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Jon
Garside
Formerly Principal Product Marketing AI, Security & Logs Intelligence
New Relic
Jon Garside is Principal Product Marketing for AI, Security and Logs Intelligence at New Relic, driving go to market for logs, security and agentic MCP AI. A former intelligence hacker turned product marketing leader, he has spent the last decade on the technical end of cybersecurity, observability and developer platforms, including as Director of Product Marketing at Securonix. He also runs Securing Outcomes, a fractional practice built on the premise that most marketing fails for avoidable reasons.
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04 November 2026 09:00 - 09:30
Dr. Strangeloop: Learn to stop demoting developers and love the human on the loop
The developer evaluating your AI tool is watching the entry-level rung disappear beneath them, spending more of each week checking machine output, and being told by their employer that using AI is no longer optional. Then your messaging calls them the human in the loop: the approver, the reviewer, the checkpoint. Every word of it can be accurate. It still tells the one person you need to convince that their job just got smaller. This session is about that person, the actual human in front of you, and how to rewrite your messaging so they hear, feel and can see achievable, deliverable improvements for themselves and their career. Key learning: - Why accurate AI messaging can still tell the developer in front of you that their job just got smaller, and how to find the exact words doing it - How to run a Demotion Audit on your launch copy, docs and landing pages - How to rewrite "human in the loop" into a promotion the developer can see and deliver on, and why it has to be true: they'll test it in a terminal before they believe a word