From starting as a bank teller to becoming Chief Product Officer at one of the world’s leading fintech platforms, Chris Gufford’s career is a masterclass in product leadership shaped by deep domain expertise. In this on-stage conversation, we’ll explore what it takes to lead product and engineering at scale in a highly regulated industry—where trust, precision, and innovation must move in lockstep.

Chris will share lessons from building and evolving nCino’s global product platform, how his teams are leveraging generative AI to augment complex workflows, and what it means to lead through transformation without losing sight of the human impact. This session offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at modern product leadership from someone who’s helped reinvent how banks operate from the inside out.

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