Dissolving Disciplines: Product, Engineering, Data & Design After AI
Where does product end, engineering and data begin, and design fit when AI provides so much of the connective tissue?
Product, engineering, data and design used to operate as distinct functions with relatively clear boundaries, responsibilities and hiring profiles. AI tooling is rapidly changing that reality.
For senior leaders responsible for hiring, structuring and scaling teams, the implications are no longer theoretical. They are now operational.
This event brings together a carefully curated group of senior Product, Engineering, and Design leaders from VC and PE-backed businesses for a candid working discussion on how AI is reshaping team design, hiring strategy, organisational structure, and compensation.
The conversation will focus on the practical questions leadership teams are actively navigating today:
How high-growth companies are restructuring teams around AI-enabled workflows
Whether businesses should hire fewer, more cross-functional senior operators
What exceptional leadership now looks like across product, engineering, data and design
How teams are adapting their roles, remits and ways of working (who owns what)
How human judgment, intuition and critical thinking are more important than ever
This session is designed to create space for those conversations in a senior, peer-led environment grounded in lived operational experience rather than theory.
The evening will feature a cross-functional panel discussion, facilitated table conversations and networking with leaders actively building and evolving teams through the next stage of growth.
This session will feature an expert panel including:
Tito Sarrionandia – VP of Engineering at Jigsaw
Tito is Head of Engineering at Jigsaw, owning technical strategy and implementation for the company’s vision to be the visual operating system for corporate structure decisions. Tito has over 15 years of experience transforming the output of product engineering teams in scaleup environments, previously holding senior roles at Liberis and Babylon Health.
Christine Siu, SVP Product at SoSafe
Christine Siu is SVP of Product at SoSafe, leading product strategy for the company's Adaptive Defence platform. With 15+ years' experience across B2B enterprise SaaS, fintech, and telecommunications, she has held senior product roles at Twilio and JPMorgan and built international product teams from the ground up. She is known for scaling high-performing agile teams and delivering customer-centric products in hyper-growth and enterprise environments.
Avi Ashkenazi, Senior Director of Product Design at Deel
Avi is a designer and technologist who's worked on consumer, enterprise, and SaaS products. As part of the Samsung Innovation Lab, Avi has created future concepts of UX that are now implemented and patented through Samsung products. Avi established the Visual Display team at Samsung Design Europe, and is now leading the UX and interaction design across the division’s products. Avi led Design and Product at Iwoca, one of Europe's fastest growing fintechs as well as led internationalization at Shopify. Now leading AI, Fintech, Connectivity and horizontal teams at Deel.
Jed Francis – Entrepreneur, Data Scientist
Jedidiah Francis is a data scientist turned AI entrepreneur with two decades at the frontier of applied machine learning. His doctoral research at Oxford developed new methods to model HIV evolution; he then built and led one of the UK's largest production ML systems as Head of Data Science at ASOS, running real-time personalisation across tens of terabytes of data a day. He is the founder of The Shipyard, a venture builder that creates and operates businesses run by AI systems on an agentic workflow engine of its own, and of Hairouna Labs, a research lab investigating resilient swarms of collaborating agents, as well as a Visiting Lecturer at London Business School.
This event is in partnership with Encord.
Encord is the data layer for physical AI — helping teams like Toyota, Skydio, and Maxar turn messy multimodal data into production-ready systems for robots, vehicles, and infrastructure.
Who this event is for: C-suite, SVP, VP and Director-level Product, Data, Engineering and Design leaders within VC and PE-backed businesses, alongside founders and senior hiring leaders responsible for scaling high-performing technology organisations.
For more information about this event contactJulia Barber: [email protected]
Location: Covent Garden