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TPM Live

The TPM Institute's first virtual conference

December 17, 2026 • 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST • Zoom Virtual Conference

Early Bird Pricing Ends November 30 | Regular Price: $99

Technical program management is its own discipline, distinct from project management and from Agile. On December 17, the TPM Institute hosts its first virtual conference: a half day of talks from practitioners who run large technical programs at companies you know, on the real work. How programs get scoped, staffed, unblocked, and delivered, and what the role looks like as AI changes it.

Eight 30-minute sessions. No vendor pitches. Built for TPMs, the people who manage them, and project managers who want to see where the discipline is heading.

Rob Sterry

Director, Technical Program Management | UKG

Rob Sterry is Director of Technical Program Management at UKG, where he leads a team of TPMs responsible for delivering releases across the UKG Pro suite. He brings more than 20 years of experience in software, spanning quality assurance, release management, product and business operations.
Rob began his career at Citrix, where he spent 15 years in roles across QA, release management and product management, including helping bring one of the company’s first SaaS products to market. He then joined VMware, holding roles in Product and Business Operations for its end-user computing business, including Workspace ONE and Horizon, through Broadcom’s acquisition and the spin-off of Omnissa.
Rob joined UKG as a TPM in the Product organization. The TPM function later moved into Engineering, where he now leads release management. Originally from London, he is based in Atlanta.
The Evolution of the TPM: From Program Management to AI-Enabled Delivery

Veera Kyabarsi, PMP, PhD

Technical Program Management | Walmart Global Tech

Veera Kyabarsi is a technology leader with more than 30 years of experience spanning software engineering, engineering management, and technical program management. At Walmart Global Tech, he leads portfolio planning for Walmart U.S.'s product catalog organization, aligning hundreds of incoming initiatives with business priorities, product strategy, and engineering capacity. He has leveraged AI to streamline planning processes and led Generative AI and machine learning initiatives that accelerated content localization by 30 percent.
Throughout his career, Veera has launched 0-to-1 programs from concept through production, built new technology platforms, led complex enterprise migrations, and driven organizational transformation. At Endicia/Stamps.com, he was the first Engineering Program Manager, establishing the Program Management Office from the ground up and leading the transition from Waterfall to Agile delivery. He has also held senior technical program management leadership roles at SiriusXM.
Veera brings a practical, end-to-end perspective on turning business strategy into technical execution, aligning cross-functional teams, managing complex dependencies, and delivering measurable outcomes. His current focus includes applying AI to improve program planning, operational efficiency, and technology delivery at scale.

Michael Götz

Director, Technical Program Management | Celonis

Michael Götz leads Celonis's global technical program management organization: more than 20 TPMs who work alongside a global software engineering organization in India, Germany, Spain and the USA, covering AI, data platform, application, infrastructure and API programs. He built the function from scratch and owns the team's AI operating system, a multi-agent layer and skill library used across the entire product and engineering organization, which has automated about 40 percent of the operational busywork in program management.

He joined Celonis in 2017 as one of its first product managers, built out the product team, then led the CTO Office through the company's hypergrowth from fewer than 100 people to more than 3,000. Trained as an aerospace engineer, he treats program management as a systems engineering problem, and he has also founded his own companies. He co-hosts the TPM Ridge Podcast, writes TPM Breakdowns on Substack and organizes TPM community events in New York, Munich, Madrid and London. He also co-authored "The Technical Program Manager's Guide to Practical AI."

Krunal Naik

Head of Technical Program Management | Meta

Krunal Naik leads technical program management for one of the core pillars of Meta's wearables organization. At Meta he took neural interface technology from research to launch, resulting in the Meta Neural Band, which controls Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses with subtle hand gestures and was named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2025.
With more than 20 years in engineering and technical program management, he has shipped about 30 devices, most of them from research to product, across hardware, software, firmware and machine learning. He has built and led a team of more than 20 TPM leaders. Before Meta, he led zero-to-one programs at Peloton and Datacolor, has been entrepreneur and he served on the board of the PMI Delaware Valley Chapter.