Masterclass: Velocity | Shipping Fast in the AI Era with Sandesh de Silva - Demandbase
AI hasn’t just made teams faster. It has changed how good teams are built.
Sandesh de Silva, AI Product Leader, is back for his second Masterclass with us. He shares a practical framework from building an agentic AI product shipped by a small, agent-native team in Silicon Valley. The old relay race of brief → spec → roadmap → tickets → build is giving way to mission-led pods, where PMs prototype, engineers go deep with the customer, designers shape strategy, and AI agents handle the heavy lifting of code, tests, and documentation.
In this session he unpacks what changes when AI agents join your team: new roles, a weekly shipping cadence, and where human-agent teams still fall short.
WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY
How to structure a small team for maximum shipping velocity
How to use AI agents alongside PMs, engineers, and designers
How to turn user feedback into working software within a week
The limits: where human-agent teams still fall short
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Founders and PMs shipping AI products with small teams
Teams exploring agent-native workflows
Anyone rethinking how roles work in an AI-first org
Students and alumni curious how AI is changing how products get built
📅 Monday 16th November 2026
⏰ 5:00-6:30 PM UK Time
💻 Online via Microsoft Teams
🎤 For Q&A, please introduce yourself and your project.
📹 This session will be recorded and shared with the community.
ABOUT SANDESH
Sandesh de Silva is Principal Product Manager at Demandbase, where he leads enterprise AI, agents and evals work. He has 15+ years shaping AI, GTM and analytics ecosystems across Demandbase, Splunk, VMware and The Home Depot.
Austrian-born and US-based, Sandesh is currently an Oxford Executive MBA candidate at Saïd Business School and Ambassador for VI3NNA Congress. He is also an Oxbridge AIx Hero.