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Robert
Burgunder
Manager, Technology Program Management
Slack
Rob Burgunder manages the Technology Program Management team at Slack (Salesforce), where he leads the Product Specialist function, a team purpose-built to sit between customer-facing teams, product and engineering. Over his decade at Slack, Rob has helped scale support operations from a small startup through rapid growth and built programs that dramatically reduced engineering escalations and turned front-line support insights into product changes. His team recently launched an AI-powered customer friction program that quantifies pain points and delivers data-backed product recommendations, enabling a small team to identify and advocate for product changes at enterprise scale. Rob is passionate about moving support organizations upstream, preventing cases rather than just resolving them faster.
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23 September 2026 11:15 - 12:00
Panel | Closing the loop: Turning front-line support insights into product action
Support teams sit closest to customer friction, yet valuable insights often remain trapped in tickets, conversations, and scattered feedback channels. As AI makes it easier to identify patterns and surface signals at scale, organizations have an opportunity to transform support from a reactive function into a strategic source of product intelligence. In this session, Nandish Dave, Director of Technical Support at BitGo and Mark McKercher, VP of Global Support at Sovos, will explore how organizations can create stronger feedback loops between Support, Product, and Engineering teams. Discover how AI can help turn front-line customer interactions into more actionable insights that influence decisions, priorities, and product improvements. What this session will cover: - Why critical customer insights often fail to reach Product and Engineering teams - How AI can uncover trends, recurring issues, and signals across support interactions - Approaches for translating support data into more actionable product intelligence - Strengthening collaboration between Support, Product, and Engineering teams Key takeaway: Attendees will leave with practical ideas for turning everyday support interactions into a scalable feedback system that improves products, strengthens cross-functional alignment, and drives better customer outcomes.