Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Product Leader Marily Nika
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
We used to think that AI products would win because they had the best AI technology. What we’ve discovered is that great AI is only table stakes. What makes the difference is what always makes a difference: Someone has created a product that meets real user needs.
Marily Nika, GenAI product lead at Google and author of the O’Reilly book Building AI-Powered Products, brings a Silicon Valley insider's perspective to the question of how AI redefines product management. I have lots of questions for Marily, and I’m sure you do too—using the O’Reilly live training infrastructure, I’ll bring them into the conversation throughout.
Join us to explore Marily’s playbook for creating AI-powered products that ground AI technologies in real user needs—featuring case studies from Google, Meta, and OpenAI. We'll discuss the future of product roles and why Marily believes “all PMs will be AI PMs” (plus how professionals can adapt); how to leverage agentic AI and GenAI capabilities while maintaining meaningful human-centric design; how to build organizations that solve problems with AI rather than just using AI; and more. Register now!
Recommended prep or follow-up:
- Read Building AI-Powered Products by Marily Nika
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Tuesday, July 29, 2025, at 8:00am PT / 11:00am ET
- Interactive discussion and Q&A (60 minutes)
Your Hosts and Guests
Tim O'Reilly
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media. He has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. He’s played a key role in shaping our understanding of the early commercialization of the internet, open source software, big data, and Web 2.0. He believes that the current AI moment is more significant than any of those. His 2017 book, WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us, raised many of the concerns and opportunities about AI that we are wrestling with today. He writes regularly for O’Reilly Radar and on Asimov’s Addendum, his Substack about AI governance.
Marily Nika
Marily Nika is an award-winning GenAI product leader with over 13 years of experience building AI products at Google and Meta. She’s also one of the world’s foremost AI educators, as well as an author, TED AI speaker, Harvard Business School fellow, and founder of the AI Product Academy, which offers AI product management certifications. A PhD in machine learning, Dr. Nika writes about AI at https://marily.substack.com.