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Build Products & Drive Outcomes at Scale With Speed Using Strategic Portfolio Management
ACCELERATE 2025: Virtual Summit for Product and Portfolio Leaders by Dragonboat
Competing and thriving in today’s AI-powered world requires more than just good product management. It requires a strategic lens and portfolio management practice (Strategic Portfolio Management) to operate at scale, connect strategy to delivery, and adapt in real-time.
In this panel, product and operating executives share how they’re transforming their organizations to:
- Integrate product management and portfolio management, as both are integral to accelerating outcomes
- Manage dependencies and balance tradeoffs across resources, priorities, and market opportunities
- Build data-driven, AI-ready portfolio practices that create clarity and accelerate decisions
- Leverage data, metrics, and emerging AI capabilities to get clearer visibility into priorities and accelerate decision-making, without losing agility.
This conversation is equal parts strategy and pragmatism, offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at how real organizations connect product, business, and technology outcomes at scale.
Key Takeaways
- The Unified Strategy Approach: Effective alignment between business strategy, product strategy, and portfolio management is crucial. A seamless connection between these elements ensures faster and more impactful outcomes in an AI-driven environment.
- Leveraging AI for Speed and Efficiency: AI significantly accelerates discovery, decision-making, and operational processes by providing real-time insights into customer behavior and market trends, enabling faster, data-driven decisions.
- Embracing Visibility & Collaboration: Visibility across teams and departments using unified tools like Dragonboat enhances coordination, minimizes duplication, and fosters alignment between strategies, execution, and outcomes.
- Customer-Centric Innovation: Products and strategies should solve real customer problems, emphasizing on understanding customer needs while embracing innovation without losing focus on the core issues.
- The Journey of Portfolio Management: Strategic portfolio management is an evolving process requiring intentional investments, adaptability, and patience. Successful outcomes stem from fostering a culture of alignment, adaptability, and continuous improvement.
Featured Speakers
Aaron Hall
VP of Portfolio & Project Management and Chief of Staff, Carfax
Aaron Hall leads the Project Services team at CARFAX, a business unit of S&P Global (listed on the NYSE as SPGI). In this role, he has accountability for CARFAX-wide portfolio management and project delivery; over 50 portfolio/project management, business analysis, and process improvement staff with delivery teams around the globe; and identification/implementation of best practices. Aaron is also an Adjunct Professor within Virginia Tech’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. He has led several large-scale organizations and programs at Stride/K12, AOL, NeuStar, Convergys, and BDM throughout his career.
Cristin Kenney
VP Product Management, Fortellar
Cristin Kenney is a seasoned product leader with deep experience building and scaling product organizations across industries from healthcare to customer experience and enterprise technology. She has led product strategy and execution end-to-end—from early vision to market launch—driving efficiency, flexibility, and innovation in fast-paced, global environments. With a background spanning start-ups and multinational enterprises, Cristin is known for her ability to anticipate market shifts, lead high-performing teams, and deliver products that adapt to evolving customer and business needs.
Gloria Ramchandani
SVP Product, Copado
Gloria Ramchandani is the SVP of Product at Copado, bringing over 13 years of experience driving digital transformation through technology and product innovation. She has led business architecture transformations, product enablement initiatives, and cross-functional teams to deliver customer success. Gloria’s expertise spans product management, Salesforce solution architecture, DevOps, agile management, and AI-driven innovation.
John Field
VP Product Management, Talogy
John Field is currently VP of Product Management at Talogy, where he owns the product strategy and roadmap aligned with the overall corporate strategy. He ensures that platforms are continually improving for clients and the participants who are experiencing assessments. Prior to Talogy, John held engineering and product management leadership positions at National Instruments, IBM, and a variety of B2B SaaS startups.