Louron Pratt

As the lines between product and engineering continue to blur, organisations are making structural changes to adjust to the new way of collaboration. Consequently a conversation that has grown over the past few years is the CPTO role. Based on conversations ranging from CPTOs and Product Professionals working in the field, along with community and recruitment data, we explore the role on the CPTO, and what impact it has on product and engineering teams.

Jonathan Evens, AI Product Lead at Google Deepmind, opened his talk at #mtpcon London 2026 by explaining that as a product manager, he physically feels an itch when something's wrong with a product. Netflix, he told the room, gives him that itch constantly. The recommendations aren't good enough. Some shows clearly don't need eight seasons, and movies he was planning to watch randomly disappear. He asked the audience: Which of those pain points would you actually solve with an AI feature?

Sahil Jain has always been in a technology wave in one way or another. Writing platform code at Yahoo! at 17 when the first iPhone shipped, evaluating startups at AOL at 19 during Y Combinator's second batch, and co-founding AdStage at 21, just when Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter advertising were all arriving at once. Samepage.ai, available today on Product Hunt, is his latest project that he's been building during this new world where things are moving tens of times faster than they have before.