The Skill Up Festival
AI-Powered Careers Edition
Build skills with AI that grow careers
- Start Date: November 21, 2025
- End Date: December 12, 2025
- Every Friday from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- IPL Campus, 2nd Floor, Koramangala, Bengaluru
About the Festival
The Skill Up Festival is a four-week, in-person learning and networking experience where professionals learn how to use AI, product thinking, and real-world frameworks to grow their careers.
Each session is designed to be hands-on. You learn from practitioners, work on live problems, and connect with peers, mentors, and hiring managers in the industry. This is where learning meets opportunity.
Why Attend
Learn practical AI skills you can start using at work immediately
Understand how product and business leaders think, solve, and execute
Get insights into how hiring really works inside top product companies
Build meaningful connections with speakers, alumni, and peers
Walk away with frameworks and proof of work you can showcase
What You Will Learn
- How to use AI to work smarter, prototype faster, and make better decisions
- How product leaders frame problems, prioritise, and communicate solutions
- What hiring managers look for in product and business roles
- How to build a product portfolio that gets shortlisted
- How to network effectively and build career opportunities
Festival Schedule
How to Make a McKinsey-Style Presentation with AI
- Learn how to structure presentations the way top consulting firms do
- Use AI tools like ChatGPT, Gamma, and Tome to design and refine your slides
- Create a powerful, data-backed deck that tells a clear and compelling story
How Hiring Really Happens Inside Top Product Companies
- Insider view: How top product companies actually shortlist and hire
- Decode what hiring managers really look for in product roles
- Learn to position your skills and experience to stand out in every round
Mental Models + AI: How mid-career professionals can make smarter, faster Career Decisions
- Use AI to identify your best-fit career path based on your experience, strengths, and market demand
- Learn decision-making frameworks to know whether to switch roles, move to leadership, or stay and upskill
- Predict long-term career outcomes (salary, growth, relevance) instead of making short-term reactive decisions
- Discover which skills will matter most in the AI era , and how to build them without starting from scratch
Building a Product or PM Portfolio that Gets You Shortlisted
- Learn how to showcase your product skills using tools like Notion, Miro & Figma
- See real portfolio examples that landed interviews at top companies
- Build your own PM portfolio framework live during the workshop
Speakers
SaiSatish Vedam,
Ex-Senior Director of Product Management
Kishan Malur,
Enterprise Product Management
Past Speakers
K Preethi,
Head of Product ( Asia / ANZ )
Praveen Sheethalnath,
Director of Product Management
Ankita Das,
Lead Product Manager
Manish Thapa,
Director – Product Management
Padmakumar Nambiar,
Director Of Product Development
Ketan Gandhi,
Senior Product Manager
Rakesh Mondal,
Associate Design Director
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Who Can Attend
Students, working professionals, and career switchers who want to build AI and product skills and grow their careers. No prior experience is required. Curiosity and willingness to learn are enough.
