The third edition of SPM Summit in North America will take place at University of California, Berkeley’s Associated Student Union in the Tilden Room on September 10th 2025 from 10am - 5pm PST.
High Impact Product Management - How to ‘Break In’ and ‘Break the Ceiling’.
Meet some of our featured speakers
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Assurance Product Director @ EY
As the Director of Product Management for a $15 billion service line within EY’s Assurance business, Martin leads a $1 billion, 5-year transformation program, driving innovation and aligning product strategy with business objectives. His expertise in AI and agentic systems has provided huge opportunity to disrupt the professional services organization, and unlock new growth opportunities.
With a proven track record in spearheading successful product transformations and cultivating high-performing teams, Martin excels in navigating complex challenges and delivering actionable strategies that resonate at the board level. He is passionate about leveraging technology to enhance client service and drive organizational change across diverse industries.
Martin sees product management as the apex of bringing the business and technology organizations together.
Director of Product Management @Shopify
Vibhor Chhabra is a seasoned product executive and the Director of Product Management at Shopify, where he leads the Shipping, Taxes, and Fulfillment product portfolios with full P&L responsibility. Vibhor excels at transforming complex, “unsexy” operational challenges into intuitive, high-impact products that empower merchants worldwide to scale their businesses efficiently.
With deep expertise at the intersection of FinTech, commerce, and logistics, Vibhor has successfully launched and scaled multiple high-margin FinTech products from inception to profitability. He is recognized for articulating clear product vision and strategy, building and motivating high-performing cross-functional teams, and driving business growth.
Prior to Shopify, Vibhor held executive product roles at Square, TaxJar (acquired by Stripe), Campaign Monitor, and Evernote consistently delivering revenue growth, product innovation, and operational excellence. He is also an active angel investor and advisor, supporting startups in FinTech, commerce, and SaaS.
Vibhor holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Product Manager II @Uber
Arushi Singh is a Product leader at Uber, where she drives supply positioning and earner engagement strategy—crafting intelligent, user-centric experiences that help millions of drivers maximize their earnings while improving marketplace efficiency. With over 8 years of experience across product management, strategy, and operations, Arushi has launched a global portfolio of products including Earnings Heatmap, Earnings Trends, Opportunity Center, Earner Alerts, and Earnings Transparency— each designed to bridge the gap between marketplace complexity and human decision-making, empowering users with clarity and control.
Her work blends deep user empathy with sharp execution, and she’s known for solving high-stakes, high-scale problems with thoughtfulness and precision. Prior to her current role, Arushi led regional operations across India and South Asia, giving her a uniquely ground-up perspective on platform design, growth, and global adoption.
As a leader of Women@Uber, she champions inclusion, mentorship, and equity across product and engineering orgs. Outside of work, Arushi is passionate about purpose-led innovation, sustainability, and mental health—constantly exploring how product impact can align with real-world values.
She holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a Commerce degree from Delhi University.
Director of Product Management and UX, Google AI @Google
Satyajeet leads teams and organizations that build great products and businesses at the intersection of technology and media. Professionally, he’s most excited about how AI will transform how we create products, businesses and art, and how we learn and grow - as people and as societies.
Satyajeet is currently Director of Product and UX within Google AI, where his team applies cutting edge AI to build new transformative products. Prior to that he led the Consumer team on YouTube Shopping as well as Live Shopping, building new tools for Creators and Brands.
In 8+ years on Google Search, he helped build the teams responsible for Media (TV, Movies, Music, Books, Games etc.) as well as the product team on UI experiences, quality and policy for the Google Knowledge Graph and Answers.
He was the founding PM for both YouTube Live and Games on Google+/Play Games and led product initiatives on Payments and Ads, as well as served as Chief of Staff for the YouTube tech org.
He mentors and advises startups in the AI/media/creator space, and guest lectures at a few graduate schools on product, business and technology. When he’s not hanging out with his family, he watches more movies and television than he probably should.
Group Product Manager, Gemini API, Vertex AI @Google
Lewis is a product manager from Google Cloud AI. He has led the development of various AI products, focusing on the large language model and AI. He created 0-to-1 products including PaLM, Gemini, AutoML, DocAI, and Enterprise Knowledge Graph, aiming to bridge the gap between advanced research and practical product applications. His work involves understanding the intricacies of LLM lifecycles, from development to deployment, and ensuring the responsible use of AI. His recent interests are advanced RAG, agentic workflow, model memory. Outside work, he enjoys traveling, photography, piano and spending time with family.
Senior Product Manager, Agent Productivity @Zendesk
Amisha is a Senior Product Manager on the Agent Workspace team, renowned for her dynamic trajectory through the tech industry and her passion for building customer-centered products. With a career shaped by perseverance, self-discovery, and a drive to bridge technology and real-world impact, Amisha brings a unique perspective to product management and team leadership.
Her journey into technology began with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. While coding initially presented significant challenges, Amisha’s tenacity saw her through. She entered the workforce determined to find her place but quickly realized that traditional development roles didn’t play to her strengths. A turning point came with her internship as an Android developer at Byju’s, where a product-focused interview revealed her natural talent for understanding and articulating product value to end-users. Despite excelling in discussions about product impact, Amisha found herself yearning for a role beyond coding, one that involved solving deeper customer problems.
Amisha’s pivot to Udacity—an innovative tech education platform—as a customer support specialist proved transformative. There, she thrived on directly helping learners, listening to their needs, and advocating on their behalf. The experience not only rekindled her enthusiasm for technology, but also introduced her to product management, a role that combined her technical background with her customer-centric mindset. Inspired by a product manager she worked alongside, Amisha pursued an MBA to deepen her skillset and facilitate her transition into product leadership.
Her break into product management came when she secured a coveted internship at Zendesk, thanks to a timely referral from a professor and her deep familiarity with the platform from her time at Udacity. Starting as an intern shadowing the Senior Product Manager for the writing experience (“composer”), she quickly proved her ability to translate customer insights into actionable features, driving significant improvements in agent functionality.
Promoted first to Associate Product Manager and then Product Manager, Amisha expanded her purview to include the ticket reading experience, launching key features and vision decks to streamline agent workflows. Her collaborative approach fostered strong relationships across engineering, design, and advocacy teams. In recent years, she has spearheaded AI-driven initiatives, partnering with the machine learning group to unify Zendesk’s AI assistance tools—culminating in the launch of “Copilot GA.”
As she marks her fourth year at Zendesk, Amisha reflects on a journey defined by growth, adaptability, and resilience. Outside of work, she has recently embraced motherhood, navigating sleepless nights and new challenges with the same curiosity and optimism she brings to her career. Each day, she remains energized by the opportunity to make a tangible difference for customers, shape the future of customer service platforms, and collaborate with visionary colleagues.
Amisha believes that careers in tech are not always linear—and that struggle, exploration, and pivots are all essential parts of finding one’s true path.
GenAI Product Lead @Google
For over a decade, Sabareesh Chinta has been passionate about building AI-powered tools that help developers and creators do their best work. He currently helps shape Google’s generative AI strategy and product development for video and music (Veo & Lyria). Previously, he was leading the GenAI-enabled modernization efforts for the mobile and web developer ecosystem at Google.
His journey in tech has taken him from using machine learning to help design chips for iPhones and Macbooks at Apple, to rethinking the Microsoft Outlook experience for Mac users - with brief forays into robotics and social edtech startups. When he’s not focused on AI-powered product building, Sabareesh enjoys putting his strategy skills to work for the community, advising organizations like the National Kidney Foundation and the City of San Jose.
Director, Product Development @ Mastercard
Nishant A. Parikh is a seasoned professional with a strong foundation in computer science and product management. He holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Gujarat University (2005) and an MBA from Webster University (2020), blending technical depth with business insight. As Director of Product Development at Mastercard, he leads strategic initiatives and drives innovation in software solutions. Since 2022, Nishant has been pursuing a PhD in Product Management at Capitol Technology University, focusing on the impact of emerging technologies on the field. His research addresses evolving challenges and trends in product management, reflecting his passion for innovation and commitment to advancing the discipline.
Program Committee
Shreeya Julakanti
Co-Program Chair and ISPMA at Berkeley, Student Chapter President
Greg Coticchia
Co-Program Chair and ISPMA North America Chairman
Yara Hassan
Co-Conference Chair and ISPMA at Berkeley, Student Chapter External Vice President
Emma Crabtree
ISPMA Administrative Director
Haragopal Mangipudi
Co-Conference Chair and ISPMA Global Chairman