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Open Banking is just the start. Digital Marketplaces are changing the way customer value is delivered. Across industries – banking and investment, insurance, payments, communications, travel, retail and business services – enterprises and startups alike must build a partner ecosystem enabled by APIs, or make their own services plug-and-play so they can participate in others’ marketplaces.
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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Asia’s diverse cultures, economies and regulatory environments present challenges for firms wanting to scale their business. Yet these are opportunities for those who have learned to partner to deliver great customer experiences. Building a partner ecosystem enabled by flexible, secure and sustainable Application Programming Interfaces is key. Marketplaces enable customers to plug-and-play the services they need.
We are gathering the best experts and companies on the business and technology of APIs to show you how to develop the skills, build a platform, and how “as-a-Service” re-defines how to serve customers. Join us to learn:
Founder of Kapronasia
Zennon Kapron is the Director of Kapronasia, one of Asia's leading financial technology research and consulting firms. Prior to Kapronasia, Zennon was the Asia Pacific Financial Industry Manager and Global Banking Industry Manager for Intel.
CIO Technology Strategy & aXess at Standard Chartered Bank
Dr. Sebastian Wedeniwski is the CIO Technology Strategy & aXess at Standard Chartered Bank. He joined the Bank in April 2017 and is based in Singapore. In this role, he is leading the Bank’s technology and data strategy, enterprise architecture and is driving the Bank’s digital and innovation agenda across the Bank’s markets and business segments. Sebastian is pioneering foundation services, building and operating the aXess platform for Open Banking both internally and externally to offer developers open access to the Bank’s open source code for banking products and its APIs, applications, and libraries. Sebastian is globally building and managing aXess Labs for in-house developers and external partners, and in co-location aXess Academy as a technology learning institute to up skill the technology expertise of the Bank for platforms and partnerships. He manages the bank-wide Technology Standards and API lifecycle.
APAC Open Banking Lead Analyst at IDC
Regional Manager (APAC) & Director (Australia) at platform.sh
Digital Strategist and Product Manager Open Banking at Axway
Uli has been working with data engineering & distributed systems since the early days of the internet. Previously with companies including Microsoft, Red Hat, Yahoo! and IBM, he now helps Axway customers create innovative, data-driven platforms using state-of-the-art building blocks for API Management, data integration, and analytics.
Head of Customer Engineering - Asia & Japan at ForgeRock
Founder & CEO of APIMatic
ABOUT
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.
Solutions and Integrations Architect at FWD Group
Co-Founder & CTO of Postman
Ankit Sobti is the co-founder and CTO of Postman, an API Development Platform used by over 20 Million developers in more than 400,000 companies around the world. With previous engineering roles at Adobe and Yahoo, and experience in product, business, and development, he now leads the core technology group at Postman. Ankit is a big Neutral Milk Hotel fan and Chelsea FC supporter. He loves his piano, books, beers, and bacon.
Sing up for INTERFACE here.
CTO & Co-Founder at Kong
ABOUT
Marco Palladino is an inventor, software developer and internet entrepreneur based in San Francisco, California. He is the co-founder and CTO of Kong, the most widely adopted open source API platform. Besides being a core maintainer, Marco is currently responsible for the design and delivery of the Kong products, while also providing the technical thought leadership around APIs and microservices within Kong and the external community. Marco was also the co-founder of Mashape, which started in 2010 and is today the largest API marketplace in the world.
Software Engineer at Airbnb
Jessica has worked at Airbnb for 4 years, starting as a full-stack product engineer for the guest and host booking flow and is now an infrastructure engineer on the Core Services team. She leads the user data service, which is one of Airbnb’s highest QPS services and integrates with all business verticals. In addition to driving best practices for service development, she is a member of Leadership & Development committee for women in tech at Airbnb. Prior to Airbnb, Jessica received her Masters of Computer Science at Stanford and her Bachelors degree from UCLA.
Senior Developer Advocate Engineer at Auth0
Associate Director, Engineering/Architecture at WSO2
Technical Solutions Architect, ASEAN & Rest of Asia at NGINX
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.
Global Business Development Lead, AWS Marketplace at Amazon
Emmelyn Wang has 20 years of experience driving business across many industries including eCommerce and global distribution as a software and technology innovation leader. She focuses on DevOps and the role of API management, integration, and low/no code products and platform programs and creating profitable ecosystems through meaningful integrations. Recently, she served and led efforts as part of Axway’s Office of the CTIO. In her new role, she is leading a category business on AWS Marketplace to make it easier for customers to find, try and buy, and deploy software. She is an internationally recognized speaker and thought leader for the business of APIs and the platforms and ecosystems they serve. Emmelyn's background also includes developer community engagement, working on API product teams building APIs for internal and external stakeholders, and supporting partners integrating with APIs. She has also led technical marketing teams creating engineering-focused content to innovate in both software and hardware supporting global companies to break revenue and adoption records. She started her career in Austin, Silicon Hills (Texas) where she also contributed to the growth of several startups. Emmelyn served on the core team of the AsyncAPI specification, sister spec to the OAS spec. She holds a Masters in Technical Communication. She contributed and spoke at GDS Insight, CIO Leadership, API Days, API the Docs, Nordic APIs Annual Summit, Write the Docs, Lavacon, Women Who Code, and other digital business events worldwide. She runs the APIOps Meet up and is based in Dallas, TX.
Senior Vice President & GM APJ at HERE Technologies
Compute SA Leader, Asia-Pacific & Japan at AWS
VP Business Transformation, Consumer Financial Services at OCBC
Chief Transformation and Digital Officer at AXA
As a C-Suite Business and Digital Executive with 15 years of professional experience, I create value for customers and organizations by solving strategic problems, seeking and harnessing new opportunities. I am a change agent leading complex and transversal transformation initiatives that bring people together and position companies as innovators and industry leaders.
Head of Financial Solutions at WSO2
Co-Founder & COO of Bambu
Reformed corporate executive, who has rediscovered his identity in the creative madness of startups. Compulsive writer and voracious reader of history. Part-time space explorer.
Currently working on three things to make the future better:
1) Helping 100 million people save and invest for the future.
2) Ending the global stress epidemic.
3) Closely tracking the advance of general A.I.
Vice President, Open Banking / API Business Manager at OCBC Bank
General Manager, South East Asia at eBaoTech
EMEA Senior Edge Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat
ABOUT
Well-rounded and curious, with experience in designing ICT services and managing innovative projects. Cooperative team builder and team leader, able to coordinate resource and projects efficiently (even remotely), while maintaining a high level of attention to details and quality. Not scared by new challenges and looking for new opportunities to apply logic and creativity.
General Manager Singapore at IT Consultis
Digital Financial Specialist at IFC
Specialties: Financial Services expertise:
Operations development and management
Business Development, strategy and process improvement
Financial planning
Policy and regulation
Compliance
Microfinance
Retail service innovation
Payments
Due diligence
Management of operational and IT teams
Policy research management
Publications
DevOps, Integration and APIs Lead at Software AG
Agile and DevOps evangelist and self-confessed technophile. Working as a senior member of the Asia, Pacific and Japan presales team, Ian applies his more than 15 years of webMethods experience to helping our customers to be more competitive and keep up with the cloud-native disrupters.
Chief Technology Solutions Officer at Solace
Sumeet Puri is the Chief Technology Solutions Officer at Solace, where he works closely with CIOs, CTOs and Chief Architects helping them on a real time, event driven technology transformation journey. He is a thought leader and regular public speaker in technology forums.
Sumeet has extensive experience in building mission critical, agile and high performance systems in multiple industry verticals, including Banking, Telco, Transportation and Manufacturing, with some of the world’s most complex enterprises. In recent times, Sumeet has been working on event driven architectures in hybrid cloud settings, institutionalising innovation via a real time data movement foundation.
Based in Singapore, prior to joining Solace, Sumeet has performed various technology roles with TIBCO and BEA (now Oracle), working with multiple enterprises across the globe.
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.
Axway’s integration solutions simplify and accelerate your digital transformation and customer experience initiatives. Our flagship Axway AMPLIFY™ Hybrid Integration Platform (HIP) speeds the discovery, use and deployment of integrations by combining traditional integration patterns with APIs surfaced in a unified catalog. Traditional integration patterns are supported for B2B Integration, Managed File Transfer, and Content Collaboration that are delivered along with API Management and Application Integration (via more than 150 prebuilt connectors), all in a single platform experience. More than 11,000 organizations in 100 countries and across a diverse spectrum of industries continue to benefit from Axway’s unrelenting commitment to solving the world’s data integration challenges.
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
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
Software AG’s end-to-end API solutions enable connection between applications, data and services—enabling your business to expose data and services in web apps, mobile apps, Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and other endpoints. Software AG’s webMethods API Management platform provides lifecycle management for APIs including an API gateway for security and policy management, as well as a developer’s portal to help your community discover, test and sign up for APIs. We also provide an API catalog for full API lifecycle management, and a microgateway for securing APIs in distributed microservices architectures. We offer to build an ecosystem connected by APIs where the constituents share information, data and services to unlock value.
Postman is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide. Postman is an elegant, flexible tool used to build connected software via APIs — quickly, easily and accurately.
Learn more at http://www.getpostman.com
Tyk is a leading Open Source API Gateway and Management Platform, featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. We power millions of transactions per day, for thousands of innovative organisations including AXA, Cisco, Starbucks, and USA Today. Fast, flexible, and highly-performant, Tyk is available to install on-premises, as a cloud service, or hybrid. Learn more at https://tyk.io/
NGINX, Inc., now part of F5, is the company behind the popular open source project. We offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. Together with F5, our combined solution bridges the gap between NetOps and DevOps, with multi‑cloud application services that span from code to customer.
Moskitos offers an innovative cloud service designed to accelerate Enterprise client’s move to the cloud and seamlessly connect cloud innovation to legacy on-premise applications. We use connectors, transformation blocks and a powerful workflow engine to create data flows and orchestrations!” Website: https://moskitos.asia/
Platform.sh is a Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that develops and delivers applications in multiple languages and frameworks across multiple clouds.
APIMatic is a Developer Experience Platform for APIs. Our aim is to make developers more productive through automation.
With our state of the art CodeGen Engine, API providers can automatically generate Documentation, SDKs, Code Samples and Test cases in multiple languages, along with a customisable developer portal to host it all!
UEX uses smart technology to make health insurance simple and human-centric. This insurtech has launched UWS (UEX Web Services), a platform-as-a-service to enhance insurance companies distribution channels and improve customer service.
Brankas is building the next generation of Open APIs and infrastructure for Banks, Insurance, and other Financial Institutions across Southeast Asia.
