Product Momentum Podcast

The Product Momentum team reached out to Barry O’Reilly, seeking his expertise in helping product leaders rethink how organizations make decisions, innovate, and perform in the age of artificial intelligence. After a quick review of his CV – co-founder of Nobody Studios (a global Top 10 AI venture studio) and author of Artificial Organizations: Build Better Judgment, Speed, and Results with...

Ovetta Sampson is a design researcher, AI leader, and founder of Right AI. She previously served as VP of ML and AI Platform Design at Capital One and worked at Google and IDEO. Ovetta brought that experience to the 2026 ITX Product + Design Conference, focusing her keynote on a question that often goes overlooked: what happens when people interact with increasingly powerful machines? To help us answer...

In our current environment of rapidly changing customer needs and expectations, evolving technologies, and unpredictable market swings, the best ideas rarely come from a single leader. Instead, as attendees of the 2026 ITX Product + Design Conference learned, they emerge when product teams collaborate, challenge assumptions, and adapt together.

In this episode of Produc...

Product teams often struggle to deliver meaningful outcomes. Why? Because they confuse activity with progress. Understanding that challenge is the focus of our chat with David Pereira, recorded in person at the 2026 ITX Product + Design Conference, in Rochester, NY.

David is a product management coach, speaker, and author of Untrapping Product Teams: Simplify the Comple...

For the past 5 years, the ITX Product + Design Conference stands at the top of the company’s calendar. In this Topics in Product Series (TiPS) episode, Product Momentum co-host Sean Murray called the 2-day conference event “my favorite two working days of the year,” complete with workshops, keynotes, spotlight sessions, and live podcast recordings.

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Product leaders often measure success in terms of retention, revenue, and growth. In this episode of Product Momentum, Nesrine Changuel explains that the most successful products achieve those outcomes by creating meaningful emotional connections with users. Nesrine’s experience includes leadership roles at Skype, Spotify, Google Meet, and Google Chrome. But these days, she is perhaps best known ...

Mike Belsito has spent years at the center of the product management community. As the founder of Product Collective, a leader at Mind the Product, and now Head of Product Evangelism at Pendo, Mike has built a career around learning from product professionals and sharing those insights with the broader industry.

In this episode of Product Momentum, Mike joins Sean and D...

Prerna Singh helps organizations build better products and stronger communities. As the founder of Scrappy to Scale Advisors and the former VP of Product and Design at Meetup, she has guided startups and mission-driven organizations through rapid change, customer discovery, and product strategy.

In today’s episode, Prerna explains why human connection and discipli...

Adam Creeger is the CTO of Slate and creator of iLoom (pronounced “il-LOOM”). His leadership experience at Meta, Greenhouse, and Frame.io not only informs Slate’s transformation into an AI-native organization, but also shapes the way AI influences product strategy, engineering workflows, and operational models.

Throughout his conversation with Sean and...

Welcome to TiPS – the Topics in Product Series – a new podcast format powered by ITX and the team at Product Momentum. The TiPS mission is to engage the same important product space issues that you confront every day – but this time through the experiences of ITX product managers, UX researchers and designers, engineers, security analysts, and the rest of the team.

John Haggerty brings more than 25 years of product leadership experience at companies like Datasite, Prodege, and Highway.ai. As co-founder and CEO of BiasHawk, John leverages his expertise in product management, behavioral psychology, and AI to develop an AI-powered platform that acts like a behavioral clinical psychologist to diagnose cognitive bias and heuristics in other AI models.

Margie Agin is a seasoned go-to-market advisor for B2B technology scale-ups. She brings deep expertise across digital marketing, IT, and cybersecurity. As Founder and Chief Strategist of Centerboard Marketing as well as a former leader at companies like Cisco and Blackboard, she has built a career translating complex technical products into effective market strategies. In this episode (which marks her ...

Product Momentum welcomes Rich Mironov back to the pod to help us drill down to the bottom line – literally. Rich is a Silicon Valley veteran and longtime product management advisor. He’s spent decades helping C-suite executives and product leaders connect their work to business outcomes. In this episode, Rich reinforces a single, powerful theme: product managers must translate their ideas ...

In this episode of Product Momentum, we’re joined by Bansi Mehta, founder and CEO of Koru UX Design, an enterprise healthcare UX agency supporting some of the US’s largest healthcare technology companies. We discussed the busy intersection of artificial intelligence, product management, and UX Design. Bansi’s Sense – Shape – Steer framework helps guide UX design teams as t...

Keith Lucas is a startup advisor, author, and leader who specializes in building high-impact teams. In this episode with Product Momentum, Keith delivers a master class on leadership, team building, culture, values, and motivation. Our conversation is especially relevant in the context of transitioning from a technical individual contributor to product team leader in high-tech organizations.

The Product Momentum team first met Oji Udezue following his keynote at INDUSTRY 2025. And we just knew we had to have him on the pod. Oji is a highly skilled product leader whose CV includes companies like Calendly, Atlassian, and Microsoft. In addition, he co-authored (with wife, Ezinne Udezue) Building Rocket Ships, Product Management for High-Growth Companies a manual for product leaders, product m...

For the past 20 years, Teresa Torres has championed the cause of product discovery. We’ve made progress, she says, but there are plenty of companies and teams out there who don’t know much about their customers – and still think they have all the answers. Is AI exacerbating the problem?

In this episode, Teresa returns to Product Momentum taking us on a...

Phil Hornby is an experienced product leader, coach, and technologist whose mission is to help product leaders think clearly, make strong decisions, and take powerful action that drives high-impact outcomes. He’s a regular speaker at product events and is co-host of the “Talking Roadmaps” YouTube channel and podcast.

If Phil were asked to distill produ...

Michelle Parsons is a dynamic product leader who has led high-growth teams at Kayak, Spotify, Netflix, Hinge, and Lex. Her passion for building community and embracing new challenges has recently brought her to a leadership role in a new startup that helps people reconnect to themselves and one another.

In this episode of Product Momentum, Michelle joins Sean and D...