Mansmith PRODUCTCON 2026
Theme: “Where Product Strategy Gets Stress-Tested”
Most products don’t fail in the market. They fail much earlier—on the whiteboard. Great products aren’t built by busy teams. They’re built by leaders who make fewer irreversible mistakes—early.
At the Mansmith Productcon, senior product leaders and founders go beyond frameworks and buzzwords to examine how product strategy actually breaks in the real world—and how the best teams fix it before the damage is done.
This is a working session for decision-makers who want clearer thinking, sharper judgment, and fewer expensive surprises.
You’ll work through:
Product visions that survive execution, not just presentations
Hidden assumptions customers actively punish
Roadmaps that drive real trade-offs, not vanity timelines
SESSION TOPICS
Speaker: Winsley Bangit, Vice President and Group Head for New Businesses, GCash
Session Overview: Product–market fit is not a moment, it’s a discipline. Learn how to distinguish real demand from short-term traction, identify early signals that actually matter, and move confidently from validation to scale. This session focuses on customer pull, repeatable value, and building growth flywheels that don’t collapse under pressure.
Speaker: JV Villabroza, Chief Client Officer and President, Kantar Philippines
Session Overview: Most product failures are obvious in hindsight, and invisible too late. Learn how to systematically surface and prioritize market, technical, competitive, and regulatory risks before they compound. Walk away with practical frameworks to pressure-test decisions and prevent costly mistakes long before launch.
Speaker: Jojo Liao, CEO, CoreProc
Session Overview: AI doesn’t replace strategy. It exposes bad ones. Learn how high-performing teams use AI to automate high-leverage workflows across product development without bloating headcount or complexity. Focus on where AI truly creates advantage, and where it’s just noise.
Speaker: Lawrence Ferrer, CEO, Bayad
Session Overview: Great product leadership includes knowing when to let go. Learn how to manage mature and declining products with clarity and discipline. This session covers objective decision-making across reinvestment, reinvention, pivoting, and sunsetting, without emotional bias or organizational drag.
Target Audience: Senior managers, founders, product leaders, and serious builders responsible for outcomes, not just activity.