From Functions to Builders: How AI Is Redrawing Product, Design, and Engineering

AI is changing more than how software gets written - it’s reshaping who builds products and how teams work together. As the boundaries between product, engineering, and design begin to blur, a new kind of builder role is emerging: one that owns more of the journey from idea to execution.

Drawing on Podium’s AI transformation across its 100+ person engineering organization, Rishit Shah will explore what this shift looks like in practice: how roles and workflows evolve, what happens to traditional team boundaries, and what leaders need to rethink as AI gives individuals and teams greater leverage. The conversation will look beyond tools and coding productivity to the broader question of how AI changes the way products are conceived, built, and shipped.