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Speaking, research, and press

Keynotes on AI product strategy and trust. Academic research on AI safety and therapist quality. Press coverage across 15+ publications. Based in Singapore, available globally.

Protik Roychowdhury speaking on product leadership
Protik Roychowdhury on fireside chat panel at Martechvibe Unlocked Summit
Keynote · 30-45 min

From Roadmaps to Judgement: What Product Leaders Need in the AI Era

For product conferences, leadership summits, and anyone rethinking what PMs actually do now.

AI has commoditised execution. The PMs who thrive next won't be the ones with the best frameworks — they'll be the ones with the sharpest judgement. This talk examines what changes and what doesn't when AI reshapes how products get built.

  • Why process-heavy product management is becoming a liability
  • How to develop product judgement that AI can't replicate
  • A practical framework for deciding what to automate vs. what to protect
Keynote · 30-45 min

Building AI Products People Can Trust

For AI conferences, product & design events, and teams shipping AI in regulated or high-stakes domains.

Most AI products fail not because the model is wrong, but because the trust design is missing. Drawing from shipping AI features at Intellect for 4M+ users in mental health, this talk provides a product-led framework for building AI that earns — and keeps — user trust.

  • The three layers of trust in AI products: transparency, control, and recourse
  • Why high-stakes domains reveal trust failures that consumer AI hides
  • Real examples of trust design decisions from mental health AI
Keynote / Panel · 30-45 min

Why UX Is Care: Lessons from Mental Health Product Design

For design conferences, healthtech events, and anyone building products where getting it wrong causes real harm.

In mental health technology, every interface decision is a clinical decision. Every friction point is a potential moment of harm. This talk explores what building products for vulnerable users teaches us about product design everywhere.

  • How designing for harm-avoidance improves products even outside healthcare
  • The tension between personalisation and safety in AI-driven care
  • What every PM can learn from clinical product governance
Workshop / Panel · 45-60 min

Scaling Product Teams Without Killing Product Judgement

For VP/CPO audiences, product leadership events, and scaling-stage companies figuring out how to grow without going numb.

Most scaling advice optimises for throughput. This talk optimises for judgement — how to grow a product team from 3 to 20+ while keeping the strategic thinking that made the small team effective.

  • The "admin tax" problem and how to diagnose it early
  • Pod structures that preserve context without creating silos
  • When to hire senior vs. grow junior PMs — and the common mistake
Keynote / Panel · 30-45 min

AI, Personalisation, and the Future of Mental Health Support

For healthtech events, AI conferences, HR/wellbeing leaders, and investors looking at digital health.

How AI is transforming mental health from one-size-fits-all to adaptive, personalised care. Drawing on Intellect's work serving 4M+ users across cultures and languages, this talk examines what works, what's risky, and what's next.

  • How AI triage and matching improve therapy outcomes at scale
  • The bias problem in LLMs for mental health — real data from 9 models
  • Why the future of care is hybrid, not fully automated
Fireside Chat · 30-45 min

What High-Stakes Products Can Teach Us About Trust

For product conferences, fintech/healthtech events, and leaders who want trust as a competitive advantage, not a compliance checkbox.

From marketplace fraud at Ola to clinical safety at Intellect — a journey through building products where getting it wrong isn't just bad UX, it's real harm. The trust principles that emerge apply to every product category.

  • How trust compounds — and how quickly it collapses
  • The fraud-to-safety pipeline: marketplace lessons applied to health
  • Why trust is the only moat that survives AI commoditisation
  • “The regulatory moat is the real competitive advantage in enterprise AI — everyone else is one incident away from a sales freeze.”
  • “AI is unbundling product management. The PMs who survive will be impact architects, not process operators.”
  • “Trust is an engineered property with an architecture — transparency, control, recourse — not a brand attribute.”
  • “Most teams demo their LLM features; almost none evaluate them. Evals are the new QA, and they belong in the release gate.”
  • “Empathy without challenge is an echo chamber — true of AI companions, and of product orgs.”

Keynotes

30-45 minute talks with Q&A. In-person or virtual. Can be customised to your event theme.

Panels

Moderated or panelist roles on AI, product, trust, mental health, or marketplace topics.

Workshops

Interactive 60-90 minute sessions. Best for product teams, leadership groups, and offsites.

Podcasts

Guest interviews on product, AI, mental health tech, founder journeys, and leadership.

2024 · Fireside Chat

Martechvibe Unlocked Summit

Cross-Border Success Through Hyper-Localisation and Geo-Targeting. Singapore.
Podcast · Episode 43

The Product Un(censored) Show

Deep-dive on building AI mental health products and scaling across APAC.
JMIR Preprints · Aug 2025

The RISE Protocol: Reducing Time-to-Intervention in AI-Driven Mental Health Risk Detection

A framework addressing the Safety Paradox — where responsible AI safeguards can inadvertently delay intervention in time-critical situations. Proposes a four-stage protocol for reducing detection-to-action latency in AI-assisted risk systems. Sole author.
medRxiv · Sep 2025

The Provider GPA: A Composite Framework for Evaluating Digital Therapist Quality

A multidimensional quality metric combining engagement signals, reliability indicators, and client feedback to evaluate service provider performance at platform scale. Applicable to any two-sided marketplace with quality-sensitive supply. Co-authored with Oliver Sündermann.
PsyArXiv · Sep 2025

Bias in Large Language Models for Mental Health: Vignette-Based Evaluation Across Nine Models

Systematic evaluation revealing demographic biases in how large language models assess clinical scenarios. Tests 9 models against standardised vignettes to quantify inconsistencies across age, gender, and ethnicity. Co-authored with Lerh, Fang, Sündermann, Sinha & Chauhan.
protik.info · Apr 2026 · 7 min

The Architecture of Algorithmic Trust

Trust is an engineered property with a three-layer architecture: the alibi, the steering wheel, and the safety net.
protik.info · Mar 2026 · 7 min

The Architecture of Consequential AI

Regulated AI does not have to be slow AI. Embedded governance, harm taxonomies, and clinical co-design.
protik.info · Feb 2026 · 6 min

What Product Leaders Actually Do

The job is judgment. Everything else is overhead.
protik.info · Jul 2026 · 7 min

The Meter Is Always Running

What generative AI actually costs when you are the one signing for it.
protik.info · May 2026 · 8 min

The Anatomy of Startup Blind Spots

Three startups, three different failures, one common thread.
protik.info · May 2026 · 8 min

Payments at Scale: Grab

Building payments infrastructure, engagement monetisation, and driver financial services across Southeast Asia.
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50-word bio

Protik Roychowdhury is VP Product at Intellect, Asia's largest enterprise health platform (4M+ users). He builds trusted AI, marketplace, and high-stakes digital products across Asia. A three-time founder (one exit), published researcher, and ICF-certified coach with 15+ years of experience at Grab, Ola, and Exotel.

100-word bio

Protik Roychowdhury is VP Product at Intellect, where he leads product, design, and AI for Asia's largest enterprise health platform — 4M+ users across APAC, ANZ, China, and Latam at $20M ARR. He builds trusted AI, marketplace, and high-stakes digital products. Before Intellect, he led Growth, Engagement & Loyalty at Grab (Southeast Asia's leading superapp) and marketplace products at Ola (India's largest ride-hailing platform). A three-time founder and IIT Kharagpur alumnus, Protik has co-authored 3 academic papers on AI in mental health and is an ICF-certified career coach. Based in Singapore.

Emcee introduction

Please welcome Protik Roychowdhury — VP Product at Intellect, where he leads product and AI for Asia's largest mental health platform. With 15+ years building products at Grab, Ola, and three startups of his own, Protik speaks and writes about what it takes to build trusted products in the AI era.

Protik Roychowdhury headshot
Current role
VP Product, Intellect
Location
Singapore (SGT, UTC+8)
Topics
AI Product Strategy, Trust & High-Stakes Design, Product Leadership, Regulated & High-Compliance Tech, Marketplace & Platforms
Formats
Keynotes, panels, fireside chats, workshops, podcasts
Languages
English, Hindi, Bengali

Availability

Based in Singapore. Available globally for in-person and virtual events. Travels regularly across APAC, India, and EMEA.

Fee structure

Fees vary by format, audience size, and travel requirements. Pro-bono and reduced-fee slots are available for nonprofits, student events, and mental health initiatives. Contact for a quote.

A/V & setup

Standard keynote setup: presentation clicker, lavalier or headset mic, HDMI/USB-C connection to projector. Slide decks delivered 48 hours in advance.

FAQ

Common questions

Six signature topics spanning AI product strategy, building AI products people can trust, product leadership in the AI era, scaling product teams, high-stakes product design, and AI personalisation — delivered as keynotes, panels, fireside chats, workshops, and podcasts.

Use the contact page or email protik001@gmail.com with the event date, format, and audience. He is based in Singapore (SGT, UTC+8) and available globally, in person or virtually. A speaker one-pager with bios and photos is available on this page.

Yes — he appears on product and technology podcasts and provides media commentary on AI products, product leadership, and Southeast Asian tech. Past appearances include The Product Un-Censored Show.

English, Hindi, and Bengali.