Alexandra is the Newsletter Editor at Mind the Product and a journalist with six years' experience covering tech, culture, and the online space. She's worked with New_Public and Untested and co-founded GRV Media's graduate writers' program.

Alexandra Ciufudean

Conferences

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Don't be an a**hole: How to design AI products that people trust — Simonetta Batteiger at mtpcon London 2026

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

How Fin builds at the edges when agents own the middle: John Moriarty at #mtpcon London 2026

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

Justice Onyekachi is a Technical Product Manager at Evu with 6 years of combined experience as a software engineer and a PM. He specializes in building applied AI products and tutoring product managers.

Justice Onyekachi

I use AI every day as a PM. Here's how I stopped being reckless about it

Udit Mehrotra is Head of Product for North America Languages Experience at Amazon, where he leads AI/ML-driven product strategy for over 60 million Spanish- and French-speaking customers across the U.S. and Canada. His work focuses on leveraging generative AI and machine learning to create seamless, culturally relevant experiences for customers navigating e-commerce in their secondary languages—addressing unique challenges in translation accuracy, cultural adaptation, and personalization at scale. These innovations have generated $1B+ in measurable business outcomes. A featured speaker at Product School and regular contributor to Forbes Technology Council, Udit is recognized as a Top 10 Global Mentor on ADPList and holds Fellow designations from the British Computer Society and IETE.

Udit Mehrotra

Customers

Your product speaks English. Your customers don't

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

Loop Engineering 101: Start with the outcome

Mohit Bansal is a security engineering leader with over twelve years of experience across cloud infrastructure security, software supply chain security, AI agent security, and DevSecOps. He has led security programs at enterprise SaaS companies serving Fortune 100 customers, with a focus on incident response, vulnerability management, and securing CI/CD and developer workflows at scale.

Mohit Bansal

AI agents are your newest product feature. Is your security thinking keeping up?

I broke an agent on purpose to see what an AI reviewer would catch

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

Why most AI hardware products should never be built 

Iryna is a Senior Product Manager at a hiring software company supporting major franchises across the United States. With over seven years of experience in product management, she specializes in user-centered design, behavioral insights, and data-driven growth.



Iryna Havryliuk

How ChatGPT learned to mask its image bias without fixing it

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

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.