Zain Abiddin
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How to Find Opportunities That Can Grow in the AI Era

60 min
Sep 9, 2026 3:00 PM

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What you'll learn

Find product opportunities AI makes possible

Learn how to spot emerging problems, underserved workflows, and markets where AI creates new demand.

Evaluate whether an idea has real growth potential

Use a practical framework to assess pain, willingness to pay, distribution and defensibility before you build.

Identify your distribution wedge before building the product

Figure out how your first customers will actually discover, adopt, and share what you’re building.

Test demand without spending months building

Learn how to validate ideas through conversations, landing pages, prototypes, pre-sales, and lightweight experiments.

Build an MVP around the smallest valuable workflow

Separate the core customer outcome from features that can wait.

Why this topic matters

AI has made it dramatically easier to build software but that also means more competition, faster copycats, and shorter product lifecycles. The advantage is shifting from simply being able to build to knowing what to build, who it’s for, and how it will grow. This session gives you a practical way to identify opportunities with real demand, validate them quickly, and build around durable advantages like distribution and customer relationships.

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Zain Abiddin

Zain Abiddin

Built subscriptions at Canva | Ex-Shopify | Founder, GrowthPad

Previously Growth at
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Shopify.com
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