API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025: Full Schedule

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9:30am PDT

[Virtual] PRO Session (API): From API Chaos to AI Co-Pilot: Architecting Pax8's Multi-Pronged Integration Strategy

Friday September 12, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Mufaddal Khambaty, Pax8, Senior PM, Integrations & AI

Many platforms start their API journey by issuing simple API keys, but quickly run into security and visibility challenges, especially when third-party developers enter the mix. This session details Pax8's evolution from insecure, direct API key usage to building a sophisticated, secure, and scalable 'Integrations Hub.' We'll share our real-world experience tackling the initial problem: how to allow third-party vendors to access customer data via APIs without compromising security or losing track of who was making calls.

Speakers

Mufaddal Khambaty

Senior PM, Integrations & AI, Pax8

Entrepreneurial and product background. Ex-product leader at Zillow, Custom Ink, Accurate Background. Started as a strategy consultant.

Friday September 12, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

API World

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks API World, Partnership and Integration Strategy (API World), API Program and Developer Relations (API World), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

1:00pm PDT

[Virtual] PRO Session (API): FLEX APIs: Experience-Driven Design for an AI-Powered Future

Friday September 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Chris Hood, PolyAPI, CMO

APIs weren’t built for humans. But experiences are. In this keynote, Chris Hood challenges traditional API design models and introduces experience-based API design. This approach begins with user intent and adapts to how people and machines interact with systems today. Learn why naming conventions matter, how AI is changing who consumes APIs, and how the FLEX design model enables dynamic, on-demand APIs that respond to consumer intent and context. These adaptable interfaces do more than support the customer journey, they evolve with it.

Speakers

Chris Hood

CMO, PolyAPI

Chris Hood is a strategist, author, and keynote speaker who has become a pivotal thought leader in customer success, APIs, and digital strategy. With over 35 years of experience, he has helped organizations align technology with business goals. Chris built his first API platform in... Read More →

Friday September 12, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

API World

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks API World, APIs and AI (API World), API Design and Development (API World), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

1:30pm PDT

[Virtual] PRO Session (API): Scalable Region Failover for Microservices: Platform-Level Resilience at Intuit

Friday September 12, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Chaitanya Bhatt, Intuit, Principal Engineer
Akshay Pratinav, Intuit, Staff Software Engineer

In today’s distributed architecture, where APIs are the backbone of product experiences, regional outages can break critical customer flows and severely impact business continuity. At Intuit, we’ve built a Kubernetes-native platform that delivers seamless, scalable region failover for hundreds of microservices—enabling consistent API resiliency across the board.

This talk explores how our platform empowers services to declaratively onboard and define key components for failover—compute, databases, and routing. During a failover, the platform automatically pre-scales infrastructure in the secondary region based on live traffic data, promotes standby databases (Amazon Aurora, Redis, and others), and orchestrates traffic redirection via AWS Route 53 or Istio DNS controls. This eliminates manual guesswork, reduces recovery time, and helps ensure that API endpoints remain responsive and stable—even in disaster scenarios.

We’ll also compare the risks of non-standard, ad hoc failover strategies—which often result in brittle systems, untested assumptions, and high operational overhead—with the advantages of a standardized, platform-level approach. Our framework simplifies validation, reduces testing complexity, and enables teams to run game days and chaos experiments with greater confidence and less stress.

Attendees will walk away with practical techniques and patterns for building resilient APIs in a microservices-first world, and learn how investing in a failover platform creates a stronger foundation for disaster preparedness, operational excellence, and a better end-user experience.

Speakers

Chaitanya Bhatt

Principal Engineer, Intuit

Chaitanya Bhatt, an engineering leader with 18 years of experience, specializes in Kubernetes and large-scale applications. As a Principal Engineer at Intuit, he focuses on infrastructure reliability and performance. Chaitanya has made significant contributions, including designing... Read More →

Akshay Pratinav

Staff Software Engineer, Intuit

Staff Software Engineer with extensive experience building distributed systems at scale. Passionate about system design, developer productivity, and leading high-impact engineering initiatives. Outside of work, I enjoy travelling and watching movies

Friday September 12, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

API World

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks Testing / Deploying & Monitoring APIs and Services (API World), API World, Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual