Product and Engineering Working Together in the Agentic Coding Era
Product and Engineering Working Together in the Agentic Coding Era
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If you are a CPO/VP Product or a CTO/Head of Engineering, you are probably feeling the same thing from different sides right now: product development teams are moving faster with agentic coding tools, but we feel new friction points and big questions being asked on how product and engineering work in this new world.
We have assembled four product and engineering leaders providing practical, ready-to-apply examples of how they have changed their processes. This will be another amazing virtual mini-conference focused on how Product and Engineering work together in the agentic coding era. This session is designed for CPOs, VPs of Product, CTOs, Heads of Engineering, and other product and software leaders who want a clear, reality-based approach.
What you will learn:
What is changing with agentic coding tools, and why faster code creation shifts the constraint to context, decisions, and guardrails.
Why agentic coding changes the PM-Engineering interface, and what new failure modes appear.
A practical operating model for "precision up front": how to reduce late back-and-forth, context switching, and churn.
How specs are evolving toward "executable" deliverables: spec-driven artifacts plus prototypes as the new shared language, while keeping a clear boundary between prototyping and production code.
How to use readiness and intent gates so work is clear before anyone (or any agent) starts.
How to set the human-AI decision boundary: acceptance criteria, constraints, and engineering guardrails that prevent tools from making product decisions by accident.
How non-technical PMs can become codebase-aware: use agents to answer "what happens today?", surface missing decisions, and reduce back-and-forth before engineering starts.
What Engineering still must do to succeed with agentic tools: architecture and technical planning, plus breaking specs into independently testable tasks.
How to avoid the new failure mode of feature bloat: keeping product intent crisp when the cost to build drops dramatically.
Join fellow CTOs, Heads of Engineering, CPOs, VPs of Product, and product leaders for a pragmatic session on how to make agentic development work for the whole organization.
Tony Karrer (Moderator)
Tony is the founder of TechEmpower, a 30-person software development services company. Tony has worked as a fractional CTO at over 30 different companies including as the original CTO at eHarmony helping them to get to a $110M financing in their 4th year. Tony has worked on AI solutions for more than two decades across a wide variety of industries and is currently the fractional CTO of a healthcare AI company backed by AI Fund and a fractional CTO of an AI insurance SaaS company. Tony is also cofounder of the LA CTO Forum - the largest CTO professional organization in the US.
Alex Tatiyants (Speaker)
Alex Tatiyants is the CTO at Stanson Health, where he leads product and engineering for clinical decision support software used by healthcare systems across North America. Alex has spent his career building and scaling SaaS platforms and high-performing engineering teams, with deep experience in agile development, continuous delivery, and enterprise healthcare technology. Prior to Stanson Health, Alex served as Director of Technology at Zynx Health and has mentored startups through programs such as Techstars.
Brian Benitez (Speaker)
Brian Benitez is a product leadership veteran and product builder who has led teams at Disney Streaming, MLB Advanced Media, and multiple startups — most recently as CPO at BoardLens, where he builds AI-powered strategic intelligence tools for capital allocators. He coaches product managers on product leadership and integrating AI into their workflows, and has built open-source frameworks to give non-technical PMs guardrails for vibecoding.
Buddy Triplett (Speaker)
Buddy Triplett is a Senior Product Manager, currently at DraftKings, where he leads operations and fulfillment technology for the digital lottery experience. Prior to DraftKings, Buddy built global supply chain products at General Motors and led nuclear reactor plant operations on ships in the U.S. Navy. He's also a builder of the Dallas-Fort Worth product and tech community and a regular voice on how PMs should adapt their craft for the AI-driven PDLC.
Ravi Mehta (Speaker)
Ravi Mehta is a product leader who has held senior product roles at Tinder, Facebook, TripAdvisor, and Xbox. Most recently he served as CPO at Tinder and Entrepreneur in Residence at Reforge, where he contributed to curriculum on product strategy. Ravi writes regularly about how product teams should adapt
their processes as AI tools reshape the development lifecycle, including how prototyping is replacing traditional spec-driven handoffs.
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