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Our teams have the best AI tools but nothing changed
Most organisations now have AI tooling across their product and engineering teams. Most of them are moving just a little faster then they were two years ago. The tools aren’t the problem. The operating model underneath them is.
Build is no longer the bottleneck. The new constraint is coordination: how teams align on what to build, how functions like legal, security, and design stay genuinely involved without becoming the gate everything stalls behind, and how leaders shift from approving decisions to setting the conditions that let good decisions happen without them.
This session draws on a live transformation across a large technology organisation, redesigning not just how teams build, but the entire system from idea to customer impact.
We’ll cover the three things that actually have to change for AI tooling to translate into speed:
– how work gets defined before it’s built
– how specialist functions engage without creating queues
– and how the PM role changes when coordination overhead drops and intent has to survive further and faster than ever before.
This isn’t a talk about tools. It’s about what your organisation needs to look like for the tools to matter.
Our speaker: Josh Centner
Josh has spent twenty years on a single question: why do good teams, with good people and good tools, still struggle to ship the right thing quickly? The answer is almost never the tools. It’s the operating model underneath.
His career has been built around transformation and product operations – helping organisations effectively adopt new ways of working, supporting strategic alignment, product delivery, and go-to-market execution. He was CPO at myprosperity and Head of Product and Delivery at PageUp, and spent years consulting into some of the largest organisations in the country, including Xero, Carsales, NAB, and IOOF as Head of Product and Design at Elabor8.
He is now co-founder of Zenforge, an AI transformation consultancy, and Principal Product Manager at SEEK, one of Australia’s largest technology organisations, where he’s helping lead the design and rollout of an AI-native product delivery lifecycle from strategy through to launch and optimisation.
Our sponsor: Netwealth
Netwealth is one of Australia’s leading wealth management platforms, providing technology and investment solutions for financial advisers and their clients. Since 1999, we’ve focused on innovation and challenging the status quo, building digital products that help Australians see wealth differently and achieve better financial outcomes. At the heart of Netwealth is a culture of curious, collaborative, courageous, optimistic, agile and genuine people who are passionate about solving meaningful problems and creating better experiences for customers. For more about careers at Netwealth.