API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025

API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025

12:00pm PDT

PRO WORKSHOP (API): No-Code, No-Training, Just Connect: How Adaptive Agents Redefine AI Automation with APIs

Wednesday September 3, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Saldin Samuel, Haiva, Co-Founder

Building AI agents has traditionally required model training, infrastructure setup, and complex orchestration. What if AI agents could just connect to your APIs and start working? This session introduces Adaptive Agents, a new class of no-code, real-time agents that plug into your existing API infrastructure—instantly automating workflows without moving data. Whether you're building SaaS tools, B2B platforms, or AI-first products, this talk will show how to use Adaptive Agents to build scalable, multilingual, and intelligent experiences in minutes.

Speakers

Saldin Samuel

Co-Founder, haiva.ai

Saldin Samuel is the Founder and CEO of Haiva.ai, and the visionary behind Adaptive Agents—a transformative AI architecture that enables automation by connecting directly to APIs and databases without data movement, model tuning, or code. A recognized thought leader in the AI and... Read More →

Wednesday September 3, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Additional Topics AI/ML
Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks APIs and AI (API World), API World, API Program and Developer Relations (API World)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

12:00pm PDT

OpenAPI Initiative: API Management in Practice: Delivering at Scale with OpenAPI and Arazzo

Wednesday September 3, 2025 12:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

Frank Kilcommins, SmartBear, Principal API Technical Evangelist
Erik Wilde, INNOQ, Principal Consultant

Join this workshop to explore modern, governance-driven strategies for effective API delivery, using OpenAPI and Arazzo as canonical sources of truth. We’ll navigate the full API lifecycle—from clarifying business requirements through example mapping, enforcing standards via API linting, to adopting extensible design and testing practices that support safe, iterative evolution. Through a practical, hands-on walkthrough, attendees will learn how OpenAPI and Arazzo can drive consistent documentation, mocking, validation, and automation—streamlining development, strengthening governance, and elevating both provider and consumer experiences.

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 →

Erik Wilde

Principal Consultant, INNOQ

Erik Wilde is an experienced and internationally known professional in the space of digital transformation and API strategy and management. Erik has degrees in computer science from TU Berlin and ETH Zurich. He is the author of many articles and papers, various books, multiple standards... Read More →

Wednesday September 3, 2025 12:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks API World, OpenAPI Summit
In-Person/Virtual In Person

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

2:00pm PDT

PRO WORKSHOP (API): API Security for the AI Era: Detecting and Preventing Adversarial Manipulation

Wednesday September 3, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

David vonThenen, NetApp, AI/ML Engineer

In a digital landscape dominated by APIs and AI, security threats from adversarial manipulation have become critical risks. This session explores the intersection of APIs, AI security, and adversarial attacks. We'll dissect how adversaries manipulate APIs feeding data to machine learning models—by injecting noise, crafting misleading inputs, and exploiting data obfuscation techniques—to compromise model integrity and security. Attendees will gain insights into real-world adversarial scenarios, learn practical defensive techniques, and understand the implications for privacy, model fairness, and data reliability.

The session will provide practical examples and live demonstrations showcasing how adversarial strategies can exploit API vulnerabilities to undermine AI models. We'll examine defensive frameworks and best practices for securing APIs against adversarial attacks, ensuring data integrity, maintaining privacy compliance, and reinforcing ethical AI usage. By the end, attendees will be equipped with strategies for hardening their AI-driven APIs, proactively identifying vulnerabilities, and deploying robust security measures to mitigate adversarial threats.

Speakers

David vonThenen

Senior AI/ML Engineer, NetApp

David is a Senior AI/ML Engineer at NetApp, where he’s dedicated to empowering developers to build, scale, and deploy AI/ML models in production. He brings deep expertise in building and training models for applications like NLP, data visualization, and real-time analytics. His... Read More →

Wednesday September 3, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks API World, APIs and AI (API World), API Security (API World)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

3:00pm PDT

PRO WORKSHOP (API): Fight or Flight: Your API Strategy for Agentic AI and MCP in 2025

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

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Brenton House, IBM, Principal Cybersecurity

In the fast-moving world of AI and APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) is set to redefine how we integrate with AI systems. This is especially true for agentic AI, which relies on autonomous interactions with APIs to make decisions and take actions.

But with great power comes great responsibility. APIs, long the unsung hero behind AI's rise, now face unprecedented demands for security, scalability, and adaptability. Don't miss this special session with Brenton House where he presents a practical API survival guide for 2025, packed with MCP updates and actionable strategies to keep your API and AI initiatives ahead of the curve.

Speakers

Brenton House

Principal Cybersecurity, IBM

Brenton House is an ex-hacker, developer, strategist, and now Principal Cybersecurity and AI Advisor for IBM webMethods. Known for his unique creative work and YouTube channel, Brenton has produced several hit series including The Redacted Hacker, AI: Man vs. Machine, and API Cybersecurity... Read More →

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

Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks API World, API Security (API World), APIs and AI (API World)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

4:00pm PDT

PRO WORKSHOP (API): API Underworld: Red Team Hacking Secrets

Wednesday September 3, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Parth Shukla, Cequence Security, Security Analyst

This comprehensive workshop is designed to provide participants with a deep understanding of API security, its challenges, and best practices to mitigate risks. Spanning six engaging sessions, the program begins with an introduction to API security and real-world breaches, highlighting the critical importance of securing APIs.

Participants will explore reconnaissance techniques, including using tools like Shodan and Google Dorking, to identify API endpoints. The workshop delves into common API vulnerabilities, such as SQL Injection and XSS, complemented by practical hands-on scanning with Burp Suite.

Additionally, the sessions cover OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) techniques with tools like Maltego, theHarvester, and Wayback, empowering attendees to gather intelligence on API targets. The program culminates with guided vulnerability exploitation exercises and a collaborative group activity to identify and exploit API flaws.

Concluding with a wrap-up session and an open Q&A, this workshop equips participants with the knowledge and skills to secure APIs effectively while fostering a hands-on learning environment

Speakers

Parth Shukla

Security Analyst, Cequence Security

Parth Shukla is a dedicated Cybersecurity Analyst at Cequence Security with a strong passion for Web Application Security. He is an accomplished bug hunter, community builder, and cybersecurity enthusiast with a relentless drive to uncover vulnerabilities and share knowledge. Parth’s... Read More →

Wednesday September 3, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks API World, API Security (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

1:00pm PDT

OpenAPI Summit: Building APIs for the AI Era: Why OpenAPI is Non-Negotiable

Thursday September 4, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

Shireen Nagdive, Salesforce, Senior Software Engineer

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.

Speakers

Shireen Nagdive

Senior Software Engineer, Salesforce

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 →

Thursday September 4, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

1:00pm PDT

PRO Session (API): You Don't Need SDKs, Wait Maybe You Do?

Thursday September 4, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Sid Maestre, APIMatic, VP Developer Relations

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.

Speakers

Sid Maestre

VP Developer Relations, APIMatic

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 →

Thursday September 4, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks API World, API Program and Developer Relations (API World), Business Optimization through APIs (API World)
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

2:30pm PDT

PRO Session (API): Supporting AI-First MCP in an API-First World.

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

API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

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.

Speakers

Amey Desai

Head of Artificial Intelligence, Nexla

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 →

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

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks API World, APIs and AI (API World), Testing / Deploying & Monitoring APIs and Services (API World)
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

9:00am PDT

DevMarketing @ API World 2025

Friday September 5, 2025 9:00am - 12:00pm PDT

How to Leverage Your In-House Technical Teams
Friday, September 5, 2025 · 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PT)
Santa Clara Convention Center, CA

Let’s trade strategies on how your marketing team can leverage the expertise and knowledge of your in-house technical teams, so they are actually talk-the-talk when engaging developers.

Panel 1: Marketing among the Engineers
Technical experts are often wary – and can be outright hostile – to members of marketing teams, even within their own organizations. They’ve been burned by the false promises, pushy tactics, and poorly appropriated developer culture promoted by organizations more concerned with hitting sales numbers than delivering value. Successful marketing teams learn to bridge these gaps in order to deliver more authentic messaging and developer experiences that directly address the needs and concerns of this audience. Our panel of experts will share the tactics they have used to reach across the technical chasm to build productive relationships both with their internal teams and their technical customers to better inform their marketing efforts and build trust that delivers long term returns.

Panelists:
Michael Ortega, Head of Marketing @ Predibase
Tal Sacharov, Director of Marketing @ Aurora Labs
James Le, Head of Developer Experience @ Twelve Labs

Panel 2: Thought Leadership - Marketing's Most Powerful Tool
To be a technical expert is to be an eternal student. Engineers who allow their knowledge to languish see their careers diminish with time. There is a constant need for clearly communicated technical knowledge that helps developers not only move forward in their career, but expand their knowledge of how everything works to satisfy their constant curiosity. Marketers who create a platform for the technical experts within their organizations to share their knowledge with peers see a halo effect around the rest of their marketing efforts that makes everything they do seem more authentic and valuable as a result. In this panel, we’ll hear from experts who have developed thought leadership programs within their organizations to elevate technical experts in their communities as they share the results of their work and best practices for helping you and your team put thought leadership into effective action.

Panelists:
Sheena Singh, Marketing Events Manager @ Dropbox Core

Friday September 5, 2025 9:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Room G

In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:30am PDT

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

Friday September 5, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT

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 5, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks API World, Partnership and Integration Strategy (API World), API Program and Developer Relations (API World)
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

1:30pm PDT

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

Friday September 5, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT

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 5, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT
API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

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

9:00am PDT

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): No-Code, No-Training, Just Connect: How Adaptive Agents Redefine AI Automation with APIs

Wednesday September 10, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Saldin Samuel, Haiva, Co-Founder

Building AI agents has traditionally required model training, infrastructure setup, and complex orchestration. What if AI agents could just connect to your APIs and start working? This session introduces Adaptive Agents, a new class of no-code, real-time agents that plug into your existing API infrastructure—instantly automating workflows without moving data. Whether you're building SaaS tools, B2B platforms, or AI-first products, this talk will show how to use Adaptive Agents to build scalable, multilingual, and intelligent experiences in minutes.

Speakers

Saldin Samuel

Co-Founder, haiva.ai

Saldin Samuel is the Founder and CEO of Haiva.ai, and the visionary behind Adaptive Agents—a transformative AI architecture that enables automation by connecting directly to APIs and databases without data movement, model tuning, or code. A recognized thought leader in the AI and... Read More →

Wednesday September 10, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Additional Topics AI/ML
Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks APIs and AI (API World), API World, API Program and Developer Relations (API World), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

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

11:00am PDT

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): API Security for the AI Era: Detecting and Preventing Adversarial Manipulation

Wednesday September 10, 2025 11:00am - 11:50am PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

David vonThenen, NetApp, AI/ML Engineer

In a digital landscape dominated by APIs and AI, security threats from adversarial manipulation have become critical risks. This session explores the intersection of APIs, AI security, and adversarial attacks. We'll dissect how adversaries manipulate APIs feeding data to machine learning models—by injecting noise, crafting misleading inputs, and exploiting data obfuscation techniques—to compromise model integrity and security. Attendees will gain insights into real-world adversarial scenarios, learn practical defensive techniques, and understand the implications for privacy, model fairness, and data reliability.

The session will provide practical examples and live demonstrations showcasing how adversarial strategies can exploit API vulnerabilities to undermine AI models. We'll examine defensive frameworks and best practices for securing APIs against adversarial attacks, ensuring data integrity, maintaining privacy compliance, and reinforcing ethical AI usage. By the end, attendees will be equipped with strategies for hardening their AI-driven APIs, proactively identifying vulnerabilities, and deploying robust security measures to mitigate adversarial threats.

Speakers

David vonThenen

Senior AI/ML Engineer, NetApp

David is a Senior AI/ML Engineer at NetApp, where he’s dedicated to empowering developers to build, scale, and deploy AI/ML models in production. He brings deep expertise in building and training models for applications like NLP, data visualization, and real-time analytics. His... Read More →

Wednesday September 10, 2025 11:00am - 11:50am PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks API World, APIs and AI (API World), API Security (API World), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

12:00pm PDT

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): Fight or Flight: Your API Strategy for Agentic AI and MCP in 2025

Wednesday September 10, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Brenton House, IBM, Principal Cybersecurity

In the fast-moving world of AI and APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) is set to redefine how we integrate with AI systems. This is especially true for agentic AI, which relies on autonomous interactions with APIs to make decisions and take actions.

But with great power comes great responsibility. APIs, long the unsung hero behind AI's rise, now face unprecedented demands for security, scalability, and adaptability. Don't miss this special session with Brenton House where he presents a practical API survival guide for 2025, packed with MCP updates and actionable strategies to keep your API and AI initiatives ahead of the curve.

Speakers

Brenton House

Principal Cybersecurity, IBM

Brenton House is an ex-hacker, developer, strategist, and now Principal Cybersecurity and AI Advisor for IBM webMethods. Known for his unique creative work and YouTube channel, Brenton has produced several hit series including The Redacted Hacker, AI: Man vs. Machine, and API Cybersecurity... Read More →

Wednesday September 10, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks API World, API Security (API World), APIs and AI (API World), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

1:00pm PDT

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): API Underworld: Red Team Hacking Secrets

Wednesday September 10, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Parth Shukla, Cequence Security, Security Analyst

This comprehensive workshop is designed to provide participants with a deep understanding of API security, its challenges, and best practices to mitigate risks. Spanning six engaging sessions, the program begins with an introduction to API security and real-world breaches, highlighting the critical importance of securing APIs.

Participants will explore reconnaissance techniques, including using tools like Shodan and Google Dorking, to identify API endpoints. The workshop delves into common API vulnerabilities, such as SQL Injection and XSS, complemented by practical hands-on scanning with Burp Suite.

Additionally, the sessions cover OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) techniques with tools like Maltego, theHarvester, and Wayback, empowering attendees to gather intelligence on API targets. The program culminates with guided vulnerability exploitation exercises and a collaborative group activity to identify and exploit API flaws.

Concluding with a wrap-up session and an open Q&A, this workshop equips participants with the knowledge and skills to secure APIs effectively while fostering a hands-on learning environment

Speakers

Parth Shukla

Security Analyst, Cequence Security

Parth Shukla is a dedicated Cybersecurity Analyst at Cequence Security with a strong passion for Web Application Security. He is an accomplished bug hunter, community builder, and cybersecurity enthusiast with a relentless drive to uncover vulnerabilities and share knowledge. Parth’s... Read More →

Wednesday September 10, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Talk Type PRO Workshop Day (Wed)
Tracks API World, API Security (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

1:00pm PDT

[Virtual] OpenAPI Summit: Building APIs for the AI Era: Why OpenAPI is Non-Negotiable

Thursday September 11, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

Shireen Nagdive, Salesforce, Senior Software Engineer

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.

Speakers

Shireen Nagdive

Senior Software Engineer, Salesforce

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 →

Thursday September 11, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B (PRO)

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

1:00pm PDT

[Virtual] PRO Session (API): You Don't Need SDKs, Wait Maybe You Do?

Thursday September 11, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Sid Maestre, APIMatic, VP Developer Relations

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.

Speakers

Sid Maestre

VP Developer Relations, APIMatic

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 →

Thursday September 11, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks API World, API Program and Developer Relations (API World), Business Optimization through APIs (API World), Virtual
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

2:30pm PDT

[Virtual] PRO Session (API): Supporting AI-First MCP in an API-First World.

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

VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A (PRO)

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.

Speakers

Amey Desai

Head of Artificial Intelligence, Nexla

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 →

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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