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Innovation, AI and Experimentation in Government with Adam Reitsma | Product Pals Live @ Signal-Not-Noise Conference Sydney 2026 (opens the original)
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What does innovation really look like inside a huge government organisation? In this episode of Product Pals Live at Signal Not Noise 2026, we sit down with Adam Reitsma, former Senior Manager of Innovation and Capability at Transport for NSW. Adam shares how a five-person team worked across AI, VR, experimentation and organisational capability to create impact at scale — often without a large budget or a traditional delivery team. We talk about what makes a proof of concept actually useful, how
Product Pals: Beyond the Build with Heshan Jayavardhana - Enterprise, startups, and building toward freedom (opens the original)
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Heshan Jayavardhana shares how 15-plus years across enterprise, scale-ups, startups, and platform products shaped the way he thinks about product management, innovation, and entrepreneurship. The conversation centers on the changing role of product managers in an AI-assisted world, plus the lessons behind his current venture, PyFi, and his broader “Project Freedom” mindset. projectfreedom.xyz https://pifiproperty.com https://linktr.ee/productpalspodcast
Product Pals Live @SNN: Paru Madhavan on Product Thinking Without Product Authority (opens the original)
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How does product work in a non-product/ content organisation? At the ABC, Paru Madhavan works in a world where customer value is created not just by Product, Design and Engineering, but by Content, Marketing and teams with decades of audience knowledge. Recorded live at Signal Not Noise 2026, we explore what product thinking looks like when you don’t have all the authority, and why that might actually make you a better product person. Paru shares how the ABC has experimented with a different kin
Product Pals Live @SNN: Emma Carter on Leading Design in the AI Era (opens the original)
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It’s one of the biggest questions product teams are asking right now. If anyone can generate prototypes, build interfaces, and ship ideas faster than ever… what happens to the role of design? In our latest Product Pals Live episode, recorded at Signal Not Noise 2026 , we sat down with Emma Carter , Head of Design at MYOB and author of three books on design leadership. One idea from our conversation has really stayed with me: AI will make building easier. But it won’t replace the need to deeply u
Product Pals Live @SNN: Herry Wiputra on how AI is Rewriting Product Management with (opens the original)
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AI isn’t just changing how we build products—it’s changing how product organisations work. Recorded live at Signal Not Noise 2026, Herry Wiputra, Chief Product Officer at hipages, shares his vision for the future of product management in the AI era. We discuss why leaders should think like system owners, how Product, Design, and Engineering roles may evolve, why judgement is becoming more valuable than execution, and how AI could replace traditional handoffs with rapid experimentation. We also c
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