Frontier Master Class
An in-depth, 2-day master class — the foundation for truly exploiting AI and AI agents in the enterprise.
It’s not about automating what you do. It’s about changing what you do.
Critical Topics
Key Learnings
The Frontier
Most “AI for product management” amounts to automating the work you already do. This class starts somewhere else. You’ll build a deep, working grasp of the Constructor — the role in a complex adaptive product line that holds congruency (reading the system for fit) and assemblage (building it forward) as one continuous motion. Then you’ll see that role operationalized with agentic AI.
Using ConstructorOne™ as a worked example, we show how a team of AI agents runs inside the product line’s Accelerating Learning Loop — sensing fit, surfacing risk, holding portfolio memory, and shortening lap time — under real enterprise conditions. The point is not a faster version of the old operating model. It’s a different operating model — and the reason AI becomes genuinely transformative rather than merely efficient.
You’ll leave knowing where, specifically, to point AI and AI agents in a large organization: what to change, what to stop doing, and what only a Constructor-shaped operating model makes possible.
Master Class Leader
Founder, The Adept Group
Paul O’Connor is the founder of The Adept Group and a leading authority on product lines as complex adaptive systems. He is the author of a three-book series on product line systems management — beginning with the acclaimed The Profound Impact of Product Line Strategies: Your Guide to Highly Productive Innovation and Management (2018), continuing with Racing Change: The End of Product Innovation & Management As We Know It (2025), and culminating in Winning the Race: The Product Line System Constructor — Competing in the Era of AI Acceleration.
A past president of PDMA, Paul has contributed to The Handbook of New Product Development (1996, 2004) and The PDMA ToolBook (2004), and his whitepapers include “Corporate Innovation: Uncertainty Domains, Flow and Product Line Systems” (2022). His clients span organizations worldwide, across high-tech and low-tech, B2B and B2C.
The Adept Group is a leading consultancy helping companies raise product-line performance. We serve medium and large organizations worldwide — conducting diagnostics, implementations, and smart training for B2B and B2C companies across high-tech and low-tech industries.
Registration
Fees are per person. A 10% early-registration discount applies through each session’s cutoff date. For learning and sharing, we encourage at least two people per organization — click any rate to register at that tier.
| Session | 1st person | 2nd–4th | 5th+ | 10% early cutoff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 16–17, 2026 Ponte Vedra Beach, FL | $2,800 | $2,650 | $2,350 | Aug 19, 2026 |
| Oct 6–7, 2026 Atlanta, GA | $2,800 | $2,650 | $2,350 | Sep 15, 2026 |
| Nov 11–12, 2026 Orlando, FL | $2,800 | $2,650 | $2,350 | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Jan 13–14, 2027 Ponte Vedra Beach, FL | $2,800 | $2,650 | $2,350 | Dec 19, 2026 |
Payments. Payment is due before the class. We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and PayPal.
Cancellations. Alternate participants may be substituted at no charge. Cancellations must be made at least 21 days before the class. Credit applies toward future courses; or a full refund, less a $450 fee, is mailed by check.
Past Venues
Companies that have attended Adept master classes & workshops
The Adept Group also offers customized on-site delivery of this master class (NDA available). To learn more, reach out below or email workshops@adept-plm.com.
Talk to Paul
Tell us about your product line and what you’re trying to change — Paul will follow up personally. Prefer to talk live? Book a time directly.
