Agenda · Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Welcome

Arrive on time to receive your badge, grab coffee, and begin networking with other attendees.

Welcome

Join us as we kick off the day and welcome newcomers and repeat attendees to the third ever Denver Product Summit.

Keynote Speaker

How to fail hard enough to bounce back and evolve for your next challenges. Turning shame into action.

Panel

Design leaders get honest about what's changed, what hasn't, and what still separates good from great.

Networking

Break the ice and meet other local tech folks early in the day.

AI-Enabled Design Systems Panel

Product teams are moving faster than ever. AI, new tools, shifting team structures, and changing business priorities all add pressure. When that happens, teams need clear ways to stay aligned across product, UX, design, and engineering. This panel brings together product, UX, design system, and engineering leaders who are working through these changes now. They will share how their teams connect design and code, use shared standards to support faster delivery, and adapt their workflows as AI changes the way product work gets done. The conversation will be practical, candid, and grounded in real examples. Expect clear lessons about adoption, governance, cross-functional collaboration, and how teams can make shared systems useful in day-to-day work.

Engineering Fireside Chat

An informal conversation, not a panel. We talk about how engineering teams are structured, how they decide what's worth building, and what actually changes on the ground as AI moves into the workflow. Expect candid, specific stories from inside a large engineering organization and from the consulting side working alongside them.

Break

Time to eat, recharge, and connect. Lunch is included.

AI:Legal Panel

You can't win the market without moving at the speed AI now makes possible, but every shortcut carries exposure you may not feel until years later. This panel puts that tension on stage. It brings together attorneys who advise companies on the front end of AI adoption, litigators who see what happens when adoption goes wrong, and a technology practitioner deploying AI for clients every day. All the panelists serve organizations ranging from startups to the Fortune 100.

Keynote Speaker

Why three years of AI tools haven't changed how your organization actually works

Every company has the licenses. Almost none have the results, and three years in, it's fair to ask why. The answer isn't the tooling. It's that AI landed on operating models built for linear, handoff-heavy work, and no one was ever named to help people actually learn it. When we put a PC on every desk in the 1990s, we stood up help desks, training, and support. This time we bought everyone a piano and asked for a concert.

Melissa Reeve makes the case for the missing activation system. The named roles and responsibilities that turn AI access into AI capability, as well as why the skeptics your org is pushing out are the early-warning system you can't afford to lose. Practical, human-first, and actionable.

Demo

A live demo of how a real problem moves from question to prototype. We show the research that frames the problem, how we test our assumptions against it, what we change when the findings push back, and how that turns into product solutions.

Networking

A collaborative whiteboard session spread throughout beautiful Mile High Station. Join a group to discuss and whiteboard one of these four topics, then come up with three key takeaways to share with all attendees:

• Advanced AI
• Beginner/intermediate AI
• Community, support, and navigating burnout
• Enough about AI! I love Colorado. Share your favorite spots and activities.

Panel

Product leaders share how they're shipping in a fast-changing landscape.

Keynote Speaker

Topic coming soon.

Wrap-up & Networking

We’ll wrap up the key themes and learnings from the day, then continue the conversation over drinks. Happy hour takes place in the same building.