AI Product Management in 2026: What PMs Need to Learn Now

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Today we're going to be diving into some of the best tips and advice around being an AI product leader in 2026. We have Alex Zenovia, head of product from Neo Intelligence, co-founder of one of the best AI communities in Australia, Geni Lab. Let's get into it. Been feeling quite invigorated um in the last couple of years with the rise of Gen AI. I I'm able to build stuff and design stuff and get my ideas out of my head and into a working you know software a lot faster. Doing it by yourself is a extremely difficult task. I came to Australia it would be 17 years ago. Wow. For 10 years I was a web developer and even worked as a as a as an engineer at some point. Having you know doing engineering full-time wasn't my thing. I quite enjoyed the variety of the of the work and so product management is where I naturally landed. You know, when Steve Jobs and these others like made like Apple, it wasn't just technical skills, although it's arguable what tech skills he had. The thing that I preach even around creativity is the element of no individual person is ever going to have the best creative outcome compared to the variety of skills that come together to build something. I get motivated by the fact that um there's a community around me and uh the commitments that I'm making I'm not just making them for myself but I'm also making them for the community. I think if I had to put like Australia globally on you know uh there's definitely I think work to be done in that's a nice way to say it.