Takeoff w/ Daniel Arvardo - How Product People Stay Essential in the Industrial AI Age
About Event Takeoff: How Product People Stay Essential in the Industrial AI Age.
Something uncomfortable is happening in product right now.
The tools are getting smarter. The roles are getting blurrier. And a lot of people who've built careers in product, design or engineering are quietly asking themselves — where do I actually fit in this?
It's the right question to be asking.
Because the "AI jobpocalypse" everyone keeps warning about isn't coming for the people you'd expect. It's not about replacement. It's about collapse.
The PM Designer Developer triangle — the way most companies have organized product work for the last two decades — is folding in on itself. And what's emerging in its place is something different. A kind of person who can hold product judgment and technical execution in the same hand. Who uses AI not to go faster, but to see clearer. Who becomes genuinely dangerous to competitors when the stakes are real.
The paradox is this: the more we automate, the more valuable the humans who can direct that automation become. Every agent still needs someone who cares about it.
At the next Takeoff, we're sitting down with Daniel Arevalo — Lead Product Experience Designer at Omny AS, product engineer, interaction designer, and founder — to get into what this shift actually looks like from the inside.
Daniel sits at exactly the intersection this moment is calling for. A background in electronics engineering. A career built on interaction design. A founder's instinct for what matters. He's been building at the frontier of human-computer interaction long before it became the most important conversation in tech.
Together we'll get into:
a simple 2×2 for whether your org is set up to foster — or accidentally filter out — the people it needs most
why spanning crafts makes you the most valuable person in the room, and the quiet new "enabler" role emerging alongside these generalists
a concrete look at doing real product work in a secure, high-stakes environment
and why AI's biggest gift to product people isn't speed — it's depth
Closing it off with a Q&A.
If you're a PM, designer, or developer trying to figure out where you fit as the stack reshapes itself — this one's for you. If you lead teams and want to understand who to bet on right now — this one's also for you.
The people who thrive in this age won't be the ones who adapt the fastest. They'll be the ones who understood the shift before everyone else did.
Hope to see you there 🚀