#94: Hot Summer, cold drinks, high-class events, and Last 10 Tickets for our main event 🍹
This special edition is supported by Miro and mobile.de, who have partnered with us to host the main Community event on 24th June.
🎫 Next Up in Berlin: Christian Idiodi!
Together with mobile.de and Miro, we are bringing one of the industry’s most influential product leaders to Berlin: Christian Idiodi (Partner at SVPG & Co-author of Transformed). This is an exclusive, raw, and deep conversation limited to just 100 product professionals.
The Focus: Product Management in the Era of Generative AI, which is fundamentally redefining how we discover, validate, and launch products. If you think your role won’t change, Christian is here to challenge that assumption, and equip you with the toolkit to thrive in what’s coming next.
🗓️ 24th of June
📍 Berlin
Are you near Italy or looking for a reason to practice your Italian? We have an exciting local community event coming up in just a couple of weeks!
🇮🇹 Fireside with a CPO (Verona, Italy)
We’re hosting an open, filter-free fireside chat with Carlo Alberto Gaetaniello, the Chief Product Officer at Serenis. He’ll be diving into the real, unwritten realities of product management: how PM careers are evolving, how AI is changing team dynamics, and the unique challenges of scaling a high-trust digital health service. Come for the insights, stay for the networking dinner, and connect with the European product community. (Heads up: This event will be conducted entirely in Italian!)
🗓️ 1st of July
📍 Verona
🤝 Scaling Without Breaking Retention (AGS Berlin)
If you’re planning to be in Berlin next month, you’ll definitely want to catch this live panel at the App Growth Summit®. Daniele Ronca is teaming up with product and growth leaders from Gymondo, Acture, and N26 at The Spreespeicher. They’ll be breaking down the exact strategies top apps use to expand into new markets and business models without destroying the retention loops that made them successful in the first place. If you’re an app growth expert or product manager navigating the messy realities of scaling a product right now, secure your free invite and come join the conversation.
🗓️ 8-9th of July
📍 Berlin
🤝 Want to join the behind-the-scenes crew at ProductLab 2026?
We’re looking for 10 proactive volunteers to help us run our main conference days in Berlin this September 15–17. If you are reliable, sharp, and want to experience a world-class tech event from the inside, this is for you.
Why join the crew?
Learn on the Job: Get full access to keynotes from global product and AI leaders whenever you aren’t on duty.
Network with Pioneers: Work directly alongside the organizing team and rub shoulders with industry speakers.
What you’ll do: Help us handle registration, support the speaker stages, and keep the attendee experience flawless.
🚨 Deadline: We are closing applications as soon as we hit 10 rockstars, with a hard cutoff on June 30th. Apply now to secure your spot!
📰 Product Leaders’ Wisdom
Brought to you weekly by Leila Montazeri
This week, we’re diving deep into the messy reality of shipping AI agents and managing LLM costs without burning through our budgets. If you’re trying to move past the AI hype and figure out how to actually architect, prioritize, and scale these systems efficiently, these three pieces are essential.
How to Stop the Token Burn and Cut AI Spend
We’ve all heard the horror stories of companies blowing through their annual AI budgets in a matter of months. In his latest post on Ravi Mehta tackles the “tokenmaxxing” trend, our chaotic, undisciplined rush to burn tokens on the biggest models available. He shares three brilliant, counterintuitive architectural fixes to help teams stop over-engineering their prompts and cut their LLM costs by up to 10x without sacrificing quality.
A Product Manager’s Guide to Prioritizing AI Agents
Your backlog is probably stacked with half a dozen “agent” ideas, but trying to prioritize them using a standard impact-vs-effort matrix is a trap. Writing for Lenny’s Newsletter, drops a definitive framework that breaks agents into three distinct categories based on complexity and architecture. It’s a must-read if you want to stop comparing apples to jet engines and ship real ROI in weeks rather than months.
Managing AI Agents Like Human Freelancers
Why do most AI agents fail before the model even runs? In this incredibly insightful podcast episode, Julia Dalton (SVP of Product at Capacity) argues that coordinating thousands of AI agents is exactly like managing a massive network of human freelancers. Drawing from her background in crowdsourcing, she explains how to build robust validation loops, use recursive prompting, and set up triage systems that actually work in production.
💪 Open Roles
Brought to you weekly by Alessia Marchi
🎶 Song of the Newsletter
From our DJ Marco D’Avila