Product for Engineers IRL: Berlin

Software product development is changing. What is the new reality, and are you fully embracing it?
Join PostHog for an evening of honest, practical conversation about what it actually means to be a product engineer — in person, over snacks and drinks in Berlin. Talks will be in English.
Speakers will share real talks on building a product engineering culture and what engineers consistently get wrong (and right) about their craft. The Product for Engineers newsletter inspired this event, and we'll cover other topics from it as well.
The event is in collaboration with The Product Engineers Podcast.
What to expect:
Talks + Q&A
Open discussion with local software product engineering enthusiasts
Snacks, drinks, and networking
Schedule & Location:
18:00 - Opening venue doors
18:30 - Talks starting
20:00 - Drinks & Networking
Talks
Talk #1: What Stripe didn't teach me about shipping product in B2B
After years at Stripe and Klarna, Ivan joined an early-stage b2b AI startup - and had to quickly figure out fast what instincts to trust, and which to throw out. Ivan will talk about the filter he used: lessons from world-class engineering orgs that transferred perfectly, which didn't, and what he learned, when your company's survival depends on you knowing your customer by first name.
Speaker: Ivan Turianytsia (Senior AI Product Engineer @ Forgent, Ex-Stripe)

Talk #2: The hidden tax in a product engineering org
Picture the god-like product engineer: talks to customers, does the design, ships the code, all in one head. No PM relay, no design handoff, no ticket thrown over the wall. Just speed. Every painful handoff the squad used to suffer through, gone. This is amazing, right?
Wait a moment.
Everyone treats the handoff as friction to be eliminated. It wasn't friction. It was a load-bearing feature: every time you threw work over the wall, you were also forced to sync, to write context down, to talk. Convergence deleted the handoff and called it progress. But the work the handoff was quietly doing didn't go away, so now you pay for it as a hidden tax, in context nobody maintains and conversations that stopped happening.
Speaker: Arnon Cavaeiro (Head of Product for AI-native startup)

Talk #3: Stop Snacking. Start Cooking. AI killed the busywork — now there's nowhere left to hide

AI is really good at the kind of work a lot of us fill our days with — small bugs, quick fixes, tiny improvements.

The uncomfortable truth: that was often the easiest way to feel productive without actually moving the needle.

In this talk, I'll show what happens when that layer of work disappears — and when AI also makes the hardest part of real engineering work, understanding problems, much faster through pattern recognition and correlation.

What's left is the work that actually defines your product: building the right things and making sure they work reliably.

You'll leave with a simple shift in mindset: it's no longer about doing more — it's about deciding what actually matters.
Speaker: Meikel Ratz (Product engineer, PostHog)