From Customer Discovery to Product Success: Building What People Actually Want
Most products don't fail because they are poorly built. They fail because they're built for problems that don't matter.
Join an insightful Firechat-style panel with experienced product leaders who have built products generating over $1M in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), led AI-powered product initiatives, and helped founders turn ideas into products customers truly value.
Discover how successful teams approach customer discovery, validate ideas before writing code, achieve product-market fit, and leverage AI to make smarter product decisions. Through real-world experiences, practical frameworks, and honest lessons from building startups and products, you'll gain actionable strategies you can apply immediately.
Whether you're a founder, aspiring Product Manager, entrepreneur, builder, or AI enthusiast, this session will equip you with the mindset and tools to reduce costly mistakes, build with confidence, and create products that people genuinely want.
Agenda:
Welcome & Intoduction
Panel Discussion
Q & A from audience
Networking
Featured Speakers
Vidya Sagar Panati
Founder, PMSpace | Principal Product Manager | TEDx Speaker
Vidya Sagar Panati is the Founder of PMSpace and a Principal Product Manager with over 16 years of experience building and scaling successful digital products. He has led products that generated more than $1M in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) at Amagi and Informatica. Through PMSpace, he is empowering the next generation of Product Managers with practical, hands-on learning and real-world experience. He is also the Founder of Margawise and a TEDx Speaker, where he shares insights on AI Product Management, Product Strategy, Customer Discovery, and Growth.
Anil Kumar
CTO, PMSpace | MTech, IIIT Hyderabad
Anil Kumar is the CTO at PMSpace, where he is helping build a platform that enables aspiring Product Managers to gain practical experience while creating value for businesses and the community. Previously, he helped build Margawise, an AI-powered customer discovery platform that enabled founders to validate startup ideas and move from concept to execution with confidence. Alongside pursuing his MTech at IIIT Hyderabad, Anil has worked across product management, software engineering, and startups, contributing to products such as KBox and Connect. His expertise lies in customer discovery, Lean Startup methodologies, AI-driven product strategy, and building products that solve real customer problems.
Host:
Saurav Dhakal is the CEO of Golden Technosoft and the founder of Nexora AI Connect, a global community connecting AI innovators, founders, researchers, and industry leaders. Passionate about making AI knowledge accessible, he hosts conversations with experts worldwide to explore emerging technologies, real-world applications, and the future of artificial intelligence across industries. During this session, he will lead an engaging discussion on the growing impact of AI in molecular biology and bioinformatics.
What You'll Learn:
How to uncover real customer problems before building a product
Proven customer discovery techniques used by successful product teams
Practical frameworks to validate ideas and reduce product risk
How products generating $1M+ ARR were built and scaled
The role of AI in modern product management and customer discovery
Strategies for achieving product-market fit faster
Common mistakes founders and product managers make, and how to avoid them
Turning customer insights into product features people actually use
Who Should Attend?
Startup founders looking to validate ideas before building
Aspiring and early-career Product Managers
Product Managers seeking practical customer discovery frameworks
Entrepreneurs building AI or SaaS products
Software engineers transitioning into product roles
UX designers and researchers focused on user-centered products
Growth and innovation teams driving new product initiatives
Students interested in Product Management and startups
AI builders and tech professionals creating customer-centric solutions
Anyone passionate about building products people actually want
About the Co-Hosting Organizations:
Nexora AI Connect is a global platform dedicated to making artificial intelligence more accessible through expert conversations, podcasts, educational events, and community-driven initiatives. By connecting founders, business leaders, investors, researchers, and AI practitioners, Nexora AI Connect aims to help professionals understand and apply AI to solve real-world business challenges.
Golden Technosoft is an international software development company specializing in AI solutions, custom software development, blockchain platforms, web and mobile applications, and digital transformation. With a focus on delivering measurable business outcomes, Golden Technosoft partners with startups, SMEs, and enterprises to transform innovative ideas into scalable technology solutions.