​Maryland Product Symposium 2026

​Beyond the Vibes: Evidence-Based Product Management

​Thursday, October 22, 2026 · 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Eastern
Online · Free

​This is for the product person who hears "it worked for me" and quietly wonders: did it, though — and would it work anywhere else? Who values a good anecdote but knows an anecdote is data, not evidence. Who wants to know not just that something worked, but why — the mechanism underneath, the part you can actually repeat. If you think critically about your product, you deserve a symposium that thinks critically too.

​This is a day for that kind of knowledge: what people learned by actually doing the work, in their own context, with evidence they can show you. A real claim, the evidence behind it, and an honest account of what changed when reality pushed back.

​No vendors working the room. No frameworks without receipts. Just people showing their work.

​Register free. Three keynotes, live talks across three tracks, an interactive Connections Hour, and an on-demand library to revisit afterward.

​Keynotes:

• ​AI-Powered Innovation: Building Better Products Through Evidence, Experimentation, and AI with Dr. James V. Green - Managing Director of Learning

• ​From Purpose to Proof: How Customer Evidence Built the Product We Never Planned -with Shanell Guardo - Founder & CEO - Kintech

• ​From 5 days to 30 minutes: What Long-horizon LLM Agents Actually Changed in Small-business Tax Prep with Hardik Tiwari - Principal Product Manager - Intuit

• ​The Arrival of Product Engineering: What Mining Over 500,000 Conversations Taught Me About the Future of Product + Engineering with Bri Doyle - Product Manager Cisco

​Interactive Panel:

​Organization AI Harness: Scaling AI to the Enterprise (1PM EST)

​Join our host  Damien Peters in this interactive panel covering real stories of practitioners building and deploying organizational AI

​Three Tracks:

​Track 1: Product Technology & Complex Product Development

• ​Ewa Kozlowska (10AM EST): Senior Vice President, Treasury and Trade Solutions — Global In-Business Product Risk
  “You Have Enough Ideas to Destroy Your Company” — AI Change

• ​Myles Miller, Dr. (11AM EST):
  Beyond the Sentiment Split: Operationalizing Mixed-Method Data to Anchor Product Strategy

• ​Abbigail Meah-Ali (3PM EST): Vice President, Technical Services (Ag)
  Before You Automate: Use Lean Six Sigma to Find Where the Workflow Is Really Broken

​Track 2: Product Management in Regulated Environments

• ​Deepesh Khanna (10AM EST ): Senior Manager, Architecture Strategy & Governance
  From Autonomy to Accountability: A Product Framework for Agentic AI Governance

• ​Nikhil Mehra (11AM EST): Senior Product Manager
  The Human in the Loop Is a Feature, Not a Crutch: Evidence from High-Stakes Domains

• ​Marina Prasek (3PM EST): Senior Director, Project & Portfolio Management
  How Rapid Prototypes Can Influence Feedback and Development Risk in Regulated Products

​Track 3: Product Growth, Marketing & Market Adoption

• ​Adriano Pianesi (10AM EST): Founder, MANAGER TO CHANGEMAKER
  When More Marketing Didn’t Fix Adoption: What 15 Months of Product Experiments Taught Me About Positioning

• ​Karthik Narayan (11AM EST): Head of Product Management
  The Paradox of Specificity — Start Narrow to Go Big

• ​Jared McGriff (3PM EST): Head of Marketing, HyperTrack
  Turning Technical Capabilities into a New Category Story — From Logistics Tech to AI for Staffing

​BUSY SCHEDULE? NO PROBLEM:

​Attend from anywhere, skip the travel, and revisit the learning with one year of on-demand access after the event.

​ON-DEMAND SPEAKERS:

​Casey Bartholomew ·  Hector Del Castillo ·  Oladapo Adediran  ·  Raghu Chirra ·  Rohit Das ·  Vaidyanathan Ramaswami

​Explore practical ideas, real-world examples, and fresh approaches to product discovery, strategy, AI, experimentation, leadership, and more.

​>>> View the Full Symposium Lineup

​Key Upcoming Dates:

• ​Oct 15 — On-demand preview + one-week countdown

• ​Oct 22 — Symposium

​Register today!