Alex is a VP Education and Community Lead, Engineering Practices at JP Morgan Chase in Glasgow the land of the unicorns. She is an international speaker, product community manager and MSc Computer Science graduate of the University of Bath. She previously worked as a conversational developer, software engineer and community manager among other roles.
In her work as a creative technologist, she combines content, community and cloud, to help products grow. Her role acts as a navigator between product, design, engineering and customers, underpinned by data and feedback.
In her personal life, she loves languages, speaking 4, whilst learning her 5th, Korean, with a 1100+ day streak on Duolingo. Alex adores living in Scotland with her family, 4-year old husky, Kai, and 1-year old Maine Coon kitten, Marvin!
Upcoming Talks
28 May 2026
AI isn’t coming. It’s already reshaping how products are built.
It writes code, generates designs, synthesises research, and compresses workflows that used to span teams and weeks into minutes. It removes friction—and with it, many of the traditional boundaries between roles.
But it doesn’t just accelerate output. It exposes it.
When execution becomes abundant, the bottleneck shifts.
From building → to deciding what’s worth building.
From producing artefacts → to exercising judgment.
From process → to understanding.
This is not the end of product, design, or engineering.
But it is the end of operating at the surface.
In this session, we’ll examine what actually changes when AI becomes embedded in the way we work—not from a hype perspective, but from the realities teams are already facing.
We’ll explore how roles evolve when tools can do the work, where depth still matters, and what differentiates teams that get better with AI from those that simply move faster.
- Why AI exposes every discipline in product development
- Why both shallow generalists and narrow specialists are increasingly vulnerable
- How team structures shift when handoffs disappear and individuals can execute across domains
- What “depth” really means when output is cheap and instant
- How to rethink generalist vs specialist when AI fills capability gaps but not judgment
- Which skills, mental models, and fundamentals compound, and which decay
Past Talks
9 October 2024
What's the role of prototyping in your product development lifecycle? Do you use it in your discovery work or do you think prototypes are just designers' responsibility?
Great product teams, marketers, tech writers or engineers should leverage prototypes or wireframes. This can help align with stakeholders, test assumptions, and decrease the risk, time and resources dedicated to engineering, product or design work based on inaccurate or untested assumptions.
If you want to understand and harness the power of prototyping and experiments in your product development, discovery and reduce risk, time and resources while creating products, join us for this engaging forum!
11 October 2023
The role of the Product Manager is different in almost every organisation. How are teams structured? Is there one Product Manager per development team or does a Product Manager set the objectives for many teams? If you have hundreds of product managers do you have hundreds of product visions? How do Product Managers ensure that work isn't being duplicated across the organisation? Is it mostly project management?
If you are having issues defining the remit of the Product Manager role, or you just want to hear how others are doing it, this is a forum not to be missed.