Director, Product Management, Integration Portfolio, IBM
Rashmi Kaushik is the Executive Product Director for the Integration portfolio of offerings that spans API Management and Gateways. Prior to this, Rashmi led the Data Privacy and Governance product portfolio in IBM Data & AI. Rashmi brings in-depth experience from her prior roles... Read More →
Director, Product Management, Integration Portfolio, IBM
Ram Menon is the Director of Product Management for IBM’s Event Automation Product Portfolio. He is working with a team of Rockstar PMs to shape the future of Events Portfolio at IBM and the next generation of Event Driven Architectures. Ram brings over two decades of industry experience... Read More →
Kumar Kandaswamy, Platformify, Serial platform builder
Every company should be a platform company. That's what led me to Best Buy in 2010 where I was hired as the founding GM to build their platform business. We delivered a billion $ API business from scratch in less than 5 years. This session will showcase our journey, the lessons learned and how other organizations could benefit from the experience.
Kumar Kandaswamy is a veteran Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and intrapreneur with over 30 years industry experience spanning various industries. Kumar is a serial platform builder having built and scaled API and platform ecosystems for early stage startups like Chegg, RapidAPI... Read More →
Geoff Schmidt, Apollo GraphQL, CEO and co-founder Michael Watson, Apollo GraphQL, Developer Advocate
Forget what you’ve heard about GraphQL – it’s not a REST alternative, graph database, or just for frontend developers. GraphQL is about combining together the APIs you already have. In this talk, you’ll learn how a federated GraphQL architecture brings a platform approach to API composition, where it fits into the API stack, and what is coming next to help teams build tomorrow’s AI products and experiences on today’s APIs.
Geoff Schmidt is the co-founder and CEO of Apollo GraphQL, the leader in federated, open source, and commercial GraphQL technologies. The company has raised more than $170 million to build toward its mission of helping app developers help the world. Apollo’s open-source GraphQL... Read More →
Michael Watson is a Developer Advocate at Apollo GraphQL, where he plays a key role in educating and empowering the developer community to build modern applications using Apollo GraphQL technology. Michael is passionate about bridging the gap between development and advocacy, helping... Read More →
Suman Devarasetti, U.S. Bank, Vice President, Software Engineering Director
Join me at API World 2024 conference as I delve into the transformative synergy of APIs and AI in building Intelligent Applications. Discover how these technologies intersect to revolutionize app development, enabling seamless integration of AI capabilities and fostering innovation across industries. From enhancing customer experiences to optimizing business operations, explore real-world examples and best practices for leveraging APIs and AI to unlock the full potential of intelligent applications. This talk explores how APIs facilitate seamless integration of AI to enhance application functionalities. Through industry-specific use cases, the presentation illuminates the transformative potential across banking and finance, addressing challenges such as complexity, data privacy, and interoperability, and concluding with best practices for a successful integration. This discourse aims to provide a comprehensive overview for developers and businesses on leveraging these technologies to forge innovative, future-ready solutions.
Vice President, Director - Payments Core Modernization, U.S. Bank
Suman Devarasetti is currently a Vice President in U.S. Bank’s Payments Services, with primary focus on core modernization. A 17-year veteran of U.S. Bank, Suman started his career at the bank in sales and service management, subsequently holding various technology, product management... Read More →
In this session, Chief Architect Mike Bowers explains how he dreamt up a new JSON API to replace REST—one that could easily query and manage databases in any language, even without a driver.
Learn how he created and deployed the JSON DB API to POST JSON to a single URL over HTTPS. See just how simple development can be with jsonAction.
Mike will also demo how JSON DB API let’s you: —Use JSON to manage databases, tables, records, queries, etc. —Use stateful database sessions and cursors from stateless app servers. —Run jsonAction commands over HTTPS, WSS, and MQTTS. —Automatically map data between JSON and SQL.
Mike Bowers is chief architect at FairCom. He oversees the company's architecture and product roadmaps, which include high-performance SQL and JSON databases, IIoT platforms, and failsafe MQTT brokers. He has more than 35 years of experience in software development, database management... Read More →
In a world where data sprawl across heterogeneous data sources is the norm, maintaining high-quality API-first development can be a significant challenge. Supergraph architecture addresses this challenge by enabling teams to build robust API platforms that manage complexity and foster productivity. This session explores how the Supergraph’s metadata-driven approach allows for centralized and federated governance while providing decentralized data access. By driving API design and runtime through comprehensive metadata definitions, the Supergraph ensures consistency, simplifies integration with governance tools, and enhances developer efficiency. Discover how adopting Supergraph architecture can transform your API-first development process, allowing your teams to deliver more value in a rapidly evolving data landscape.
Praveen is a Developer Advocate at Hasura with over 10 years of full-stack web dev experience. Praveen was a core contributor to open source projects like hasura/graphql-engine, gatsby-gitbook-starter and evangelizes modern data access practices. Besides the day job, Praveen runs... Read More →
Is your company looking to improve revenue or reduce costs with AI? As businesses adopt AI they have heard of or discovered the horror stories of PII exposure, AI hallucinations and exploding costs. How can an AI Gateway help with these concerns? In this presentation you will learn how AI Gateways: Improve developer productivity. Add guardrails to corporate use of AI. Improve AI security and observability. Enforce AI compliance and abuse prevention. Control access to AI models
The presentation will explore using AI with existing API traffic and without coding as well as optimization of LLM usage with AI Gateway symantec functionality.
Steve Poyer has spent his entire career of over 20 years helping companies succeed with IT technology in the areas of Systems Management, Content Management, Content Networking, Enterprise Video, Load Balancing, API Management, Kubernetes and more recently, Artificial Intelligence... Read More →
Amitha Pulijala, Vonage, Vice President of Product, APIs and Partnerships
We are living in a world where notifications will transform into conversations wherever you are. Powered by GenAI, conversations will become the next digital storefront. So far, compute and storage were the two components required by developers to enable this new world. Network was a black box. But now, the network is opening up - the capabilities of 5G are being enabled as an easy to consume API that can create meaningful use cases for small developers and enterprises.
Vice President of Product, APIs and Partnerships, Vonage
Amitha is the Vice President of Product at Vonage where she is driving the strategy and vision for Vonage’s Video, Voice engagement solutions and hyperscale partnerships. Amitha enjoys working with dynamic teams to launch scalable products and loves exploring new technology. Amitha... Read More →
Data Mesh Architecture is the fourth generation of the “modern data stack”. This approach focuses on the creation of ‘data products’ that feed data from data warehouses or data lakes back into operational systems. REST APIs are at the heart of this architecture and we are seeing a whole new set of use cases based on this approach.
Terence is the CEO of DreamFactory Software. Previously, he was the Director of Operations at DreamFactory Software. Before joining DreamFactory, led operations at TeamPassword, was a member of Google RedTeam, and served as a U.S. Navy Officer during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
