OpenAPI Workshop and Summit

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 @ Santa Clara Convention Center

OpenAPI Initiative Workshop: API Management in Practice: Delivering at Scale with OpenAPI and Arazzo

Frank Kilcommins @ SmartBear & Erik Wilde @ INNOQ

Join this workshop to explore modern, governance-driven strategies for effective API delivery, using OpenAPI and Arazzo as canonical sources of truth. We’ll navigate the full API lifecycle—from clarifying business requirements through example mapping, enforcing standards via API linting, to adopting extensible design and testing practices that support safe, iterative evolution. Through a practical, hands-on walkthrough, attendees will learn how OpenAPI and Arazzo can drive consistent documentation, mocking, validation, and automation—streamlining development, strengthening governance, and elevating both provider and consumer experiences.

Who should attend?
This workshop is designed for anyone involved in the delivery or consumption of APIs—including product managers, software developers, architects, testers, technical writers, and API program managers. Whether you’re shaping API strategy or contributing to implementation, you’ll gain a clearer understanding of the diverse tasks required to deliver high-quality, long-lived APIs—and how governance and standards help make that possible. No programming experience is required, though we’ll work through examples in JSON and YAML formats.

This session is especially valuable for those with a basic to moderate understanding of APIs who want to deepen their practical knowledge in API design, delivery, and productization. We’ll also explore how these practices can be scaled effectively across teams and organizations.

Key takeaways:

• Key practices for delivering high-quality APIs and managing them across the full lifecycle.
• Tools and techniques to streamline your workflow as an API producer—from design to delivery.
• Tools and techniques to improve your experience as an API consumer—from discovery to integration.
• How governance and standards support modern API delivery through linting, style guides, conformance checks, and catalogs.
• An introduction to core specifications shaping today’s API landscape, including OpenAPI, Arazzo, and Spectral.

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