About the session

Move Fast, Stay Compliant: Building Products in Regulated Industries

Successful product management in regulated industries isn’t about choosing between speed and compliance; it’s about designing compliance, risk, and auditability into the product from the beginning.

Building products in regulated industries requires product managers to balance customer needs, business objectives, regulatory requirements, risk, and operational realities. Unlike conventional product environments, the challenge is not simply moving fast, it is finding ways to innovate without compromising compliance, trust, security, or accountability.

Drawing from real-world experience building insurance and AI-powered products in the African market, this talk explores how product teams can navigate these competing priorities. Using insurance claims automation as a central case study, we will examine how a traditionally manual, highly controlled process can be redesigned into a digital workflow while maintaining appropriate human oversight, validation, auditability, and risk controls.

What you will take away

• Design compliance, risk, and auditability into the product from the beginning rather than bolting them on later.
• Use human oversight and validation intentionally when automating highly controlled workflows.
• Balance customer needs and business objectives with regulatory and operational realities.

About the speaker

About Oladapo

Oladapo Adediran is a technology and product leader with over five years of experience building and scaling technology products in the insurance and financial services industry. He is the CTO and co-founder of Octamile, an InsurTech company, and also leads technology at Lupensa, an AI and automation company.

Throughout his career, Oladapo has worked at the intersection of product, technology, and regulated environments, building solutions across insurance claims automation, premium financing, embedded insurance, and AI-powered enterprise workflows. His work has included transforming traditionally manual insurance processes through automation and developing AI systems designed to improve how organizations access and use knowledge.

He holds professional certifications in Neo4j and Graph Data Science and has extensive experience across AI, data, cloud technologies, automation, and software engineering.