Alicia Dixon

Marriott

AI’s place in product management may be well established, Alicia Dixon says, but it has not replaced the core principles that continue to serve product leaders and their teams. Alicia is Director of Product Management at Marriott and has held similar roles at Walmart and Dell. In this episode, she brings her experience to our … Continued

Alexis Zheng

G2

Alexis Zheng is Chief Product Officer at G2 and brings 20 years of experience in building AI systems. In this episode of Product Momentum – recorded in person at Mind The Product – Chicago – Alexis explains how product teams can build trustworthy AI agents without sacrificing their potential. Her message is clear: if we … Continued

Sean Murray, Dan Sharp, Jonathan Coupal, Besong Tabenyang

ITX Corp

Long before ChatGPT burst onto the scene, ITX shared a blog post that outlined The Seven Perspectives of Digital Quality – among them we included app and system security. How secure is your software in terms of data integrity, coding standards, and infrastructure? How well does it stand up to access breaches, threats, and other … Continued

Arpan Podduturi

Samsara

Artificial intelligence is changing how product teams work, but not what good product management requires. As Arpan Podduturi explains, this remains true regardless of whether the AI integration involves physical products or software. Product teams in both environments face remarkably similar challenges: understanding user context, balancing trust and control, and delivering business value. Leveraging core … Continued

Barry O'Reilly

Nobody Studios

The Product Momentum team reached out to Barry O’Reilly, seeking his expertise in helping product leaders rethink how organizations make decisions, innovate, and perform in the age of artificial intelligence. After a quick review of his CV – co-founder of Nobody Studios (a global Top 10 AI venture studio) and author of Artificial Organizations: Build … Continued

Ovetta Sampson

Right AI

Ovetta Sampson is a design researcher, AI leader, and founder of Right AI. She previously served as VP of ML and AI Platform Design at Capital One and worked at Google and IDEO. Ovetta brought that experience to the 2026 ITX Product + Design Conference, focusing her keynote on a question that often goes overlooked: … Continued

Rachel Kohman, Ed.D.

Missouri University of Science & Technology

In our current environment of rapidly changing customer needs and expectations, evolving technologies, and unpredictable market swings, the best ideas rarely come from a single leader. Instead, as attendees of the 2026 ITX Product + Design Conference learned, they emerge when product teams collaborate, challenge assumptions, and adapt together. In this episode of Product Momentum, … Continued

David Pereira

100X Product Management

Product teams often struggle to deliver meaningful outcomes. Why? Because they confuse activity with progress. Understanding that challenge is the focus of our chat with David Pereira, recorded in person at the 2026 ITX Product + Design Conference, in Rochester, NY. David is a product management coach, speaker, and author of Untrapping Product Teams: Simplify … Continued

Sean Murray, Dan Sharp, Kyle Psaty, Shannon Baird

ITX Corp

For the past 5 years, the ITX Product + Design Conference stands at the top of the company’s calendar. In this Topics in Product Series (TiPS) episode, Product Momentum co-host Sean Murray called the 2-day conference event “my favorite two working days of the year,” complete with workshops, keynotes, spotlight sessions, and live podcast recordings. … Continued