The API Economy in the AI Era

Mark O’Neill

VP Analyst, Chief of Research for Software Engineering - Gartner

Irakli Nadareishvili

Managing Director, Global Banking Platform - JPMorgan Chase & Co.

At work usually found: listening, problem-solving, and advocating, mostly in relation with software architecture and product design for large-scale technology platforms, but sometimes also debating accounting for financial systems, and the ethical uses of AI for the future of technology.

Author of several popular books on cloud engineering that were published by O'Reilly and translated into multiple languages. A leisure-time hobby is geeking over audio/video equipment, which lately has included learning more about lighting.

Rajendra Agashé

Director of Treasury Product Management - BNY Mellon

Financial services leader with extensive product and technology management expertise. Experienced in delivering strategic, innovative products and solutions that build sustainable capabilities and create value for international clients. Broad banking domain knowledge including all types of payments (B2B/ P2P, emerging/traditional, high/low value clearing), receivables, e-commerce, liquidity management, capital markets, trade/ supplier finance, risk, regulatory compliance, operations, implementation, service, and technology. Excellent track record of building collaborative partnerships across various stakeholders and service providers.

Ado Trakic

Enterprise API Architect - Capital One

Excellent track record providing innovative information technology solutions to business clients and senior level consulting in both government sector and private industry. Extensive experience in helping various organizations undergo digital transformation efforts by providing program, project management, governance, systems implementation and integration support on multi-phase, multi-year projects. Expertise in making in enterprise wide technology and business decisions. Expertise in Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, software engineering, SDLC, systems security, business process mapping, modeling and re-engineering efforts.

Giuseppe Abrignani

Senior Software Engineer - The LEGO Group

I am a backend software developer.
My love for coding started during first year of university, when I started collaborating with CoderDojo, being a mentor there formed me as the person I am today and helped me finding the right path for me.

I've been working in service desk for several years before realizing my dream to become a Software Developer. I love being able to shape and design solutions and imaging that people will use those products it makes me really accomplished.

My specialties includes quickly learning new skills and programming language, problem solving, mainly backend with java and related framework like springboot and Flutter/Dart, with the last two I am literally in love.

Kathy Wong

Head of Product for Export Aggregation - Chase

Successful and proven leader with product vision and strong ability to lead teams to deliver on roadmaps. Extensive experience managing technology delivery specifically in building APIs and big data strategies. Excellent people and organization management skills. Top-tier consulting experience.

Currently Head of Product for Export Aggregation for Connected Banking (open banking) at Chase, leading Digital platforms across API strategy, consumer data sharing and partnerships with Third Parties and FinTechs.

Jayadeba Jena

Senior Director, Chief Architect - Walmart

Senior Leader with excellent record of managing development, architecture, product management and release of complex software products. Hands-on leader with extensive experience in working with Geographically dispersed engineering teams and building multi-region products. Experience in building new platform teams from ground up, creating product innovation CoEs, Expertise in leading organizations (of all sizes) in the platform journey from ground zero, Setting up and running Platform/API programs in Large Organizations and building External Facing Developer Programs. Expert level skills in building Developer platforms, Platform Product Management, Platform business model, Increasing developer effectiveness/velocity, Microservices, Developer Infrastructure Platform Tooling, Identity/Access Management (Using Industry Standard Protocols such as OAuth2, OIDC, FIDO, MFA, SCIM, OPA), API Security, API Design, building SOA frameworks, Cloud Native Development methodology in on-premise, public cloud (AWS, GCP), and hybrid environments with latest and greater technology stack (Kubernetes, Docker, NoSQL, Agile, CI/CD) Software Defined Data Centre, VDI, Enterprise Application Integration,Messaging and Data Platforms and Technologies (Kafka, Spark, Flink, building Data catalogs, Data Governance, Data Pipelines, AWS services(Lake formation, EMR, Athena).

Figen Ceceli

SVP, Head of Data Aggregation Product - Fidelity Investments

Multi-dimensional global executive excelling at opportunities that need definition, vision, and Lean innovation. Strong track record for "building the right thing" as well as "building it right" by innovating differentiated customer experiences, products, websites, Agile, SRE and digital transformation, SOA and cloud modernization. Expertise in large scale solutions supporting API developers and eco-systems, telco, financial services, contact center, Salesforce CRM, billing, BSS, network management and digital applications. Extensive accomplishments in Lean software/product delivery, transforming teams, products and strategy in start-ups to largest global companies.

Leading by example to influence and drive v1.0 solutions, significant transformations, growing global talent, building great teams, managing senior leaders, pragmatic problem-solving, promoting diversity/equity/inclusion, empathy, transparency, and coaching for results.

API eco-systems (web Portal, gateways, developer tooling, microservices, credential and access management, security), cloud solutions (AWS, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes), web applications, full-stack software development, reliability engineering, service mesh, solution architecture, IT and telco infrastructure, and automation.

Creating and promoting the product vision, strategy, competitive positioning, Lean delivery, partnerships, roadmaps, requirements and life cycle management.

Marcelo Caponi

Global Product Manager - API & Integration - Danone

Specialties: Salesforce Platform, Enterprise Integration, Release Management, Agile Project Management

Bharath Bhushan "BB" Sreeravindra

Senior Manager, API Experience - Capital One

As Senior Software Engineering Manager at Capital One, I lead and mentor teams of talented software engineers who create innovative solutions for the banking industry. My mission is to deliver high-quality software that meets the needs and expectations of our customers and stakeholders, while fostering a culture of collaboration, learning, and excellence among my teams. I have successfully managed and delivered multiple projects involving APIs, microservices and cloud computing. I am passionate about solving complex problems, enhancing user experience, and driving business value with software.

Anubha Gaur

Executive Director, DevSecOps and API Management - Quest Diagnostics

Jean Burellier

Principal Engineer, Platform Team Lead - Sanofi

Being associated with the industry since 2012, I have worked as a Developer, Leader, Architect and now Principal Engineer to build, architect and improve solutions based on APIs and real time communication.

I have been thanked for my work around automation of processes allowing the companies to greatly increase the efficiency of their workflows while improving the developer experience and the quality in the final product. My colleagues know me as a good communicator who likes to use an interactive approach for understanding the requirements and solving problems of varied scope.Working with a plethora of roles - both technical and business - such as lead architect, staff engineer, project manager and CxO but also legal team I have been able to develop keen eyes for various technicalities which helped me in maximizing our products impact's for our customers.

Ronald Holt

Executive Director, Data Science Ops - Estee Lauder

Dave Katz

Principal Evangelist, Advertising API - Amazon

I'm a growth marketing expert with a background in optimization, statistics, and business intelligence. I started as a data analyst helping large brands understand their marketing effectiveness. I learned by being hands-on as I set up attribution systems for P&G and multivariate DSP tests for Verizon. To get a sense of the other side of the ad industry, I developed data products for multiple media companies. My solution-based approach helped me become an educational public speaker and a marketing, data, and ad tech subject matter expert.

I now focus on helping developers and integrators learn about the Amazon Advertising API. I like to help our partners grow their own expertise so they can build unique capabilities.

Steve Melan

Manager for IT Innovation and Architecture - State's and Saving's Bank of Luxembourg

Fullstack Developer, IT Architect, IT Trainer, Event Speaker and passionate by new Technologies and IT Security

Programming Languages : C#, VB.NET, COBOL, and many more …

Technologies : ASP.NET, Winforms, WCF, LINQ, ADO.NET, IBM CICS, REST API, …

Databases : IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase

Microsoft Products : Visual Studio, BizTalk, Host Integration Server, Azure DevOps Server (TFS), Internet Information Services, Surface, Kinect, SharePoint, Exchange, LogicApps, …

Cloud : Microsoft Azure, Microsoft PowerPlatform, Microsoft Dynamics365, Microsoft365

Vamshi Amerishetty

Vice President of Product Management - JPMorgan Chase & Co.

I am Vice President at JPMorgan Chase, a global leader in financial services and technology. With over 12+ years of experience in product management and software engineering, I have a diverse and extensive skill set that spans Cloud, DevOps, AI, ML, SaaS, and API Management Platform. I am passionate about creating and delivering innovative and customer-centric solutions that address complex business challenges and opportunities.

Currently, I am responsible for managing the API Marketplace Customer Journey, a strategic initiative that aims to foster collaboration and innovation among internal and external partners. I lead cross-functional teams, conduct market research and analysis, define product vision and roadmap, and launch new features and enhancements. Previously, I excelled in the Fintech domain, leading products and teams in areas such as Credit Card Disputes, Payments, Refunds, and Loyalty Platforms. I hold multiple certifications in Product Management and System Architecture from reputable institutions. I am certified AWS Cloud Practitioner.

Dima Simakov

Business Development, Premium Products Manager - Uber

Dima Simakov is the Business Development Lead for Uber's Premium Products and previously served as a Strategy Lead for Uber Freight. At Uber Freight, he spearheaded the development and implementation of the Real-Time Pricing API, a crucial tool that enabled shippers to swiftly adapt their supply chain strategies amidst the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and surging customer demands. Before joining Uber, Dima did Corporate Finance at PwC and completed his academics at Indiana University.

Shekhar Sahgal

Senior Vice President Data Access, Open Banking - Mastercard

Accomplished financial services & payments executive who excels in driving strong business results through innovative product development, creative problem solving and by cultivating high performing teams. Proven track record of end-to-end execution, taking a concept from strategy through to product launch.

Paolo Malinverno

Growth Advisor - The Business of Technology

Paolo Malinverno covers the API economy and the role of APIs in digital platforms, and in building business ecosystems (internal, private and public). This extends to API management, B2B APIs and platform as a service (PaaS).

Suman Devarasetti

Vice President, Software Engineering Director - U.S. Bank

Earnest and versatile IT Leader with an entrepreneurial mindset and strong digital skills coupled with deep functional expertise. Well-versed in multiple industries including banking, financial services, information, healthcare, retail and telecom. Over 22 years of IT industry experience in both business and technology. Product and platform centric mindset. Deeply passionate about improving financial services and creating the best place for money. Detail oriented, with an inquisitive mind, and strong structure in thinking. Technically minded. Execution focused, I get strategy but I know it’s only as valuable as its execution. Always on top of market trends in financial services and healthcare, especially Open APIs. Able to switch from creative to decision-making mode and vice versa quickly. Good at motivating and inspiring the people working. Thorough, low-ego, pragmatic, and enjoy working with and learning from different functions. Proven experience and skills in product management. Good at innovation and experimentation. Highly analytical and data-driven. Strong empathy - especially with customers, but also with colleagues and my team. Open API strategy and execution. Member of FDX working group. Enjoys keeping lots of plates spinning at once, and communicating clearly. Experienced in analysis, architecture, design and implementation of Enterprise Application Integration solutions. Able to decompose, simplify and innovate on complex business processes into implementable architectures using emerging technologies. Rich experience in SOA, Microservices, APIs, Service Management, DevOps, Cloud Computing and Distributed Object Computing. Abe to lead team members with diverse backgrounds to make them successful and achieve their career goals.

My experience and knowledge made me an evangelist on Digital Transformation, Open Innovation, Open Banking, APIs and Microservices in my organization.

My current focus is digital transformation strategies, which leverages multiple areas of my subject matter experience coupled with my ability to think innovatively, strategically and holistically.

My innovation journey includes Quantum Computing - Quantum Communication & Cryptography, Green Banking - Sustainable Environment Strategy.

Danny Weitzner

Founding Director, MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative & Research Scientist - MIT

Specialties: Internet Public Policy: privacy, freedom of expression, cybersecurity, AI Policy, patents and copyright
Patents and Standards
Open source and internet standards
Semantic Web

Corey Ball

Author and Sr. Manager - Penetration Testing - Moss Adams

I am a senior manager of penetration testing consulting at Moss Adams. In addition, I am the best selling author of Hacking APIs and winner of the 2022 SANS Difference Makers Award for Book of the Year. In 2022, I helped create the APIsec University and released the API Penetration Testing course.

I have over thirteen years of experience working in IT and cybersecurity across several industries, including aerospace, agribusiness, energy, fintech, government services, and healthcare. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy from Sacramento State University, I hold the OSCP, CCISO, CEH, CISA, CISM, CRISC, and CGEIT industry certifications. I have had the pleasure of being the technical editor of the Kali Linux Pentest Bible (Wiley) and Black Hat GraphQL (No Starch Press).

Darrel Miller

Member of the Open API Initiative Technical Steering Committee & API Architect - Microsoft

I have more than 20 years of experience in building distributed business applications on the Microsoft platform.For the last 10 years I have focused on getting the most out of HTTP as a distributed application protocol for building rich business applications. I am recognized as an industry expert on the use of HTTP, REST and Hypermedia to build connected systems.More recently I have been speaking at conferences world-wide about HTTP and REST APIs. I am a published O'Reilly author and prolific writer of technical blog posts. I am actively involved in contributing to OSS projects, those I have created and others.I enjoy helping developers learn technical material, solve problems and help their users be more productive.

James Higginbotham

Executive API Consultant - LaunchAny

James is an API consultant with experience in architecting, building, and deploying APIs and cloud native architectures. As an API consultant, he enjoys helping businesses balance great API design and product needs. He also creates and delivers API and cloud native architecture training with the goal of equipping cross-functional teams to integrate their talents toward building first-class APIs for their product or enterprise systems.

Rangarajan Lakshminara yanachar

Senior Manager Software Engineering - Capital One

- Specializes in modern app development with REST/GraphQL APIs, focusing on architectural innovation and integration.
- Expertise in API management, enhancing team efficiency and API security.
- Developer-centric, ensuring robust security and data-driven policy management.
- Leadership promotes business agility and resilience, grounded in diverse API development, testing, and scalable business models.
- Cloud/AWS Engineering leader with a track record in complex technical solutions.
- Managed top engineering teams, collaborating with product teams.
- Experienced in building large-scale web services and microservices.
- Proficient in enterprise architecture, ensuring scalability and availability.
- Advocate for preemptive development practices and standardization.
- Led code reviews, refactoring, and quality metrics assessment.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
- In-depth, practical AWS knowledge, adept in regulated environments.
- Deployed distributed databases at scale.
- Applied software development metrics for enhanced code quality and efficiency.
- Practiced in automation, diverse deployment strategies, and high-availability monitoring.

Vineet Jain

IT Partner - Bristol Myers Squibb

Gen AI, Data & Cloud Transformation leader - specialize in leading large-scale analytical & data platforms with deep expertise in Cloud Computing (AWZ, Azure, GCP), Data Mesh, Lakehouse, Enterprise Data Lake, AI/ML, Gen-AI and Advanced Analytics, with primary focus on Life science and Healthcare sector. Partner with the leadership teams on strategic and tactical goals, develop and drive multi-million ($$-$$ M) analytic data strategy, and liaise with different BUs to optimize company wide data management capability to enable world-class analytic.

Sandip Dhummad

Director, Enterprise Architecture - Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB)

ABOUTEnterprise Architect with extensive experience of leading organization wide technology transformation initiatives, defining target state enterprise architecture vision, understanding business requirements/plans and converting them to strategic roadmap for technology organization. Proven track record of defining and executing enterprise IT strategies(like Cloud, API, DevOps); with the focus of increasing organization’s agility, time to market, and operational efficiency with higher ROI and lowering TCO.Proficient at architecture, design and implementation of wide variety of solutions like cloud ready/native applications, micro services, Java/JEE n-tier enterprise/web/portal applications, BPM solutions; leveraging cloud, containers and serverless technologies. Expertise at building scalable, available and resilient platforms/products ground up with a product mindset.Successfully defined organizational level cloud strategy, program and roadmaps. Migrated business critical applications to cloud using various deployment models like all-in cloud(AWS) and/or hybrid. AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional Level.Published international/national conference papers, and has patent pending implementation of schedule optimization functionality using AI based Ant Colony Optimization(ACO) algorithm for MapView(formerly SalesNavigator), an iPad app. Developer evangelist, leading DevSecOps communities of practice at S&P Global Ratings; delivered talks / workshops at internal as well as external technology events for increasing developer awareness.

Hamida Rebai

Cloud Solutions Architect - Revenu Quebec

I am Rebaï Hamida, a software architect, and developer who like to build open-source projects, write articles, and learn and teach best practices. you can find out in my blog: https://didourebai.medium.com/Innovative Software engineer: hands-on, competent software engineer, passionate and proficient C# developer, offering more than 12 years of experience in the full software development lifecycle – from concept through delivery of next-generation applications and customized solutions, producing code to a consistently high standard and testing software across a variety of platforms.Expert in advanced development methodologies, tools, and processes contributing to the design and roll-out of cutting-edge software applications.Known for excellent troubleshooting skills – able to analyze code and engineer well-researched, cost-effective and responsive solutions.

Yusuke Tsutsumi

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Cruise / ex-Google

Software Developer with a passion for helping other developers move faster. Especially interested in utilizing automation to remove the manual pain in development cycles. Examples include automated testing, continuous integration and deployment, and stability monitoring.

Derek Kuc

Principal Engineer - Apollo GraphQL

Lakshmanan Sethu Sankarana rayanan

TAM - GenAI/AI, ML & Data Solutions - Google

Opinions expressed here are my own and it does not represent my employer.

Helping Customers Digitally Transform with Google cloud ,Azure and AWS.

Technical Author ✍️

International Speaker 🗣️

Gartner Peer Ambassador 🚑

Profound Experience in Pre-Sales, Solution Design & Architecture, Leading Teams and Project Management. Hands on experience in working with distributed systems in Cloud. Experience in technical support, software development, and operations management. Deliver results in fast paced and challenging environment.

Recommends Architecture for enterprises customers with Cost Optimization, Availability, Scalability , Operational excellence, Performance efficiency and Reliability.

Strategic consulting experience with 10+ Fortune-500 customers in USA, UK, and Australia in Retail, Banking, Insurance, and Media and Entertainment domains.

Max Sadlowski

Staff Solutions Engineer at Wise - CEO at BentoSMB

With over 15 years of experience in the tech industry, I am a results-driven professional with a passion for driving innovation and creating impactful solutions. I excel in problem-solving and thrive on overcoming complex challenges, combining strong technical knowledge with a deep understanding of customer needs to develop and implement tailored solutions. I have a proven track record of successfully integrating Wise with banks and enterprise fintechs globally, fostering strong relationships and delivering tangible results, and building workable solutions quickly to solve problems.

Rashmi Kaushik

Executive Director, Business & Technical Automation-Integration - IBM

Experienced Product Management Leader

Passionate about growth mindset, leading cross-functional Product, Design & Development teams, delivering strong results in Data, AI & Digital Transformation.

Demonstrated accomplishments in Business Leadership, Product Management, Information Technology, Portfolio Strategy, Program/Project Management, Business Partner Relationship, Technical Consulting, Technical Support and Development.

Expertise in Data & AI technologies, Data Privacy, DataOps, Information Governance, Data Science methodologies, Digital transformation, Digital Commerce, Digital Partner Experience, Agile Development practices, Hybrid Cloud solutions, Software-as-a-Service, Business Analytics, Service-Oriented Architecture, Application and web server, mainframe technologies.

Experienced in industry solutions for Healthcare, Retail, Consumer Goods, Government & Financial sectors.

Jeremy Glassenberg

Product Management & Platform Leader | APIs, FinTech, Marketplace, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning -

Experienced product leader of over 16 years with a proven track record of building APIs and growing developer ecosystems at successful startups such as Box and Tradeshift. I've managed and expanded communities of tens of thousands of developers, executed high-profile integrations promoted by Salesforce and Google, and led application marketplaces that were key to their companies' growth and retention. While focused on Product Management and APIs, I also manage developer relation programs and application marketplaces.

Mike Amundsen

Author of "Design and Build Great APIs", API Strategist & Advisor - amundsen.com, Inc.

An internationally known author and speaker, Mike Amundsen consults with organizations around the world on network architecture, Web development, and the intersection of technology & society. He works with companies large and small to help them capitalize on the opportunities provided by APIs, Microservices, and Digital Transformation. Amundsen has authored numerous books and papers. He contributed to the O’Reilly book, "Continuous API Management" (2018). His "RESTful Web Clients", was published by O’Reilly in February 2017 and he co-authored "Microservice Architecture" (June 2016). His latest book — "Design and Build Great APIs" — for Pragmatic Publishing, is scheduled for release in early 2020.

Adeel Ali

Co-founder & CEO - APIMatic.io

Adeel Ali is the founding CEO of APIMatic, an SDK-first developer experience platform for APIs. Adeel holds a Ph.D. in the domain of web-based APIs automation. He is constantly driven by the desire to do things better, whether that is making APIs easy to consume, or running a business. Besides APIMatic, Adeel loves reading, traveling, and playing cricket.

Hugo Guerrero

Chief Software Architect, APIs & Integration Developer Advocate - Red Hat

I'm an information technology professional with 20+ years of experience in software development. I have worked as a developer, consultant, architect, and software development manager with major clients in the private and federal public sectors.

Currently, I'm an open source developer advocate. In this role, I help the marketing team with technical overview and support to create, edit and curate product content. The content is shared with the communities through webinars, conferences, and other activities. I also develop workshops and support material to help the internal and partner enablement.

Software development is my passion and I have been able to make it my life. As a passionate traveler, history, and food enthusiast, when I'm not at work I love to grab my suitcase and travel around the world in search of the tastiest food.

Josh Twist

Co-founder & CEO - Zuplo

Josh founded the Azure API Management, Logic Apps, and PowerAutomate products at Microsoft, then worked at Facebook where he led Facebook Analytics and Facebook Music before joining Stripe to lead Payment Methods. He's now the CEO and co-founder of Zuplo, API Management built for developers, which he created based on his love of dev experience.

Tristan Kalos

Co-founder and CEO - Escape

Tristan is co-founder & CEO @ Escape (GraphQL Security). He was a seasoned freelance developer and Machine Learning Researcher at UC Berkeley. He witnessed the API Security problem with his eyes while working for a customer. He saw an entire company database being stolen in 2018 through an API he developed himself.

Olga Podolyako

Principal API Architect - Microsoft

I'm striving to work in a challenging enterprise environment, where I can benefit my clients by applying my strong architecture and leadership skills to solve complex business and IT problems using modern technologies and architectures, build strong architecture practices to deliver desired business outcomes.
• Extensive experience in all enterprise architecture domains - business, data, application, and technology
• Proven leadership skills in the area of architecture delivery methodology
• Extensive expertise with leading software development teams in the application and integration domain
• More than 20 years of experience with end-to-end development lifecycle implementing front-end applications, integration solutions, services, and workflows in compliance with enterprise security standards and industry regulationsSpecialties: Enterprise Architecture, Integration Architecture, Cloud / Infrastructure Architectures, TOGAF and SEI Software Architecture methodologies

Antoine Carossio

Co-Founder & CTO - Escape

Antoine is co-founder & CTO of Escape. Antoine is a former French National Secret Agency and Apple security engineer and penetration tester.

Dave Shanley

Founder / Chief Buckaroo - Princess Beef Heavy Industries

As a creative engineer, experience architect, technical leader, inventor, software architect, and entrepreneur, I have over 25 years of experience turning ideas and concepts into products. I've worked in various industries, including advertising, branding, enterprise data, virtualization, and consumer-focused start-ups and tech giants.

I have had the privilege to design and engineer highly technically complex products and technology from the ground up. This privilege has allowed me to build and lead world-class engineering teams, found VC-funded start-ups, and develop and deliver high-profile, multi-million dollar market-leading technology.

My specialty is large-scale and next-generation experiences, interfaces, and the supporting architecture for CLIs, UIs, APIs, and SDKs that facilitate them. I have a massive passion for simultaneously improving the lives of engineers and customers.

Over the years, I've also authored and co-authored numerous patents across hardware, software, UI, and testing.

Bertier Luyt

CEO - Ades.io

As Steve Blank puts it: “Try innovating inside a large company where 99% of the company is executing the current business model, while you’re trying to figure out and build what comes next.”

Today, digital transformation is not necessary anymore, it is a matter of survival.

In a world of continuous disruption, corporate companies have only a few years to develop new capabilities or be pushed over the brink. Exploiting their existing assets, capabilities, and business models is insufficient for long-term survival. They need to explore new ventures, to prepare for future markets.

Science, research, technology and governance are the answer to build scalable solutions that humanity needs to solve the many challenges we’re facing.

Eyal Solomon

Co-Founder and CEO - Lunar.dev

Eyal Solomon is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lunar.dev. Lunar.dev offers a full management suite to monitor and optimize usage of any 3rd-Party API.
Eyal is a Cyber Security Engineer and product leader with +10 years of experience in cyber tools and product management, and he holds a BSc in Computer Science.

Claire Barrett

Director - APIsFirst and Co-lead of Women In APIs

Claire Barrett is director and founder of APIsFirst based in the UK, and co-founder of The API Collective. She has over 25 years' experience consulting to medium and large organisations with globally recognised brands, on justifying, executing and communicating technology and API-enabled change.

Ian Buchanan

Principal Partner Engineer - Atlassian

While Ian Buchanan has broad and deep experience in the domain of software development, he is best known as an champion of agile methods in large enterprises. During his career, he has successfully managed enterprise software development tools in all phases of their lifecycle, from cradle to grave. He has driven organization-wide process improvement with results of greater productivity, higher quality, and improved customer satisfaction. He has built multi-national teams that value self-direction and self-organization. Right now, Ian is a Developer Partisan for Atlassian, focused on helping the software development industry adopt better ways of working.

Jonas Iggbom

Director of Sales Engineering - Curity

Long and broad experience in IT security with experience spanning from the endpoint to the server infrastructure.

Covered many roles such as Internal IT, Quality Assurance, Support, Professional Services, Sales Engineer, Product Management and Product Marketing.

Worked with a range of security products including identity and access management, encryption for laptops, desktops, mobile devices, and external media, intrusion detection, anti-virus, content control and client virtualization, key and certificate management and authorization solutions.

Organized, ambitious and dedicated. Self going without need for supervision.

Jim Bennett

Principal Developer Advocate - liblab

Jim is a Principal Developer Advocate at liblab focusing on skilling and inspiring developers, especially helping API developers deliver high-quality SDKs. He’s British, so sounds way smarter than he actually is, and lives in the Pacific North West of the USA. In the past he’s lived in 4 continents working as a developer in the mobile, desktop, and scientific space. He's spoken at conferences and events all around the globe, organised meetup groups and communities, and written books on mobile development and IoT.

He also hates and is allergic to cats, but has a 10-year-old who loves cats, so he has 2 cats.

Ian Reasor

Senior Computer Scientist - Adobe

Ian is a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe and is based in Los Angeles, California. Ian is a long-time veteran at Adobe, having served in the Consulting and Partner Success teams before joining the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets engineering team in 2019. His past contributions have included a migration toolkit for customers moving to the AEM as a Cloud Service offering and architecting the AEM Data Service, which is responsible for serving statistics and reports. Today he leads the API development effort for the Assets team and serves as a member of AEM's API-First Task Force, which works to ensure consistency and quality across the APIs that are being developed by AEM's 300+ engineers.

Radu Cotescu

Senior Computer Scientist - Adobe

Radu is a Senior Computer Scientist working for Adobe Inc. in Basel, Switzerland. Over the past year, Radu has played a central role in steering the transformative journey towards an API-first paradigm within the Adobe Experience Manager organization. By crafting comprehensive API guidelines, establishing streamlined processes, and implementing tooling, he is empowering a diverse team of 300+ engineers to design and develop the APIs that power AEM, the industry-leading content management system.

Radu is also an active member of the Apache Software Foundation, working on Apache Sling, which is at the core of AEM.

Brenton House

Digital Strategist and Influencer -

Brenton House is an ex-hacker, filmmaker, developer, architect, consultant, strategist, and now Digital Evangelist. Brenton House is known for his unique creative work on several hit YouTube series such as API Cybersecurity 101, API Cookery, and Breaking the Build. As an expert Digital Strategist, Brenton currently works as Vice President for Digital Evangelism at Software AG, a global leader in the API, Integration, and IoT space.

Jake Dreyfuss

COO - PolyAPI

Operations Leader with 20 years of experience in enabling customer success and organizational scale in tech and service based companies in the CRM, EMS & payroll @ Salesforce @RSW (Acquired by PrimePay).

Cody Salas

Sr Developer Advocate | Solutions Architect - Yubico

I started my career as a web developer, quickly following in love with the end to end process from designing functional user experiences, scoping application interfaces, and the deployment/building of code.

From there, I moved into an Architecture role, where I got to play with interesting cutting edge technologies in the area of Artificial Intelligence. I had the great opportunity to work directly with Microsoft, Amazon, and newer start-ups to test their technologies for their applicability in a large enterprise like ExxonMobil.

From there I transitioned to become the Product Manager of the ExxonMobil Health Applications group. In February of 2020 I asked myself "There is no way this gig could be that hectic, right?". In March 2020 the COVID pandemic swept the US, forcing us into lockdown, leaving me to help guide the team through the "pandemic year".

Nowadays I'm at Yubico, where I've been helping to create guidance targeted at developers to help make their applications more secure through the use of WebAuthn.

When not online you can find me crate digging at record shops, front row at concerts (short problems), at theaters watching classic movies, or writing self-indulgent bios.

Dugald Morrow

Developer Advocate - Atlassian

A software engineer with a proven track record in a variety of disciplines including management, architecture, development and analysis.Experience has ranged from large scale, real time, distributed, mission critical systems to small technology startups.

Erez Yalon

VP of Security Research - Checkmarx

I am the Head of Security Research at Checkmarx, a global leader in application security.

In this role, I lead the company’s security research efforts, overseeing and managing three teams (in two countries) of top-notch professionals - researchers, analysts, pen-testers, secure development engineers, and bounty hunters.

Building and leading this group of experienced defenders, attackers, and security researchers is quite a challenge. Still, it brings invaluable skills and knowledge vital for maintaining Checkmarx’s top-notch vulnerability detection technology and security education platform.

I am enthusiastic about my work and believe it makes a huge difference out there.“No one will protect what they don’t care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced” - Sir David Attenborough

While I enjoy all aspects of my job, I think my favorite part is to be able to educate and raise security awareness. This brought me to found and lead the AppSec Village as part of DEF CON, lead several OWASP projects and give talks at global events and conferences like RSAC, DEF CON, and Black Hat.

Seema Murthy

Principal Enterprise Architect - ADP

Ashpak Shaikh

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Intuit

Kristof Van Tomme

CEO & Co-founder - Pronovix

I am the CEO of Pronovix, a company that specializes in building developer portals using Drupal, an open source content management system. For over 17 years, I have been leading a team of experts in API documentation, web development, developer engagement, and API gateway integrations.

My mission is to gather and share knowledge from the API, developer evangelist, and technical writer community, and to create the best possible developer portals for our clients. We help organizations to solve discoverability problems, sell API products, build communication hubs, and gain visibility through open APIs. I am also the co-founder of API the Docs, a conference series for API practitioners, and a Write the Docs meetup organizer, where I promote best practices and innovation in documentation and user experience.

At Pronovix we've amongst others built: Developer Hubs, Gateway agnostic developer portals, API documentation, API gateway integrations, developer engagement systems (to improve API build quality), Apigee devportals, and API repositories to solve discoverability problems in large multi-divisional enterprise companies.

David O'Neill

Chief Operating Officer - APIContext

David has worked in mobile and cloud computing solutions since their inception, building API gateway products and more recently bringing AI and ML to API and Microservice performance analysis with APImetrics.

Vasa Krishnan

Chief Technology Officer - FinResults

An accomplished, innovative Senior Executive Leader in Data, Analytics & Technology with an outstanding record of success in leading and delivering complex enterprise data management & digital programs, large-scale enterprise solutions, and IT transformation programs. Demonstrated expertise in driving culture of innovation and solution implementations that exceeded expectations, using proven methodologies, disciplined project management, and deep and broad industry experience with hands-on delivery. Recognized as a strong leader with excellent team-building skills, business acumen, and the ability to evaluate complex business situations, provide fresh perspective for executive management on strategic objectives, and establish partnerships across the organization.

Madhu Subbu

Managing Director, Head of Securities Finance Technology - Clear Street

Madhu Subbu currently serves as Managing Director and Head of Securities Finance Engineering at Clear Street. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of Enigmatch (acquired by Clear Street), which pioneered the use of combinatorial auction technology for complex financial contracts. Prior to Enigmatch, Madhu worked at Credit Suisse, where he led the effort to develop quantitative models for efficient resource allocation. He was also the Engineering Lead for Investigations at Chainalysis, where he built datasets to analyze the flow of value on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Madhu’s interests include financial networks and contagion, systemic risk and liquidity, and algorithm design. Madhu’s academic background is in Computer Science and Applied Math.

Vedran Cindrić

Founder & CEO - Treblle

Vedran Cindrić is the founder and CEO of Treblle, a SaaS company that helps Engineering, Product, and DevOps teams build, ship & maintain REST-based APIs faster. With more than 15 years of dev experience, Vedran has specialized in PHP and Laravel. Before founding Treblle, he had a development agency that developed software solutions for clients from all over the world, with the greatest focus on the US market.

Jake Schmitz

Senior Director of Application Development - FreeClimb from Vail

Jake has been with FreeClimb from Vail for sixteen years, and currently serves as the Director of Application Development, building our team of Software Engineers to deliver exceptional applications to our customers. Jake tackles the challenges of a rapidly growing team, keeping our gifted developers engaged and continually recruiting top talent. Jake’s passion for continuous learning makes him strive to learn something new every day from his peers, whether it is about technology, business, or life in general.

Jake started at Vail as a Software Engineer and has since moved into managerial and team building roles. Before Vail, Jake worked as an enterprise consultant with Technology Services Group. Jake holds a degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

Francois Lascelles

CTO - Layer7

Francois is a Distinguished Engineer and CTO for API Management at Broadcom Software. Previously, Francois was a member of the Ping Identity Office of the CTO. An early adopter of service orientation, Francois specialized in the application of security in distributed systems. Notably, Francois was the first developer at Layer 7 Technologies where he was part of a team who developed a best of breed API security gateway technology which disrupted a category, and continues to be used by hundreds of enterprises today.

Tom Akehurst

Co-Founder & CTO - WireMock

Tom has been building enterprise software since 2003 for UK and US businesses in transport, hospitality, publishing, broadcasting, utilities and retail, in addition to local and national government. Beginning his career as a Java developer, he quickly recognized the value of agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery and was early to adopt these techniques. While leading an engineering team building part of the technology behind Walt Disney Parks and Resorts’ Magic Band, he created WireMock as a way to solve the productivity bottlenecks caused by unstable environments and late delivery of upstream APIs. These days Tom is the CTO and Co-Founder for WireMock Cloud, which increases developer productivity in an API dependent environment.

Ankita Gupta

Co-Founder and CEO - Akto.io

Ankita is the co-founder and CEO of Akto.io. Prior to Akto she has experience working in VMware, LinkedIn and JP Morgan. She holds MBA from Dartmouth College and Bachelors in Technology from IIT Roorkee. She is a past speaker at DefCon, BlackHat and various OWASP meetups and conferences.

Ankush Jain

Co-Founder and CTO - Akto.io

Ankush is the co-founder & CTO at Akto (https://www.akto.io). Prior to starting Akto he worked at CleverTap as VP of Engineering. He has also worked for 5 years as a Quant at Morgan Stanley. He has acquired US patents at Microsoft and at CleverTap.

Matt DeBergalis

Founder & CTO - Apollo GraphQL

Matt DeBergalis has been working on open source technology and developer communities for many years. He is the co-founder and CTO of Apollo, the leading open source GraphQL company, and before that coauth.

Kleber Bacili

Founder and CEO - Sensedia

Sensedia's CEO and co-founder, responsible for setting the company direction and overseeing company operations.

Associate professor at UNICAMP

Founding partner of IVP (Inova Venture Partners, a seed capital fund in Campinas)

Entrepreneur and Tech enthusiast.

Knowledgeable and recognized APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and SOA (service-oriented architecture) specialist in Brazil, regularly lectures at national and international conferences and post-graduation courses.

Holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Unicamp and a MBA in Business Administration from FGV. Also studied Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Stanford University.

Filipe Torqueto

Head of Solutions - Sensedia

Filipe Torqueto is a software architect/developer with 10+ years of experience in the software development processes. With solid knowledge in the spring framework ecosystem, software development using Java, container based applications using kubernetes environment and CI/CD processes and has experience in public cloud (AWS and GCP) using some tools like EKS, GKE, SQS, Google PubSub, DynamoDb and others.Currently working with APIs, microservices and cloud applications. Practitioner and enthusiast of the Domain Driven Design and the GO programming language.

Rob Dickinson

VP of Engineering - Graylog

My comfort zone is right at the intersection between people and technology. My technical and leadership skills were honed at Intel, Dell, and Quest Software, but my true passion is listening and learning from customers. After 15 years of experience in the APM market, I started Resurface with the idea that real customer empathy should inform and infuse everything we deliver.

Sudeep Goswami

CEO - Traefik Labs

With a 25-year career spanning multiple disciplines, including software programming, network desgin and engineering, technology consulting, product management, product marketing, corporate marketing, business development, and sales, Sudeep joined Traefik Labs as the Chief Revenue Officer. His wealth of knowledge and passion for learning new things is just what Traefik Labs needs as it shakes up the API management market with the industry's first Kubernetes-native API management solution, Traefik Hub.

Gil Feig

Co-Founder & CTO - Merge

Gil Feig is the co-founder and CTO of Merge. Merge offers unified APIs that allow developers to integrate once to offer a full category of integrations. Previously, he was the Head of Engineering at Untapped. Prior to that, he was a software engineer at Wealthfront and LinkedIn. He graduated from Columbia University and currently works and lives in New York City.

Harrison Goscenski

Senior Technical Lead - FreeClimb from Vail

I am a DevOps engineer who has been working with computers since I was in high school. In my current role I wrangle YAML and work to ensure that we continue to build robust and scalable architectures with a focus on observability. I started my career as a Linux SysAdmin which has shaped how I approach both new technologies and architectural decisions for products. I enjoy solving problems and love learning new skills, whether that is chasing down peculiar network performance issues or designing large scale features. I write in C++ when I have to, though I mostly write Python, I also enjoy Rust.

Sean Keegan

Head of Developer Relations - Lunar.dev

Sean Keegan, Lunar.dev's Developer Advocate, whose journey from math teacher to DevRel expert spans 8 years, including at Postman and Meta. With a math degree from the University of Delaware and tech skills refined at General Assembly's Web Development Bootcamp, Sean thrives on building connections between developers and cutting-edge tech. His passion lies in fostering innovation and nurturing community growth.

Mehdi Medjaoui

Founder and Chairman of Apidays Conferences, Author of Continuous API Management -

Mehdi Medjaoui is the founder of APIdays conferences series worldwide, that he started in 2012 in Paris. He is highly involved in the API community and API Industry, and is a current author, lecturer, consultant and investor in the API space. In 2011 he co-founded OAuth.io, a SaaS OAuth API middleware for OAuth integration and implementation used by 40,000+ developers, that had been acquired in December 2017. His research involves publishing the API Industry Landscape and the yearly State of Banking APIs.

Travis Spencer

CEO - Curity

Travis has worked extensively with organizations in various industries in both the US, Europe, and elsewhere who are adopting cloud and mobile computing. His broad market exposure coupled with a background in application development allows him to help organizations with low-level technical issues as well high-level questions. His deep knowledge of legacy standards like SAML, WS-* and XACML coupled with current best practices like REST, SCIM, OpenID Connect and OAuth provides him with a unique and cutting edge perspective on digital identity and access management.

Eric Newcomer

Principal Analyst - Intellyx

I'm currently serving as CTO and Principal Analyst at Intellyx, a boutique analyst firm founded by Jason Bloomberg. It's a good combination of technology and advisory roles.

Prior to Intellyx I served as CTO for WSO2. The role was about creating the future vision and enrolling others in it, especially as WSO2 transitions from open source to cloud native Software as a Service products.

Prior to my role at WSO2:

As Global Head, Security Architecture and Strategy for the Consumer Bank at Citi, I helped protect the bank against cybercrime.

As Chief Architect, Treasury and Trade Services at Citi, I redesigned systems and introduced modern technologies, including cloud migration.

As Chief Architect for the Investment Banking IT Division at Credit Suisse, I established the first functional architecture department in the company's history

As CTO at IONA Technologies, I helped the company pivot from CORBA to Web services.

As Distinguished Engineer/TP Architect at Digital Equipment (now part of HP), I helped standardize the company's transaction processing technology and designed and promoted adoption of TP products.

Leah Hurwich Adler

Associate Director | Technical Strategist | Team Leader | Culture Builder | Skilled Communicator -

I am an Associate Director with 10 years of experience in tech and 5 years managing teams. I have a track record of building technical capabilities from the ground up, delivering MVPs and scaling them to accommodate 100s of millions of daily requests. I am a respected manager and mentor, known for advocating for strong culture as well as product solutions. I create value through seeing around corners: anticipating and resolving potential issues before they occur. Finally, I bring a product lens to highly technical problems, enabling more effective collaboration by using strong communication skills to build bridges between business and engineering teams.

Erik Wilde

OAI Ambassador @ OpenAPI Initiative - API Strategist and Content Creator at Getting APIs to Work

With over 10 years of experience in the API field, I am passionate about helping organizations on their digital transformation journeys, making sure that vision, strategy, and technology are aligned, and that they are driven by well-aligned business and organizational initiatives. As an OAI Ambassador at the OpenAPI Initiative, I promote the adoption and use of open standards and best practices for API design and management, and with Getting APIs to Work, I provide consulting and training services for API programs.I have a strong background in digital transformation, API design, and API governance, and I have contributed to many publications, patents, and standards. I have also worked with various industries and sectors, such as healthcare, education, finance, and government, to help them leverage the power and potential of APIs for innovation, integration, and automation. My mission is to help organizations get APIs to work in a truly transformative way, by ensuring that they have the right APIs, and that they design and manage them in the right way.

Richard Smith

Director - Data Theorem

Richard is a Director at Data Theorem. He works with security professionals and developers across different size organizations to better understand market trends and needs around mobile app security, mobile app fraud and API security. Before joining Data Theorem, Richard worked for Cisco Systems helping different organizations develop security solutions across many different areas of technology including network security, cloud security, data center security and identity management. Prior to Cisco Systems, Richard worked as an entrepreneur and technology influencer at collaboration leader TANDEBRG and virtualization startup RingCube Technologies. Richard earned a B.S. in Management Information Systems from San Jose State University.

John Power

CEO - Ostia

John Power has over 40 years experience in software development and has focused on the the design and deployment of APIs / API Ecosystems for the past 20 years.

Doug Dooley

Chief Operating Officer - Data Theorem

Doug Dooley is the Chief Operating Officer of Data Theorem. He heads up product strategy, marketing, sales, and customer success teams. Before joining Data Theorem, Dooley worked in venture capital leading investments of cloud-centric security, machine-learning, and infrastructure startups for Venrock. While at Venrock, Dooley served on the boards of Evident.io (Palo Alto Networks), Niara (HPE), and VeloCloud (VMware). Prior to Venrock, Dooley spent almost two decades as an entrepreneur and technology executive at some of the most innovative and market dominant technology infrastructure companies – ranging from large corporations such as Cisco and Intel to security and virtualization startups such as Neoteris, NetScreen, and RingCube. Earlier in his career, he held various management, engineering, sales, and marketing roles at Juniper Networks, Inktomi, and Nortel Networks. Dooley earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Leo Cullen

Head of Business Development - Ostia

Leo Cullen is a product and business development specialist with over 20 years experience developing and promoting online services aimed at the banking and financial service sectors.

Greg Thompson

PM - Layer7

- Proven leader guiding organizations in technical direction and enabling digital transformation
- 20+ years of experience in the software industry with a strong technical background
- Deep background in digital technologies including APIs, Cloud, Microservices, and Integration
- Balance of business understanding and technical expertise enables effective consultation and decision making

Jeremy Suo-Anttila

Customer Engineer - Layer7

Globally experienced technologist that is always on the look out for the next generation of technology that is used to service the enterprise, mobile or internet based products and services. I am interested in all aspects of infrastructure from basic shared hosting to large scale automated data center design. Enjoy working with all levels of fellow technologists to solve complex issues and comfortable working with engineers or executives to build new business solutions.

As one of the founding members of Layered Tech we built the company from a 2 man operation 4+ years ago to the multimillion dollar global data center provider it is today. I have 10+ years of experience with startup's such as 3Tera, LT and others along with working at CA I have seen and experienced most everything you can when it comes to providing service and support at all levels from small local start up MSP to large scale GSP.

I have strong skills in all main stream operating systems, application architecture ( servers, DB, storage platforms, system messaging, API's, security, networking et), virtualization platforms and general data center design. Always on the look out for new ways to complete complex tasks with automation and virtualization technologies allowing us to eliminate human error allowing for higher levels of operational efficiency and overall performance.

I have 18 years of supporting global customers across a wide range of regions, time zones, cultures and customer bases from first world tier one telco providers in the US to up and coming service providers in south east Asia.

Yossi Rifold

Head of Product Management at SAST & Engines - Checkmarx

• A decade+ of experience in designing and delivering world-class software products.
• Hands-on product development management.
• Managing the end-to-end lifecycle for products, for enterprise offerings.
• Experienced in agile methodologies for Product management.
• PRD, MRD, and technical document writing.
• Market analysis, Business cases, Product strategy, and Solution definition to multiple markets.
• Highly experienced in designing web user interfaces, and creating examples using wireframes and mock-ups (Figma, Balsamiq, Pencil).
• Manage Change Control procedures: Issue and track customer relations or additional scope and activities in the product with our internal R&D.
• Highly technical, professional, ambitious, dedication to work even in irregular hours with the US market.
• Team player, People person, and leader.
• Possess knowledge in various areas of technology, such as big data, AI, mobile devices, operating systems, monitoring solutions, etc.

Jeff Crume

Distinguished Engineer, CTO IBM Security - IBM

I am a technical executive with a PhD in Cybersecurity and a focus on security architecture for external clients.
- YouTube videos on cybersecurity with more than 3 million views
- Author of "Inside Internet Security: What Hackers Don't Want You to Know" (Addison-Wesley)
- Member of the inaugural class of the NC State University Computer Science Alumni Hall of Fame
- Contributing author to the "Information Security Management Handbook" Sixth Edition, Volume 7 (Auerbach)
- IBM Master Inventor
- Served on international assignment in Beijing
- Served as member of the NC State University Computer Science Strategic Advisory Board
- Member of the IBM Academy of Technology
- Presented at more than 100 conferences/seminars
- Over 40 years' experience in the IT industry
- Published articles on cryptography, virtual private networking, identity management, LDAP, password security and network security
- Served on editorial board for the "Information Management & Computer Security" research journal, NC State Univ Cyberlaw board, program committee for the International Network Conference
- Experience in software development as a programmer, designer and project leader
- Extensive experience in pre-sales consultative selling, security architecture development and vision setting
- Worked with clients in more than 40 countries across 6 continents

Axel Grosse

Global Head of Presales - 42Crunch

Passionate about helping customers make good decisions in an increasingly digital world.

Special Knowledge Areas:API Protection, API Security, Innovation, Growth Engineering, REST API, Async API, Access Federation, Secure Mobile Connect, Secure Cloud Architectures, Payment

Frank Kilcommins

Principal API Technical Evangelist - SmartBear

Frank has over 15 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 and SmartBear customers across the end to end API Development Lifecycle and Management space. Prior to joining SmartBear, his most recent roles have been focused on API led Digital Transformations and architecture modernization within multi-national enterprises.

Chuck Herrin

Veteran CISO and now Field CTO - F5 API Security

Chuck Herrin is the Field CTO for Web App and API Security. His purview includes customer advocacy and active engagement across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Channel operations to bring thought leadership and alignment of solutions with the real world problems our enterprise customers face every day.

Prior to F5, Chuck was the CTO of Wib, an API security firm that created the second generation of API security solutions designed from the ground up to provide end to end visibility, testing, and context to discover, test, and secure all APIs across a customer ecosystem. Prior to Wib, Chuck spent 19 years as a CISO in financial services and banking, including SVP and Head of IT Security, Risk, and Compliance for all of AIG’s consumer-facing divisions ($29B annual revenue) and EVP and CISO of Texas Capital Bank prior to being named “Most Trusted Bank in America” by Newsweek in 2022.

A lifelong learner, Chuck holds a litany of industry certifications gathered over the last 25 years, as well as a bachelor’s degree in biology from Lenoir Rhyne University. When not traveling to events and customer locations, Chuck is based out of his ranch in North Dallas.

Alex Walling

Chief Strategy Officer - Rapid

Throughout my career, I have consistently excelled in developing and implementing strategies that simplify complex technical concepts for enhanced business performance. My experience includes successfully leading organizations through extremely transformative phases (both in hyper growth and market downturn), defining long-term objectives, and optimizing operations to achieve sustainable success. With a strong background in sales, developer relations, team management, and software engineering, I possess a unique blend of technical expertise and business acumen that drives revenue growth and fosters cross-functional collaboration. I thrive in dynamic environments, consistently pushing myself beyond what seems possible at the time. My ability to provide strategic guidance, shape vision, and optimize operations has been instrumental in delivering results for the organizations I have worked with.

Olivier Poupeney

Head of Developer Relations - Orkes

Olivier manages Orkes's Developer Relations program for Orkes Conductor's developer community and is member of FINOS's Technical Oversight Committee.

Before joining Orkes Olivier was Director of Developer Ecosystem at Symphony where he built Symphony's open source strategy and managed its related developer tooling contributions to Finos such as BDKs.

Prior to Symphony Olivier was the creator of two developer centric platforms and led their engineering until their respective acquisitions.

Olivier is co-author of a patented method of creating customizable applications.

Rahul Dighe

Director of Product Management - Paypal

Accomplished Product Management leader with over a decade of dedicated expertise in spearheading product development tailored towards developers as primary customers. Presently, at PayPal, I helm the Merchant Integrations product team, overseeing pivotal integrations for PayPal and Braintree payment processing products.

A seasoned speaker at many esteemed API & Product conferences, I offer impactful insights into the ideation, design, and construction of API/Integrations products. Additionally, I advise on cultivating the right talent and optimizing organizational structures for thriving API teams.

My passion lies in discussing APIs, Integrations, and Product Management. Let's connect and delve into these fascinating topics: https://calendly.com/mrapi

Dan Barahona

Founder - APIsec University

Bill Doerrfeld

Tech Journalist / Editor-in-Chief - Nordic APIs

Hi, I'm Bill Doerrfeld, a tech journalist. I analyze state-of-the-art technologies in the enterprise cloud software space, interview key players, and share insights through evergreen articles. I spend most of my time as Editor in Chief for Nordic APIs, a knowledge center for API practitioners. I am also a contributor to DevOps.com, Cloud Native Now (formerly Container Journal), CIO.com, and Security Boulevard. My writing has also been featured in Acceleration Economy, ProgrammableWeb, Tech Beacon, CMO.com, ReadWrite, and other publications. I occasionally speak at events, and help API companies with their content and marketing strategies. I used to live in Seattle, and now live near Portland, Maine, with my family.

Joni Klippert

Co-Founder and CEO - StackHawk

Joni is the CEO and co-founder of StackHawk. She has deep experience building products as a product leader in the DevOps ecosystem, including growing companies from seed through high growth and acquisition. Now, her primary focus is helping developers find and fix security bugs before they deploy to production and bringing security and developer teams together. When she's not in CEO mode, she loves to travel, try new foods, and enjoy time at home with her husband and two dogs, Q and Tokyo.

Dan Hopkins

VP of Engineering - StackHawk

Dan Hopkins is the VP of engineering at StackHawk. He has experience building engineering teams from 0 to big, managing architecture and design, and establishing evolving development processes. His personal philosophy is to develop teams first and then software. Away from the keyboard, he loves skiing, camping, playing the piano, and reading (and can provide a book reference for just about any topic). And yes, he’s a Colorado local; of course, his favorite time to be out driving is when it’s dumping powder.

Michael Field

Senior Solutions Engineer - Gravitee.io

Michael is an accomplished Senior Solutions Engineer at Gravitee.io. His dedication to lifelong learning recently led him to delve into software development, where he merges technical prowess with creative freedom, and has a great ability for problem solving. Outside of work, he enjoys diverse interests from sports to literature, with a keen passion for discussing cutting-edge research.

Shane Utt

Staff Software Engineer - Kong

Software engineer specializing in Kubernetes, Linux, networking, container orchestration and distributed systems.

Sheldon Schwart zenberger

Manager, Enterprise Applications - Prospera

Sheldon is the manager of the development team at Prospera Credit Union. He has worked in technology in finance for 25 years.

Anoop Gupta

Senior Engineering Manager - Capital One

Software Engineering leader with experience in Financial Services, Investment Banking & Information Technology domains. Specializes in API Security, API Governance, Cybersecurity, Identity Access Management, Data Protection, High-Performance Distributed Computing, Privacy. Leading multiple Software Engineering teams in Capital One and worked as Individual Contributor to deliver value to more than 100 million customers across a diverse set of businesses. Designed & developed applications using OAuth2, OpenID Connect, API Gateway, Identity Provider, Microservices architecture, Distributed Messaging, Caching, Relational and NoSQL Databases, Enterprise Architecture, Cryptographic Key Management, Observability, AWS cloud services.

Felderi Santiago

VP of Solutions Engineering - Kong

Extensive experience in leading global teams of pre-sales Engineers to help customers address their business challenges while meeting and exceeding Sales objectives.

Before joining Kong, I held positions at Centrify Corporation, Ford Motor Company, Goldman Sachs and IBM.

I earned my undergraduate in Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and a Masters in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.

I also enjoy biking (road and mountain), coaching youth baseball, playing softball on the weekends and spending time with my wife and two daughters.

Eric Belisle

Sales Engineer - Hasura

Eric Belisle is a full stack developer with over 15 years of experience, including extensive work with Hasura technologies for the past four years. He recently joined Hasura as a Solutions Engineer, focusing on leveraging his expertise in GraphQL to enhance data connectivity solutions. His extensive background in API development and integration provides him with a robust foundation for addressing complex technical challenges. Eric excels at converting intricate technical details into actionable insights, advancing data handling practices in various sectors.

Michael Berger

Solutions Engineer - Apollo GraphQL

With a passion for streamlining data flows, Michael Berger brings over 10 years of experience in API integrations to the table. His journey began as a full stack software developer, providing a rock-solid foundation in both building applications and connecting them seamlessly. Now, as a Solution Engineer, Michael leverages this expertise to translate business needs into efficient API solutions.

Peter Scheffler

Sr. Cyber Security Solutions Architect - F5 API Security

Peter has over 25 years of experience in the software industry with another decade before that as an amateur programmer. Peter has spent the last 15 years in the world of web application development and application security. As an independent consultant, Peter spent time developing solutions for securing network and application access for Fortune 1000 and security conscious government organizations. Peter currently works with F5 Networks as a Cyber Security Solutions Architect where he focuses on security opportunities across North America, specializing in DDoS, SSL Intercept/Visibility and Web Application Firewall cases

Keith Halsall

Solutions Engineer - Apollo GraphQL

Bringing 15 years of experience as a software engineer focusing on APIs and data connectivity, Keith Halsall has worked in and solved problems facing companies in a variety of industries. Now working for Apollo, Keith brings that expertise to help other companies solve their data connectivity challenges with a focus on GraphQL.

Awah Teh

VP, Data Governance & Privacy Engineering - Capital One

Results-driven & strategic thinking technology executive and serial entrepreneur focused on driving innovation and industry-wide disruption while leveraging data products and big data analytics. Diverse experience and background in Fintech, AdTech, Healthcare, and Media with lived experiences in all phases of growth from seed-startup to global enterprise scale.

Ruben Gonzalez

API Management and Integration Specialist - Google Cloud

As a Google Cloud Solutions Architect, Ruben specializes in guiding businesses of all sizes leverage APIs and Enterprise Integration technologies to connect with customers, employees and partners. Through his contributions and proficiency in the domains of API Management and Enterprise Integration, customers are empowered to harness their digital transformation investments effectively.

Ruben has recently focused on facilitating AI-powered applications, ensuring secure, managed, and reliable access
to data and enterprise applications.

Madhukar Kakaraparthi

Senior Director, Integration Technologies - Tapestry

* Highly motivated and experienced subject matter expert and leader with extensive experience in defining and guiding information technology vision, strategy, and execution for major organizations, with experience that includes the oversight of application integration delivery on a global scale

* An effective subject matter expert, capable of transforming business needs into technological solutions, adding value through the focused application of suitable technology while engaging in large-scale IT project management. A proven history of leading the development and launch of groundbreaking applications and platforms.