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Leadership Summit

Product Leadership 2026

100attendees from leading brands
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28 May 2026
Ritz-Carlton, Melbourne

A focused roundtables session for experienced leaders. Honest discussion, shared challenges, and space to connect with peers facing similar questions.

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Highly relevant presentations

Attendees dove into transformative presentations that challenged the status quo and ignited powerful discussions. These sessions weren't just about exploring ideas. They catalysed actionable solutions.

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Focused, facilitated roundtables

Attendees engaged in deep, focused discussions with peers. They explored diverse perspectives and generated actionable ideas. These sessions offered a unique opportunity to co-create solutions and challenge the status quo.

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Extensive networking opportunities

We built meaningful connections over sustainable meals, drinks, and immersive experiences. The networking sessions fostered collaboration and left people feeling inspired.

Event partners

Figma
Notion
UserTesting
Buck
Askable
Optimal
Torii
City of Melbourne
Easygo

What we'll explore

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The annual roadmap is a fiction most product teams have abandoned but not replaced. What's left is often chaos dressed up as agility, shipping fast without knowing if speed creates value or just motion. The differentiator now isn't pace; it's rhythm.

  • Judgement at scale: frameworks that help distributed teams make aligned decisions
  • The discipline of no: why pruning is harder than prioritising

A decade of hype cycles has pulled product teams away from basics. Everyone claims customer obsession, but the evidence tells a different story: bloated products, vanity metrics, growth disconnected from outcomes. This theme is about moving from slogan to practice.

  • Feature bloat: why products grow past usefulness, and how to reverse it
  • Metrics that matter: tying measurement to real customer impact, not internal vanity

As our discipline evolves and we move away from the same old tools, templates, and frameworks, product is finding its true identity. We'll finish the day looking optimistically to the future, discussing what excites us most about where product is heading and what we can't wait to achieve.

Program

We’ve created a program that balances just the right amount of presentation time with just the right amount of discussion time. We’ll cover highly-relevant topics with your industry peers.

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8:00Registration and networking
8:00Registration and networking
9:00
9:15
9:45
10:15Morning tea
10:45
11:15
11:45
12:15Lunch
13:15
14:00
14:45Afternoon tea
15:15
16:00Social wrap-up
17:30Event concludes

Tickets

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Earlybird

Full-day conference
In-depth roundtable discussion
Peer-level networking

$395

On sale until 23 Apr

General Admission

Full-day conference
In-depth roundtable discussion
Peer-level networking

$495

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In-depth roundtable discussion
Peer-level networking

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Buy 7 or more TO26 tickets and come to a Design or Product Leadership Summit for free!

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Included with every ticket:

All-day catering
Closed captions
Networking sessions
Sustainable conference
Conference freebies
Afterparty access
Workshop access
Recording access
Speed networking sessions
Barista coffee
Quiet room access
Event app access

Want to be involved?

We’re always keen to hear from people who want to contribute to our events, whether that’s hosting, presenting, sponsoring, or something else. If you’re interested in getting involved beyond attending, we’d love to chat.