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Why your AI roadmap is lying to you

Part of Practical AI Product Sense for PMs

30 min
Feb 27, 2026 1:30 PM
Virtual (Zoom)

In this video

What you'll learn

Why AI failures start with data, not models

Understand how data trade-offs quietly break AI systems that look fine in demos.

The speed, cost, quality triangle for AI data

Learn how teams unintentionally pick the wrong two and why context matters.

How data strategy changes by use case

See why prototypes, user features, and analytics demand different data decisions.

What’s changing in AI data right now

Understand the shift from big data to better, curated, and synthetic data.

How to make defensible data trade-offs

Use a simple checklist to decide where quality matters and where it doesn’t.

Why this topic matters

Most AI roadmaps fail because data decisions are made implicitly, not deliberately. Teams optimize for speed and cost while assuming quality will hold. In production, it doesn’t. This lesson reframes AI strategy around data trade-offs, helping leaders choose the right level of quality, cost, and speed for each use case before failures show up in customers, metrics, or trust.

You'll learn from

Dr. Marily Nika

Dr. Marily Nika

Gen AI PM Lead @ Google | ex-Meta, Fellow @ Harvard | TED AI Speaker | 40u40

Jeanne Williams

Jeanne Williams

ex-Head of tPgM/Ops @ Google & ex-Apple

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