Agenda

Explore sessions, breakouts, and keynotes

March 24, 2026 –– Day 0

Workshop

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Mind the Product: Building AI experiences in your product

Building AI experiences is a story-led course, grounded in case studies of real AI-powered products.

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Mind the Product: Practical AI for Product Managers

Practical AI for Product Managers is a hands-on course designed to help product people integrate generative AI to transform their daily workflows.

10:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Driving adoption at scale: turning Pendo Insights into action

Supercharge adoption and growth with data-led strategies powered by Pendo.

10:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Building a Pendo Center of Excellence: Governance, scale, and strategic impact

Take your Pendo strategy to the next level by building a Center of Excellence and governance framework that scales across products and global teams.

10:00 AM - 3:30 PM

So you’ve inherited Pendo: A hands-on Admin workshop

New to your organization—and now responsible for an existing Pendo environment? You’re not alone! This workshop is designed specifically for Pendo Admins inheriting an established setup.

10:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Pendo Essentials

New (or new-ish) to Pendo? This 1-day, hands-on workshop covers installation, tagging, segments, guides, and analytics—plus best practices to get you on the path to Pendo certification.

Connector Track

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Registration

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Connector Track Welcome + Keynote

Product

Liz Feller from Nelnet Business Services is a Pendo power user and will walk attendees through what it takes to make sure you're getting value from your Pendo tools.

Liz Feller, IT Manager @ Nelnet Business Services
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Scaling Pendo at UserTesting: Governance, adoption, and measurable impact

ProductProdOps

In this panel, UserTesting leaders share how we scaled Pendo across the organization—overcoming internal challenges, formalizing a center of excellence, and driving consistent in-app experiences.

John Anistranski, Digital Adoption Program Manager @ UserTesting
Andrew Hildebrand, Senior Outbound Marketing Manager @ UserTesting
Callum Dickson, Senior Product Manager @ UserTesting
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Lighting Round: Pendo admin playbooks

ProductImprove onboarding & reduce enablement costs

Hear from four individuals who live and breath Pendo. They'll share their best tips and processes for Pendo admins.

Jana Debusk, Sr. Product Operations Manager @ Applied Systems
Julie Poole, Director Product Operations @ Ensemble Health Partners
Zack Hane, Digital Adoption Content Developer @ Applied Systems
Jason Lott, Senior Manager, Product Operations @ Bonterra
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch & networking

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM

Roundtable discussions

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

VIP reception

March 25, 2026 –– Day 1
7:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast & networking

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Opening Keynote: Built by you, powered by Pendo

Software is changing faster than it has in decades, and so is how we measure success. Join Pendo CEO and co-founder, Todd Olson, as he casts his vision for the future of Pendo, highlights customer achievements, and unveils what's next for product people everywhere. Plus, hear firsthand from customers who are building, deploying, and actually measuring what works.

Todd Olson, Co-founder and CEO @ Pendo
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch & networking

Shipping AI agents, without shipping risk

ProductIT

This session walks through the security and governance challenges that surface when you ship customer-facing AI agents.

Gil Feig, CTO and Co-Founder @ Merge
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

From prototype to production: Building the right thing

As AI makes the cost of building and deploying code cheaper than ever, the primary risk has shifted from "can we build it?" to "should we?"

Chelsea Bullock, Sr. Principal Product Manager @ Atlassian

Making product decisions that survive scrutiny

ProductUX

No credibility = no big moves. Just endless stakeholder meetings, reactive firefighting, and legacy platforms you can't kill. This session shows how to break that cycle, especially in B2B2C environments where you can't just talk to users whenever you want.

Donovon Bacon, Associate Director, Product Management @ CCC Intelligent Solutions
Charles Plath, Senior Director, Product Design @ CCC Intelligent Solutions

Delightful intelligence: How to create AI products users love

ProductUX

While companies race to add AI features, they often overlook what truly matters: building experiences users love. In this session, Ramli John and C. Todd Lombardo (Co-Authors of the coming new book Delightful Intelligence by O'Reilly) will reveal the framework that separates delightful AI products from merely functional ones.

Ramli John, Founder @ Delight path
C. Todd Lombardo, Product Coach and Advisor

Anticipating customer needs & driving retention with predictive analytics

RevenueCS

Learn how Emburse connected multiple workstreams—NPS, Customer Health, Predict, and Digital Renewal workflows—into one unified customer journey to spot risk early and drive growth.

Kobi Stok, VP, Product Management @ Pendo
Vikas Sharma, Sr. Director, Customer Insights @ Emburse
Kelly Causey, VP, Customer Success @ Emburse

How to build a repeatable AI framework across the product lifecycle

ProductProdOps

Everyone's talking about AI in product. Almost nobody has a repeatable process for actually using it. Quezia Mara Miyazaki Frois de Paula, Group Product Manager at global fintech EBANX, shows how her team moved from AI experiments to an operationalized framework that delivers across the entire product lifecycle.

Quezia Mara Miyazaki Frois de Paula, Head of Product Management and Product Design @ EBANX

The team of tomorrow: agents, alignment, and team ritual

ProductProdOps

As AI agents move from tools to active participants, product teams will need to rethink how collaboration actually works. Hear GitHub product operations leader Chris Butler use design fiction to imagine a near future where AI agents work alongside engineers, designers, product managers, customer support, legal, privacy, and security.

Chris Butler, Director of Product Operations @ Github

Preparing your product team for agent-based user experiences

ITUX

IQVIA didn't start thinking about AI agents yesterday. They started by getting the fundamentals right: building a COE, standardizing how teams use product experience tools, creating the operational muscle to scale digital experiences across a global, regulated enterprise.

Holiday Eng, UX Design Director @ IQVIA
Jordan Morris, Head of Experience @ IQVIA.AI

Predicting adoption, trust, and risk with behavioral data

ProductUX

Users tell us where resilience lives: not in security stacks or dashboards, but in their behaviors. Trellix has moving beyond surface analytics and track the signals that actually predict adoption, trust, and risk.

Luis Rodriguez, Staff UX Researcher @ Trellix

Lightning round: Proving ROI, from apps to AI agents

CSRevenue

Hear from Salesforce, Pendo, and Nexxen on deploying and measuring agents in two 20-minute talks

Craig Hyatt, Sr. Partner Development Manager, Strategic Alliance (Salesforce) @ Pendo
Jake Wills, Product Manager @ Pendo
Isaac Miller, Product Training Specialist @ Nexxen
Brandon Stauber, Partner Solutions - AMER Technology Strategy & Solutions @ Salesforce

Lightning round: Building with AI, from architecture to execution

ProductIT

Hear from ServiceNow and Symplr in two 20-minute sessions that cover how to build with AI from start to finish.

Sandeep Voona, Senior Principal Product Manager @ ServiceNow
Cheyenne Roinestad, Product Manager @ symplr

Lightning round: In-app onboarding with an AI-first mindset

ProductEngineering

Learn about new AI-powered onboarding approaches from Verizon Connect and RF-SMART in two 20-minute sessions.

Stephen Doerfler, PhD, Sr UX Research Manager @ Verizon Connect
Elliot Land, Innovation Product Owner @ RF-Smart
Kevin Gaul, Senior Director of Products - Shipping @ RF-Smart
Nicolas Toporcov, Senior Software Specialist @ RF-Smart
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

MCP: The connective tissue behind a new generation of builders

ProductL&D

Join this panel of experts to learn about how PMs can prototype with MCP and make a new way of building possible.

Rahul Jain, Chief Product Officer @ Pendo
Francois Lopitaux, SVP, Product Management @ ThoughtSpot
Kosta Bolgov, Group Product Manager @ Miro
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

How Builder.io builds: Inside the workflows of AI-native companies

ProductEngineering

Builder.io operates with a simple belief: product managers, designers, and engineers should all be first-class builders. In this look at how Builder.io builds its own product, you’ll see how AI-native, PM-driven workflows enable extreme ownership, where one person can take a problem from idea all the way to production.

Steve Sewell, Founder & CEO @ Builder.io
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

BBQ & Beats

Join us for some local NC flavor featuring BBQ and music from Gangstagrass and Fireside Collective.

March 26, 2026 –– Day 2
7:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast & networking

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

The era of the product creator

ProductUX

Details coming soon!

Christian Idiodi, Partner @ Silicon Valley Product Group
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

The Art and Science of Product Sense

Product

Vrushali Paunikar, CPO of Carta, breaks down product sense into its core building blocks and shares how her teams turned an elusive concept into a repeatable discipline.

Vrushali Paunikar, Chief Product Officer @ Carta

Lightning round: Pendo Partner power hour

RevenueCS

You might not realize that Pendo customers can also become Pendo Partners, using the Pendo platform to turn their product onboarding experience into a new revenue-generating line of business.

Matt Adlai-Gail, VP of Education Services @ Model N
Jessica Borowitz, Manager of Digital Adoption @ Applied Systems
Keith Wagner, CTO @ Balboa Solutions

Breakout session

Details coming soon!

From crisis to comeback: How Global Payments rebuilt user trust after a product launch gone wrong

ProductUX

What happens when your most loyal users stop believing in your product? In October 2024, Global Payments faced that reality. A major launch of our “NextGen” POS platform fell flat—hardware performance issues, user frustration, and feedback that hit hard: “You don’t listen.” This session tells the honest story of how we turned that low point into a success story.

Chad Parker, Senior Manager, Product Management @ Global Payments

Building a strong product analytics strategy for cross-functional impact

ProductProdOps

When Unni Krishnan joined Bluebeam's product team—a company within the Build & Construct division within the Nemetschek portfolio—they'd been tracking product data for years. What they didn't have was a unified analytics strategy & key product metrics in a single pane of glass meant for executive reporting.

Unni Krishnan, Director of Product Management - Strategy and Analytics @ Bluebeam I Nemetschek Group - Build & Construct

How to gain traction with Pendo in a complex enterprise

ProductCS

This session shows how to turn a tool purchase into an enterprise movement, and fast.

Beth Schwartz, Vice President, Product Management @ Corpay
Adam Griffeth, Vice President, Product @ Corpay

How great leaders grow people

ProductImprove product strategy & roadmap decisions

In this talk, learn why coaching is one of the most powerful (and misunderstood) tools of effective product leadership.

Gabi Bufrem, Product Leadership Coach & Advisor @ Product Coaching

How Virgin Airlines Australia increased bookings by 9%

ProductMarketing

When Virgin Australia's Business Flyer program needed to prove product-market fit and drive measurable revenue growth, they turned to in-app channels to replace engineering bottlenecks with fast experimentation.

How Genesys engaged its customer community through gamification and behavioral data

CSUX

When Genesys set out to launch the Orchestrators Program, our goal wasn’t just to deliver everything you need to succeed in one place, it was to transform our customer culture.

Clay Tison, Senior Director of Customer Success & Digital Transformation @ Genesys
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Fireside chat with OK Go

Enjoy your lunch with a Fireside chat from OK Go's lead singer and guitarist, Damian Kulash.

Damian Kulash, Lead singer & guitarist @ OK Go!
Brian Walsh, SVP, Product @ Pendo

Lightning round: Aligning teams around data, not gut feel

ProductCS

Hear from Medidata, Blueprint Health, and Dealpath about how they made product decisions with confidence in three 15-minute sessions.

Stephanie Stewart, Sr. Program Manager - Platform Strategy @ Medidata
Jonathon Wilson, Software Systems Sr Manager @ Medidata
Clifford Dong, Senior Director of Growth @ Blueprint Health
Francis Lo, Product Manager @ Dealpath

The how/why ladder: Turning product features into messaging that resonates

ProductMarketing

In this session, you'll learn how to use the How/Why Ladder: a framework for building product messaging that resonates across your entire buying committee.

Mike Northfield, Senior Revenue Marketing Manager @ QSC

Lightning round: Making product insights actionable at scale

ProductIT

Hear from McGraw Hill, Palace Company, and about scaling your product insights while keeping them action-oriented.

Jen Bessette, Product Management Operations Manager @ McGraw Hill Education
Maria Knausz, Sr. Director, ProdOps @ Korn Ferry

Lighting round: Validate before you build (and after you ship)

ProductUX

Hear from Convo, Everfi, and Skydropx in three 15-minute sessions that focus on the power of validation

Craig Fogel, Product Manager @ Convo
Brittany Perna, Product Analytics Manager @ Everfi
Estefania Olivas, Head of Product Design @ Skydropx
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM

When buy-in is the product: winning with tech in non-tech companies

Zoia Kozakov, Head of Digital Product & Strategy

Lightning round: Proving the value of customer success

CSRevenue

Hear from Cognosos, Litera, and others about the value of customer success and the power of data.

Matt Walker, Sr Director, Customer Success @ Cognosos
Allison Caldrone, Director, Digital Customer Experience @ Litera
Cole Callahan, Lead Product Marketing Manager @ ShareFile Progress

Lightning round: Messaging that powers product-led growth

ProductUX

Hear from Flash, Cox Automotive, and Sage about powering PLG in three 15-minute presentations.

Maria Paula Rameh Guilger, Head of Product @ Flash
Kendall Pavey, Product Marketing Manager @ Cox Automotive
John Gardiner, Principal Content Designer @ Sage

Lightning round: Lean adoption playbooks that deliver big results

ProductMarketing

Hear from SiteCompli, Linxup, and others in three 15-minute sessions that cover how to increase adoption without scaling drastically.

Kristen Hariton, VP, Product Engagement @ SiteCompli
Ben Tanzer, Implementation & Product Manager @ SiteCompli
Vinay Thomas, Sr Market Research & Consumer Insights Manager @ Linxup
Shir Barzilay, Associate Product Manager @ Linxup
Nicholas Querci, Sr. Manager of Product Operations @ Nasdaq

Lightning round: Turning dashboards into dollars

ProductUX

Hear from WGU, The Palace Company, and others about the impact of easily accessible analytics for your revenue stream.

Felicia Steinle, Group Product Manager, Analytics & Strategy @ WGU
Hannah Dunning, Senior Manager, Digital Growth @ Okta

Lightning round: Building a data-centric culture that sticks

ProductIT

Hear from Fusable, Applied Systems and others about how to leverage data and ensure your team is on board.

Laura Hoover, Product Director @ Fusable
Sarah Allard, Digital Adoption Success Specialist @ Applied Systems
Paige Stewart, Digital Adoption Content Developer @ Applied Systems
Evie Oregon, Lead UX Researcher @ Waystar

Lightning round: Using behavioral data to understand users

UXProduct

Learn how three companies used behavioral data instead of traditional methods to run UX research without interviews, drive digital adoption in a legacy industry, and cut support resolution time in half.

Anvitha Nallan, Senior UX Designer @ Energy Exemplar
Larissa Salerno, Product Strategy Manager @ Braskem
Tawni Karle, Product Lead @ Zoetis
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Keynote

Details coming soon!

5:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Pendopalooza + After Party

OK Go! Performing live. Get ready for amazing tunes and confetti!