Special Invite
Productside x Richmond: The Executive Table
Thursday, October 22, 2026 | 6:30pm-9pm
Shagbark | 4901 Libbie Mill East Blvd, Suite 175, Richmond, VA 23230
A discreet, peer-level evening for CPOs, VPs, and Senior Directors to swap what works. It’s off the record, encouraging discussions beyond hype.
The Room
Dean Peters
Principal Consultant & Trainer at Productside
At Productside, Dean is a senior instructor, advisor, and engaging speaker helping product people navigate AI, ML, IIoT, and modern delivery practices. With 30+ years across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and beyond, he helps enterprises and startups fix what fouls up teams: rewarding outputs over outcomes, delinquent governance, and decisions optimizing busy over better.
LinkedIn At Productside, Dean is a senior instructor, advisor, and engaging speaker helping product people navigate AI, ML, IIoT, and modern delivery practices. With 30+ years across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and beyond, he helps enterprises and startups fix what fouls up teams: rewarding outputs over outcomes, delinquent governance, and decisions optimizing busy over better.
Kenzie Horton
Director of Enterprise at Productside
At Productside, McKenzie partners with global Product organizations to define what success looks like in their transformation journey and shape the roadmap to achieve it. She helps teams upskill, reskill, and align their capabilities to drive long-term behavior change and measurable business outcomes. McKenzie has supported transformation efforts across industries including financial services, manufacturing, retail, and technology.
LinkedIn At Productside, McKenzie partners with global Product organizations to define what success looks like in their transformation journey and shape the roadmap to achieve it. She helps teams upskill, reskill, and align their capabilities to drive long-term behavior change and measurable business outcomes. McKenzie has supported transformation efforts across industries including financial services, manufacturing, retail, and technology.
The Experience
Step inside Shagbark’s private dining room at Libbie Mill East, where design accents drawn from the Shagbark hickory tree, the restaurant’s namesake, set an intimate backdrop for Richmond’s most memorable evenings. Warm wood details, curated art, and the striking communal Shagbark Table create a setting that’s as memorable as the conversations at the table.
Expect inventive cocktails that set the tone, followed by a chef-driven progression of bold, plated dishes designed to fuel connection. Every detail, from the wine pairings to the lighting and flow of the evening, is curated to spark candor and make the room feel like it belongs only to those inside it.
Why This Night Will Be Different
This is a curated, off-the-record exchange with senior product peers navigating the same inflection points: AI adoption that delivers measurable outcomes, faster competitors and copycats, portfolio governance under scrutiny, and the mandate to scale capability across teams.
Join a high-trust table with facilitated prompts, and unfiltered lessons you won’t hear on a panel or in a podcast. The result is an evening that blends the exclusivity of RPM Italian’s Boardroom with the brain trust of leaders shaping what’s next.
What to Expect
Pressure-test your transformation plan with peers navigating AI disruption, faster competitors, and budget scrutiny.
Swap operating models for scaling capability: org design, portfolio governance, outcome/OKR cadence, and enablement at scale.
Compare AI guardrails and platform-consolidation plays that move metrics without blowing up risk or compliance.
Leave with 2–3 executive-ready moves to accelerate transformation in the next quarter.
Hosted By Productside
One table. Curated prompts. Brief lightning shares, then deep-dive discussion.
