Faster Decisions, Faster Growth: What AI Changes for Product, Data & Growth Leaders
Hosted by Sundial · Walking distance from Moscone Center (The exact venue will be shared with confirmed guests)
Join us for a curated dinner with a small group of Data & Product leaders.
This conversation explores how Product, Data and Growth leaders are evolving analytics from a dashboards into a growth engine, using AI to move faster, experiment more, and make better decisions under uncertainty.
Over a shared table and a thoughtfully curated dining experience, Julie Zhuo, Jon Noronha and Karandeep Anand will explore how leaders are moving beyond dashboards and fragmented tools toward a new model of decision-making, one rooted in context, judgment, and AI systems teams actually rely on.
Speakers
Julie Zhuo | Co-Founder, Co-CEO of Sundial
Jon Noronha | Co-Founder, CPO Gamma
Karandeep Anand | CEO, Character.AI
Discussion themes
What the future of decision making looks like
How AI changes workflows for data
How to actually trust your AI on questions of analysis
How to move from reactive insights to proactive, real-time decision-making
How to detect when data is technically correct but strategically irrelevant
Who is in the room
A small group of
Data Science / Analytics Leaders
Head of Data / Chief Data Officer
Head of Product / CPO
VP / Head of Growth
Product Managers (Senior / Staff)
If you’re a Product, Data, or Growth leader responsible for decisions, data quality, or experimentation and find yourself questioning dashboards, reconciling conflicting metrics, or waiting on analysts for answers, we’d love to have you join us.
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About the Speakers
Julie Zhuo is the founder of Sundial, an analytics platform that helps innovative teams make better, faster decisions. Previously during her 14-year journey from Facebook's first intern to Vice President of Product Design, she spearheaded the development of iconic features for over two billion users. Her field guide to management, The Making of a Manager, became an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller and was selected as one of Amazon's Best Business and Leadership Books that year with over 5000 positive reviews.
An active speaker and investor, Julie regularly writes about technology, design, and leadership on her popular blog and mailing list, The Looking Glass. She graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University, and lives with her husband and three children in California's Bay Area.
Jon Noronha is the founder and head of product at Gamma, where he's creating a new medium for presenting ideas. Gamma allows anyone to generate a presentation, document, or webpage in minutes using AI, just by writing a topic or pasting an outline. Before starting Gamma, Jon was the VP of Product at Optimizely, where he helped companies integrate rapid experimentation into their product development process.
Karandeep Anand is the Chief Executive Officer of Character.AI, the leading AI entertainment platform with 20 million monthly active users worldwide. A board advisor to the company, Anand was appointed as CEO to guide Character.AI through its next phase of growth. As CEO, Anand is responsible for shaping the company’s long-term strategy, expanding into new modalities like video generation, identifying monetization opportunities, and unlocking new business partnerships to expand the possibilities for our users to connect, explore, and create.
Previously, Anand served as the President and Chief Product Officer of Brex, the corporate card and spend management platform for startups and enterprises. During his tenure, he was instrumental in the development and launch of Brex’s flagship AI product, Brex Assistant, as well as the introduction of Empower, Brex’s spend management platform for modern companies from startups to enterprises.
Before Brex, Anand held several leadership roles at Meta, ultimately serving as the Vice President and Head of Business Products. During his tenure, Anand led the Business Products Group, serving over 200 million businesses worldwide and connecting with 3 billion people through Ads, Business Messaging, Workplace, and Small Business products across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Before joining Meta, Anand spent 15 years at Microsoft, where he led and expanded the Product Management team and shaped the strategy for Microsoft’s Azure Cloud and Developer platform initiatives.