Leaders in Product: Building Products People Use Every Day
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Leaders in Product:Building Products That Power Daily Life
Product leaders behind some of the world’s most widely used digital and retail experiences joined us in Toronto for a forward-looking conversation on the future of product innovation.
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“I think quantitative data is the smoke, but qualitative data points to the fire. That’s where you find the root cause. It’s tempting to look at aggregated data and jump to conclusions. But when you actually talk to your users, you begin to understand the real issues. Quantitative data is an important starting point, but qualitative insights are the gold standard.”
- Daniel de Repentigny, Principal Product Manager at Spotify
Daniel de Repentigny
Principal Product Manager
Daniel de Repentigny is a Principal Product Manager at Spotify, where he leads key initiatives shaping the music streaming experience for millions of users worldwide. With a strong background in product leadership and a passion for music and technology, Daniel drives strategy and execution to help Spotify deliver personalized, engaging, and scalable listening experiences. Known for his ability to balance user needs with business goals, he collaborates across design, engineering, and data teams to bring innovative features and improvements to the platform.
Samantha Simunyu
Strategic Capabilities Design
Samantha Simunyu is a digital business leader at RBC, working within Transformation and Business Integration to shape customer-centred digital investment and banking experiences. With a background spanning product management, digital transformation, and marketing, she brings a data-driven and human-focused approach to building accessible financial products.
Join our panel of fintech leaders as they share frameworks for navigating the shift toward agentic commerce. They will unpack practical models for scaling autonomous execution across complex financial ecosystems while prioritizing security and customer trust.
Building next-generation AI products demands new frameworks for architecture and oversight. Sebastian Misiurek shares how product managers can leverage digital twins, deploy agentic workflows, and implement strategic governance to ensure safe and scalable AI solutions.
Integrating AI into the design process transforms individual speed into team-wide capability. Mareike Carolin Keller shares how product designers can deploy AI tools in active production, build high-fidelity prototypes, and secure stakeholder alignment before committing heavy engineering resources.
Join Ksenia Barton, Product Marketing Lead at TikTok, to unpack how AI is changing the rules of marketing, exploring the evolution of discovery, why cultural relevance drives AI visibility, and why human strategy has never mattered more.
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