AI makes it faster to build. Discovery helps you build the right thing.

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Annu Augustine

Founder of NedRock · Product Coach and Adviser

Annu Augustine is a leading product coach and consultant who partners with product teams and leaders across Africa to build products that deliver real impact. She founded NedRock in 2016 with a mission to elevate the practice of product management on the continent.

With more than 28 years of experience, starting as a software engineer and later moving into product, Annu brings a rare blend of technical depth and product leadership. She specialises in product discovery coaching, helping teams move away from feature-driven delivery toward empowered, outcome-driven ways of working.

Annu is a regular speaker at product conferences across Africa, known for making global product discovery practices practical and relevant in the African context. She was recognised as one of the 50 most inspiring South African women in STEM (2018).

She also founded the Cape Town Product Meetup, serves as a Board Director of the Innovate Africa Foundation, and continues to mentor emerging product leaders and advise startups across the continent.

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Vidya Dinamani

Managing Partner at Product Rebels · Product Coach and Speaker

Vidya Dinamani is managing partner at Product Rebels, coaching product leaders and teams to master customer-centric, high-impact execution. Backed by 20+ years of product leadership—including executive roles at Intuit leading Product and Customer Experience for TurboTax—she has guided hundreds of companies, from fast-scaling startups to the Fortune 50.

Through tools like the Product-Led Pulse Check and the Groundwork Method™, Vidya helps leadership benchmark capability and modernise their practices, including embedding AI effectively into core product discovery and delivery workflows.

A sought-after speaker, Vidya co-hosts the Product Rebels podcast and co-authored Groundwork: Get Better at Making Better Products, a battle-tested playbook for product-led transformation. She specialises in moving teams out of theory and into practitioner-led execution, ensuring product decisions are anchored in rapid validation, customer empathy, and measurable business outcomes.

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Martin Eriksson

Board Member, Advisor and Coach · Author of The Decision Stack

Martin works as a board member, strategic advisor, and leadership coach, helping founders, CEOs, and product leaders build the clarity their organisations need to move at pace. His most recent book, The Decision Stack: How Strategic Alignment Unlocks Organizational Momentum, distils everything he’s learned about aligning an organisation from vision to execution.

With over 30 years building businesses, products and teams, he’s advised over 150 companies and previously served as Product Partner at EQT, one of the world’s largest private investors.

As founder of ProductTank, co-founder of Mind the Product, and co-author of Product Leadership (O’Reilly, 2017), he helped define the product management discipline.

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Ezinne Udezue

Principal at ProductMind · Co-Author of Building Rocketships

Ezinne has spent decades building products people actually use, most recently as Chief Product Officer at WP Engine and VP of Product at Procore Technologies, with earlier stints leading innovation at T-Mobile, Discovery Communications, and Time Inc. She’s now a Principal at ProductMind, where she works directly with executive teams on AI transformation, and co-author of Building Rocketships, a book about the fundamentals of good product management. She draws from her experience leading product, technology and design across several industries to help product leaders develop and scale performant product building teams.

She sits on the board of DivInc and mentors through Techstars, with a particular focus on founders who don’t fit the usual mould for who gets backed. Her advisory and board work spans startups across several industries, and she holds degrees from UT Arlington, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, and MBAs from both UC Berkeley and Columbia.

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Tendayi Viki

Senior Partner at Strategyzer · Author and Innovation Advisor

Tendayi Viki is an author and advisor to corporate leaders. He specialises in creating buy-in for innovation, transformation and breakthrough ideas. He holds a PhD in Psychology and an MBA.

As Senior Partner at Strategyzer, he has worked with leaders and teams to navigate the human elements of innovation, ensuring their initiatives gain the trust, support and active participation of stakeholders. He has delivered keynotes, led workshops and advised global organisations including Novartis, Standard Bank, Unilever and Airbus, has been shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award, and was named on the Thinkers50 2018 Radar List for emerging management thinkers to watch.