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13 sessions · 10 speakers · 7h 35m of content

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Shipping 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

Product

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 & Erik Larsson

Lead UX Researcher at Northwind Labs

Design

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 & Sora Yamamoto

Head of Design Systems at Cobalt

Platform

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

Product

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

Design

Designing 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

Platform

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

Product

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

Platform

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

Design

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

Product

Sequencing 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

Design

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

Keynote

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