Guest speaking · Gale Robins
Give your audience a fresh perspective on product discovery, the assumptions behind their solutions and the judgment that shapes what they build.
For people building and supporting products
For product and software communities, founder programmes, universities and teams. Each session connects a clear idea to recognisable situations and questions participants can use in their own work. No prior knowledge of the DJF is needed.
Explore how conviction, customer understanding and evidence influence product decisions, whether participants have an idea, prototype, MVP or live product.
Challenge familiar discovery habits, examine the quality of the reasoning behind decisions and consider where AI can help.
Speaking topics
These topics provide a starting point. We agree the focus and examples around your audience and the purpose of the event.
When delivery gets easier, choosing what deserves to be built matters even more. Explore how to distinguish activity, confidence and evidence.
Takeaway: Questions that reveal unresolved decisions and what you need to learn next. Discovery continues after the prototype, MVP and launch.
A founder's own experience can reveal an opportunity and shape assumptions. Look beyond the proposed solution and immediate symptoms to the progress customers are trying to make.
Takeaway: A way to question the problem, connect customer progress to solution fit and examine assumptions while retaining the conviction to act.
Start with the customer job and the consequences of the experience. Explore what an AI feature needs to make useful progress and earn appropriate trust.
Takeaway: Practical questions about value, usability, uncertainty and evidence before committing to an AI-enabled solution.
Consider how AI can support discovery while people remain accountable for its decisions. Connect structured learning with the courage to challenge assumptions and change direction.
Takeaway: A clearer distinction between AI assistance and human judgment, and why the Human Foundation remains essential.
Meet your speaker
Gale Robins brings three decades of building, leading and advising on software products. She founded and exited a software company, served as Director of Product Management at Petrotranz, a Wood Mackenzie business, and mentors founders at Unicorn Factory Lisboa.
She created the Discovery Judgment Framework to help people make their reasoning visible and improve the decisions behind product discovery.
More about Gale and Unvera →Recent guest session
Gale delivered a one-hour guest session for the Fall Batch 2026. It is an example of the founder-programme setting these talks can support.
To explore the approach before enquiring, the free Introductory Course offers eight short narrated modules and a worked discovery example.
Explore the free course →What to expect
A guest session provides perspective and useful questions. The standalone three-hour introductory workshop gives participants time to examine evidence and work through decisions for their own products.
A talk and a workshop can each be booked independently.
Explore the three-hour workshop →Invite Gale to speak
Tell us who will attend, the question you want to explore, your preferred date and whether the session would be remote or in person. We can then discuss a suitable session.