What does it mean to be the person responsible for AI ethics inside a 30,000-person company? Shelby Tallent lives this every day. As the leader of AI ethics, responsibility, and compliance for Alaska Airlines, Shelby works at the intersection of technology, governance, and human trust. Her career across Amazon, Nordstrom, and TeleSign has shaped a perspective that blends policy rigor with product execution. In conversation with host Shannon Peavey Madhani, Shelby shares why AI ethics is not about slowing innovation but about guiding it. She explains how ethical value systems become practical decision frameworks, how individuals can hold their ground when goals conflict, and why keeping humans in the loop is not optional. AI should not be looked at as a way to “get us out of things,” she said, rather, we should let it expand our capacity to do what once felt impossible. Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gY9rwacV Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gvRiCbY7 Youtube: https://lnkd.in/gvr3gkUn
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We are dedicated to providing women with equal access and representation in product management careers at all levels.
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Last week I had the pleasure of attending WIP Toronto | Building Responsible AI: From Model to Meaningful Impact — and I left with a lot to think about. The speakers, MJ Levitan and Jessie Bagri did a fantastic job sharing real AI use cases from their companies. But one line stopped me in my tracks: “When systems start thinking, you’re no longer designing for the happy path — you’re designing for every path. Boundaries are product decisions. Define what the product will not do.” That reframing hit different. So much of product work is about enabling. But responsible AI forces you to be equally deliberate about constraining — and that’s just as much a design choice. Grateful to the Women In Product Toronto chapter for creating this kind of space for our community. #WomenInProduct #ResponsibleAI #ProductManagement #AIProduct #WIPToronto
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Just wrapped up the WIP Women’s History Hackathon by Women In Product and Lovable, and what an incredible experience! 🚀 Seeing all the amazing projects built confirmed one thing: in the age of AI, success isn't just about how fast you can build, it’s about building things that actually matter 💜 That’s why Rute Santos, Ojomona Salifu, and I created a tool designed to move women from overwhelmed to intentional. Our focus was on helping users filter out the noise to find the Clarity needed to focus on the tasks that actually move the needle. We’re ready for your "Chaos Mode" feedback! 🌪️ https://lnkd.in/eAVsMH4P #WIPHackathon #Lovable #WHMBuilds #WomenInProduct #WomenInTech
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𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭. I co-hosted a product teardown session last week with Seena Iype for the Women In Product community and the room was electric. ⚡ We did something a little unconventional: we tore down our own platform - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗜𝗣 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹. The same space that brought all of us together. And the insights? 𝗥𝗮𝘄, 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲. From a packed virtual room spanning Toronto to Dublin to Austin, here's what we surfaced: 🩹 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗪𝗜𝗣 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻 Most communities are “nice to have.” This one solves a real problem: isolation in male-dominated spaces. 👥 𝟯 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐬 - 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐣𝐨𝐛𝐬-𝐭𝐨-𝐛𝐞-𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 Early PMs, transitioning professionals, senior leaders. Each expects a completely different kind of value. 🚧 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 Navigation overload. Unclear premium value. Login walls breaking key journeys. 💡 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 Workshops priced for accessibility. Mentorship structured for outcomes, not access. The 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧 framework gave us a spine to work from. But 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗸, and this group didn't need much prompting. One moment stayed with me - A participant came in thinking WIP was 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆. She walked out able to articulate the real problem it solves and how to improve it. Good product thinking doesn’t give you answers. It gives you sharper questions. That shift is the point! If you're a PM who wants to 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 or 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 - find a product you love and tear it apart. 🛠️ 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱. Huge thanks to Seena Iype and every single person who joined. See you next month! 🩵 #WomenInProduct #ProductManagement #ProductTeardown #PMLife #CommunityBuilding
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I walked into the Women In Product Hackathon not knowing a single person on my team. I walked out genuinely proud of what five strangers built together in a weekend. We built Proof of Signal. The idea started with a frustration a lot of us have felt but rarely name out loud: Women catch things early. They flag the risk before it becomes a crisis. They spot the pattern before it becomes a trend. And somehow, by the time it's celebrated someone else is holding the mic. Proof of Signal is a recognition platform that changes that. It captures, organizes and amplifies women's insights so they don't just disappear into the ether, they become a track record. Did we win? Nope. Did we build something real? Absolutely. What got me was how quickly five people who had never met before aligned on a problem that actually mattered and then used tools like Lovable and Gamma to go from idea to product faster than I've seen most teams move in weeks. Becca Solomont, Allison Herbert, Portia Singh and Natasha Karnoto - y'all made this so fun. Grateful we got to build this together. To any PM or founder reading this - have you ever watched a great idea get lost before it got credited? That's exactly what Proof of Signal is built for. Would love to hear your thoughts. Link in Comments #WomenInProduct #WomensHistoryMonth #LovableHackathon #ProductManagement #AIProductManager #BuiltwithAI
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This past week was building something for the women in product community and being one of the #Finalist for 2026 Women In Product Women's History Month Hackathon, in partnership with Lovable was cherry on the top! We're Team Flossie Wong-Staal, named after the virologist who first cloned HIV and proved its link to AIDS. A woman who did the work before the world caught up. We built Community Brain, an AI-powered "Ask a PM" assistant for the WIP community. Not generic AI advice. Real answers synthesized from real community threads, weighted by upvotes, recency, and relevance. The decision I'm most proud of: the unhappy path. When Community Brain doesn't have a community-backed answer, it says so. No hallucinated confidence. Instead, it routes you to post the question back to WIP and anonymously if you want. Every gap in the AI becomes a new community thread. The tool feeds the community, not away from it. Speed of AI. Depth of community. That was the line Aruna Ravi, Anika P., Gunjan B., Angela Yee and I held on every product decision. Live demo in front of Whitney Menarcheck Helen Lee Kupp Latha Ramanan and Carmen Gutierrez Palmer was another experience. None of this happens without this team who went from strangers to shipping a product together in hours. That's the thing about hackathons! The product is the output, but the team is the takeaway. Special thanks to Rachel S. for all the help and efforts in organising this! #WIPHackathon #WHMBuilds #WomenInProduct #WomenInTech #Lovable
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In between launching the independent product practice, getting engaged with civic tech and Claude Code communities, I joined a hackathon - check out what I and my hackathon sisters at Women In Product built this week: https://lnkd.in/g2Yg4wZs
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What A Week for the Women In Product community! I'm still unpacking the amazing work and learnings from the Women's History Month Hackathon, but I wanted to take a moment here to reflect, share, and grow: While our team's work did not make the final round of selections, we did build something I'm genuinely proud of. Our team tackled a real problem: the way women's observational advantage is dismissed before it's credited. Proof of Signal is a recognition platform built to capture, organize, and amplify valuable insights that help women move into leadership roles. The Real Reward? It wasn't our outcome: It was what happens when you make space to build with people who see the problem differently than you do. Diverse perspectives aren't a nice-to-have in a hackathon; they're the whole point. The best decisions our team made came from friction, not consensus. THE BIGGEST THANK YOU: Becca, Natasha, Portia,and Preeti, I'm grateful for our work and connection! To Lovable and Gamma: your tools compressed what would have taken weeks into hours. Not because AI does the thinking, but because it removes the friction between the idea and the artifact. You get to spend your energy on what actually matters: the judgment calls. If you're sitting on a product idea and waiting for the right team or the right time: DON'T; the speed of learning available right now is worth something. Use it. #alwayslearning #ai #product #community
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We just won our first Women In Product hackathon, and honestly… I didn’t expect the journey to change how I think about building AI products this much. In just one week, Sofia, Bramma sakthi, Varenya, Flora and I went from a rough idea → to a working product → to something we were genuinely proud to demo. No heavy tech stack. Just a real problem, tight timelines, limited AI credits and a team that showed up. What this experience really reinforced for me as a product builder: → Great products are built through team leverage: The biggest unlock was understanding each person’s strength, creating clarity in ownership, and letting people run with what they do best. → Constraints sharpen product thinking: They made us define the problem better before touching the solution. → Simplicity always wins: Every time we drifted toward “cool features,” the product got weaker. So we kept asking ourselves: What problem are we actually solving? This single discipline changed how we prioritized the build. → AI should earn its place: We kept challenging ourselves on where AI genuinely adds value and where simpler logic or deterministic workflows do the job better. Sometimes the strongest AI product decision is deciding not to use AI. → Building with AI is still real building: This wasn’t no-code magic. It meant debugging workflows, tracing errors, understanding what was happening under the hood, and knowing when to rely on the model vs when to step in and fix things directly. The biggest personal unlock? I walked in with zero coding experience and walked out with the confidence to get into the actual code files when something breaks, rather than just asking an AI to fix it. Stay tuned, demo drops Sunday. #AIProductManagement #Hackathon #WomenInProduct #AIBuilders #Lovable #Vibecoding
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I had planned to fully unplug the rest of my parental leave… but I couldn’t resist a chance to experiment with Lovable through the Women In Product Women’s History Month Hackathon. As Team Grace Hopper (a pioneering computer scientist who first translated human code to machine language), my team and I built 77¢ents: a tool designed to give women in product the confidence to capture the compensation they’ve earned through personalized compensation benchmarks and an AI negotiation coach: https://lnkd.in/e97RqxP5 What amazed me most was how quickly we went from idea to MVP. It’s a thrilling reminder of the possibilities AI is opening for product management. At the same time, I’m mindful of the challenges ahead—ethical dilemmas, workforce implications, and environmental impacts from AI’s resource demands. I look forward to exploring AI further in the coming years with some nervous butterflies in my stomach.