Fireside Chat with Michele Catasta, President and Head of AI at Replit

​Join us for an intimate fireside chat with Michele Catasta (X), President and Head of AI at Replit, as he takes us inside the most transformative shift in software development since the internet. In a single year, Replit grew from $10M to over $100M in ARR by betting everything on a radical vision: that the future of coding belongs not to professional developers, but to anyone with an idea.

Michele will share firsthand insights on the most critical parts of the AI coding revolution—from the technical breakthroughs enabling autonomous AI agents to work for 200+ minutes without human intervention, to the strategic decisions that are reshaping who gets to build software and how.


About Michele Catasta
Michele Catasta is one of the foremost architects of the AI coding movement. As President and Head of AI at Replit, he led the development and launch of Replit Agent—which has driven over two orders of magnitude in company revenue growth and established Replit as a leader in the emerging "vibe coding" paradigm.

Before Replit, Michele served as Head of Applied Research at Google X and Google Labs, where he contributed to the coding capabilities of PaLM and PaLM 2. His academic roots run deep at Stanford, where he worked as a Research Scientist and Instructor, pioneering the application of Transformer architectures to source code. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from EPFL and has held research positions at MIT Media Lab, Google, and Yahoo Labs.

Beyond his operating roles, Michele is an active angel investor with 100+ AI investments and advises leading venture firms including Coatue and Bessemer.


What We'll Cover
- The Shift from Execution to Ideas: Why AI is inverting the old Silicon Valley maxim that "ideas are cheap, execution is everything"
- Agentic AI in Practice: How Replit Agent evolved from 2-minute sessions to 200+ minutes of autonomous work—and what that means for software development
- Democratizing Software Creation: Replit's mission to empower "the next billion software creators" and the technical infrastructure making it possible
- The Competitive Landscape: Navigating an AI coding market with Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and new entrants all vying for dominance
- What's Next: Where autonomous coding agents are headed in 2026 and beyond

Who Should Attend
This session is designed for Stanford founders, product managers, engineers, and anyone curious about how AI is fundamentally changing what it means to build software. Whether you're a seasoned developer or someone who's never written a line of code, this conversation will reshape how you think about the future of technology creation.