Most product management literature assumes a SaaS context: cloud-native, continuously deployed, with instant access to user analytics and the ability to ship updates at will. But what happens when your product runs on edge devices in a greenhouse, a factory floor, or a cruise ship? At PR_D_CT DAY 2024, Bart Baekelandt, Head of Product Management at Robovision, explored the challenges and mindset shifts required when product management moves beyond the comfortable world of cloud-only deployment.
Robovision builds a trusted AI platform for smart automation at scale. The company's products create, deploy, and act on AI models across environments where data privacy, jitter and latency, total cost of ownership, and availability constraints make pure cloud deployment impossible. Bart's talk drew on his experience across hardware engineering at Newtec and AI product management at Robovision to articulate what changes, and what stays the same, when the cloud is not an option.
