NEXT-GEN Product Management | Conference

🔍Event Overview

Kick off 2025 with Ireland’s leading Product Managers and innovators across a broad spectrum of industries, joined by Global Product Management Thought Leaders.

This complimentary half-day conference explores how the evolving function of Product Management can reshape how organisations tackle challenges and deliver breakthrough products for scale. See Product Operations and Artificial Intelligence (AI) take centre stage as pivotal forces driving enterprise transformation.

Brought to you by Technology Ireland DIGITAL Skillnet and TU Dublin, this event presents a unique opportunity for product leaders to challenge perspectives and learn from global product experts such as Denise Tilles, John Haggerty, Richa Pathak and Paddy Monaghan.

• Learn from industry leaders about the transformative power of product ops and AI.
• Network with peers, experts and stakeholders shaping the future of product management.
• Engage in interactive panel discussions, Q&A sessions and networking opportunities.

• How product operations solve the three biggest challenges in product management.
• Enhancing stakeholder collaboration, trust and transparency in the age of AI.
• Insights into the Evolving Function of Product Management over a 20-year company lifecycle.
• How customer centricity can fuel ambition to scale.
• Product management leadership insights from startup to scale-up.
• Examining the adoption of AI and its impact on reducing time-to-money.

Denise Tilles
Co-author of Product Operations (2023) with noted product expert Melissa Perri, Denise brings over a decade of product leadership experience, supporting companies like Bloomberg, Sam's Club and athenahealth to enable meaningful outcomes by strengthening capabilities in product operations, product strategy, organisational design and product operating model.

John Haggerty
John has spearheaded product initiatives at startups, high-growth businesses and enterprises for over 20 years. As a product leader and coach, John guides teams through product discovery and AI-driven innovation, fostering continuous learning and data-informed decisions.
John is a regular speaker at events such as the NY Product Conference, Applied AI, ITX Product + Design Conference, and INDUSTRY: The Product Conference/Pendo.

Richa Pathak

Richa Pathak (Director, Product Management – Workday) is a product, strategy and transformation leader with cross-regional experience in SaaS and Financial Services. Passionate about innovation, sustainability and leadership development, and active supporter of the start-up ecosystem. Currently responsible for product and engineering teams that develop solutions used for globalising Workday products and content internationally.

Paddy Monaghan
As Chief Product Officer at Phorest, Paddy has led a platform used by 155,000+ salon professionals worldwide and 11,000+ businesses and counting. Known globally for having the best salon marketing tools, Phorest leads with innovation and touches every point of the salon experience. Today, Phorest empowers the beauty and aesthetics industry to grow its businesses not just through innovation in technology but also through personal growth, mentoring and support.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

TU Dublin, East Quad, Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland