDUSTRY 2025 

Video

Product Management Conference

From first click to Aha: How AI is rewriting user onboarding - Nichole Mace at INDUSTRY 2025 (Pendo)

Tasnim Nazeer is an features editor for Mind the Product and an award-winning journalist and reporter. 

Tasnim Nazeer

A practical guide on prototyping and supercharging your Product with AI: Prerna Singh at INDUSTRY 2025

Four habits to maximise your ROI on AI investment - Matthew Certner, (IBM) - INDUSTRY 2025

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The Product Experience

Podcast

AI ethics advice from former White House technologist – Kasia Chmielinski (Co-founder, The Data Nutrition Project)

Ryan Thomas Hewitt is a Lead Product Manager at Government Digital Services (GDS). With over 18 years experience across the BBC, Ernst & Young and HMRC, he focuses on the intersection of AI, product management and design thinking. His interests outside work include travel, food and family!!

Ryan Thomas Hewitt 

Lessons from vibe coding with AI

Prerna Kaul is a Lead Principal PM and full-stack product builder at Microsoft. She has an undergrad in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the University of Toronto. She has spent 15+ years in AI/ML products across Amazon, Moderna, and Panasonic, with three pending patents in agentic AI architecture.

Prerna Kaul

Anthropic's Fable 5 launched this week. It made me question everything I know about the AI habit design

Michael Hirsch spent 25 years in product leadership at companies including Sony, Qualcomm, T-Mobile, and HERE Technologies. He now runs Break a Pencil Consulting, where he helps product teams build AI as an organizational capability, and teaches Business Strategy at the University of Washington and Seattle University. Subscribe to his newsletter Broken Pencils at breakapencil.com. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two daughters, and two Aussiedoodles — Hazel and Willow.

Michael Hirsch

Your executives don't understand AI. That's your problem to solve

Case Study

Should OpenClaw replace Claude in your PM stack?

Mike Song is a product manager with 10+ years of experience building AI-powered products and growth systems for B2B companies. He works across the full product lifecycle, from defining strategy through implementation and refining the processes that help companies ship reliably.

Mike Song

Product Strategy

Don’t fix LLM problems you haven't named yet

Priyank is a product leader with 10+ years in tech and 6 years in product management, working on AI-powered consumer and enterprise products. He focuses on product judgment, AI placement, and building customer-centric systems that balance intelligence, reliability, and trust.

Priyank Sharma

Community Post

What I learned about decision surfaces the hard way

Strategic Product Manager with 22+ years of experience delivering digital platforms for

global custodians, banks, and fintechs. Proven leader in building advisor platforms,

managing complex transformation programs, and launching innovative solutions across

portfolio management, billing, trading, and compliance domains. Expert in agile delivery,

regulatory requirements (SEC, FINRA, OCC), and enterprise platform modernization.

 Sharat Priya

AI in wealth management: What actually works in real products

Victor Churchill is a Senior Product Designer with over 8 years of experience creating impactful, user-centered solutions across fintech, logistics, EdTech, and SaaS. He has led the design of platforms that secured multi-million dollar funding, integrated generative AI to boost user engagement, and scaled systems to serve tens of thousands of users. With a strong focus on measurable impact, inclusive design, and cross-functional collaboration, Victor brings a strategic yet practical approach to solving complex design challenges in emerging and global markets.

Victor Churchill

Data-first validation: The role of AI in helping product teams validate their ideas before creating tickets

Pritish is a distinguished product leader with more than two decades of experience building and scaling enterprise-grade solutions across AI/ML (predictive, generative, and agentic), Data, and Marketing Technologies in the world’s most demanding digital environments.

Pritish Udgata

Sumanth is a product leader with 14 years of experience at the intersection of technology and user-centric design. As a Group Product Manager at Adobe, he focuses on making creative apps like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Adobe Firefly accessible to creators of varying skill levels. Previously at Healthspring, he developed one of India's first large-scale Electronic Medical Records.

Sumanth Shiva Prakash

Why agentic AI forces a 'reverse-waterfall' in product management

Oleh Shkinder is an AI-focused product leader currently working on AI initiatives at Binance US. Previously, he founded Investables, a fintech startup that was acquired, and later served over 1M families in the US as a Senior Product Manager at Stockpile, where he built consumer fintech products at scale. He writes about AI, product management, and building regulated financial products.

Oleh Shkinder

Designing safe conversational AI: The risks product managers overlook

Akash Rathi is a Product Manager for Pixel Phones at Google. Passionate about solving real user problems through technology, he has successfully led multi-billion dollar hardware products from concept to launch, with his products receiving global media acclaim. Backed by a UC Berkeley master's in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research and a Wharton MBA, Akash specializes in the unique intersection of Product Strategy, Engineering, and Operations required to build and scale consumer devices in the AI era.

Akash Rathi

Product Management

Hardware

Surviving the perfect storm: How hardware PMs can beat the AI tax and trade tariffs

With nearly two decades in enterprise integration and cloud architecture, Pradyumna Kodgi has built his career around one goal — simplifying complexity through intelligent automation. As a Product Manager at Oracle, he leads strategy for the AI-Infused Automation Platform, empowering enterprises to solve real-world challenges with low-code and AI-powered integration.
A featured speaker at AI World and major industry AI forums, Pradyumna brings a unique perspective on how AI is reshaping enterprise workflows. He’s also an active voice in the product community — sharing insights, mentoring innovators, and helping bridge the gap between technology and business impact.


Pradyumna Kodgi

 From repetitive work to real impact: A case study on building an AI recommendation for developers

Artem is a Senior Product Manager at SqlDBM, a passionate data leader and curious engineer. He combines business vision, domain knowledge, and execution excellence into an astonishing blend of product culture. Helps companies build the foundation for product-led growth, enabling scalability and sustainable revenue growth. He is an MBA, MGPM and an IEEE Senior member.