What This AI Wave Runs On
In an era of agents and software that writes software, a new tech stack is taking shape underneath it all.
Agents need identity, permissions, and access to the systems they operate in. And as they increasingly write code themselves, they need agent-native infrastructure for creating, storing, versioning, and collaborating on that code.
Join WorkOS and Pierre (code.storage) for What This Wave Runs On - an evening about the infrastructure powering agents and AI-first applications.
The fireside features Michael Grinich (Founder @ WorkOS) and Jacob Thornton (Founder @ Pierre). The conversation will be moderated by Muzzammil “MZ” Zaveri (Audacious).
We’ll talk about what changes when agents become first-class users of software, what parts of today’s stack survive, and what entirely new infrastructure needs to be built.
Speaker Bios:
Michael Grinich is the founder and CEO of WorkOS, a developer platform that enables companies to become Enterprise Ready through features like Single Sign-On (SAML). Their customers include many of the fastest-growing AI companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Perplexity, and Vercel. Before WorkOS, Michael co-founded Nylas and studied CS at MIT.
Jacob Thornton is the founder and CEO of Pierre, a new opinionated git platform rebuilding code hosting, review, and CI. He was previously an early employee at startups like Twitter, Medium, and Coinbase. During this time he contributed to several large open source projects (most notably as the co-creator of Twitter Bootstrap). He co-founded Bumpers (a mobile podcasting / spoken-audio app), which was acquired by Coinbase.
Plenty of mingling, drinks, and apps to follow.
5:30pm: Doors open
6:00pm: Fireside chat starts
6:45pm: Happy Hour