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

Lukas Jablonskas

Build with Confidence: The Experimentation Toolkit

Buycycle (ex-Vinted)

Gut feeling is a powerful starting point, but it becomes even stronger when backed by evidence. Intuition helps us chart the course, while experimentation gives us the data to move forward with confidence. In this workshop, we’ll explore a variety of practical experimentation tools that help reduce both time and cost when making product decisions. And no, it’s not all about A/B tests—there’s a whole toolbox out there.

Simona Griškutė & Ieva Jakė

Product and user research: moving at the right speed for the right decisions

Vinted

Product managers often grapple with two extremes: never conducting user research, or being overly dependent on it. Finding the perfect balance between the two is making a decision around when and how much research to conduct. We invite product managers who don’t have an in-house research team to explore when to integrate user research into your workflow and master the essentials of preparing, conducting, and deriving insights from user research.

Jevgenij Gamper, Agnė Reklaitė & Giedrius Blažys

Measure what matters: all about metrics for product development

Vinted

Great products are built on great decisions—and great decisions rely on the right metrics. This workshop explores how to choose, develop and use metrics that truly reflect product impact. We’ll cover what makes a metric useful, why adoption alone isn’t enough, and how to structure a metric hierarchy that connects day-to-day work to long-term goals.

Tomas Nemura

Creative Equations – Your First Creative Concept Without Creative Agency Support

Presented by Atomic Garden

This hands-on workshop is designed to help you unlock your creative potential—no agency required.
Split into two parts, the session will start with a theory segment where you’ll learn what Creative Equations are, how they work, and why they matter in a world full of content noise. We’ll break down the thinking behind impactful creative concepts and introduce you to specific, repeatable techniques you can start using right away.

Aurelija Liutkuvienė & Lina Praškevičiūtė

Navigating Uncertainty: Building Resilient Strategy

Ex-Vinted

With AI evolving fast, economies shifting, and geopolitical instability shaking up industries, building a resilient strategy has never been trickier—or more important. This hands-on workshop will give product leaders and entrepreneurs the tools to think ahead, adapt fast, and turn uncertainty into opportunity. Through interactive exercises you’ll learn how to keep your product competitive no matter what the future throws your way.

Tomas Petras Rupšys

Mastering the latest in AI: Agentic Workflows, AI Agents, Vibe-prototyping/coding, MCP

Wix

This session will deepen your understanding across wide variety of AI concepts by trying out a lot of different tools: you will build an Agentic Workflow using N8N & Groq, you will create an AI Agent using Agent.ai and Zapier, you will create a clickable prototype instead of a wireframe for your product team's challenge, you will generate code and try to run it, you will set up an actual MCP server on your computer and control your browser using chat.