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Arpy Dragffy is the founder of PH1 Research, a 14-year-old product strategy and AI value consultancy, and co-host of the Product Impact Podcast. His work focuses on the gap between AI deployment and AI-driven outcomes — measuring it, closing it, and helping product teams ship AI that compounds rather than decays.

Brittany Hobbs is a senior research executive and behavioural scientist with two decades of experience studying how people actually use the products built for them. She is COO and VP of Research at PH1 Research, CEO of AI Value Acceleration, co-host of the Product Impact Podcast, and host of the Disrupting Health podcast.

CEO and co-founder of Yutori, an AI-powered online research platform. Previously a research scientist at Meta AI (FAIR) and a professor at Georgia Tech. Her research spans computer vision, natural language processing, and AI agents.

AI creativity researcher who joined the Product Impact Podcast to explore the future of human-AI creative collaboration and what it means for product teams building creative tools.

Helen Edwards is co-founder of the Artificiality Institute, a research organization that has spent a decade studying what AI does to human cognition, identity, and meaning-making.

One of the most respected voices in technology news. Joined the Product Impact Podcast to unpack what viral AI agent demos actually prove, what they exaggerate, and why the hardest problems in AI aren't capability — they're control, security, and measurement.

Principal scientist at ServiceNow and co-founder of data.world (acquired by ServiceNow). Leading researcher in knowledge graphs, semantic data management, and enterprise context infrastructure for AI. Juan's research demonstrated that LLM accuracy increases dramatically when knowledge graphs provide structured business context, a finding that catalyzed the industry's focus on context over capability.

Design director at IDEO who joined the Product Impact Podcast to discuss how play and experimentation unlock the next wave of AI product innovation.

AI ethics and design researcher who joined the Product Impact Podcast to examine what happened to the promise that AI would help humans — and where the gap between intention and impact opened.

Founder of Interhuman who joined the Product Impact Podcast to discuss how emotional AI will transform sales, customer support, and training — moving beyond text-based interactions to systems that understand and respond to human emotion.

Founder of Ammunition and Object. Former Director of Industrial Design at Apple (1989-1996) where he established Apple's pioneering internal design organization and hired Jony Ive. Designed the original PowerBook, Beats by Dre, Square Stand, Lyft Amp, June Oven, Polaroid Cube, and Limitless Pin.

Designer at IDEO who joined the Product Impact Podcast to discuss co-design methodologies for AI products — how to involve users in shaping AI systems rather than designing for them.

Founder of Product Talk and author of Continuous Discovery Habits. One of the most influential voices in product management. Joined the Product Impact Podcast to argue that AI won't save products that lack proper discovery practices.

AI product strategist who joined the Product Impact Podcast to discuss the three forces reshaping AI product strategy in 2026: trust, cost, and orchestration.