AI for Everyone

Nicole Butterfield: Introduction (5 minutes) - 9:00am PT | 12:00pm ET | 5:00pm UTC/GMT

• Nicole welcomes you to AI for Everyone.

Benjamin Dehant: Streamline Your Workflow—Visual Brainstorming and Asset Creation with Generative AI (12 minutes) - 9:05am PT | 12:05pm ET | 5:05pm UTC/GMT

• Benjamin Dehant explores how Midjourney can serve as your visual brainstorming partner, helping you generate draft assets that can be refined and customized later. Whether you’re working on a new project, designing for a startup, or crafting visuals for a corporate brand, this tool can help you save time and accelerate your creative process, making it easier to move from ideas to tangible visuals faster.
• Benjamin Dehant began as a freelance web designer specializing in Figma for prototyping and various web design projects, and then expanded his expertise through design thinking, with a focus on brainstorming and design sprints. He refined his skills as a UX designer at a digital whiteboard company. Since 2022, he’s been immersed in generative AI, using tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT to enhance web design, UX, and design thinking processes. Benjamin also ran a newsletter and blog that explored AI’s impact on design and interviewed creators in the space. His current focus is on leveraging AI to streamline creative workflows and drive innovation in design.

Tejas Kumar: Democratizing GenAI Application Development—Drag-and-Drop UI for a Product Recommender (12 minutes) - 9:17am PT | 12:17pm ET | 5:17pm UTC/GMT

• Generative AI is revolutionizing how we create and interact with technology, but developing AI applications has traditionally required extensive coding skills. Tejas Kumar explores Langflow, an open source visual framework that democratizes AI development by enabling anyone in business—with or without a technical background—to build sophisticated generative AI applications without writing code. He explains how a drag-and-drop interface enables rapid prototyping and iterating on AI workflows by connecting a sequence of components to perform techniques like retrieval-augmented generation and to remove hallucinations from large language models while also retrieving real-time, highly relevant user data. You’ll learn how to leverage large language models, vector databases, and other AI tools to create a product recommender in minutes rather than months.
• Tejas Kumar is an international keynote speaker, best-selling O’Reilly author, and host of the developer-loved ConTejas Code podcast. He has an engineering background spanning 23 years, from design to frontend to backend to DevOps. Today, Tejas speaks with developer communities worldwide, helping them to do their best work.

Ann Jackson: Upgrade Your Data Analysis Toolkit with AI (12 minutes) 9:29am PT | 12:29pm ET | 5:29pm UTC/GMT

• Ann Jackson shows you how ChatGPT can enhance your data analysis process. You’ll learn how to clean and prepare datasets with greater efficiency, uncover key insights from both qualitative and quantitative data, and effectively communicate and share your findings. She also explores how ChatGPT supports collaboration on analysis techniques, helps define data requirements, and assists in crafting impactful, data-driven content. With AI as part of your toolkit, you’ll be ready to tackle data challenges and ensure your results drive meaningful business outcomes.
• Ann Jackson is the founder and managing director of Jackson Two, a consulting firm specializing in data analytics, visualization, and AI-powered business intelligence. She helps businesses harness the power of their data to drive insights and make informed decisions, with a focus on integrating modern tools, including AI, to enhance productivity and streamline data analysis. Ann has also authored books and courses covering data visualization, business intelligence, data analysis, and AI-assisted analytics.

Kimetha Dunn: Bridging Gaps—Using ChatGPT and Copilot to Communicate AI Insights with Impact (12 minutes) - 9:41am PT | 12:41pm ET | 5:41pm UTC/GMT

• AI researcher Kimetha Dunn discusses how to leverage technology like Copilot and ChatGPT to bridge the communication gap with diverse audiences and leadership. These innovative tools serve as a buffer, helping articulate complex ideas clearly and effectively, ensuring that presentations resonate with both familiar and unfamiliar groups. By integrating ChatGPT, you can transform intricate AI concepts into engaging and relatable narratives, making every interaction impactful and meaningful.
• Kimetha Dunn is a user researcher specializing in generative AI at Microsoft, where she spearheads rapid research strategies, oversees comprehensive product development, and mentors upcoming UX professionals. As a leader and speaker with the Interaction Design Foundation’s Chicago chapter, she advocates for inclusivity and accessibility in tech. Her speaking engagements include panelist roles at events like Microsoft Ignite 2024, where she unveiled AI-enabled work management in Microsoft 365, and discussions with ScaleAI on fostering diversity in the generative AI space. She has also served as an MC for fundraising events supporting W.A.F.A., a mental health and grief support organization for the Black community.

Vicki Reyzelman: Personalized Technology Demos—Harnessing Claude AI for Tailored Client Engagement (12 minutes) - 9:53am PT | 12:53pm ET | 5:53pm UTC/GMT

• Discover how to leverage Claude AI to create highly personalized technology demos that resonate with your clients. Vicki Reyzelman shares the step-by-step process for gathering client insights, defining demo objectives, and generating customized content that addresses specific pain points. She explores practical prompts and techniques for Claude AI that can enhance your demo materials such as slides and follow-up emails, ensuring a compelling presentation that drives engagement and conversion. Unlock the potential of AI for transforming your sales approach and delivering exceptional client experiences.
• Vicki Reyzelman is a senior solutions engineer at Akamai, where she helps organizations around the globe protect and secure their online applications. She’s worked extensively in the fields of cloud integration, security, API ecosystems, and software development and has written dozens of blog posts and articles on technology solutions to business problems and on technology trends for eWeek magazine. She’s also a patent holder for a search assistant technology at Yahoo! Vicki holds an AI certificate from MIT, an MBA from Georgia State University and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Kennesaw State University.
• Break (5 minutes)

Dean Peters: Getting Real Product Management “Stuff” Done with Gen AI (12 minutes) 10:10am PT | 1:10pm ET | 6:10pm UTC/GMT

• Dean Peters shares how his April 2023 webinar, “Really Getting PM ‘Stuff’ Done with ChatGPT,” sparked numerous dialogs with companies hiring Productside to enhance their product management operational model. By integrating these practices into its training, Productside empowered product professionals to drive collaboration and influence using PM tools and techniques powered by popular AI tools. Discover how AI can boost efficiency and empower your product and dev teams around value delivery.
• Dean Peters, principal consultant and trainer for Productside, has nearly 20 years of experience in product management as well as a decade as a software developer for real-time system integration. He has empowered teams at startups such as Dude Solutions, Aprimo, and Seven Lakes Technologies and enterprise settings such as IQVIA, Citrix, and McClatchy. Leaning on his ability to translate technical details into valuable outcomes, he has led innovations in AI, NLP, mobile, and CI/CD across various domains, including healthcare, energy, education, law enforcement, and news media. Dean has also presented on Agile and product management topics at events such as ProductCamp, ProductTank, Pendomonium, and Red Hat Agile Day.

Marlene Ronstedt: From Zero to App Store—How AI Helped Me Build an iOS App Without Coding Skills (12 minutes) - 10:22am PT | 1:22pm ET | 6:22pm UTC/GMT

• In 2017, Marlene Ronstedt had an idea for a location-based reminder app, but as someone from a liberal arts background, she felt it would be impossible to build on her own. But with AI, she was able to make her idea a reality. Marlene shares how she used ChatGPT, Claude, and Google’s Gemini to tackle everything from setting up a coding environment to solving complex architectural and logic challenges. Each AI agent played a unique role, from junior engineer to CTO, helping her create a functional MVP in just a month. She also discusses unexpected challenges, including navigating the tricky process of launching the app on the App Store.
• Marlene Ronstedt is a product marketing manager at Risk Labs. She’s been in tech for eight years, starting as a journalist before moving into marketing at various crypto and fintech startups. Originally from Germany, she’s lived in various European countries, Southeast Asia, and the US. Outside of work, she’s usually busy writing and exploring new ideas.

Jonathan Soma: The Human Half—Communicating About AI (12 minutes) - 10:34am PT | 1:34pm ET | 6:34pm UTC/GMT

• Each year a new batch of starry-eyed data journalism students arrive at school eager to use AI to do their research, write their code, and improve their writing. But there’s a wide gulf between those who know how to use the tools effectively and those who are dragged down by chatbots’ supposedly helpful suggestions. Whether you’re leading a team or managing up, successfully communicating AI’s capabilities and limitations is often a larger force multiplier than using the tools themselves. Jonathan Soma goes beyond simple use cases to highlight the role soft skills and human insight plays in the “centaurs and cyborgs” AI-influenced workforce.
• Jonathan Soma is Knight Chair in Data Journalism at Columbia University, where he is director of both the Data Journalism MS and the summer intensive Lede Program. He lectures at Columbia on everything from basic Python and data analysis to interactive visualization and machine learning. As an educator, programmer, and designer, he focuses on making unapproachable concepts accessible and has worked with ProPublica, The New York Times, and others.

Helena Liu: Creating Personalized Experiences—How AI Customization Drives Business Success (12 minutes) - 10:46am PT | 1:46pm ET | 6:46pm UTC/GMT

• Helena Liu discusses how to create personalized experiences for customers using AI tools such as ChatGPT and Zapier to tailor interactions, adapt responses, and provide customized solutions that resonate with individual needs and preferences, thereby optimizing engagement and fueling long-term business growth.
• Helena Liu is the founder of Product Camps, Chat Lemon, Whiteboards AI and ExamsPM. Her goal is to help businesses enhance their efficiency and effectiveness through AI, automations, and project management.

Thu Hien Vu: Accelerating Data Science with AI—Leveraging AI Tools for Data Storytelling and Analysis (12 minutes) 10:58am PT | 1:58pm ET | 6:58pm UTC/GMT

• A key challenge in data science and AI is to effectively communicate complex insights and technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders. Thu Hien Vu discusses how AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT have enhanced her productivity and creativity, helping her brainstorm ideas and craft effective metaphors to tell compelling data stories. She also shares how AI coding assistants help her streamline repetitive and time-consuming tasks like data visualization, allowing her to focus on critical thinking and domain expertise.
• Thu Hien Vu is an economist-turned-data-nerd working as a data science consultant. She loves learning and explaining data science and AI concepts, sharing her insights and personal projects on her YouTube channel.

Nicole Butterfield: Closing Remarks (5 minutes) - 11:10am PT | 2:10pm ET | 7:10pm UTC/GMT

• Nicole closes out today’s event.