2026 Agenda
Tuesday, October 6th
One day of talks, panels, and networking with leaders across product, UX, AI, and dev.
8:00 - 9:00 AM
Arrive on time to receive your badge, grab coffee, and begin networking with other attendees.
Registration
9:00 - 9:10 AM
Join us as we kick off the day and welcome newcomers and repeat attendees to the third ever Denver Product Summit.
Opening Remarks
CEO & Founder, Crux Digital
Co-CEO, Fuego UX
9:10 - 9:45 AM
How to fail hard enough to bounce back and evolve for your next challenges. Turning shame into action.
Keynote Speaker
Lead Designer, Anthropic
9:45 - 10:30 AM
Design leaders get honest about what's changed, what hasn't, and what still separates good from great.
Design Panel
Sr Product Designer, New York Times
Interaction Designer - Material Design, Google
Product Design Lead, Meta
Sr Researcher, Checkr
Co-CEO, Fuego UX
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Structured Networking Break
Icebreaker questions to help you meet other local tech folks early in the day.
11:00 - 11:45 AM
Product teams are moving faster than ever. AI, new tools, shifting team structures, and changing business priorities all add pressure. When that happens, teams need clear ways to stay aligned across product, UX, design, and engineering. This panel brings together product, UX, design system, and engineering leaders who are working through these changes now. They will share how their teams connect design and code, use shared standards to support faster delivery, and adapt their workflows as AI changes the way product work gets done. The conversation will be practical, candid, and grounded in real examples. Expect clear lessons about adoption, governance, cross-functional collaboration, and how teams can make shared systems useful in day-to-day work.
How Product Teams Stay Aligned Through Change
AI-Enabled Design Systems Panel
UX Design Director - Design System, ADP
Design Engineering Leader - Design Tokens Community Group
Senior UX Manager, Allegion
Design Systems Consultant
CEO, Knapsack
11:45 AM - 12:20 PM
Fast is easy now. The speed of light — the fastest you can move without sacrificing quality, control, or sustainability — is a different discipline. Luke Wignall and Ryan Angilly from NVIDIA join Aaron Stone from Crux Digital for an unscripted conversation about what separates real velocity from the illusion of it: judgment, discipline, and the systems that make speed sustainable. Because moving faster is easy. Moving faster without compromising the outcome is the hard part.
The 10x Myth, and What It Actually Takes to Move at the Speed of Light.
Engineering Fireside Chat
CEO & Founder, Crux Digital
Principal Engineer, Advanced AI Prototyping, NVIDIA
Director, Technical Product Marketing, NVIDIA
12:20 - 1:20 PM
A full hour to eat, recharge, and connect. Lunch is included.
Lunch & Networking
1:20 - 2:05 PM
You can't win the market without moving at the speed AI now makes possible, but every shortcut carries exposure you may not feel until years later. This panel puts that tension on stage. It brings together attorneys who advise companies on the front end of AI adoption, litigators who see what happens when adoption goes wrong, and a technology practitioner deploying AI for clients every day. All the panelists serve organizations ranging from startups to the Fortune 100.
Ship Fast, But Don't Get Sued: Navigating AI Legal Risk & Innovation
AI:Legal Panel
Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell
Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Partner, Crux Digital
2:05 - 2:40 PM
Keynote Speaker
Why three years of AI tools haven't changed how your organization actually works
AI Is Easy to Use, Not Easy to Learn
Every company has the licenses. Almost none have the results, and three years in, it's fair to ask why. The answer isn't the tooling. It's that AI landed on operating models built for linear, handoff-heavy work, and no one was ever named to help people actually learn it. When we put a PC on every desk in the 1990s, we stood up help desks, training, and support. This time we bought everyone a piano and asked for a concert.
Melissa Reeve makes the case for the missing activation system. The named roles and responsibilities that turn AI access into AI capability, as well as why the skeptics your org is pushing out are the early-warning system you can't afford to lose. Practical, human-first, and actionable.
Author of Hyperadaptive
2:40 - 2:50 PM
Break
2:50 - 3:35 PM
A live demo of how a real problem moves from question to prototype. We show the research that frames the problem, how we test our assumptions against it, what we change when the findings push back, and how that turns into product solutions.
Research & Design Process Demo
Head of Research & Design, Fuego UX
Product Designer, Fuego UX
3:35 - 4:05 PM
Structured Networking Break
A second round with fresh questions and new faces. Same setup: gather at a station, grab a marker, and dig into a design or product prompt with the group around you. Get out of your chair, find people you haven't met yet, and put some ideas on the wall.
4:05 - 4:40 PM
Product leaders share how they're shipping in a fast-changing landscape.
Product Panel
VP of Product Management, Ibotta
Infrastructure Engineer, Linear
Principal Product Architect, Land ID
Sr Manager, Product Operations, Capital One Software
General Manager, Crux Digital
4:40 - 5:15 PM
Keynote Speaker
Moving beyond the feed and into the wild: Redefining adventure for a digital generation.
Step Away From The Scroll
Founder & CEO, Outside
5:15 - 6:30 PM
We’ll wrap up the key themes and learnings from the day, then continue the conversation over drinks. Happy hour takes place in the same building.
Closing Remarks & Happy Hour
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