
The Speakers

Melissa Perri
CEO @Produx Labs | Author of "Escaping the Build Trap”
Melissa Perri is CEO of Produx Labs, teaches Product Management at Harvard, and has created two online schools: Product Institute and The CPO Accelerator.
She works with executives globally to set up product organizations, create product strategies for growth, and is currently a member on Forsta's board. Melissa has also consulted with organizations worldwide to set up their product organizations, advise on product strategy, and train leaders and team members.

Leah Tharin
Head of Product @Jua.ai | PLG, Product & Growth Advisor
Leah Tharin, Head of Product at Jua.ai is leading the companys pivot to being product-led in machine learning. She is a proponent of empowering product, growth, marketing and sales teams through product-led principles in B2B. She led part of the core product at Smallpdf a B2C platform with over 50mio MAU. She writes about her experience on www.leahtharin.com

Tami Reiss
Product Leader Coach @The Product Leader Coach
Tami Reiss is a product leader coach who empowers teams and leaders to achieve their goals by focusing on strengths. With multiple product roles in B2B SaaS companies and consulting experience with a variety of firms such as Humana, Aetna, JPMorgan, and TheKnotWW, among others, she has a deep understanding of various industries. She primarily focuses on coaching product executives by helping them view themselves as a product.

Radhika Dutt
Author of "Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter"
Radhika Dutt, an author, entrepreneur, and product leader, advises high-tech startups to government agencies on building radical products that drive fundamental change. She's an Advisor on Product Thinking to the Monetary Authority of Singapore and serves on the boards of Berrett Koehler and the Association of Product Professionals. Dutt co-founded Radical Product Thinking and frequently speaks at business events and conferences globally.

André Albuquerque
VP of Product @Kitch (acq by Glovo)
André Albuquerque led cross-functional teams in building products across different startup stages, including 2-sided marketplaces, SaaS, and integrations-based products.
Currently leading product, design and research at Kitch (kitch.io), joining the founding team, and helping through the acquisition by Glovo/Delivery Hero ($DHER). Founder of One Month PM, a product manager acceleration program (onemonthpm.com), taught Product at the University (MSc and Exec Ed), advise the portfolio companies at Shilling Capital (shilling.vc), and wrote 0-to-1 product thoughts at www.andrealbuquerque.com.

Gonçalo Gaiolas
Chief Product Officer @ SoSafe | CPO Top 20 | Product & Community Led Growth
Gonçalo Gaiolas is the CPO of SoSafe, a company dedicated to promoting cybersecurity awareness worldwide. With more than a decade of experience as either Chief of Product, VP of Product or Community, Gonçalo brings his words of experience combining the fields of Business and Leadership, Low Code and OutSystems, and Product Management and Productivity. He is also an experienced traveler with an eternal beginner mindset, so he might bring an interesting perspective in his worldview.

Anabela Cesário
VP of Product Operations @OutSystems | Product Ops Leader, Coach & Mentor
Product management leader & coach that is passionate about helping teams building products customers love. Throughout her career, Anabela has been successfully building teams from scratch.
Currently, she's VP of Product Operations at OutSystems, and has a vast experience in Product Management acquired from her work at Novabase and GE Capital ITS.
A good talk about about fresh starts, product management, ops, scaling teams, and yoga!

Julia Steier
Product Manager @Google | Co-Founder @2gthr
Product Manager with a background in computer science, who has a passion for design and a strong desire to build products that matter. Additionally, she works as a Freelance Visual Storyteller, where she turns discussions and presentations into pictures in real-time. Her illustrations help conference attendees remember more of the talks, team members to be clearer on their mission, and executives to communicate their goals. She strongly believes that everyone can draw and enjoys giving drawing workshops. To learn more, visit her website at https://jksteier.com and feel free to reach out to her!

Chiedza Muguti
CPO @Alteos | Product Leader | Speaker | Coach | Mentor
Assiduous Product Leader driving delivery from the product roadmap to end users. Experienced financial products and services product professional with proven technical and commercial expertise across the complete Product Development Lifecycle. Excellent communicator, able to influence and operate at all levels of the business. A committed and motivated servant leader of high performing teams that deliver successful outcomes, based on collaborative ways of working and solution driven thinking.

Dominique Jost
Product @Doist | Founder @Calmr Works | Coach @Product Academy
A creative, resilient, and pragmatic product leader.
Head of Product at Doist and founder of Calmr Works LLC, Dominique's experience growing products, with Product Management, Product Design and Product Support, cross his long experience of a decade and half, working as a CPO, Director of Product, Team Leader and Head of many departments. According to Dominique, it is more important to find out what’s true than to be right.

João Freitas
Digital Products and Value Creation @ Cofidis Group
João Colaço de Freitas, a Builder at heart, passionate surfer and engineer by training, defines himself as finding meaning in creating value for others by structuring and executing new businesses; he also goes surfing as much as possible! His brain thinks in systems, boxes and arrows and he is deeply committed to embracing a continuous learning mindset as he develops himself & supports others in doing the same. ...while having fun!

Britnni Bowering
Workshop Designer | Fun-time Facilitator | Event Host
Brittni Bowering is a workshop designer, facilitator and event host. She helps teams take their biggest business challenges and tackle them head on, using focused and engaging workshops. She’s worked with companies like Twitter, Lufthansa and Procter & Gamble, crafting and leading productive and energetic sessions. Brittni believes above all that people who enjoy their work are more motivated to do great things, so having fun tends to be high on her list of priorities.

Cátia Pereira
Senior Service Designer @ Koos Service Design
Cátia is a hands-on designer with 10 years of experience as a consultant and manager of design and innovation projects. Getting to know people and their realities, to be able to materialize ideas and bring them to life is her passion! No wonder she finds human-centered innovation the most interesting. Cátia loves adventure – she climbed the highest mountain in Portugal.

Kasper van der Knaap
Partner & Commercial Lead @ Koos
Partner and Commercial Lead at Koos Global, Kasper is always eager to connect people, technology and business in a strategic way. With a human-first mindset, he is future-oriented and always looking for opportunities to engage in good conversations, even with strangers! His adventurous drive to meet new people and create impactful innovation has led him to live in Australia, Brazil and Portugal, where he co-founded the Koos Lisbon Office.