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Same Game, New Rules: Building Products in the AI Era
Product Lessons from Two Decades of Experience

15 November 2026 | 04:00 PM - 5:00 PM | CMRIT Campus , Marathahalli, Bengaluru

Technology keeps changing the way products are built, but the fundamentals of good product management remain surprisingly consistent. From launching early products and scaling a global enterprise platform to rebuilding around AI and agentic systems, the product journey brings valuable lessons on what to build, what to stop, and when to take the next big bet.

Join us for an engaging Industry Connect session with Kalyan Teja Maganti, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at KNOLSKAPE, as he reflects on nearly two decades of building and scaling products. Drawing from his experience taking KNOLSKAPE from simulation products to AI-powered platforms used by 400+ organisations across 75 countries, Kalyan will share candid lessons from the decisions, experiments, and turning points that shaped the journey.

Across the 45-minute session, Kalyan will explore the product principles that continue to hold true despite changing technology  from problem clarity and customer value to focusing on outcomes over output. He will also unpack what changes when AI makes building faster and cheaper, and why product judgment, customer value, and knowing what is worth building matter more than ever.

The session will be followed by a 15-minute live Q&A, giving participants an opportunity to engage with Kalyan on product strategy, scaling products, AI, agentic systems, and the evolving role of Product Managers and leaders. Following the Q&A, participants will have the opportunity to network with fellow product professionals and peers.

 

Key Takeaways:

  • The fundamentals that outlast every technology shift: problem clarity, customer value and a focus on outcomes over output.
  • Real lessons from scaling a product company: what to build, what to stop, when to place a bigger bet, and how to do it without putting the business at risk.
  • What AI changes for product managers and what it doesn't: why judgment about what's worth building matters more than ever when building gets faster and cheaper.

**Please Note: If attending in person is not feasible, please register to join the session live via Zoom

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Kalyan Teja Maganti

Co- Founder & Chief Product Officer
KNOLSKAPE

 
Kalyan Teja Maganti is a product leader with about two decades of experience building products, from early ideas to platforms used by large enterprises. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of KNOLSKAPE, an AI-powered experiential technology company focused on workforce performance readiness that has worked with 400+ leading organisations across 75 countries and has engaged more than a million employees.
Over the last 15+ years, he has led KNOLSKAPE's product journey, scaling it from simulation products to AI platforms. He leads its product, AI and engineering teams, and his current focus is shaping the category of agentic AI for workforce performance. An alumnus of BITS Pilani, he has also worked at INSEAD.

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