They trusted me.
AI talk — Connexion conference, Montreal 2026
AI Lead Product Manager. I turn the opportunities of artificial intelligence into products that are truly useful and adopted, from scoping to prototype.
AI is often presented as a threat. Replacement, lost jobs, the end of work.
I see things differently.
My job, useful AI products people adopt
My job is to turn AI opportunities into products people actually use. Not demos that impress in a meeting and nobody uses three months later.
I'm an AI Lead Product Manager with 10 years in product development, 4 of them focused on AI. I work mostly in discovery and prototyping. I look for the right problem with users, then build the prototypes myself, in Figma and Claude Code. That's how I worked on SquadBox, a conversational AI agent management product, from more than 50 user interviews to a beta with more than 200 users. Before settling in France, I worked in Montreal, Dublin and Munich.
What drives my work
What drives me is a somewhat counterintuitive conviction. Be the fastest to slow down. Choose to understand before executing. Aim true rather than go fast. I've seen too many budgets go up in smoke because nobody in the room dared to say "Let's wait."
I believe a good decision doesn't always look like what the headlines make you think. And that AI will only become a real lever the day it speaks to what truly motivates people.
How I work
Tout commence par une phase d’écoute. Je cherche à comprendre le métier, les irritants réels, ce que les équipes essaient d’accomplir. Ensuite seulement vient la question de l’outil. Je dialogue avec les équipes techniques sans coder à leur place, et j’embarque les décideurs jusqu’aux comités de direction. C’est ainsi que j’ai travaillé avec ArcelorMittal, Elle Canada ou Astus sur leur stratégie produit et l’adoption de l’IA. Et je n’hésite pas à dire quand l’IA n’est pas la bonne réponse.
I hold vision and implementation together, because that's often where AI projects fail.
I go into this approach in my article on why the "why" has become the real expertise, and it runs through my whole background. In short, my job is to help choose what deserves to be built, then prototype it to check.
You don’t need AI. Yet.