Are you struggling to collaborate across multiple versions of documents as your product teams grow?
Do engineers spend time searching for the right requirement across Word files, spreadsheets, and Jira tickets?
Is managing change becoming harder as complexity increases?
In this session, we'll explore how organizations are improving speed and cross-team alignment by evolving from document-centric and Jira-only approaches to a more connected requirements management capability—with AI-assisted features that help teams maintain consistency without adding manual overhead.
Through a live product demo and real-world customer story, you'll learn how to:

Senior Presales Solutions Consultant
Maxim Damm is a Senior Presales Solutions Consultant at Siemens Digital Industries Software, where he has spent nearly a decade helping regulated enterprises make confident decisions on Polarion ALM. He leads evaluations, integrations, and enablement for complex stakeholder groups moving from document-centric and Jira-only approaches to a connected requirements practice. He works closely with Polarion's AI-driven capabilities, advising customers on practical use cases and guardrails, and speaks regularly at industry conferences and webinars on ALM best practices and enterprise agile methodologies.
Max holds a CPRE Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering with an MBA, and brings both technical depth and broad cross-industry pattern recognition to the question of what scaled, AI-assisted requirements management actually looks like in production.

Senior Presales Solutions Consultant – Polarion
Chris Stazinski is a Senior Presales Solutions Consultant at Siemens Digital Industries Software, specializing in Polarion and AI-driven requirements management solutions for organizations across multiple industries. Chris works directly with engineering and product teams to uncover the real cost of fragmented toolchains and demonstrate how a connected, AI-assisted requirements practice can eliminate that overhead at scale.
With a focus on translating technical capability into measurable business outcomes, Chris partners with sales teams to help organizations of all sizes build the business case for modernizing their requirements management approach. He is passionate about helping teams move faster, reduce rework, and maintain traceability as complexity grows, without adding manual burden to already-stretched engineering organizations.