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WHY JOIN APIDAYS LIVE AUSTRALIA WHAT IS APIDAYS?

Apidays is about the opportunities and technologies enabled by the programmable economy. As APIs become mainstream, our world becomes more connected, more automated and more intelligent. APIs are the gateway to data, services, devices and emerging technologies. APIs put power into the hands of developers, citizens and consumers.

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Enabling Business Networks

Apidays returns to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on September 14th and 15th for its seventh edition in Australia. This year will be an in-person event! That’s right, join us in the spring sunshine for some long-delayed, appropriately distanced community building.

Our theme is Building Business Networks. APIs are the glue that binds together the nodes in many networks—whether those nodes are businesses, customers, government agencies, citizens, developers—networks deliver value that is exponentially greater than the sum of their parts.

Once again, apidays dives into the business and technology of APIs. We look at digital transformation, new business models, building communities, developer experience, software frameworks, cloud-native architecture, and hear plenty of lessons from experience.

2022 SPEAKER LINEUP

Sanjiva Weerawarana

Founder, Director and CEO of WSO2

Sanjiva Weerawarana

Founder, Director and CEO of WSO2

Sanjiva is the Founder and CEO of WSO2.

WSO2 was founded by Sanjiva in 2005 with a vision to reinvent the way enterprise middleware is developed, sold, delivered and supported through an open source model.

Prior to starting WSO2, Sanjiva worked for nearly eight years in IBM Research, where he focused on innovations in middleware and emerging industry standards. At IBM, he was one of the founders of the Web services platform, and he co-authored many Web services specifications, including WSDL, BPEL4WS, WS-Addressing, WS-RF and WS-Eventing. In recognition for his company-wide technical leadership, Sanjiva was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 2003.

Sanjiva also has been committed to open source development for many years. An elected member of the Apache Software Foundation, Sanjiva was the original creator of Apache SOAP, and he has contributed to Apache Axis, Apache Axis2 and most Apache Web services projects.

In 2003, Sanjiva founded the Lanka Software Foundation, a non-profit organization formed with the objective of promoting open source development, not usage, by Sri Lankan developers. He is currently its chief scientist and a director. LSF’s success stories include many Apache Web services projects and Sahana, the predominant disaster management system in the world. In recognition of his role in promoting open source participation from developing countries, Sanjiva was elected to the board of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) in April 2005, where he served for two years.

Sanjiva also teaches and guides student projects part-time in the Computer Science & Engineering department of the University of Moratuwa, and he is a member of the university’s Faculty of Engineering Industry consultative board.

Prior to joining IBM, Sanjiva spent three years at Purdue University as visiting faculty, where he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1994.

Marek Kowalkiewicz

Professor and Chair in Digital Economy at Queensland University of Technology

Dr Charlotte Marra

Partner at Deloitte

Saul Caganoff

Principal at Deloitte Australia

Emily Canon

Product Manager - API at PEXA

Petra Zink

Brand & Digital Strategist | Author | Consultant | Coach at impaCCCt & The360Talent.Co

Dasith Wijesiriwardena

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Brad Drysdale

Field CTO for APJ at Kong

Mark Perry

Chief Customer Officer at Biza

Paul Brebner

Open Source Technology Evangelist at Instaclustr by NetApp

Michael Hyatt

Principal Solutions Architect at Elastic

Dr Omaru Maruatona

CEO of Aiculus

Anand Tamboli

Transformation Expert, Futurist & Author

Serah Njambi Kiburu

Senior Developer Advocate at Spotify

Gaurav Sood

Ahmed Elharouny

Technology Platform Manager at Telstra Health

Aswin Golla

Senior Automation Test Engineer at Bunnings

Christoph Markert

Head of Architecture, APJ at SAP Fioneer

Andy Kelk

Chief Technology Officer at Wesfarmers OneDigital

David Yonan

Founder at FlowStep

Derrick Hodges

Director, Sales Engineering at Solace

Vidyadhar Kothekar

Distinguished Engineer, APJ at Solace

James Gollan

Senior Solutions Engineer at Confluent

Paul Connor

API Security & Integration Lead at Broadcom

Sohrab Hosseini

Head of Engineering at Lab Eleven

Sheng Zeng

Software Engineer at Digizoo

Pankaj Tolani

Senior Cloud Architect at digizoo.io Digizoo Services

Scott Middleton

CEO and Founder of Terem

Souvik Mukherjee

Head of Technology at WooliesX

Matt Fellows

Co-Founder at Pactflow

Lindsay Holmwood

Chief Product Officer at CipherStash

Alison Rosewarne

Executive Manager – Architecture at REA

Christian Posta

VP, Global Field CTO at Solo.io

Kasun Talwatta

Field Engineer at Solo.io

Ashish Kumar

Director of Field Engineering - APAC at Solo.io

Sai Linn Thu

Field Engineer - APAC at Solo.io

Jordan Walsh

Enterprise Solutions Engineer at Postman

Jason D’Souza

Enterprise Architect - Emerging Technology at NAB

Andrew Saunders

Architect - API Governance & Platforms at NAB

Evan Bottcher

Head of Architecture at MYOB

Kanchana Wickremasinghe

Vice President & General Manager API & Integration at WSO2

Adeel Ali

Founder & CEO of APIMatic

Richard Marr

APAC CIAM Lead at Okta

Mark Cheshire

Senior Director of Technical Marketing and Cross Portfolio Program at Red Hat

Tom Corcoran

Principal Solutions Architect at Red Hat

Benjamin Farr

Associate Principal Solutions Architect at Red Hat

Warren Schilpzand

Area Vice President - Australia & New Zealand at DataStax

Damian Harden

Senior Solutions Engineer at Okta

Bernd Beilke

Technical Integration Architect at IBM Automation

David Freeman

Director at Sonrai Consulting

Rakshith Rao

Co-founder & CEO of APIwiz

Alok Mishra

Principal at Deloitte

Ben Dechrai

Developer Advocate at Okta

Phil Nash

Principal Developer Evangelist at Twilio

Mehdi Medjaoui

Founder & Chairman of apidays

Kajan Moorthy

Senior Solutions Consultant at New Relic

Jay Desai

Senior Solutions Consultant at New Relic

Peter Jessup

Cloud Integration Specialist at IBM

Kiruthika Samapathy

Head of Engineering at Thoughtworks

Krishnan Narayanaswamy

Principal Architect at DataStax

Vishal Ghariwala

CTO, APJ and Greater China at SUSE Software

Puneet Gupta

Co-founder and Managing Director at Neofy

Dassana Wijesekara

Head of Solution Architecture - Financial Services & Open Banking at WSO2

Juan Burckhardt

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Suganya Srinivasan

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Jason Goodsell

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Sara Pellegrini

Software Engineer at AxonIQ

Milan Savic

Software Engineer at AxonIQ

DeveloperSteve Coochin

Senior Developer Advocate at Lumigo

Abdallah Abedraba

Developer Advocate at Kubeshop

Rebecca Garavelis

Lead Domain Architect at NAB

Mandeep Sandhu

Country Lead, Australia and New Zealand at Personetics

Chris Scarvell

Customer Success Manager at IBM Australia

Thomas Willis

APIs and Microservices Service Owner at Bendigo Bank

Troy Leliard

APAC Solution Architect at Noname Security

Joe Corvetti

Partner at Deloitte

Parna Bhattacharya

Cloud Evangelist at Google

Christopher Chapman

Solution Architect ‑ D&D, Digital and Data at Australia Post

SCHEDULE DETAILS Explore the Agenda

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Apidays Australia

8:00 am
Welcome Breakfast

Meet and Greet the apidays community

9:00 am
Keynote

Marek Kowalkiewicz, Professor and Chair in Digital Economy at Queensland University of Technology

9:50 am
Fireside chat

Sanjiva Weerawarana, Founder, Director & CEO at WSO2Saul Caganoff, Principal at Deloitte AustraliaMehdi Medjaoui, Author, Founder and Chairman of apidays conferences

10:30 am
(Online) Deploying and building SDKs as a service

DeveloperSteve Coochin, Senior Developer Advocate at Lumigo

10:30 am
Networking / Expo

Strategy

Architecture & Design

Security

Workshops

Strategy

11:00 am

Transformative Innovation - New Ways of Doing Things

Anand Tamboli,Transformation Expert, Futurist & Author

11:25 am

Delivering Digital Experiences: Why the Right Platform is Key

Kanchana Wickremasinghe, VP & GM API & Integration at WSO2

11:50 am

ANZ API Program governance and strategy incl Innovation Hacks & GTM

Gaurav Sood, Product Leader | Commercial & Technology Strategy | Entrepreneur | Investor | Speaker | Writer

12:15 pm

Panel: Open Banking - where we're at, where we're going

Rebecca Garavelis, Lead Domain Architect at NABMandeep Sandhu, Country Lead, Australia and New Zealand at PersoneticsTim Davis, Director at Deloitte

Architecture & Design

11:00 am

Strong and Weak Forces - Domain Driven Architecture at MYOB

Evan Bottcher, Head of Architecture at MYOB

11:25 am

API design challenges and making APIs your common language

David Yonan, Founder at FlowStep.com

11:50 am

A's for A+: Scaling Best Practices in API Design

Serah Njambi Kiburu, Senior Developer Advocate at Spotify

12:15 pm

Debunking the Big Aussie F Word – Fintech BFF Building with BNPL

Sheng Zeng, Software Enginee at Digizoo

Security

11:00 am

APIs in the pandemic: A 2021 API security market review

Dr Omaru Maruatona, CEO of Aiculus

11:25 am

Practical API Security and the role of API Management

Ahmed Elharouny, Technology Platform Manager at Telstra Health

11:50 am

Your API ain't as secure as you think

Lindsay Holmwood, Chief Product Officer at CipherStash

12:15 pm

Friends Don't Let Friends Centralize Authorization Enforcement

Paul Connor, API Security & Integration Lead at Broadcom

Workshops

11:00 am

Integrate applications with AI powered flow generation and API auto testing

Bernd Beilke, Technical Integration Architect at IBM Automation

11:50 am

How to hack an API and prevent them?

Dassana Wijesekara, Head of Solution Architecture – Financial Solutions and Open Banking at WSO2

12:40 pm
Lunch Break - Networking / Expo

Strategy

Architecture & Design

Security

Workshops

Strategy

1:40 pm

What does an API Product Manager do?

Emily Canon, API Product Manager at PEXA

2:05 pm

A Modern Infrastructure Fabric to Power APIs from Core to Cloud to Edge

Vishal Ghariwala Chief Technology Officer, APJ and Greater China at SUSE

2:30 pm

How do the fastest-growing APIs get developers onboard?

Adeel Ali, Founder & CEO at APIMatic

2:55 pm

Accelerate business innovation by improving API program maturity

Rakshith Rao, Co-Founder and CEO at APIwizDavid Freeman, Director at Sonrai Consulting

Architecture & Design

1:40 pm

Everything is an API, but not all APIs are equal

Bernd Beilke, Technical Integration Architect at IBM Automation

2:05 pm

Implementing Domain-Driven Design: Lessons from applying Strategic and Tactical DDD

Alok Mishra, Principal at Deloitte

2:30 pm

Where’s The Data? How unified, real-time data drives business growth and impact

Warren Schilpzand, Area Vice President – Australia & New Zealand at DataStax

2:55 pm

Maximizing the Value of Event-Driven Architecture with Event Mesh and Event API Products

Derrick Hodges, Director, Sales Engineering at Solace

3:20 pm

(Online) Do Distributed Systems they said. It'll be fun they said.

Sara Pellegrini, Software Engineer at AxonIQMilan Savic, Software Engineer at AxonIQ

Security

1:40 pm

Extending your Authentication Flows with Auth0 Actions

Ben Dechrai, Developer Advocate at Okta

2:05 pm

Modern API security using FAPI, the financial-grade API

Mark Perry, Chief Customer Officer at Biza

2:30 pm

Hype or Reality: Shifting Left While Shielding Right?

Troy Leliard, APAC Solution Architect at Noname Security

2:55 pm

Beyond Credentials: Go From Expert To Authority

Petra Zink, Brand & Digital Strategist | Author | Consultant | Coach at impaCCCt & The360Talent.Co

Workshops

1:40 pm

Application Connectivity in a Multi Cloud Galaxy

Tom Corcoran, Principal Solutions Architect at Red HatBenjamin Farr, Associate Principal Solutions Architect at Red Hat

2:30 am

Auth0 + OpenFGA (Relationship-based access control made fast, scalable, and easy to use)

Damian Harden, Senior Solutions Engineer at Okta

3:20 pm
Networking / Expo

Strategy

Testing & Engineering

Workshops

Strategy

3:50 pm

Results of the State of API survey for Australia and New Zealand

Scott Middleton, CEO and Founder at Terem

4:15 pm

Behavioural Banking

Christoph Markert, Head of Architecture, APJ at SAP Fioneer

4:40 pm

Guardianship Model - Managing digital hypergrowth at scale

Souvik Mukherjee, Head of Technology, WooliesX

5:05 pm

The future of Istio is sidecarless

Christian Posta, VP & Global Field CTO at Solo.io

Testing & Engineering

3:50 pm

360 degree view of API Testing

Aswin Golla, Senior Automation Test Engineer at Bunnings

4:15 pm

Schemas are not contracts! Why contract testing matters in the age of gRPC, Kafka and GraphQL

Matt Fellows, Co-Founder at Pactflow

4:40 pm

Smart endpoints, dumb pipes. But what about stream processing?

James Gollan, Staff Solution Engineer at Confluent

5:05 pm

Spinning Your Drones with Cadence Workflows and Apache Kafka

Paul Brebner, Open Source Technology Evangelist at Instaclustr by NetApp

Workshops

3:50 pm

Powering API-driven microservices with an Envoy-based API Gateway

Kasun Talwatta, Field Engineer at Solo.ioAshish Kumar, Director of Field Engineering – APAC at Solo.io

4:40 pm

APIs = Data : Build a modern, secure and operational Data serving layer

Krishnan Narayanaswamy, Principal Data Architect at DataStax

Workshops

3:50 am

Live Flight Tracking Demo: Event-Enabling APIs with an Event Mesh

Derrick Hodges, Director, Sales Engineering at SolaceVidyadhar Kothekar, Distinguish Engineer at Solace

4:40 pm

Open Source Instrumentation - The Rise of OpenTelemetry

Kajan Moorthy, Senior Solutions Consultant at New RelicJay Desai, Senior Solutions Consultant at New Relic

5:30 pm
Cocktail Party

Meet and Greet the apidays community

8:00 am
Welcome Breakfast

Meet and Greet the apidays community

9:10 am
The API Landscape - the next 10 years: Beyond the Interface

Mehdi Medjaoui, Author, Founder and Chairman of apidays conferences

9:50 am
From cloudy to clear: Greening with IT

Dr Charlotte Marra, Partner at DeloitteMehdi Medjaoui, Author, Founder and Chairman of apidays conferences

10:30 am
Networking / Expo

Platforms

Community & Sustainability

Workshops

Platforms

11:00 am

When can you afford a platform?

Alison Rosewarne, Executive Manager – Architecture at REA

11:25 am

Using APIs to accelerate transformation at a large retailer

Andy Kelk, Chief Technology Officer at Wesfarmers OneDigital

11:50 am

Yabadabadoo: A bedrock for delivering APIs at scale

Pankaj Tolani, Senior Cloud Architect at Digizoo Services

12:15 pm

Panel: Australia Post Journey with Identity

Glenn Metherall, Engineering Lead at Australia PostChristopher Chapman, Solution Architect ‑ D&D, Digital and Data at Australia PostRichard Marr, CIAM Lead at Okta

Community & Sustainability

11:00 am

How to Build and Leverage APIs Sustainably to Reduce Digital Waste

Brad Drysdale, Field CTO for APJ at Kong

11:25 am

Emerging Technologies in Decarbonization

Joe Corvetti, Partner at Deloitte

11:50 am

Driving Green Value Chain

Parna Bhattacharya, Cloud Evangelist at Google

12:15 pm

Supporting 10 million developers

Phil Nash, Principal Developer Evangelist at Twilio

Workshops

11:00 am

Use the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration to Define, Socialise, and Manage Consumption of Kafka events

Peter Jessup, Cloud Integration Specialist at IBM

11:50 am

How to Innovate Fast - From API First to Cloud-Native CI/CD

Puneet Makwana, Solution Architect at WSO2

12:40 pm
Lunch Break - Networking / Expo

Platforms

Engineering

Workshops

Platforms

1:40 pm

API Management - Zero to Hero in 15 Minutes

Chris Scarvell, Customer Success Manager at IBM AustraliaChris Hare, Team Lead, Network and Telecommunications Branch, Infrastructure and Operations Division at Services Australia

2:05 pm

Hitch Hackers Guide to Application Connectivity

Mark Cheshire, Senior Director at Red Hat

2:30 pm

The Story of OpenAI GPT3 - Improve Observability with Tracing

Kajan Moorthy, Senior Solutions Consultant at New RelicJay Desai, Senior Solutions Consultant at New Relic

2:55 pm

Are you doing platforms right?

Kiru Samapathy, Head of Engineering at Thoughtworks

3:20 pm

The hard work of making APIs easy

Tom Wills, APIs & Microservices Service Owner at Bendigo Bank

Engineering

1:40 pm

Lessons from doing EdgeDevOps (GitOps) in the bush, air, and underwater

Dasith Wijesiriwardena, Senior Software Engineer at MicrosoftJuan Burckhardt, Senior Software Engineer at MicrosoftSuganya Srinivasan, Senior Software Engineer at MicrosoftJason Goodsell, Senior Software Engineers, Microsoft

2:05 pm

Build API Demos that Drive Innovation

Jordan Walsh, Enterprise Solutions Engineer at Postman

2:30 pm

Accelerating API Engineering - Libraries, Templates and Governance?

Jason D’Souza, Enterprise Architect – Emerging Technology at NABAndrew Saunders, Architect – API Governance & Platforms at NAB

2:55 pm

Blockchains: Just Another API?

Sohrab Hosseini, Head of Engineering at Lab Eleven

3:20 pm

Using OpenTelemetry with Elastic stack

Michael Hyatt, Principal Solutions Architect at Elastic

Workshops

1:40 pm

Squeezing the value out of your data - creating stream processing applications with ksqlDB

James Gollan, Staff Solution Engineer at Confluent

2:30 pm

Why enterprise teams need to care about the complete API lifecycle

Jordan Walsh, Enterprise Solutions Engineer at Postman

3:45 pm
Closing Remarks

Saul Caganoff, Principal at Deloitte AustraliaMehdi Medjaoui, Author, Founder and Chairman of apidays conferences

3:55 pm
(Online) 7 Common Mistakes In Building API Businesses & How You Can Avoid Them

Matthias Biehl, API Strategist at SoftwareAG

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April 13th
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1:30 PM to 3:30 PM

Sustainability | Workshops

3:30 PM

Networking / Expo

3:50 PM to 5:30 PM

Digital Transformation | Workshops

8:00 - 9:00

API Strategy

9:00 - 10:00

API Execution

10:00 - 11:00

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