Name: OpenAPI Summit: Getting the Right API Faster: DX and AX with Example Mapping, OpenAPI, and Arazzo
Start: 2025-09-04T10:00:00-0700
End: 2025-09-04T10:25:00-0700

Thursday September 4, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

Frank Kilcommins, SmartBear, Principal API Technical Evangelist

As AI-augmented tools begin accelerating how APIs are created, the risk of misaligned intent grows. Copilot-style automation can generate endpoints quickly—but without human-centred techniques to shape purpose and behavioural, we risk delivering faster... the wrong thing! Have we ever actually been good at API requirements?

In this talk, I’ll explore how techniques like Example Mapping—drawn from Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)—can guide API delivery with clarity and empathy, even as AI takes a larger role in the development process. I'll look at how this human input can support the accurate creation of machine-readable formats like OpenAPI and Arazzo, enabling alignment across design, testing, documentation, and consumption.

I'll also zoom out and consider a broader question: how do we build APIs that deliver great Developer Experience (DX) and meaningful Agent Experiences (AX) in a world increasingly mediated by AI consumers?

Through examples, practical framing, and some live demos, this session will offer a model for using behavioural techniques and AI capabilities together—so that the intent behind your APIs is never lost in translation.

Speakers

Frank Kilcommins

Principal API Technical Evangelist, SmartBear

Frank Kilcommins is Principal API Technical Evangelist at SmartBear. Frank has almost 20 years’ experience in the technology industry, with his roles spanning from software engineering to enterprise architecture. His mission is to inspire, engage with and support the API community... Read More →

Thursday September 4, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

API World

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks API World, OpenAPI Summit
In-Person/Virtual In Person

API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025

Frank Kilcommins

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API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025

Frank Kilcommins

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