Post by António "Tojal" Rocha

PRODUCTIZED 2026 ✅ 1️⃣2️⃣ speakers. The thread running through all of them: the fundamentals matter more now, not less. 👉 Joe Futty: when anyone can build anything instantly, the scarce resource is judgment. Don't predict one future. Hold four or five and anchor on the customer problem. 👉 Krasi Bozhinkova: speed is an amplifier, not a strategy. When execution gets cheap, the question isn't what else to build. It's what to protect, what to learn and what to wait before scaling. 👉 Randy Silver & Faith Forster: Faith talking honestly about what it's actually like to build a company with AI right now. Few say it on a stage. 👉 Tania Nemes: you can't always get clarity before moving, but you can always get more data. Data leads to clarity. Chasing clarity directly is the wrong order. 👉 Emanuel Martonca: SaaS has a pricing problem. When AI agents deliver the same outcome as your product, pricing by seat means very little. Who else delivers the same outcomes to your clients? 👉 Rodolfo Cristóvão & Mike Yeardley: a Tier 1 customer said it: "Sometimes we hang ourselves to the extent of the rope you provide us." Your value at scale is measured by the rigor of your rejection, not what you ship. 👉 David Ross: don't add AI to existing processes. Redesign them from scratch. Lower the cost of sharing early: #badversion, #overbeers, #failnight, #FUOTW. 👉 Dave Martin: 50% of people in tech are neurodivergent. You can think correctly and still fail to communicate it. As you move up, that gap becomes the liability. 👉 Surbhi Marwah: being hands-on isn't micromanagement. It's proximity to the truth, staying close enough to understand what's actually happening. 👉 Matt LeMay: AI is a lot better at repeating what we said than asking what we meant. If we stop doing the hard work of genuine human communication, we'll 10x our misalignments. 👉 Rich Mironov: "Code Isn't Product." With AI you can ship 100 features a week at lower cost. No awareness, no adoption, no revenue bump. The job isn't just to build. It's to keep reminding stakeholders what they're getting. 👉 Martin Eriksson: the Jevons paradox applied to AI. Efficiency creates more demand, not less. What if the cost of software goes to zero? What's your moat then? When the wave comes, you can paddle against it or learn to surf. 🏄‍♂️ Great to catch up with Joao Moita, Daniel Zacarias, Sergiu Lazar Angelescu, Luis Pereira, Ricardo Luiz, João de Brito, Ricardo Vitorino and Nuno Santos. And finally to meet Chloe Beck, Denise C, Beatriz Carvalho, Blagoja Golubovski, Nir Ehrlich, Carla Piçarra Santos and Rui Lameiras 😀 Thank you Andre Marquet for the chance to be part of this one more year. And a shoutout to Radhika Dutt and Ricardo Luiz for holding the day together as MCs. Already looking forward to 2027 🔥 P.S. Luis Pereira is looking for a Product Manager to join Infraspeak. Dropping the link in the comments if you're interested. #productized #productManagement #AI #portugal