Summit Agenda
Three days of keynotes, panels, workshops, and networking — explore the full programme below.
Day 1 — Deciding what to build
Free AccessShipping Under Constraint
The opening keynote: why the hardest product work is not the greenfield build but the disciplined evolution of systems you inherited, with teams you did not pick, against budgets you cannot move.
Dr. Maya Rivera
VP of Product at Northwind Labs
Continuous Discovery That Survives Delivery
Most discovery practices die the moment a deadline appears. This talk shows how to embed lightweight research into a delivery team so it keeps running under pressure.
Akosua Mensah
Lead UX Researcher at Northwind Labs
One Token Pipeline, Thirty Surfaces
How Cobalt themes thirty product surfaces from a single source of design tokens, and the governance model that keeps it from collapsing under contribution.
Lillian Chen
Head of Design Systems at Cobalt
Making the Monolith Boring
A field report on migrating a payments monolith to a service mesh without a big-bang rewrite, told through the incidents that taught the team where the real seams were.
Tobi Okafor
Principal Engineer at Meridian Systems
Activation Is an Onboarding Problem
Hundreds of growth experiments later, the lesson is the same: activation lives in the first session, not the funnel. A practical look at what actually moved the numbers.
Erik Larsson
Group PM, Growth at Tideway
Day 2 — Making it hold together
Free AccessDesigning Calm Into Data-Dense Tools
Power tools do not have to feel overwhelming. Henrik walks through the patterns Folio uses to make information-dense interfaces feel calm and navigable.
Henrik Novak
Staff Product Designer at Folio
Platforms Without Gatekeepers
How Halcyon organises three platform teams so they accelerate product teams instead of becoming a bottleneck. The org design, the funding model, and the failure modes.
Ngozi Abara
Director of Engineering at Halcyon
The Internal Platform as a Product
Treating an internal platform like a real product — with users, a roadmap, and a value proposition — changes everything about how it is built and adopted.
Camille Delacroix
Principal PM at Folio
From Forty Minutes to Four
A concrete teardown of how Meridian cut a 40-minute CI pipeline to under four, covering caching, test selection, and the cultural changes that made it stick.
Dmitri Petrov
Senior Staff Engineer at Meridian Systems
Living Between Design and Engineering
The design engineer role is still poorly defined. Sora makes the case for it through the component library that the whole of Cobalt ships on.
Sora Yamamoto
Design Engineer at Cobalt
Day 3 — Running it in anger
Free AccessSequencing the Bets That Matter
A working session on roadmap prioritisation: how Northwind decides what to build next when every stakeholder has a different definition of "important".
Dr. Maya Rivera
VP of Product at Northwind Labs
Research Ops for Teams That Have None
You do not need a research-ops team to run good research. Akosua shows the minimum operational scaffolding that lets a small team do continuous discovery.
Akosua Mensah
Lead UX Researcher at Northwind Labs
The Work Nobody Notices
The closing keynote: a defence of the invisible engineering — the migrations, the guardrails, the boring reliability work — that lets everyone else move fast.
Tobi Okafor
Principal Engineer at Meridian Systems