Forward Product

2026

May 12-13

@CyberCity

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Our vision to
Forward Product
Conference

This is a conference where theory takes a backseat, and real-life experiences and lessons drive the conversation. Here, we believe in the power of unfiltered insights and lessons over abstract theories and frameworks.

Our mission is to provide firsthand experiences and challenges that product managers encounter in the field. We are gathering a diverse lineup of speakers who can offer deep dives into their journeys and the lessons they've learned along the way.

Expect to meet your industry colleagues, engage in quality discussions, and learn new angles of the product management craft. Forward Product is a gathering of like-minded professionals dedicated to advancing their knowledge to gain valuable insights that go beyond theoretical concepts.

AI is reshaping tools, products, organizations, and roles. But what are the core skills and values that still define a great product manager? That's what Forward Product 2026: What Holds When Everything Shifts is here to explore.

When everything around us is changing fast, what do you hold onto? Through honest stories and unfiltered experiences from product leaders, we'll dig into the fundamentals that don't bend, the new skills worth building, and the questions worth asking out loud.

Speakers

GM & Senior Director of Product

Mario Bañares

Wix

Mario Bañares, GM & Senior Director of Product at Wix, leading products used by millions every day. Engineer by background, product leader by choice, coder by accident. He spent 11 years in product never writing a line of code - and nine months dismantling that identity completely.

Senior Director of Product Management

Vytas Butkus

Vinted

From designer to marketplace-wide product leader, Vytas shapes strategy and execution across all of Product at Vinted, leading high-impact initiatives such as introducing multiverticals in the fashion primary marketplace. Focused on building strong foundations to evolve the PM function alongside rapid growth, he’s also a true AI enthusiast - now driving the adoption of agentic AI to help teams move faster and deliver smarter, more impactful product experiences.

Product Manager

Noa Ferber

Wix

Noa is a Product Manager at Wix, working on Wix Legends - An AI-powered digital presence platform that lets anyone create a living, interactive version of themselves online. With 6+ years of experience, she previously worked with startups to design and implement AI-driven solutions, and now focuses on building new products from zero to launch within Wix.

Producer

Povilas Katkevičius

Nordcurrent

30 years of playing games and 8 years of creating them professionally. Global launched two commercially successful games, currently leading a development team for a new product. Povilas loves creativity, innovation and collaboration that the industry demands and believes that leading a team while creating a successful game requires life-long learning, a hands-on approach and discipline to turn ideas into profitable products.

Senior Director of Product Management

Aurelija Plėtienė

Vinted

With nearly 5 years at Vinted, Aurelija leads Trust & Safety - tackling one of the toughest challenges in marketplaces: building and maintaining user trust as the platform grows. From fraud prevention to navigating legal and operational complexity, she works at the intersection of product, policy, and user experience. She’s passionate about solving the “messy” reality of online trust - where scams, fake profiles, and manipulation all collide - and turning it into systems users can rely on every day.

Founding engineer

Arnas Stasiulis

Sintra

Arnas is a founding engineer at Sintra, where he’s building the AI employee platform used by thousands of small businesses around the world. Working across engineering and product, he focuses on turning the latest AI capabilities into tools entrepreneurs can use day-to-day. With a strong bias for real-world impact, Arnas thrives in fast-moving environments, shaping products from the ground up and constantly pushing them toward clarity, usefulness, and growth.

CPO

Aurelija Valiulė

Ondato

Aurelija brings 10+ years of experience building and scaling products used by millions. As CPO at Ondato, she focuses on creating trust in the digital world through identity verification. Previously, she helped shape Vinted’s marketplace during its hyper-growth. Aurelija is a strong believer that great products come from empowered teams, and is known for building high-performing, people-first organisations at scale.

Workshops

Mikas Stonis

From Chat to Copilot: Hire AI as your product's PM

Wix

Every PM already chats with AI. This session is about going the extra step and building the workspace around that chat - so it can draw on your product context, apply your standards, and run reusable workflows instead of starting from zero each time.

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Giedrius Jaloveckas

Building agentic workflows using Claude Cowork

Vinted

We will learn how to leverage Claude Cowork to do the work for us. In this session, we will explore the differences between Claude, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code. We will utilize Claude Connectors and Plugins, create a few basic agentic skills, and, in combination with Scheduled runners, enable AI to handle tasks on our behalf.

Adas Bradauskas

The Fundamentals of Product Management: What (still) matters?

Wix

With AI, we PMs now have superpowers that let us do more things - faster and better than ever before. Despite these new capabilities, some core aspects of the role remain unchanged.
In this workshop, we’ll go over all key aspects of Product Management (user research, data analysis, solution design, execution with dev, product strategy - just to name a few), the few truly important mental models that shape good decision-making, and where to focus, especially when things are moving fast.

Charles-Louis de Maere x Kseniya Susha

From discusssion to decision: Facilitation techniques that move teams forward

Exploration Labs SRL &Vinted

Most workshops start with energy and end with a wall full of sticky notes… but no clear decision. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn practical facilitation techniques that help teams move from messy discussions to clear outcomes. We’ll practice simple methods you can use immediately to structure conversations, involve everyone in the room, and turn ideas into decisions. If you run product, design, or engineering meetings and want them to actually lead somewhere - this workshop is for you.