Iris Lens: Practical AI Workflow

In this talk, Iris breaks down how to break into product management, especially when working with AI agents. From a background in Finance, she took her experience founding a non-profit OpenMeal to land internships at companies like Microsoft, Google X, Scale AI, and more. In this episode, she highlights the key paradigm shifts you need to gain the trust of hiring managers and how agency is the mos...

This episode explores how AI is reshaping the PM landscape — from navigating career transitions into product to helping mid–senior PMs evolve their skillsets and stay competitive in an AI-first world. Panelists include Abid Ladhani, co-founder of Insightfull.ai and former product lead at Coinbase and Wealthsimple, and Raheem Mussa, co-founder of Easy Appointment Booking and former PM at Amazon. Ho...

An introduction to Iris Lens Live: a live podcasting community for Toronto product builders. We’ve moved past the "AI hype" to focus on the practical scaffolding required to build and scale professional-grade systems. Iris Guo is a seasoned AI Product Manager and she’s passionate about empowering the community with AI upskilling. She has worked at Scale AI, Zynga, Arteria AI & Studdy...

Welcome to the second episode of  Iris Lens ! In this episode, host Iris sits down with Saam, Co-Founder and CPO at EvenUp, fresh off their recent series E funding. As AI makes engineering exponentially faster, the role of the Product Manager is undergoing a massive shift. Saam breaks down why the future of product management relies on building with  precision, taste, and a highly opinionated poin...

In the inaugural episode of Iris Lens, host Iris sits down with Hassan Khan, co-founder and CEO of Todaq Micro, to unpack what it really means to build in the age of AI agents. Hassan breaks down the difference between AI tools and true autonomous agents, cuts through the hype to identify where real value is being created, and shares what it was like to spend years building machine-native payments...