Digitale Leute Summit 2026

Product Management

Engineering

Product Design

AI Deep Dive DayDay 1 – November 17

Conference DayDay 2 – November 18

Main Stage

Main Hall

Host Thomas Riedel

Conference Stage 1

Side Hall

Host Anna-Lena Kümpel

Conference Stage 2

Side Hall

Host Felix Hettig

AI in Product Management

Room: Brasil

Host Mareike Dorra

AI in Product Design

Room: Argentina

Host Markus Otten-Gambalat

AI in Engineering

Room: Costa Rica

Host Gero Duppel

08:30 - 09:00

Reception and Breakfast

09:00 - 09:10

Welcome to the AI Deep Dive Day 2026

Christoph Bresler, Founder and Managing Director of Digitale Leute School.

09:15 - 10:15

Product Discovery with AI

Andreas Stephan, Agentic Product Manager & Coach.

AI in Product Management Room: Brasil Host Mareike Dorra

What Product Design looks like in 2050

Daniel Hauschildt, CPO & Co-Founder at IMG.LY.

AI in Product Design Room: Argentina Host Markus Otten-Gambalat

The Rise of Product Engineering

Jan Hegewald, VP Engineering at Rabot Energy. Ex-Zalando, SumUp & idealo and Stefan Vosskötter, Founder of Digitale Leute.

AI in Engineering Room: Costa Rica Host Gero Duppel

10:20 - 11:20

Productize Your Process – How AI Apps Standardize Ways of Working

Matthias Lübken, AI Engineer & Founder of TAVON.ai and Markus Andrezak, Founder & Managing Director of überproduct.

AI in Product Management Room: Brasil Host Mareike Dorra

Building AI-Native Products: From Intent to Experience

Daria Tarawneh, VP Design at SAP.

AI in Product Design Room: Argentina Host Markus Otten-Gambalat

From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering: Designing the Modern SDLC

Hans Reinl, Founder N+One. Ex-Seven.One, AXA & Rewe Digital.

AI in Engineering Room: Costa Rica Host Gero Duppel

11:20 - 11:40

Morning Coffee Break

11:40 - 12:40

From PM to Prototyper: How Product Managers are building their own designs

Alexander Sprogis, Product Engineer & Content Creator.

AI in Product Management Room: Brasil Host Mareike Dorra

Design With AI, Design For AI: How SAP LeanIX Actually Does It

Lennart Hennings, VP of User Experience at SAP LeanIX.

AI in Product Design Room: Argentina Host Markus Otten-Gambalat

Software Factories: Engineering on Autopilot

Benedikt Stemmildt, Founder of hackers&wizards. Ex-Blume2000 & Breuninger.

AI in Engineering Room: Costa Rica Host Gero Duppel

12:40 - 13:40

Lunch Break

13:40 - 14:40

Beyond the Prompt: Autonomous Jira Workflows with Rovo

Sven Peters, AI Evangelist at Atlassian.

AI in Product Management Room: Brasil Host Mareike Dorra

Vibe Coding for Product Designers

Ahmed Genaidy, Staff Product Designer at Miro.

AI in Product Design Room: Argentina Host Markus Otten-Gambalat

Nobody Read This Code: Building AI Factories You Can Actually Trust

Björn Schotte, Managing Director at Mayflower.

AI in Engineering Room: Costa Rica Host Gero Duppel

14:45 - 15:45

Agents Building Agents: From Strategy to Launch

Kevin Piela, Product Manager at sipgate.

AI in Product Management Room: Brasil Host Mareike Dorra

Hyper-personalisation of user interfaces: build it with AI, prove it with a control group

Constantin Dißelkamp, Founder of pagent.

AI in Product Design Room: Argentina Host Markus Otten-Gambalat

How Tim is Building B2B Enterprise Software Using 50+ Billion Tokens per Month

Tim Niemeier, Founder clever.hr. Ex-Rocket Internet & Etribes.

AI in Engineering Room: Costa Rica Host Gero Duppel

15:45 - 16:05

Afternoon Coffee Break

16:05 - 17:05

Claude Code for Product Managers – One folder for your whole job

Hendrik Hemken, Founder of Beyond7. Ex-Goodgame Studios & Finanzcheck.

AI in Product Management Room: Brasil Host Mareike Dorra

Less Ops. More Design. How to focus on value with the power of AI.

Daniel Diener and Marcel Bertram, Design Ops Experts & Founders of MUDX.design.

AI in Product Design Room: Argentina Host Markus Otten-Gambalat

Making Codex Work: Reliable Workflows for Engineering Teams

Alexander Dess, Applied AI Engineer (Codex) at OpenAI.

AI in Engineering Room: Costa Rica Host Gero Duppel

17:10 - 17:45

Closing Keynote: The AI SDK Software Factory

Lars Grammel, Member of Technical Staff at Vercel.

AI in Product Management Room: Brasil Host Mareike Dorra

17:45 - 17:50

Wrap up by Digitale Leute Team

Christoph Bresler, Founder and Managing Director of Digitale Leute School.

18:15 - 23:00

Official Opening Party at the Palladium

08:30 - 09:00

Reception and Breakfast

09:00 - 09:10

Welcome to the Conference Day 2026

Stefan Vosskötter, Founder of Digitale Leute (Main Stage).

09:10 - 09:45

Opening Keynote: Human Judgment in the Era of Generative AI

Jonathan Evens, AI Product Leader at Google DeepMind & Chairman of Evens Foundation.

Main Stage Main Hall Host Thomas Riedel

09:50 - 10:20

AI won’t save your productivity – human–AI collaboration will

Sven Peters, AI Evangelist at Atlassian.

Main Stage Main Hall Host Thomas Riedel

(Product) Excellence from within, Parcel delivery in a digital world

Oliver Ucke, Product Owner at GLS & Axel Knauf, Tech Lead & Digitale Product Consultant at Cologne Intelligence.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall Host Anna-Lena Kümpel

We Don’t Have a Security Problem – We Have a Design Void

Andy Beck, Industrial Cybersecurity and Digital Design at Linde Gas.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall Host Felix Hettig

10:20 - 10:55

Morning Coffee Break

10:55 - 11:25

Five Hypotheses on What Stays Human in Product Management

Tim Herbig, Product Coach.

Main Stage Main Hall Host Thomas Riedel

AI Factories – The good, the bad, the ugly

Björn Schotte, Managing Director at Mayflower.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall Host Anna-Lena Kümpel

CAC vs. EAC: Designing Software Products for the True Cost of Adoption

Benjamin Klatt, Lead Products and Innovation & Kay Hildebrand, Org Developer and Systemic Business Coach at viadee.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall Host Felix Hettig

11:30 - 12:00

When AI Writes the Code – how large tech teams can adopt agentic engineering and stay independent?

Sven Schirmer, Director Platform and Portals at MaibornWolff and Stefan Vosskötter, Founder of Digitale Leute.

Main Stage Main Hall Host Thomas Riedel

AI-readiness is not a tech stack: why transformation starts with mindset

Till Köhler, Sr. UX Professional at Schwarz Digits, Kim Lauenroth, Interim Professor at FH Dortmund & Thomas Immich, Founder & CEO at Centigrade.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall Host Anna-Lena Kümpel

The Future Is Already Here: Lessons from Making a UX Org AI-Native

Lennart Hennings, VP of User Experience at SAP LeanIX.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall Host Felix Hettig

12:05 - 12:35

Why AI Pilots Die: You Can’t Buy Your Way Out of an Org Problem

Mirza Beširović, AI Product Leader.

Main Stage Main Hall Host Thomas Riedel

Beyond the Gut Feeling: How P&C and Kameleoon Built a Culture of Enterprise Testing

Gila Rizqallah, Sr Conversion Rate Consultant at Kameleoon & Christopher Schulz, Sr Conversion Rate Manager at Fashion ID/Peek & Cloppenburg.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall Host Anna-Lena Kümpel

AI Systems Architecture: What Makes AI Features Production-Ready

Michael Seel, Software Architect & Senior Consultant at INNOQ.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall Host Felix Hettig

12:35 - 13:50

Lunch Break

13:50 - 14:20

From Assistant to Actor: The New Security Risks of Coding Agents

Maxim Salnikov, Sr Solution Engineer - AI-Native Developer Tools at Microsoft.

Main Stage Main Hall Host Thomas Riedel

The designer of the future thinks like a PM

Aleksandra Lazović, Product Manager at N26 and Anna-Lena Kümpel.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall Host Anna-Lena Kümpel

Human. What AI does to us while doing everything for us.

Tobias Gerstenberg, COO at Railslove.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall Host Felix Hettig

14:25 - 14:55

The End of Zero Marginal Cost (or How to Price AI Products)

Hayder Schneider, Head of Product Management at Aleph Alpha.

Main Stage Main Hall Host Thomas Riedel

AI, But Not Like That

Marc Roulet, VP Data & Analytics at Shine.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall Host Anna-Lena Kümpel

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

Robert Glaser, Head of Applied AI at exxeta.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall Host Felix Hettig

15:00 - 15:30

Designing for Agents

Aswin Ranganathan, AI Specialist (Product Design) at Delivery Hero.

Main Stage Main Hall Host Thomas Riedel

AI Can Build the Software. Who Decides the Rules?

Fabian Rothe, CPO at MoIn Group.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall Host Anna-Lena Kümpel

Clarity for Product People

Arne Kittler, Co-Founder of Hey Clarity.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall Host Felix Hettig

15:30 - 16:05

Afternoon Coffee Break

16:05 - 16:35

Building the world’s largest stage in the age of AI

Leonard Giura, Software Engineering Manager at YouTube.

Main Stage Main Hall Host Thomas Riedel

Stop Planning the Perfect Organisation. Start Treating It as a Product.

Tobias Freudenreich, Co-Founder of Hey Clarity.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall Host Anna-Lena Kümpel

smash IT – pack your NERD survival kit

Johannes Mainusch, Founder of kommitment and Interim VP Engineering at Douglas & Eberhard Wolff, Head of Architecture at SWAGLab.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall Host Felix Hettig

16:40 - 17:10

Creativity in the Agent Era

Eray Basar, Co-Founder and CEO at IMG.LY.

Main Stage Main Hall Host Thomas Riedel

From Coding to Cooking: Leading Software Engineering Teams through the AI Transition

Elisabeth Reitmayr, Director of Engineering at dltHub.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall Host Anna-Lena Kümpel

Don’t make me read!

Rita Nevidnyk, UX Writer at Intellias.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall Host Felix Hettig

17:15 - 17:45

When Building Is No Longer the Bottleneck: Learnings from FINN’s AI-Native Product Org

Jens Kegelmann, VP Product at FINN.

Main Stage Main Hall Host Thomas Riedel

Software Factories for the Software of One

Matthias Lübken, AI Engineer & Founder of TAVON.ai.

Conference Stage 1 Side Hall Host Anna-Lena Kümpel

AI Took the Junior Tasks. How to Grow the Next Product Seniors?

Tim Klein, Product Coach & Co-Founder of Die Produktwerker.

Conference Stage 2 Side Hall Host Felix Hettig

17:50 - 18:25

Closing Keynote: When intelligence gets to work

Maximilian Hudlberger, Applied AI Engineer at OpenAI.

Main Stage Main Hall Host Thomas Riedel

18:25 - 18:30

Wrap up by Digitale Leute Team

Stefan Vosskötter, Founder of Digitale Leute (Main Stage).

18:30 - 00:00

Official Digitale Leute Summit Get-Together & Party

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