API World 2025 is the world’s largest API & microservices conference, and the 2025 API Awards are the definitive awards for the API & microservices industry.
The 2025 API Awards are given out for 20 categories, and the Advisory Board for API World, made up of industry veterans, will select category winners after the public nomination process concludes.
The API Awards celebrate innovation, adoption and reception in the API & microservices industry and by the developer community.
The 2025 API Awards nominations are accepted now through Thursday, June 26, 2025, and winners will be announced on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. Winners will be presented with awards during the 2025 API Awards Ceremony. Recipients receive (2) VIP Passes to API World 2025, a commemorative award, and media promotion and industry recognition.
Nominations are public and any technology, product or service that is or interacts with an application programming interface (API) or microservice is eligible for nomination. Nominees for the Innovator Award must be a person or team responsible for a significant innovation in the industry.
Categories
Innovator of the Year
Best API Debut
Best in API Coding/Design Tools
Best in API Developer Experience
Best in API Infrastructure
Best in API Gateways
Best in API Management
Best in API Observability
Best in API Orchestration
Best in API Security
Best in API Standards & Specifications
Best in IPaaS (Integration as a Service)
Best in Microservices Infrastructure
Best AI API
Best Automotive API
Best Business Software API
Best Communications API
Best Data API
Best DevOps API
Best Finance API
Best Gaming API
Best Health API
Best IoT API
Best Location API
Best Media API
Best Payment API
Timeline
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Nominations close: Judging begins
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Winners Notified
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
2025 API Awards
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM
2025 API Awards Ceremony @ API World 2025
Advisory Board
Paul Bailey
Chief Architect
Cognitive Space
Jason Cumberland
CPO, Co-Founder
HyperCurrent
Amol Dewhare
Co-founder & CEO
Conektto Inc
Nuwan Dias
VP and Deputy CTO
WSO2
Werner Eriksen
Senior Director Engineering
Cisco
Sai Pragna Etikyala
Tech Lead
Twilio
Nicolas Fränkel
Head of Developer Relations
API7.ai
Omri Gazitt
Co-founder / CEO
Aserto Inc.
Rajoshi Ghosh
COO
Hasura
Derric Gilling
CEO
Moesif
Jeremy Glassenberg
Product Lead, APIs
DocuSign
Neha Gupta
Co-Founder
Keploy
Tom Hacohen
Founder & CEO
Svix
Avinash Harsh
CEO
Weavr Cafe
Charles Herrin
API Security
F5
Jonathan Holmes
CTO
Grey Matter
Brenton House
Vice President, Digital Evangelism
Software AG
Anusha Iyer
CTO and Co-founder
Corsha, Inc.
Frank Kilcommins
Principal API Technical Evangelist
SmartBear
Karthik Krishnaswamy
Head of Product Marketing
ngrok
Matthew LeRay
CTO, Co-founder
Speedscale
Nuno Loureiro
CEO
Probely
Lori Marshall
VP of Product
Ambassador
Elijah Martinez
Product Manager
SAP
Tiago Mendo
CTO & Co-founder
Probely
Intesar Shannan Mohammed
Founder & CEO
PerfAI, Inc.
Bill Oakes
Head of Layer7 product marketing
Broadcom
Victor Olex
Founder and CEO
SlashDB
Smruti Patel
VP of Engineering
Apollo GraphQL
Ben Pedazur
CTO
echo3D
Bostjan Pisler
CEO
Space Invoices
Nick Rago
Field Chief Technology Officer
Salt Security
Aravind Babu Ramadugu
Principal
Slalom Consulting
Sagi Rodin
CEO and Co-Founder
Frontegg
Karol Rogowski
Head of Engineering
Karol Rogowski Software
Naphat Sanguansin
Co-Founder & CTO
Prodvana
Amit Sharma
Security Evangelist
Infinite Security
Darshan Shivashankar
Founder, CEO
APIwiz Inc
Andreas Silén
CTO
Roaring.io
Mike Stowe
Director, Developer Marketing
RingCentral
Mark Szewczul
Security Center of Excellence Lead
Nokia
Ameya Talwalkar
President and CEO
Cequence Security
Joel Varty
CTO
Agility
Tanya Vlahovic
Head of Engineering, 3P Ecosystem Experiences
Intuit