API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025

API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025

1:00pm PDT

PRO WORKSHOP (API): Revolutionizing API Testing and Mocking with TestContainers Modules

Wednesday September 3, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Hugo Guerrero, Kong, Developer Advocate

As they say, "testing is the art of doubt!" However, in the age of microservices and APIs, being well-prepared to banish uncertainty is critical. Even before entering into the testing world, configuring the full testing environment might be intimidating.

Testcontainers have established themselves as a go-to solution for database, middleware, and cloud services integration testing, but what about your regular business services and APIs? Enter Microcks, an open-source cloud-native tool (CNCF Sandbox project), ready to work with Testcontainers, and providing a solution for mocking and testing APIs without extensive coding.

This collaboration simplifies the process of configuring complex settings, allowing for the adoption of a strong Shift-Left approach to integration testing. The beauty of it is that this methodology is universally applicable, catering to a wide range of APIs, whether REST, gRPC, GraphQL, or Async, regardless of your technological stack, be it Java, Go, Node, or others.

Speakers

Hugo Guerrero

Developer Advocate, Kong

Hugo Guerrero works as a developer advocate. He has spent more than two decades working in software development. During that time, he has held various roles, including developer, consultant, architect, and software development factory manager. He is a passionate advocate for building... Read More →

Wednesday September 3, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks API World, API Design and Development (API World), Testing / Deploying & Monitoring APIs and Services (API World)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PDT

OpenAPI Summit: The AI-Powered API Stack: Automating API Development, Testing, and Documentation with GenAI

Thursday September 4, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

Manasa Hari, Adobe, SDE III

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.

Speakers

Manasa Hari

SDE III, Adobe

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 →

Thursday September 4, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

11:00am PDT

PRO Session (API): Scaling Systems with Async APIs: The 6+1 Pillars of Resilient Growth

Thursday September 4, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

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

Speakers

Jatin Taneja

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce

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 →

Thursday September 4, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

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

11:30am PDT

OpenAPI Summit: The Third-Wave of API Management

Thursday September 4, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

Adrian Machado, Zuplo, Staff Engineer

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

Speakers

Adrian Machado

Staff Engineer, Zuplo

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 →

Thursday September 4, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

1:30pm PDT

OpenAPI Summit: Build AI-Ready APIs with MCP

Thursday September 4, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

Emmanuel Paraskakis, Level 250, Founder

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.

Speakers

Emmanuel Paraskakis

Founder, Level 250

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 →

Thursday September 4, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

1:30pm PDT

PRO Session (API): "Network Observability" Overlooked, Underappreciated, more important than ever

Thursday September 4, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

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.

Speakers

Leon Adato

Developer Relations Advocate, Catchpoint

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 →

Thursday September 4, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

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

2:30pm PDT

OpenAPI Summit: AI‑Powered APIs and API‑Enabled AI: A Symbiotic Evolution Driving Mutual Innovation

Thursday September 4, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

Neelesh Pateriya, Cisco, Principal Engineer

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.

Speakers

Neelesh Pateriya

Principal Engineer, Cisco

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 →

Thursday September 4, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

3:00pm PDT

OpenAPI Summit: API Governance: The Latest Trends Is Making Teams Love Standardization

Thursday September 4, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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.

Speakers

Jeremy Glassenberg

Product Leader, APIs, Salesforce

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 →

Thursday September 4, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

3:00pm PDT

PRO Session (API): Security APIs That Secure APIs

Thursday September 4, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Jayson DeLancey, Semgrep, Head of Developer Relations

Semgrep is a fast, open-source, static code analysis engine with support for 30+ programming languages.

We'll look at some of the patterns for how developers might introduce vulnerabilities when building APIs.

Speakers

Jayson DeLancey

Head of Developer Relations, Semgrep

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 →

Thursday September 4, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

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

3:30pm PDT

OpenAPI Summit: AI, APIs, and the Path to AI-Readiness: Structuring the AI Supply Chain for Enterprise Adoption

Thursday September 4, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

Speakers

Budhaditya Bhattacharya

Director of Product Ecosystems, Tyk

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 →

Thursday September 4, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

10:00am PDT

PRO Session (API): Stop Sending Static API Docs: Use an Approach That Works

Friday September 5, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Thomas Johnson, Multiplayer, Co-Founder and CTO

Developers don’t want to read your API documentation. Yet too often, teams still rely on static docs, outdated Postman collections. In modern, fast-moving environments, that just doesn’t cut it.

This talk explores the shift from documentation-as-text to documentation-as-experience. We’ll cover the pitfalls of traditional API docs, and walk through practical, developer-friendly alternatives—like live sandboxes, executable notebooks, embedded tests, and self-validating examples that evolve alongside your code. You’ll learn how to make your API docs dynamic, interactive, and accurate by design—not after the fact.

Whether you’re building a public developer platform or internal APIs, this session will give you real strategies to reduce integration friction, cut support load, and create documentation that developers actually want to use.

Speakers

Thomas Johnson

Co-Founder and CTO, Multiplayer

Co-founder and CTO at Multiplayer, with 20+ years of experience as a backend developer building large-scale distributed software (and robots!)

Friday September 5, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks API World, API Design and Development (API World), Partnership and Integration Strategy (API World)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PDT

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

Friday September 5, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT

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 5, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

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

10:00am PDT

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): Revolutionizing API Testing and Mocking with TestContainers Modules

Wednesday September 10, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Hugo Guerrero, Kong, Developer Advocate

As they say, "testing is the art of doubt!" However, in the age of microservices and APIs, being well-prepared to banish uncertainty is critical. Even before entering into the testing world, configuring the full testing environment might be intimidating.

Testcontainers have established themselves as a go-to solution for database, middleware, and cloud services integration testing, but what about your regular business services and APIs? Enter Microcks, an open-source cloud-native tool (CNCF Sandbox project), ready to work with Testcontainers, and providing a solution for mocking and testing APIs without extensive coding.

This collaboration simplifies the process of configuring complex settings, allowing for the adoption of a strong Shift-Left approach to integration testing. The beauty of it is that this methodology is universally applicable, catering to a wide range of APIs, whether REST, gRPC, GraphQL, or Async, regardless of your technological stack, be it Java, Go, Node, or others.

Speakers

Hugo Guerrero

Developer Advocate, Kong

Hugo Guerrero works as a developer advocate. He has spent more than two decades working in software development. During that time, he has held various roles, including developer, consultant, architect, and software development factory manager. He is a passionate advocate for building... Read More →

Wednesday September 10, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks API World, API Design and Development (API World), Testing / Deploying & Monitoring APIs and Services (API World), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

10:00am PDT

[Virtual] PRO Session (API): Stop Sending Static API Docs: Use an Approach That Works

Thursday September 11, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Thomas Johnson, Multiplayer, Co-Founder and CTO

Developers don’t want to read your API documentation. Yet too often, teams still rely on static docs, outdated Postman collections. In modern, fast-moving environments, that just doesn’t cut it.

This talk explores the shift from documentation-as-text to documentation-as-experience. We’ll cover the pitfalls of traditional API docs, and walk through practical, developer-friendly alternatives—like live sandboxes, executable notebooks, embedded tests, and self-validating examples that evolve alongside your code. You’ll learn how to make your API docs dynamic, interactive, and accurate by design—not after the fact.

Whether you’re building a public developer platform or internal APIs, this session will give you real strategies to reduce integration friction, cut support load, and create documentation that developers actually want to use.

Speakers

Thomas Johnson

Co-Founder and CTO, Multiplayer

Co-founder and CTO at Multiplayer, with 20+ years of experience as a backend developer building large-scale distributed software (and robots!)

Thursday September 11, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks API World, API Design and Development (API World), Partnership and Integration Strategy (API World), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

11:00am PDT

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: The AI-Powered API Stack: Automating API Development, Testing, and Documentation with GenAI

Thursday September 11, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

Manasa Hari, Adobe, SDE III

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.

Speakers

Manasa Hari

SDE III, Adobe

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 →

Thursday September 11, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

11:00am PDT

[Virtual] PRO Session (API): Scaling Systems with Async APIs: The 6+1 Pillars of Resilient Growth

Thursday September 11, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

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

Speakers

Jatin Taneja

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce

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 →

Thursday September 11, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

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

11:30am PDT

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: The Third-Wave of API Management

Thursday September 11, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

Adrian Machado, Zuplo, Staff Engineer

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

Speakers

Adrian Machado

Staff Engineer, Zuplo

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 →

Thursday September 11, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

1:30pm PDT

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: Build AI-Ready APIs with MCP

Thursday September 11, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

Emmanuel Paraskakis, Level 250, Founder

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.

Speakers

Emmanuel Paraskakis

Founder, Level 250

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 →

Thursday September 11, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

1:30pm PDT

[Virtual] PRO Session (API): "Network Observability" Overlooked, Underappreciated, more important than ever

Thursday September 11, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

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.

Speakers

Leon Adato

Developer Relations Advocate, Catchpoint

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 →

Thursday September 11, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

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

2:30pm PDT

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: AI‑Powered APIs and API‑Enabled AI: A Symbiotic Evolution Driving Mutual Innovation

Thursday September 11, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

Neelesh Pateriya, Cisco, Principal Engineer

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.

Speakers

Neelesh Pateriya

Principal Engineer, Cisco

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 →

Thursday September 11, 2025 2:30pm - 2:55pm PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

3:00pm PDT

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: API Governance: The Latest Trends Is Making Teams Love Standardization

Thursday September 11, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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.

Speakers

Jeremy Glassenberg

Product Leader, APIs, Salesforce

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 →

Thursday September 11, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

3:00pm PDT

[Virtual] PRO Session (API): Security APIs That Secure APIs

Thursday September 11, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Jayson DeLancey, Semgrep, Head of Developer Relations

Semgrep is a fast, open-source, static code analysis engine with support for 30+ programming languages.

We'll look at some of the patterns for how developers might introduce vulnerabilities when building APIs.

Speakers

Jayson DeLancey

Head of Developer Relations, Semgrep

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 →

Thursday September 11, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

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

3:30pm PDT

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: AI, APIs, and the Path to AI-Readiness: Structuring the AI Supply Chain for Enterprise Adoption

Thursday September 11, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

Speakers

Budhaditya Bhattacharya

Director of Product Ecosystems, Tyk

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 →

Thursday September 11, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks API World, APIs and AI (API World), API Design and Development (API World), OpenAPI Summit, 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)

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