Lawrence Byrd, Vonage, Senior Director of Product Marketing
Network-powered APIs are revolutionizing how industries connect, collaborate, and innovate in today’s digital-first world. Originating from CSP mobile networks, these APIs enable developers to build scalable and real-time solutions that enhance application functionality and provide seamless global services. Meanwhile, enterprises are leveraging network capabilities to drive the next evolution of fraud protection, while elevating brand experiences with rich messaging, branded calling and embeddable video.
As businesses shift to adaptive, intelligent networks to maintain their competitive edge, network APIs are emerging as the linchpin for driving innovation and operational excellence. During this presentation, Lawrence Byrd, Senior Director of Product Marketing, API at Vonage, will explore how industry leaders are fostering developer adoption of universal network APIs to capitalize on the full potential of mobile networks. By bridging developers, enterprises, and CSPs, these collaborative efforts are accelerating digital transformation across industries, empowering societies, and unlocking new revenue streams through network monetization.
Why build APIs manually when AI can accelerate the entire lifecycle? This talk showcases how GenAI can automate endpoint design, test case generation, mocking, and live documentation. From generating OpenAPI specs using natural language to producing Postman collections and unit tests with GPT, we’ll cover practical examples that save engineering hours. This session is a must for DevEx, platform teams, and toolchain builders looking to unlock speed and consistency with AI-assisted APIs.
Manasa Hari is a Software Development Engineer III (SDE III) with 12 years of experience in designing and scaling cloud-native systems. Currently at Adobe, she has also held key roles at Splunk, Selector AI, Taulia, and RingCentral. Known for her expertise in Kubernetes, event-driven... Read More →
Jatin Taneja, Salesforce, Senior Member of Technical Staff
Scaling modern systems goes beyond simply adding servers — it requires rethinking how services communicate. In this session, we’ll explore how Async APIs enable high-throughput, decoupled, and resilient systems through a practical framework: the 6+1 pillars of scalability.
In this condensed talk, we’ll dive into key pillars like loose coupling, message buffering, and partitioned parallelism, showing how they help systems handle traffic spikes, isolate failures, and grow independently. We'll also touch on how the AsyncAPI specification can bring structure and clarity to event-driven architectures.
This talk is ideal for developers, architects, and PMs looking for actionable insights into event-based design. You’ll walk away with a mental model for scaling systems the async way — and where to start.
Key Takeaways: 1. Understand the core pillars that make Async APIs scalable and resilient 2. Learn how to decouple systems using event-driven design 3. See real-world examples of patterns like queue buffering, partitioning, and retries
As a software engineer with over 10 years of experience, I specialize in building scalable, resilient APIs for data intensive applications. I have been working with Salesforce for over 5 years as part of the Enterprise API team. My experience spans various areas of enterprise API... Read More →
The third-wave of API management is here. There are several trends that engineers and technical leaders need to know so they can choose the right tools and platforms for building their APIs. Trends include 1. Modernization around API gateways - The move towards GitOps over server configuration, and Edge over regional deployments 2. Centralization around OpenAPI and new tooling that's emerged 3. A strong focus on API DevX - what API-as-a-product really looks like in practice and the companies pushing the envelope. SDK generation, docs platforms, and more take center stage.
The talk will cover technology and tools engineering leaders should look to adopt and the benefits/drawbacks
I am a Staff Software engineer working at Zuplo. I specialize in our open source technology and adopting emerging technologies (ex. AI) at the company. This includes our work on RateMyOpenAPI, Zudoku, Mockbin, and various other tools. I've written several blogs for Zuplo, and spoken... Read More →
AI agents are transforming how we interact with APIs, but most APIs aren’t built with AI in mind. Without a clear, machine-readable contract, AI agents struggle to discover, understand, and interact with APIs effectively. OpenAPI Specification (OAS) changes the game by enabling automation, adaptability, and seamless integration. This talk breaks down why OpenAPI is critical for the AI era and shows an AI agent in action, consuming an OpenAPI-defined API in real time. After attending this session, attendees will get a clear understanding of why OpenAPI is essential in the AI-driven API world and see an AI agent in action.
Key Takeaways: 1) Why OpenAPI Matters for AI Agents – Understand how OpenAPI enables AI agents to dynamically discover and consume APIs.
2) Demo: AI + OpenAPI in Action – Watch an AI agent interact with an OpenAPI-defined API in real time.
Shireen is a Senior Software Engineer on the Enterprise API team, which currently serves half of all API traffic for the Salesforce.com ecosystem, processing billions of transactions and over a trillion records monthly, across 30+ versions of API endpoints and formats. She builds... Read More →
In this talk, we examine why your company may not need SDKs and the signs they could support efforts to drive API adoption through a better developer experience.
For those just getting started or revamping your SDK strategy, we review four ways to build SDKs and best practices to design, implement, and support them. Lastly, we share insights from leading API providers and their approach to SDKs.
As the VP of Developer Relation at APIMatic, Sid Maestre works with companies to automate how they build developer experiences and drive adoption of their APIs through SDKs, interactive documentation, guides and code samples. Sid is building a community of practice for SDKs builders... Read More →
Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become a key topic among API providers and consumers. MCP lets AI agents and Large Language Models (LLMs) access APIs, introducing a new category of consumers for API providers. It presents significant opportunities for those who adopt it. In this session, we’ll explore what API Providers need to know about MCP and how to incorporate it into their roadmaps: • Recognize MCP’s Importance for API Providers Identify how Model Context Protocol enhances API integration with Agents & LLMs.
• Analyze the Current State of MCP Examine the latest developments and applications of MCP in the industry.
• Generate an MCP Server from OpenAPI Specs Learn to create an MCP server using your existing OpenAPI specifications.
• Incorporate MCP into Your API Roadmap Define steps to integrate MCP into your API development plans.
I’m Emmanuel Paraskakis, an entrepreneur, product management executive, and consultant at Level 250 (an OpenAPI member company), with over 15 years of experience shaping API products. I currently teach on Maven and conduct in-person workshops for my customers.I’ve led large API... Read More →
Leon Adato, Catchpoint, Developer Relations Advocate
Remember the network? Long before "infrastructure as code", container orchestration, cluster management, or death by 1,000 clicks in some labyrinthine cloud configuration console, the network was an essential layer (or 3) of IT operations.
This may cause some to call for their fainting couch, but I never the less must inform you that the network never went away, became irrelevant, or was simplified to the point where it didn't matter.
The network - good old route and switch, packets and bits (and more importantly flow) networking - is alive and kicking and more important than ever to those of us who care about the performance and availability of our applications.
More to the point, not only is the network the metaphorical plumbing through which all your precious non-metaphorical observability and monitoring data flows; it holds secrets you'll never find in the traces, events, metrics, and logs of typical application observability solutions.
In this talk I'll reveal the observability secrets hiding in plain sight within your network; suggest ways to access that information; and highlight the insights and value you're missing if that data remains invisible, unused, or ignored.
Leon Adato is a Developer Relations Advocate and has held multiple industry certifications over his 33 years in IT including Cisco, Microsoft, A+, and more. His experience spans financial, healthcare, food and beverage, and other industries.Leon has been speaking, blogging, and creating... Read More →
APIs and AI are no longer separate domains—they’re co‑evolving in a symbiotic relationship that accelerates innovation on both sides. This session uncovers how AI enhances API design, documentation, and developer workflows, while APIs extend AI’s reach into real‑world data, actions, and operational systems.
AI‑Powered APIs: Developers face rising complexity in discovering, understanding, and implementing APIs. AI can transform this experience by powering intent‑based search and summarization in API documentation, suggesting improvements to OpenAPI schemas (from descriptions and examples to issue detection and guideline‑compliant fixes), and generating production‑ready integration code via natural language prompts in environments like VSCode Copilot.
API‑Enabled AI: AI systems often struggle to access live, domain‑specific data or act autonomously beyond static model outputs. By exposing data and services through APIs—standardized and secured via protocols like MCP—AI can tap into real‑time sources, enrich its context, and execute complex, multi‑step workflows. MCP‑powered platforms (e.g., Cursor, VSCode Copilot) are already demonstrating how AI agents can both recommend and perform tasks seamlessly.
Neelesh is a Principal Engineer at the Cisco Developers platform. With a strong focus on driving innovation and excellence, he leads the development of the platform and the tool "API Insights," which plays a pivotal role in enabling a comprehensive organization-wide API Quality program... Read More →
Amey Desai, Nexla, Head of Artificial Intelligence
At Nexla, we recently implemented native support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) as part of our agentic AI framework. This included exposing Data Products as an MCP Server, orchestration across MCP servers and LLMs, and mixing MCP with non-MCP (re)sources and tools. While Nexla is used to build agentic systems, it’s been used a lot longer as an iPaaS to create, integrate, and proxy APIs – and for data integration.
Join us as we walk through our lessons learned and biggest challenges in using AI-First MCP, and mixing it with a non-MCP, API-First world. Topics include: Current strengths and weaknesses of MCP vs other standards Nexla’s MCP server architecture, and how it supports different APIs and other sources AI-driven orchestration of MCP and non-MCP sources How to manage security with MCP, one of the biggest challenges with MCP today
We'll share practical examples of this architecture in action, covering implementation patterns, agent coordination strategies, and a leave behind or follow along developer kit for the developers in the audience.
Amey Desai is an experienced engineering leader and AI expert specializing in data platforms, generative AI, and enterprise-grade integration solutions. He is currently the Head of AI at Nexla, where he spearheads the development of AI-driven innovations in data management, deep-research... Read More →
Jeremy Glassenberg, Salesforce, Product Leader, APIs
API governance has been a topic for many years, especially the last 5, as more companies expand and see the need for it. We've also trended away from "enforcement by force", with successful API governance stories consistently achieved by "enforcement with love" - making API development easier for your teams, to get them to want to support API governance. Now, standardization is easier than ever, with shared tactics and tools getting more formalized. Here, we'll go through the latest methods that worked for many enterprises, and a winning product stack that makes API development smoother for everyone.
Jeremy is an experienced Product leader of over 17 years with a specialty in managing developer platforms and APIs at successful startups like Box and Tradeshift, building successful Platform and Product organizations from the ground up. He managed and expanded developer platforms... Read More →
Jayson is a manager for the Resources Working Group of the Developer Relations Foundation and is Head of Developer Relations for Semgrep, an open-source static code analysis tool.Prior to Semgrep, he worked in a wide variety of industries and leadership roles including with Dolby... Read More →
Budhaditya Bhattacharya, Tyk, Director of Product Ecosystems
AI is changing the game, but without a solid foundation, it can quickly become a house of cards. Effective AI governance isn’t just about ticking boxes; it’s about building a structured AI supply chain that ensures everything stays reliable, accountable, and efficient. In this session, we’ll break down the four key components – vendors, interfaces, data, and tooling – and explain how they are pivotal in making your AI systems work smoothly.
What to expect 1. Learn how to structure an AI supply chain for flexibility, security, and scale 2. Get to grips with LLM APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP), key players in AI interoperability 3. Weigh the benefits of structured toolchains vs. AI operators – because one approach won’t work for everyone 4. Understand how APIs serve as the transport layer for knowledge and decision-making in AI systems
Budha is the director of product ecosystems at Tyk, where he leads product education, ecosystem expansion, and adoption of open standards. He is the co-creator of the API platform maturity model, course instructor, conference speaker, and host of Tyk's annual LEAP conferences.As the... Read More →
