Run AI-Native Teams That Deliver

Hosted by Elena Luneva and Polly Allen

199 students

In this video

What you'll learn

How AI Teams Operate Today

What the data actually says — across prototype decisions, evaluation, risk, le

What High Performance Teams Do Differently

For each gap— concrete, specific, advice, not theoretical

Benchmarking Team Performance

How to honestly assess where your team stands right now

Understand an AI-First Operating System

What it looks like to build an AI-first operating model — and where to start

Why this topic matters

Most AI product teams aren't struggling with AI. They're struggling with everything around it. We ran a diagnostic across product leaders and asked: how does AI work actually move through your teams? In this session, we walk through the data — and for each finding, we show what teams that have it figured out are actually doing. Critical for Directors, VPs, or Heads of Product wrestling with AI

You'll learn from

Elena Luneva

CPTO, x-Braintrust, Nextdoor, Opentable, BlackRock

Hi, I’m Elena Luneva. I operate at the intersection of people, craft, and business. I help product leaders, founders, and GTM operators sharpen the business side of product, so they can drive growth, influence outcomes, and lead with confidence.

Over the past 20 years, I’ve scaled product and GTM teams as an executive at Braintrust, Nextdoor, LiquidSpace, OpenTable, and BlackRock. I’ve built marketplaces, AI-native platforms, and B2B SaaS products from zero to scale. Today, I advise founders, coach product executives, and teach product managers. I offer three courses:

Develop CPO Level Skills, AI Powered Executive Communication and Lead High Leverage ICs in the AI Era

Present:

f-CPO Madison-Reed,

Advisor,

Executive Coach,

Educator,

Corporate Trainer

Former:

CPO / GM Braintrust

GM Nextdoor

CPO Nuna

VP Product, LiquidSpace

Sr. PM OpenTable

Sr. PM BlackRock

Taught 7000+ of executives through courses, executive coaching, corporate training, and at Reforge, FirstRound, Berkeley, Sidebar, Enrich, Supra, AI Collective, Industry, PLS

Polly Allen

AI Product Coach, Advisor, AI Career Boost Founder

Polly Allen has spent over 20 years building and leading software teams, most recently as a Principal Product Manager at Amazon Alexa, where she guided cross-functional science and engineering groups at the cutting edge of AI. She specializes in natural language applications—search, discovery, understanding, and generation—and in 2020, she led the launch of Alexa’s first automatically generated web content summaries (yes, powered by the same transformer technology behind today’s ChatGPT).

But Polly’s story isn’t just about technology. After years in the deeply technical world, she became convinced that the future of AI shouldn’t be shaped only by coders and data scientists. The biggest breakthroughs will come when product and business leaders—those closest to customers, strategy, and impact—have the tools and confidence to lead AI initiatives. That belief drives everything she does today.

Now, through her company AI Career Boost, Polly helps experienced leaders step into AI roles and lead AI product development with confidence—without needing a computer science degree. She also hosts two podcasts, AI Product Leader and AI Afterhours, where she shares insights, stories, and candid conversations about building the future of AI.

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