Shipping Physical AI: PM Lessons from the Factory Floor
Product+ Montreal is back - and we're kicking off the new season at Vention HQ.
Shipping Physical AI: PM Lessons from the Factory Floor
Most product playbooks assume you can ship on Friday and roll back on Monday. That assumption falls apart the moment your product has a motor attached to it. This session is about what product management actually looks like when the thing you're shipping moves, lifts, and occasionally drops something.
Topics covered:
Roadmaps when everything is coupled to everything
The gap between "works in UAT" and "works on the floor"
Robot demo videos vs. reality
How to plan for AI capability you can't yet describe
👀 Speakers
Brendan Sterne is Chief Product Officer at Vention where he oversees the development of Vention's end-to-end plug-and-play software and hardware platform for designing, programming and operating industrial automation and robotic systems. Prior to Vention, Brendan was Chief Product Officer at Xometry and its subsidiary ThomasNet, which leveraged AI and digital technologies to radically simplify the process for quoting and buying custom manufactured parts, and finding industrial suppliers. Before working in the manufacturing sector, Brendan spent nearly a decade at Indeed.com, the world's #1 job site, with more than 250 million unique visitors per month.
Audrey Muchembled is Product Manager for software and firmware programming solutions at Vention, working on the industrial controller at the heart of every Vention automated machine. With a master's in electrical engineering, she started her career in firmware development, then moved into software development and team leadership. Two years ago she made the move to Product, continuing to build what she is passionate about from a different angle. She has been at Vention for seven years, helping scale the company from 40 people to past 350.
Clémentine Ruet Suquet, MSc., is Vention's Senior Product Marketing Manager for Physical AI, End-of-Line, and Conveyors, driving innovation and democratization in the industrial automation space. She brings extensive strategic marketing experience to the panel, including a role as Marketing Director at Dentalcorp, and has a proven record of growing revenue, commercial excellence, and operational performance across B2B and B2C sectors.
Agenda:
5:30 pm: Doors Open
6:15 pm: Product+ Presentation and Welcome
6:45 pm: 30 min Presentations
7:15pm: Community announcements
7:30 pm: Q&A session
8:00 pm: Break / Networking
8:30 pm: Doors Close