API WORLD
Tracks & Topics
API Design and Development
Distributed computing is enabled by communication between the services and the applications they support. Designing the API first and working from there ensures your team is delivering effective tools and services while allowing for parallel development between teams as they agree to work toward a common “API contract”. In this track, experts share the latest in API design best practices, discuss the various design approaches, protocols, and formats and how to analyze their fit for a variety of use cases, and discuss the processes and tooling that can help your teams build better APIs to deliver value for your organization and your customers.
APIs and AI
The AI revolution is fueled on data, providing many organizations opportunities to influence the direction of and customize AI and ML models and agent applications while generating additional revenue both through personalized access and the monetization of their information flows. Exposing data through APIs to AI models can be fraught with concerns around data privacy, maintaining secure access, keeping connected applications performant, and aligning with ethical standards. Learn from the experiences of leaders in the industry as they share how they have overcome these challenges and made the most of making their APIs accessible for use by AI models.
API Security
Many organizations balk at first when confronted with the idea of exposing their data as APIs on the open internet. Hardening the security of your APIs can not be an afterthought – security and regulatory compliance must be baked directly into their design. In this track, we explore security topics relevant to your API program, highlight the main areas of concern, and surface the processes and technologies that can help your security teams sleep better at night knowing your data and systems are secure.
API Program and Developer Relations
A successful API program goes well beyond just the services it presents to developers. To realize the gains promised by an API program, organizations must also focus on developer onboarding, technical support, documentation operations, access controls, service segmentation and more. Join us as we explore the best practices and technologies that can help turn your API program into a strategic powerhouse for your organization’s success.
Business Optimization through APIs
APIs are no longer the sole domain of the engineering organization – many lines of business employ technical experts to integrate and customize business tools to help subject matter experts more effectively generate optimized results. Technical experts and business leaders will share their knowledge on implementing both third-party and internal APIs to optimize internal processes and workflows and create positive business outcomes across the enterprise.
Partnership and Integration Strategy
APIs enable digitally transformed businesses to say “yes” to more opportunities, increasing revenue, contributing to growth goals, and allowing complex business partnerships and integrations to flourish by securely sharing data and functionality. In this track, experts share their best practices and strategies to help your APIs work for growing your business.
Testing, Deploying, and Monitoring APIs and Services
Well designed, managed, tested, and documented APIs significantly reduce the time necessary for developer customers to integrate them while reducing the support load on the technical staff that supports them. Poor developer experiences lead to increased support costs and customer churn. Hear from experts who share their best practices in creating API programs that delight developers and increase loyalty while protecting the integrity of your data and functionality.