ProductTank: The Human Side of AI: Culture, Empowerment, and the Future of PM (03.12.2025)
Team TechTalk
10. November 2025
ProductTank Meetup
TechTalk GmbH
Saturn Tower, 16. Stock
Leonard-Bernstein-Straße 10
1220 Wien
3 December 2025
18:45 - 20:15
This event is free of charge!
AI is reshaping how we build products, make decisions, and collaborate, but the real challenge isn’t the technology, it’s the people behind it. In this ProductTank, we’ll explore how product managers can navigate and lead in an AI-driven world: building cultures that embrace experimentation, empowering PMs to prototype with AI, and rethinking what “users” even mean when they’re no longer human.
Join us for three talks that bring together culture, empowerment, and the next frontier of product management: The human side of AI.
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere — but real impact remains rare. While most companies plan to increase AI investments, many projects fail to deliver measurable value. The reason is not the technology — it lies in how people, teams, and organizations engage with it. Moving from isolated pilot projects to genuine, company-wide adoption requires new skills, a shared mindset, and organizational readiness. This keynote explores the key questions that define an AI-ready culture:
With Agentic Coding now being an integral part of our daily work at appointmed, we’re also encouraging our Product Managers to use it more and more. We’re transitioning from a requirements handoff to an experiment–test–handoff cycle.
In this talk you will learn how far experimentation can go for a Product Manager using AI — without involving a developer at all. Once the vision becomes clear, not only can a well-defined requirement be handed off to a developer, but also a wealth of ideas, improvements, and ideally even a working prototype.
Until now, product management has focused on human users — optimizing interfaces, onboarding, and satisfaction scores. But the next frontier is here: products built for AI agents and models. Think of vector databases, data APIs, or orchestration tools, their “users” are no longer people but large language models retrieving context, chaining actions, and reasoning about results. In this talk, we’ll explore what this shift means for PMs:
