The Agentic SaaS Executive Summit - Live Event
A live summit at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, hosted by Bill Tarr, with two panels. The first asks whether agentic AI is revolution, evolution or hype, with Shriram Sridharan of Rox, Guy Korland of FalkorDB, Mihir Pandya of Scale AI and Alok Nikhil of Omnistrate. It covers seat, usage and outcome-based pricing, the return of bring-your-own-cloud deployments, and enterprise demands for data lineage. The second covers commercializing open source with Peter Farkas and Peter Zaitsev of Percona, Gopi Duddi and Talina Shrotiya of Couchbase, and Kamal Gupta, including open core, license changes that cost communities trust, and foundation-owned projects such as Linux and Kubernetes. Founders deciding how to price agentic software or monetize open source can compare specific positions.
Special Guests
Shriram Sridharan
CTO at Rox, building enterprise AI agent swarms.
Guy Korland
CEO at FalkorDB, leading graph database innovation.
Mihir Pandya
Director of Engineering at Scale AI.
Alok Nikhil
Co-founder and CTO of Omnistrate; previously at AWS, where he was the original technical author of Aurora Serverless.
Peter Farkas
CEO at Percona, enterprise open source database solutions.
Peter Zaitsev
Founder at Percona, pioneer in open source database technology.
Talina Shrotiya
Engineering Manager at Couchbase, working on the company's managed database platform.
Timestamps
00:00Welcome and panel one introductions10:00Evolution or revolution: how agentic AI changes building17:30How agents change the SaaS control plane21:30Seat, usage or outcome pricing for agentic SaaS26:00Why customers ask for bring-your-own-cloud deployments30:30re:Invent announcements: Trainium and Nova agent builder35:00What AWS should build next: edge AI and DevOps agents38:00Enterprise governance, compliance and data lineage42:30Multi-tenancy and agent memory from day one46:30Change management and forward deployed engineering50:00Lightning round: what is next for agentic AI1:04:00Second panel: commercializing open source1:05:30Panel two introductions: Couchbase, Percona, Omnistrate1:11:30Open source first or product first? Founder stories1:15:00Does open core earn developer trust? Couchbase 80/201:23:00Is open source a business model? Advice for founders1:27:30Foundation-owned projects versus open core1:29:30How do you avoid a community rug pull?1:33:00Open source on AWS: managed services and Marketplace1:38:00Open source meets agentic AI, and why BYOC is backAbout This Episode
- What is "The Agentic SaaS Executive Summit - Live Event" about?
- A live summit at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, hosted by Bill Tarr, with two panels. The first asks whether agentic AI is revolution, evolution or hype, with Shriram Sridharan of Rox, Guy Korland of FalkorDB, Mihir Pandya of Scale AI and Alok Nikhil of Omnistrate. It covers seat, usage and outcome-based pricing, the return of bring-your-own-cloud deployments, and enterprise demands for data lineage. The second covers commercializing open source with Peter Farkas and Peter Zaitsev of Percona, Gopi Duddi and Talina Shrotiya of Couchbase, and Kamal Gupta, including open core, license changes that cost communities trust, and foundation-owned projects such as Linux and Kubernetes. Founders deciding how to price agentic software or monetize open source can compare specific positions.
- What topics does this episode cover?
- This episode is filed under AI & Agents, Open Source, SaaS Strategy on Agentic SaaS Talks.
- How long is this episode, and when was it published?
- "The Agentic SaaS Executive Summit - Live Event" runs 105 min and was published on December 2, 2025.
- Who is featured in this episode?
- This episode features Shriram Sridharan, Guy Korland, Mihir Pandya, Alok Nikhil, Peter Farkas, Peter Zaitsev, Talina Shrotiya as guests, in conversation with the Agentic SaaS Talks hosts.
- What are the key moments in this episode?
- Key moments include: Evolution or revolution: how agentic AI changes building; How agents change the SaaS control plane; Seat, usage or outcome pricing for agentic SaaS; Why customers ask for bring-your-own-cloud deployments; re:Invent announcements: Trainium and Nova agent builder; What AWS should build next: edge AI and DevOps agents; Enterprise governance, compliance and data lineage; Multi-tenancy and agent memory from day one. The timestamps on this page jump to each one on YouTube.
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