Previous Speakers
Keynote Session
Shub A.
SVP Product Management & AI
U.S. Bank
An AI pioneer with 20+ years of experience, Shub holds multiple patents in AI and generative technologies. With technical expertise across machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI, Shub pairs research leadership with commercial product success. He holds an MBA from UCLA, an MS from Carnegie Mellon, and an AI specialization from Caltech. Shub is a published author on product management, with upcoming books on AI product creation, and teaches AI, GenAI, and analytics at USC.
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Executive Panel
The thought leaders at the forefront of building products with AI.
Oded Noy
CTO
CREXI
Oded Noy is a tech visionary and serial entrepreneur who finds his inspiration in mentoring and leading technology ventures. His belief that teamwork should transcend individual ambitions underscores his career dedicated to innovation and leadership. Oded Noy is a prominent figure in the LA CTO Forum, a select network of over 250 CTOs in Santa Monica. As an Advisor, he provides strategic direction, mentors new members, assists in securing speakers, and offers support. Additionally, Oded serves as an Advocate within the forum, further contributing to its success by screening and mentoring new members, helping find distinguished speakers, and offering unwavering support to his peers.
Noah Schwartz
Head of Product, API Network
Postman
Noah has led multi-hundred-million dollar P&Ls as a product, engineering, and business development leader. Outside work, Noah is working on his own projects, building robots with his kids, and perfecting his BBQ skills.
Jon Morra
Chief AI Officer
Zefr
Jon Morra is the Chief Product and Data Officer at Zefr, a company focused on understanding social media content for brand advertisers. In his role he leads product, data science, and content policy. Prior to this role, Jon was the Chief Data Scientist where he helped create and implement a variety of machine learning models to understand YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook content. Before Zefr Jon was the Director of Data Science at eHarmony where he helped create many of the matching models using machine learning. Jon has a Ph.D. from UCLA in Biomedical Engineering, and a BSE also in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins.
Alon Shwartz
Co-Founder & COO
Trellis Law
An entrepreneur and strategic leader, Alon specializes in creating solutions that drive real impact. With experience building software products from idea to launch, Alon has led cross-functional teams in startups and large organizations, developed new markets, and solved complex business and technology challenges. Known for a customer-first approach and a talent for motivating high-performing teams, Alon focuses on delivering solutions that meet real needs and enhance organizational success.
Product Panel
Get to know the product leaders building AI-powered features.
David Linder
Product & Data
B2C Consultant
David Linder blends experience in business intelligence, data science, and product to power growth in B2C and marketplace products. From building ops tools at TikTok to leading personalization at Sephora, he focuses on leveraging data and martech to deliver smarter user experiences. A no-code enthusiast, he’s also exploring how AI can boost productivity and unlock better discovery across platforms.
Kate Guernsey
Head of Growth, AI LA
AI LA
She is a trusted advisor to startups and small to mid-sized companies looking to scale—whether defining a product roadmap, building a product organization, finding product-market fit and funding, or strengthening strategic partnerships. A highly technical and creative product leader with over a decade of experience, she brings deep expertise in launching apps and features across platforms. Her approach blends data, user research, and A/B testing to validate business ideas with minimal resources. She’s skilled at developing product leaders, scaling teams, and driving both user and investor engagement.
Brian Steinert
VP of Product Management
STACK Construction Technologies
Brian is an innovative and dynamic Senior Product Management and Marketing Leader with a successful record of driving profitable growth through strategic vision, product innovation, and data driven decision making. He is passionate about and uniquely skilled at identifying and translating customer and market needs into products and services that solve real market problems and delight customers with transformational UX. Exceptional communicator with visionary leadership skills and proven ability to lead, inspire and mature R&D teams.
Anu Varmani
Product Manager, Data Platform and Global Services
American Honda Motor Company
Anu is a technology leader with a strong track record of driving cross-functional product delivery, product strategy, and operational efficiency. She is experienced in launching innovative data solutions and implementing cost-saving initiatives that create measurable business impact. Known for building high-performing teams, streamlining delivery models, and leading with a customer-first mindset.
Her career highlights include managing 100+ digital projects across OTT, live streaming, and VOD platforms; building a Salesforce Center of Excellence overseeing ~10 applications; and delivering over 50,000 hours of program and product leadership as a PMP-certified professional. As a Certified Scrum Master, Anu led 15+ app implementations in Agile and SDLC environments. She has recruited and mentored 30+ diverse team members, trained 200+ employees in Agile, Cloud, and Salesforce Heroku, and secured her firm’s first multi–six figure government contract through a successful proposal.
Tarrek Shaban
Product Lead, Flows
Postman
Product Lead, Flows from Postman building a next-gen low-code AI Agent platform to transform how businesses automate and scale internal operations.
Founder's Panel
Get to know the entrepreneurs building AI-powered companies.
Rebecca Borrego
Co-Founder
XrossWorld
Rebecca Borrego is the cofounder of Xrossworld, a platform revolutionizing influencer marketing by making it smarter, faster, and fairer for agencies and creators alike. With a background in experiential marketing and expertise in the creator economy, she forges meaningful connections between agencies, creators, and culture.
Maulik Parikh
Director of Product Management
B2C Product & Growth Consultant
Maulik is a results-driven Product Management Leader with over a decade of experience driving product innovation, digital transformation, and revenue growth across Fortune 200 companies and high-growth startups. He has a strong track record in e-commerce and subscription-based services, having scaled digital businesses, launched 0-to-1 products, and led P&L growth.
Maulik holds an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business and is passionate about building high-performing teams, aligning business strategy with product execution, and leveraging data to accelerate growth.
Adam Stansell
CEO and Founder
Axle Health
Adam Stansell is the CEO of Axle Health. Prior to founding Axle, Adam worked in investment banking and management consulting, launched Uber Eats in markets across the US, and built a new business line for Motive (fka KeepTruckin). His goal is to bring operational and strategic best practices from other industries into the world of healthcare.
Sumeet Rana
Founder & CEO
Assistra.AI
Sumeet is the founder and CEO of Assistra.AI, a platform that automates product management for product and engineering teams. He also leads Seed Ventures, building and scaling innovative eCommerce brands. With over 20 years in product and strategy, Sumeet has driven success across conversational AI, omnichannel, behavioral analytics, and machine learning, consistently delivering customer impact and business growth.
Tyler Postle
Co-Founder
Voker (YC 24)
Co-founder of Voker (YC S24) - The No-Code AI builder for Product Teams. In past roles, he's built data products that drive growth for e-commerce and B2B SaaS. He is passionate about building high performing teams and continuously learning.
Workshop Session 1
Eugene Cherny
VP of Product
Ascenda
Eugene Cherny is a veteran of the LA tech scene with a 20+ year track record at startups (A2i, Nativo, Ascenda) and big tech (SAP, Google). His unique toolkit combines an engineering background, fine arts & design training, and MBA business savvy from UCLA Anderson.
As a founding team member at A2i, Eugene developed pioneering in-memory search technology that led to acquisition by SAP, where he transitioned into product leadership. At Google, he led native video ads on YouTube. As SVP Product at Nativo, he built the product organization from scratch, scaling the platform into a thriving ads marketplace. Most recently he led SaaS product strategy for Ascenda’s loyalty marketing platform.
Workshop Session 2
Marily Nika, Ph.D
Gen AI Product
Dr. Marily Nika is an award-winning AI PM leader and one of the world's top AI educators with 10+ years of experience building AI products at Google and Meta. Marily earned a PhD in machine learning at Imperial College London and is also an author, TED AI speaker, and executive fellow at Harvard Business School.
She has founded the AI Product Academy that aims to cultivate a new generation of AI product leaders with her AI PM Bootcamp (1k students to date). She recently released a new best-selling book "Building AI-Powered Products". Find out more about her AI PM courses and offerings at her newsletter: https://marily.substack.com/