30 Product Leadership Speakers for Your Next Event in 2026
The right product leadership speakers don't just inspire a room—they reshape how you think about building products, leading teams, and driving outcomes. I've pulled together the speakers who bring real depth: practitioners and visionaries who've navigated the hard tradeoffs you face daily.
Whether you're planning a company event, conference, leadership session, or team offsite, this list will help you discover product leaders worth considering for your next speaker lineup.
Top 30 Product Leadership Speakers
Below are the profiles of the top product leadership speakers, covering who they are and the impact they’ve made in this space.
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Marty Cagan
Marty Cagan founded Silicon Valley Product Group after product leadership roles at HP, Netscape, and eBay. He writes, speaks, advises, and coaches leaders on building successful products.
Through books including Inspired, …
Marty Cagan founded Silicon Valley Product Group after product leadership roles at HP, Netscape, and eBay. He writes, speaks, advises, and coaches leaders on building successful products.
Through books including Inspired, Empowered, and Transformed, Cagan has shaped how product organizations think about discovery, empowered teams, strategy, and the product operating model. His keynotes turn decades of operating and advisory experience into direct challenges for product leaders.
Martin Eriksson
Martin Eriksson is a product leader, advisor, author, and speaker who founded ProductTank, co-founded Mind the Product, and co-authored Product Leadership after more than three decades in tech.
Eriksson has helped define…
Martin Eriksson is a product leader, advisor, author, and speaker who founded ProductTank, co-founded Mind the Product, and co-authored Product Leadership after more than three decades in tech.
Eriksson has helped define the product discipline through community building, executive advising, coaching, and speaking. His work connects customers, technology, and business outcomes, while The Decision Stack examines how strategic clarity helps organizations make aligned decisions and move faster.
Melissa Perri
Melissa Perri is CEO and founder of Produx Labs, a product strategy advisor, and author of Escaping the Build Trap. She also founded Product Institute and has taught at Harvard Business…
Melissa Perri is CEO and founder of Produx Labs, a product strategy advisor, and author of Escaping the Build Trap. She also founded Product Institute and has taught at Harvard Business School.
Perri tackles a problem many product teams know well: shipping more without creating more value. Her books, keynotes, teaching, and advisory work challenge leaders to rethink outcomes, strategy, product-led models, and how strong product organizations are built.
Teresa Torres
Teresa Torres is a product discovery coach, author, speaker, and founder of Product Talk. She has coached product teams for years and wrote Continuous Discovery Habits, a guide to discovery.
Torres…
Teresa Torres is a product discovery coach, author, speaker, and founder of Product Talk. She has coached product teams for years and wrote Continuous Discovery Habits, a guide to discovery.
Torres gives teams practical systems for making discovery continuous rather than episodic. Her work on opportunity solution trees, interviewing, assumption testing, and evidence-based decisions helps product leaders create stronger habits for deciding what to build and why.
Christian Idiodi
Christian Idiodi is a product partner at Silicon Valley Product Group and a longtime product leader who has built teams and products at CareerBuilder, Snagajob, and Merrill Corporation.
Idiodi helps organizations strengthen…
Christian Idiodi is a product partner at Silicon Valley Product Group and a longtime product leader who has built teams and products at CareerBuilder, Snagajob, and Merrill Corporation.
Idiodi helps organizations strengthen product management and move toward empowered, customer-focused teams. His talks and coaching draw on experience building product organizations, launching new businesses, teaching product management, and guiding companies through product transformation.
Petra Wille
Petra Wille is an independent product leadership coach and author. She helped companies strengthen product culture and leaders since 2013, after years in hands-on product leadership roles.
Her book Strong Product People…
Petra Wille is an independent product leadership coach and author. She helped companies strengthen product culture and leaders since 2013, after years in hands-on product leadership roles.
Her book Strong Product People and coaching focus on helping heads and VPs of product develop themselves and the people they manage. Wille combines leadership development with practical experience in discovery, transformation, empowered teams, and product-led organizations.
Dan Olsen
Dan Olsen is a product management consultant, trainer, author, and speaker. He works with CEOs and product leaders through Olsen Solutions and wrote The Lean Product Playbook on product-market fit.
Olsen’s Lean…
Dan Olsen is a product management consultant, trainer, author, and speaker. He works with CEOs and product leaders through Olsen Solutions and wrote The Lean Product Playbook on product-market fit.
Olsen’s Lean Product Process gives teams a structured route from customer needs and value propositions to MVPs, testing, and product-market fit. His talks and consulting translate lean principles into practical decisions for leaders building products and product teams.
Rich Mironov
Rich Mironov is a product executive coach, consultant, and longtime product leader behind Product Bytes. He advises CPOs and organizations on strategy, leadership, and product economics.
Mironov brings a business lens to…
Rich Mironov is a product executive coach, consultant, and longtime product leader behind Product Bytes. He advises CPOs and organizations on strategy, leadership, and product economics.
Mironov brings a business lens to product leadership, writing and speaking about pricing, organizational politics, strategy, incentives, and the economic case for product work. His coaching helps senior leaders connect product choices with money, executive priorities, and organizational realities.
Vrushali Paunikar
Vrushali Paunikar is Chief Product Officer at Carta, where she leads development of new and existing solutions after earlier product leadership work across valuation and venture capital businesses.
Paunikar has helped build…
Vrushali Paunikar is Chief Product Officer at Carta, where she leads development of new and existing solutions after earlier product leadership work across valuation and venture capital businesses.
Paunikar has helped build and scale major parts of Carta’s platform, including its venture capital business and fund administration offering. Her operating experience gives audiences a practical view of multi-product growth, scaling product organizations, and turning financial workflows into software.
Itamar Gilad
Itamar Gilad is a product management coach, author, and speaker with more than two decades in senior product and engineering roles at Google, Microsoft, and startups, including Gmail and YouTube.
Gilad created…
Itamar Gilad is a product management coach, author, and speaker with more than two decades in senior product and engineering roles at Google, Microsoft, and startups, including Gmail and YouTube.
Gilad created the GIST Framework and Confidence Meter and wrote Evidence-Guided. His work gives leaders practical ways to connect goals, ideas, experiments, and delivery while reducing the risk of product decisions through evidence rather than confidence alone.
Gibson Biddle
Gibson Biddle is a product advisor, speaker, teacher, and former VP of Product at Netflix and CPO of Chegg. He now works with product leaders on strategy, culture, and organizational design.
Biddle…
Gibson Biddle is a product advisor, speaker, teacher, and former VP of Product at Netflix and CPO of Chegg. He now works with product leaders on strategy, culture, and organizational design.
Biddle turns operating experience from high-growth consumer technology into accessible frameworks and case studies. His talks examine product strategy, leadership, culture, metrics, and organizational design, giving executives practical material they can debate and apply with their teams.
Jeetu Patel
Jeetu Patel is President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco, leading global product vision and strategy across networking, security, collaboration, Splunk, computing, and other major categories.
Patel brings product strategy, design, development,…
Jeetu Patel is President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco, leading global product vision and strategy across networking, security, collaboration, Splunk, computing, and other major categories.
Patel brings product strategy, design, development, and operational leadership to one of technology’s broadest portfolios. His work unifying Cisco’s product vision and pushing integration and AI innovation gives product leaders a large-scale view of turning strategy into coordinated execution.
Simone Paul Tamussin
Simone Paul Tamussin is a Mastercard product executive focused on global payment gateway services, with leadership responsibility spanning product management, development, and digital commerce.
Tamussin’s work sits where product leadership meets the…
Simone Paul Tamussin is a Mastercard product executive focused on global payment gateway services, with leadership responsibility spanning product management, development, and digital commerce.
Tamussin’s work sits where product leadership meets the complexity of global payments. His perspective covers gateway strategy, merchant experiences, international and domestic processing, and the challenge of building payment products that simplify integration while supporting local needs at scale.
John Cutler
John Cutler is a product thinker, writer, coach, and former Product Evangelist at Amplitude. His work explores healthy product teams, strategy, systems thinking, analytics, and decision-making.
Cutler is known for unpacking the…
John Cutler is a product thinker, writer, coach, and former Product Evangelist at Amplitude. His work explores healthy product teams, strategy, systems thinking, analytics, and decision-making.
Cutler is known for unpacking the messy systems behind product work rather than prescribing a single playbook. His writing and talks connect team health, analytics, outcomes, collaboration, and organizational constraints, helping leaders diagnose how work actually moves through a company.
Mamuna Oladipo
Mamuna Oladipo is founder and CEO of Theme Health and a product leader who has built products across complex consumer and data-driven businesses and now applies that experience to chronic care.
Oladipo…
Mamuna Oladipo is founder and CEO of Theme Health and a product leader who has built products across complex consumer and data-driven businesses and now applies that experience to chronic care.
Oladipo approaches product leadership as the work of turning fragmented information into decisions people can use. At Theme Health, she is applying that operating mindset to chronic-care patterns, drawing on a career building products at scale to frame user problems, intelligence layers, and underserved workflows.
Rob Seaman
Rob Seaman is EVP and General Manager at Slack, where he leads work on the platform as AI agents reshape workplace collaboration. His product leadership includes Slackbot’s reinvention as an AI agent.
…
Rob Seaman is EVP and General Manager at Slack, where he leads work on the platform as AI agents reshape workplace collaboration. His product leadership includes Slackbot’s reinvention as an AI agent.
Seaman’s recent work shows product leadership in a fast-changing category: redesigning a familiar workplace product around AI while protecting simplicity and usability. His perspective on humans and agents working side by side gives leaders a concrete case study in evolving an established platform.
Tim Holley
Tim Holley is Chief Product Officer at MyFitnessPal, leading product management, design, product marketing, and research after a long product leadership career at Etsy, where he grew its marketplace.
Holley is leading…
Tim Holley is Chief Product Officer at MyFitnessPal, leading product management, design, product marketing, and research after a long product leadership career at Etsy, where he grew its marketplace.
Holley is leading MyFitnessPal toward a product operating model centered on customer problems and measurable business value. His experience spans engagement, conversion, zero-to-one products, marketplaces, retention, and subscription growth, giving audiences an operator’s view of scaling consumer product teams.
Leah Tharin
Leah Tharin is a product and growth leader, advisor, and writer. His work spans product-led growth, B2B SaaS, retention, and monetization. She serves as Chief Product & Growth Officer at Fyxer AI.
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Leah Tharin is a product and growth leader, advisor, and writer. His work spans product-led growth, B2B SaaS, retention, and monetization. She serves as Chief Product & Growth Officer at Fyxer AI.
Tharin’s work sits between product strategy and growth mechanics, with particular attention to activation, retention, monetization, and self-serve models. Her writing and speaking help leaders distinguish sustainable product-led growth from surface-level tactics and connect growth choices to how customers experience value.
Ant Murphy
Ant Murphy is a product coach and founder who works with CPOs, founders, product leaders, and teams on stronger product practices, leadership, and transitions to the product operating model.
Murphy combines one-to-one…
Ant Murphy is a product coach and founder who works with CPOs, founders, product leaders, and teams on stronger product practices, leadership, and transitions to the product operating model.
Murphy combines one-to-one executive coaching with workshops and longer product transformations. His work focuses on building product capability inside organizations, helping leaders strengthen decision-making and teams adopt the competencies needed for empowered, outcome-oriented product work.
Elena Verna
Elena Verna is Head of Growth at Lovable and a longtime B2B SaaS growth operator. Her career includes leadership work at SurveyMonkey, Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox, and Netlify across self-serve growth.
Verna works…
Elena Verna is Head of Growth at Lovable and a longtime B2B SaaS growth operator. Her career includes leadership work at SurveyMonkey, Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox, and Netlify across self-serve growth.
Verna works at the intersection of product, marketing, and data, with deep experience in acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization. Her recent talks explore how AI-native products are rewriting familiar growth assumptions, giving product leaders a timely view of distribution and product-led growth.
Aparna Sinha
Aparna Sinha is SVP of Product and host of EnterpriseAlignedAI podcast. Her work spans enterprise AI and ML at Capital One and a decade at Google, including Google Cloud.
Sinha combines deep…
Aparna Sinha is SVP of Product and host of EnterpriseAlignedAI podcast. Her work spans enterprise AI and ML at Capital One and a decade at Google, including Google Cloud.
Sinha combines deep technical experience with executive product leadership across AI, cloud, Kubernetes, and developer platforms. At Vercel, that background informs how she thinks about product velocity, developer experience, security, and building infrastructure for a new generation of AI-native software.
Noa Ganot
Noa Ganot is founder and CEO of Infinify, a product leadership academy, and a veteran product executive who has led products and teams at eBay Israel, Twiggle, and Imperva across B2B and…
Noa Ganot is founder and CEO of Infinify, a product leadership academy, and a veteran product executive who has led products and teams at eBay Israel, Twiggle, and Imperva across B2B and B2C markets.
Ganot works with product executives and CEOs on product-market fit, strategy, roadmaps, product organizations, and executive leadership. Her lectures, mentoring, and CPO programs translate more than two decades of operating experience into practical guidance for leaders making high-stakes product decisions.
Dave Bottoms
Dave Bottoms is Chief Product Officer at PlayOn Sports, leading product strategy and development across GoFan, MaxPreps, and the NFHS Network after senior roles at Upwork, Meta, Dropbox, and Yahoo.
Bottoms brings…
Dave Bottoms is Chief Product Officer at PlayOn Sports, leading product strategy and development across GoFan, MaxPreps, and the NFHS Network after senior roles at Upwork, Meta, Dropbox, and Yahoo.
Bottoms brings more than two decades of product and marketplace experience across shifts including mobile, SaaS, advertising, and AI. At PlayOn, he is applying that background to a multi-product sports platform, giving audiences a seasoned operator’s view of scaling products, portfolios, and customer experiences.
Elena Leonova
Elena Leonova is a former Chief Product Officer, executive product strategy advisor, speaker, and founder of OneRank, with experience scaling B2B and platform products across global markets.
Leonova works with senior product…
Elena Leonova is a former Chief Product Officer, executive product strategy advisor, speaker, and founder of OneRank, with experience scaling B2B and platform products across global markets.
Leonova works with senior product leaders and executive teams on high-stakes strategy decisions, especially when growth slows and tradeoffs become harder. Her mix of CPO experience, advising, speaking, and building an AI strategy platform gives audiences both an operator’s and advisor’s view of product strategy.
John Manganaro
John Manganaro is Chief Product Officer at Bonterra, where he leads product management, user experience and design, and data science for software serving nonprofit and social-impact organizations.
Manganaro’s career spans SaaS, analytics,…
John Manganaro is Chief Product Officer at Bonterra, where he leads product management, user experience and design, and data science for software serving nonprofit and social-impact organizations.
Manganaro’s career spans SaaS, analytics, marketplaces, automotive technology, and social-impact software. At Bonterra, he brings those disciplines together across a broad product portfolio, offering product leaders a perspective on coordinating product, design, and data around complex customer missions.
Matt LeMay
Matt LeMay is a product leader, consultant, and author whose books include Impact-first Product Teams and Product Management in Practice. His career includes product roles at Songza and Bitly.
LeMay pushes…
Matt LeMay is a product leader, consultant, and author whose books include Impact-first Product Teams and Product Management in Practice. His career includes product roles at Songza and Bitly.
LeMay pushes teams to judge product practices by business and customer impact rather than process purity. His books, consulting, and One Page / One Hour Pledge challenge leaders to reduce busywork, simplify strategy, strengthen collaboration, and keep teams focused on work that materially matters.
Randy Silver
Randy Silver is a product and leadership coach, consultant, community builder, and former Head of Product at HSBC and Sainsbury’s. He also co-hosts The Product Experience podcast and runs CPO Circles.
Silver…
Randy Silver is a product and leadership coach, consultant, community builder, and former Head of Product at HSBC and Sainsbury’s. He also co-hosts The Product Experience podcast and runs CPO Circles.
Silver works with leaders and organizations on choosing the right problems, shaping workable product approaches, and delivering value. His interim CPO experience, coaching, podcasting, and product communities give him a broad view of the practical and human challenges senior product leaders face.
Tim Herbig
Tim Herbig is a product management coach, consultant, author, and speaker. He helps teams connect product strategy, goals, OKRs, and discovery to make clearer, evidence-based decisions.
Herbig’s work challenges teams to measure…
Tim Herbig is a product management coach, consultant, author, and speaker. He helps teams connect product strategy, goals, OKRs, and discovery to make clearer, evidence-based decisions.
Herbig’s work challenges teams to measure progress through meaningful outcomes rather than output. By connecting strategy, goals, and discovery, he gives product leaders a coherent way to make choices, reduce decision risk, and adapt common practices such as OKRs to the realities of their organization.
Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta is a product and growth writer, educator, and podcast host with operating experience at thredUP, Affirm, and Apollo.io. He publishes Product Growth and AI by Aakash for product leaders.
Gupta…
Aakash Gupta is a product and growth writer, educator, and podcast host with operating experience at thredUP, Affirm, and Apollo.io. He publishes Product Growth and AI by Aakash for product leaders.
Gupta combines a decade of operating experience with deep interviews and analysis of how product teams work. His writing and podcast explore AI product management, growth strategy, careers, and the practices of leading operators, translating fast-moving industry changes into practical lessons for product leaders.
Radhika Dutt
Radhika Dutt is an entrepreneur, product leader, and author of Radical Product Thinking. She advises organizations on product thinking and teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern.
Dutt developed Radical Product Thinking…
Radhika Dutt is an entrepreneur, product leader, and author of Radical Product Thinking. She advises organizations on product thinking and teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern.
Dutt developed Radical Product Thinking as a systematic approach to building vision-driven products rather than relying on iteration alone. Her experience across startups, acquisitions, government, and varied industries gives product leaders a framework for connecting vision, strategy, priorities, and measurable change.
Selection Methodology
I selected the leaders on this list based on their relevance, demonstrated expertise and impact, professional credibility, and ongoing contributions to the field.
I look for evidence such as leading meaningful initiatives or delivering notable results within their organizations, developing influential ideas or practices, publishing research or educational resources, speaking or teaching, and other contributions that demonstrate impact within their work or the broader field.
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