Sara Okonkwo
Head of AI Product
Linear
Sara Okonkwo leads AI product at Linear, where she has spent the last two years turning experimental AI features into tools that 400,000 developers rely on every day. Before Linear, she spent four years at Figma as a senior product manager, shipping collaboration features used by designers worldwide.
At Linear, she owns the entire AI product surface — from model selection and prompt architecture to the UX patterns that make AI feel native rather than bolted on. Her team shipped Linear's first AI features in 6 weeks from concept to production, a timeline most teams spend just in planning. She is known for a simple internal rule: if a user has to think about the fact that they're using AI, the feature has failed.
At BuildWithAI Summit, Sara opens Day 1 with the exact process her team uses to move from idea to production AI feature in under two months, and closes Day 2 with a forward-looking keynote on where AI product development is heading next. Expect equal parts framework and war story — with specific examples you can bring back to your own team.
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From Prototype to Production — Shipping AI Features in 6 Weeks
Day 1
Product
How Linear moved from concept to live AI feature in under 6 weeks — the scoping decisions that made it possible and the assumptions that nearly doubled the timeline. You'll leave with a repeatable process your product team can use to scope and ship an AI feature before the end of next quarter.
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Closing Keynote — What Ships Next
Day 2
Main Stage
A closing keynote on where AI product development is heading in the next 12 months — not predictions, but a framework for thinking about what to build next based on where the tools, the users, and the market are actually going. The talk you'll still be thinking about on the flight home.
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