Akankshu Dhawan, SVP Product Xero: AI-Driven Growth for Small Business

Akankshu Dhawan is Senior Vice President of Product Management and Executive General Manager at Xero, where he leads product strategy and AI-driven innovation for small businesses. He previously held leadership roles at Uber, AppDynamics, and Microsoft, and co-founded ImaZing. With an MBA from Chicago Booth, an MS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from UMass Dartmouth, and a B.Tech. from DAIICT, Akankshu brings deep product and engineering expertise to driving digital transformation.Topics: How AI is transforming small business accounting and financeBuilding product teams that can execute on both innovation and reliabilityThe biggest AI opportunities he sees for SMBs vs. enterprise