September 12 & 13, 2019
400+
attendees
200+
companies
50+
sessions
40+
speakers
Traditional industries are finally starting to catch up with digital transformation, partly because of the level legal requirements for industries to open APIs, even for their competitors and disruptors. On the other hand, there’s an entire group of companies that have embraced the digital transformation since the beginning and riding high on it.
APIdays is the leading industry tech and business series of conferences in APIs and the programmable economy.
CIOs, CTO, CDOs, SVPs, VPs, Heads of Innovation, Heads of API, API Architects, Developers, Software Engineers, Infrastructure & Cloud Managers, IT Managers, Product Managers, Consultants & Analysts
Learn from the best about Business Models, Design & Documentation, Lifecycle Management, Security & Identity Management, Testing & Monitoring, Banking APIs and Open Banking, Developer Marketing, Digital Transformation, GraphQL, Microservice Architecture, Mobile & IoT APIs
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FinTech Banks, Transportations Companies, Booking firms, Food delivery services and even the Beauty sector are offering services for millions of people through APIs, posing some interesting challenges in terms of scaling, monitoring and changes deployment. We call these the APIs for consumers.
This event is not only for those already in the API and platform game. This event is for companies that are growing and starting to see the challenges of offering services to a giant number of clients at the same time and want to share information, getting inspiration from other companies, competitors and across industries, as well as experts.
Senior Director and Head of API Infrastructure at Red Hat
Steven Willmott is Senior Director and Head of API Infrastructure at Red Hat Inc. He was the Co-Founder and CEO of 3scale Inc. which was acquired by Red Hat in 2016. He is also a key contributor to community efforts such as the APIStrat conference series, Open API Initiative, APICommons and APIS.json.
Steven regularly blogs on Web Technology and API related topics on the 3scale blog and as a guest blogger at http://www.programmableweb.com, http://www.pandodaily.com and elsewhere.
Consultant at Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Project Manager at Tor Project
Associate Director - Technology Evangelism at WSO2
Senior Software Engineer at Allegro.pl
Director Platform Engineering at Adidas
National Expert at DGConnect (European Commission)
Chief Operations Officer at FIWARE Foundation
Lead of European Data Portal at European Union
Chief of Digital Transformation Strategy at ARIA - Regione Lombardia
Founder & CTO of superface.ai
ABOUT
Zdenek ("Z") is the co-founder and CTO of Superface.ai, revolutionizing how businesses connect digitally, empowering developers, and establishing autonomy for APIs. With Superface autonomous systems, you will never have to worry about APIs again. Discover, contract, and connect to capabilities in milliseconds, reducing the API costs up to 99%.
Previously he founded Good API—an independent API consulting company. He helped enterprises (DHL, Adidas, Inditex, KLM-AF, and others) and startups identify and build the right APIs for their businesses faster and with higher quality.
As a former Director of DSL development at Apiary, Z is the author of the API Blueprint description language, used by over 200,000 developers and architects worldwide to describe over 300,000 APIs. He is a co-author of the data modeling language MSON. Zdenek defined and evangelized API first, API design, and contract-driven automated API workflow.
• Author and product owner of several successful developer products
• Entrepreneurial, creative thought leader
• Over 20 years of software development, architecture, management, and research experience
• Advisor of several Fortune 500 companies on their API design, strategy, and implementation processes
• Experienced in growing and mentoring startup companies
• Recognized API expert and conference speaker
• An advocate of Conway's Law, emphasizes the quality and clarity of communication and the well-being of both teams and individuals
Digital Transformation Business Strategist at IBM
Alan Glickenhouse is the IBM Digital Transformation and API Business Strategist. Alan assists clients with their business and IT strategy for Digital Transformation and the API Economy. Starting with an understanding of the client’s business direction, IT strategy, and existing environment (both business and technical), Alan helps businesses successfully adopt a Digital Transformation and API strategy that fits their environment. He meets clients in all industries, all geographies, and of all sizes and brings knowledge of best practices shared with and by these businesses. Alan is the author of over 150 papers, articles and videos.
Creator of AsyncAPI, Founder of AsyncAPI Initiative & Director of Engineering at Postman
Fran is the founder of the AsyncAPI Initiative. He’s a software engineer with a strong focus on event-driven APIs and microservices. In his spare time, he enjoys playing beach volleyball, kayaking, and stand-up paddle surf.
API Consultant, Chairwoman at apidays Paris & Founder of Women in APIs
Head of Online Services at WhenFresh
Associate Lead Solutions Engineer at WSO2
WSO2 is the world’s #1 open source integration vendor, helping digital-driven organizations become integration agile. Customers choose us for our broad integrated platform, approach to open source, and agile transformation methodology. The company’s hybrid platform for developing, reusing, running and managing integrations prevents lock-in through open source software that runs on-premises or in the cloud. Today, hundreds of leading brands and thousands of global projects execute 6 trillion transactions annually using WSO2 integration technologies. Visit https://wso2.com to learn more.
As we move into the API economy, there are huge opportunities for new and innovative solutions. In order to unlock value with new business models and winning experiences you need the help of an API management solution that enables automated API creation, simple discovery of assets, self-service access for developers, and built-in security and governance. IBM would like to be your partner on this journey, sharing our expertise and experiences to help maximize the value of APIs for your enterprise. More information: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/api-connect
AsyncAPI is a specification for defining message-driven APIs. We’re on a mission to standardize message-based communication and increase interoperability of the different types of systems available.
We’re the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. We help you standardize across environments, develop cloud-native applications, and integrate, automate, secure, and manage complex environments with award-winning support, training, and consulting services.
Learn more: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/company-details
The API design management platform powering the world’s leading API first companies. Learn more at https://stoplight.io
The Amadeus for Developers program facilitates the connectivity between the innovation ecosystem and Amadeus, in order to foster co-creation, quick exploration of new ideas, and cross-industry collaboration. Visit https://developers.amadeus.com to discover more!
