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Tuesday, November 5
 

12:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (API): Automating and Scaling the Creative Process with Adobe Firefly Services
Tuesday November 5, 2024 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage C
Raymond Camden, Adobe, Senior Developer Evangelist

Creatives of all sorts are under pressure to generate assets for multiple campaigns, regions, products, styles, and more. Generative AI can be an incredible boost for productivity while allowing designers control over the creative process. In this session, I'll introduce you to Adobe's Firefly Services, a set of easy to use REST APIs for AI image creation, image manipulation, and audio and video enhancements. 
Speakers
avatar for Raymond Camden

Raymond Camden

Senior Developer Evangelist, Adobe
Raymond Camden is a Senior Developer Evangelist for Adobe. He helps developers learn and adopt multiple APIs at Adobe. He is the author of multiple books on web development and has been actively blogging and presenting for almost twenty years. Raymond can be reached at his blog... Read More →
Tuesday November 5, 2024 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage C
  API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI, IoT, Blockchain, Web3, XR

2:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (API): Next Gen API Ecosystem
Tuesday November 5, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage C
John Power, Ostia Solutions, CEO

Join us for a look into the next generation of API Ecosystem design and deployment, led by industry experts John and Leo. In this workshop, you'll learn how a No-Code approach can transform the API lifecycle: enabling rapid development, and fostering greater collaboration among stakeholders.

We'll tackle common challenges head-on, including ensuring consistency across environments (Sandbox, Test & Production) and refining partner, developer and end-user experiences.

Speakers
avatar for John Power

John Power

CEO, Ostia Solutions
John Power has over 40 years experience in software development and has focused on the the design and deployment of APIs / API Ecosystems for the past 20 years.
Tuesday November 5, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage C
  API World: API Innovation, Hybrid APIs

4:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (API): Using Vector Databases for Multimodal Search and Retrieval Augmented Generation
Tuesday November 5, 2024 4:00pm - 4:50pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage C
Zain Hasan, Together AI, Senior ML DevRel Engineer

Many real-world problems are inherently multimodal, from the communicative modalities humans use such as spoken language and gestures to the force, sensory, and visual sensors used in robotics. For machine learning models to address these problems and interact more naturally and wholistically with the world around them and ultimately be more general and powerful reasoning engines, we need them to understand data across all of its corresponding images, video, text, audio, and tactile representations.

In this talk, Zain Hasan will discuss how we can use open-source multimodal embedding models in conjunction with large generative multimodal models that can that can see, hear, read, and feel data(!), to perform cross-modal search(searching audio with images, videos with text etc.) and multimodal retrieval augmented generation (MM-RAG) at the billion-object scale with the help of open source vector databases. I will also demonstrate, with live code demos, how being able to perform this cross-modal retrieval in real-time can enables users to use LLMs that can reason over their enterprise multimodal data. This talk will revolve around how we can scale the usage of multimodal embedding and generative models in production.
Speakers
avatar for Zain Hasan

Zain Hasan

Senior ML DevRel Engineer, Together AI
Zain Hasan is a Senior ML DevRel Engineer at Together AI an open-source vector database. He is an engineer and data scientist by training, who pursued his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Toronto building artificially intelligent assistive technologies. He then... Read More →
Tuesday November 5, 2024 4:00pm - 4:50pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage C
  API World: API Innovation, Industries: Open Banking & Healthcare & Retail

4:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (API): Catalyst APIs: Your Solution for Fragmentation, Code Sprawl and Vendor Lock-in
Tuesday November 5, 2024 4:00pm - 4:50pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
Fernando Rocha, Diagrid, Customer Success Engineer

Starting a new project can be daunting. Choosing a technology for messaging, storage, workflows (and others) is a big commitment that takes time for developers. An ever increasing number of libraries, frameworks, cloud services and infrastructure lead to code sprawl, refactoring, lock-in, and security vulnerabilities, forcing developers to become experts of everything and ship code that’s hard to maintain. Switching between technologies is a risky, incredibly complex, and costly process. The flexibility is there, but it has a big price.

Meet Catalyst!

Powered by Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime), the 12th largest Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, Catalyst provides developers with APIs that remain consistent while the underlying infrastructure can be swapped out with little to no code changes. For teams using multiple programming languages or running in multiple clouds, Catalyst provides a single API for interacting with the underlying infrastructure, drastically reducing the amount of code and maintenance you’re on the hook for. Not only that, these APIs already embed best practices on security and reliability. If that's not amazing enough, Catalyst runs as-a-service, so there’s nothing to install or manage!

Join us to learn how Catalyst can add infrastructure flexibility, zero trust security, and fault tolerance to your distributed solutions with no extra development time!
Speakers
avatar for Fernando Rocha

Fernando Rocha

Customer Success Engineer, Diagrid
Fernando is a Customer Success Engineer @ Diagrid.io specializing in distributed architectures on Dapr OSS.Fernando is also a founding member of the Cloud Native Vancouver Chapter. For the last 10 of his 15 years of experience in IT, Fernando has been helping teams modernize and innovate... Read More →
Tuesday November 5, 2024 4:00pm - 4:50pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: Microservices World, Microservices Design & Architecture

5:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (API): AI Needs APIs: Dynamic Data Access for Next-Gen Experiences
Tuesday November 5, 2024 5:00pm - 5:50pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage C
Andrew Carlson, Apollo GraphQL, Principal Field Architect

Gartner predicts that by 2026, more than 30% of the increase in demand for APIs will come from artificial intelligence and tools using large language models. API sprawl is a hazardous form of technical debt. It has hard costs from hosting and scaling a fleet of APIs, real security risks and an increased operational burden from the sheer number of APIs that platform engineering teams need to manage. With GraphQL, any client, even an LLM, can request exactly the data they need without over or under-fetching. And with federated GraphQL, the data can come from any underlying API.

Learn popular use cases for implementing the graph in an AI-driven experience, how organizations can safely adopt AI on a spectrum from low to high trust, and why GraphQL is an ideal API access layer for AI.
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Carlson

Andrew Carlson

Principal Field Architect, Apollo GraphQL
Andrew is an experienced Principal Architect and leader who lives to collect experiences and new perspectives, and he’s gathered a lot of hobbies along the way.When he’s not helping companies like Ford, Amex, Sherwin-Williams, and Unilever scale their architecture and technical... Read More →
Tuesday November 5, 2024 5:00pm - 5:50pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage C
  API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web & XR

5:00pm PST

PRO WORKSHOP (API): Need a Backend for Your Frontend?
Tuesday November 5, 2024 5:00pm - 5:50pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage A
Terje Woldseth, Softeria AS, CEO

Can you create your API-enabled backend with a no-code service?

Explore the opportunities provided by no-code/low-code providers to create POCs, MVPs and production-grade solutions.

Reduced cost and time-to-market vs. the flexibility of a homegrown backend.
Speakers
avatar for Terje Woldseth

Terje Woldseth

CEO, Softeria
CEO and founder at Softeria AS, CTO and founder at Twoday Avento AS, CTO and founder at Payex AS
Tuesday November 5, 2024 5:00pm - 5:50pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage A
  API World: API Innovation, Hybrid APIs
 
Wednesday, November 6
 

9:30am PST

KEYNOTE (API): IBM - Leading the Future with AI and APIs, a Powerful Duo
Wednesday November 6, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am PST
API World -- Main Stage
Rashmi Kaushik, IBM, Director, Product Management, Integration Portfolio
Ram Menon, IBM, Director, Product Management, Integration Portfolio
Speakers
avatar for Rashmi Kaushik

Rashmi Kaushik

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 →
avatar for Ram Menon

Ram Menon

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 →
Wednesday November 6, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am PST
API World -- Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED, API World

11:30am PST

PRO SESSION (API): How We Built a Billion $$ API Business for a Leading Retailer (Best Buy)
Wednesday November 6, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
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. 
Speakers
avatar for Kumar Kandaswamy

Kumar Kandaswamy

Serial platform builder, Platformify
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 →
Wednesday November 6, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: API Innovation, Industries: Open Banking & Healthcare & Retail

1:30pm PST

KEYNOTE (API): Apollo GraphQL -- The Year Ahead for GraphQL Federation: Combining APIs for the AI Era
Wednesday November 6, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
API World -- Main Stage
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.
Speakers
avatar for Geoff Schmidt

Geoff Schmidt

CEO & Co-founder, Apollo GraphQL
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 →
avatar for Michael Watson

Michael Watson

Developer Advocate, Apollo GraphQL
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 →
Wednesday November 6, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
API World -- Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED, API World

2:00pm PST

KEYNOTE (API): U.S. Bank -- APIs and AI - Building Intelligent Applications
Wednesday November 6, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
API World -- Main Stage
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. 
Speakers
avatar for Suman Devarasetti

Suman Devarasetti

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 →
Wednesday November 6, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
API World -- Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED, API World

2:30pm PST

OPEN SESSION (API): Rest Doesn’t Cut It. I Needed a Simple JSON API—So I Built One
Wednesday November 6, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
API World -- Expo Discovery Stage
Mike Bowers, FairCom, Chief Architect

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.
Speakers
avatar for Mike Bowers

Mike Bowers

Chief Architect, FairCom
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 →
Wednesday November 6, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
API World -- Expo Discovery Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

2:30pm PST

OPEN SESSION (API): Supergraph: Putting the Domain Back in Your API First Architecture
Wednesday November 6, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
API World -- Main Stage
Praveen Durairaju, Hasura, Staff Developer Advocate

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.
Speakers
avatar for Praveen Durairaju

Praveen Durairaju

Staff Developer Advocate, Hasura
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 →
Wednesday November 6, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
API World -- Main Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

3:00pm PST

OPEN SESSION (API): Accelerate AI Adoption with an AI Gateway
Wednesday November 6, 2024 3:00pm - 3:50pm PST
API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
Steve Poyer, Kong, Senior Solutions Engineer

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.
Speakers
avatar for Steve Poyer

Steve Poyer

Senior Solutions Engineer, Kong
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 →
Wednesday November 6, 2024 3:00pm - 3:50pm PST
API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

3:30pm PST

KEYNOTE (API): Vonage -- Delivering on the Power of Network APIs to Change the World
Wednesday November 6, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm PST
API World -- Main Stage
Savinay Berry, Vonage, EVP Product and Engineering

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.

In this session, Savinay Berry, EVP Product and Engineering at Vonage will talk about how leveraging powerful APIs like Quality on Demand (QoD), Device Data, Network Verification, Device Location, etc, from the public wireless 5G network can change the way enterprises and developers engage more deeply with their customers - enabled by GenAI. 5G networks are complex. Simplifying this complexity and enabling a simple set of REST-based APIs that enable this new form of engagement will drive the future. Conversations will become the next digital storefront. Savinay will talk about how to enable that future with 5G networks and AI.

Savinay will also discuss the value of low code/no code APIs powered by a 5G innovation ecosystem that empowers the global developer community to create new, enhanced applications and services for businesses from startups to large enterprises.
Speakers
avatar for Savinay Berry

Savinay Berry

EVP Product and Engineering, Vonage
As EVP, Product and Engineering, Savinay Berry is responsible for global leadership of Vonage’s engineering and product management teams, focused on driving the Company’s technology strategy and innovation of the Vonage Communications Platform (VCP) and its portfolio of solutions... Read More →
Wednesday November 6, 2024 3:30pm - 3:55pm PST
API World -- Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED, API World

4:00pm PST

OPEN SESSION (API): Code Automation for APIs
Wednesday November 6, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm PST
API World -- Expo Discovery Stage
Terence Bennett, DreamFactory Software, CEO

A discussion of low code APIs - internal/private APIs use cases. Discuss when to adopt design first vs data first API development.
 
Speakers
avatar for Terence Bennett

Terence Bennett

CEO, DreamFactory Software
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.
Wednesday November 6, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm PST
API World -- Expo Discovery Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World
 
Thursday, November 7
 

9:30am PST

PRO SESSION (API): Unleashing GenAI's Potential for Advanced API Linting
Thursday November 7, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
Sridhar Kunisetty, Equinix, Principal Architect

An API linter plays a crucial role in ensuring that API specifications adhere to established standards, best practices, guidelines, and are free from potential errors. It is an essential component in the development process to ensure that APIs are well-designed, consistent, maintainable, reliable, secure and follow the organization's conventions and guidelines.

We present a new approach to API linting by harnessing the power of Generative AI (GenAI). Our solution involves training a Large Language Model (LLM) to act as an Advanced API Linter, capable of not only answering correctness queries but also analyzing API specifications and providing a comprehensive list of errors, violations, and issues.

Unlike traditional API linters, our GenAI solution eliminates the need for complex validation rules and specialized expertise. By training the LLM with our organization's API standards, best practices, and guidelines, we enable it to understand and enforce these rules effortlessly. Moreover, the training process is straightforward, and we can alternatively provide the necessary content as a context in the prompt to the LLM.

One of the key advantages of our GenAI approach is its user-friendliness. Instead of grappling with new syntax or programming languages to define validation rules, users can express their requirements in plain English. This democratizes API linting, empowering developers to improve API quality through self-service and facilitating the seamless adoption of an API-First approach.

During this session, we will showcase a range of use cases that demonstrate how GenAI can be leveraged to achieve advanced API linting capabilities. Additionally, we will explore the potential of utilizing a Small Language Model (SLM) as an alternative to the LLM, opening up new possibilities for API linting efficiency.

Join us as we unveil the future of API linting, where GenAI revolutionizes the development process, enhances API quality, and empowers developers to build robust and reliable APIs effortlessly.
Speakers
avatar for Sridhar Kunisetty

Sridhar Kunisetty

Principal Architect, Equinix
Sridhar has over 20 years of experience working in technical and management roles in startups and large companies in Silicon Valley Bay Area. Before joining Equinix to lead the API program, he was a Distinguished Engineer and a Chief Architect at other companies. He is a lead inventor... Read More →
Thursday November 7, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web & XR

9:30am PST

API World Roundtable: John Power, CEO, Ostia Solutions
Thursday November 7, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am PST
CloudX -- Expo Innovation Stage
Roundtables give attendees the opportunity to meet in small groups with API World, CloudX + Dev Innovation Summit speakers and industry leaders to discuss real-world topics relevant to you. These open roundtables are working sessions for in-depth industry conversations.
Speakers
avatar for John Power

John Power

CEO, Ostia Solutions
John Power has over 40 years experience in software development and has focused on the the design and deployment of APIs / API Ecosystems for the past 20 years.
Thursday November 7, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am PST
CloudX -- Expo Innovation Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

10:00am PST

OPEN SESSION (API): Unlocking Live Data Access for AI
Thursday November 7, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am PST
API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
Anushrut Gupta, Hasura, Senior Product Manager, Generative AI

“Over the last 3 months, summarize the top billing issues faced by my enterprise customers within the first 30 days of their onboarding.”

On the surface, building an internal AI customer intelligence application that can answer questions like this is a perfect use-case for Gen AI.
However, building a production ready app that retrieves the data (RAG) before hauling it off to your favorite LLM for summarization soon becomes a terrible engineering experience.

The data is spread across 3 places: a tickets database (eg: elastic), a CRM (eg: salesforce) and your user-accounts transactional database (eg: postgres).
In production, your app can’t access the data from these databases directly. Given security & privacy concerns, your app won’t have direct access to these databases.
Making independent retrieval requests to each of these sources and then joining them in memory might be prohibitively expensive and needs a level of query planning to do efficiently.
Moving all data into one location is expensive to build, maintain and govern
Predictable quality is further made hard because underlying data formats and storage interfaces are continuously changing.
Different types of user queries might require additional filtering and joining of data, which becomes hard to generalize.

APIs solve almost all of these very well known challenges. APIs offer standardization and security. APIs can provide a stable contract to interact with underlying data.

And in all likelihood, you already have APIs on these internal and external data sources.

Ironically, while APIs have become a necessity for other parts of the stack, they are clearly not the first thing that AI engineers building RAG reach for.

In this talk, we’ll discuss:
Why API based retrieval doesn’t work well for RAG
What we need from our existing internal and external APIs to make them RAG ready
How we can get existing APIs to become RAG ready without needing to rebuild the APIs

This talk will be technical, with code demos (possibly with some live coding!) and end with key resources (reference architectures, API best practices, tools/technologies) that attendees can take back to their work.
Speakers
avatar for Anushrut Gupta

Anushrut Gupta

Senior Product Manager, Generative AI, Hasura
Thursday November 7, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am PST
API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

11:00am PST

KEYNOTE (API): Boomi - The AI Revolution is API-Enabled
Thursday November 7, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am PST
API World -- Main Stage
Stephen Fishman, Boomi, Field CTO

As AI becomes more prevalent, communication between API endpoints is expanding rapidly. The current API economy is just the tip of the iceberg compared to what lies ahead in an AI-driven future. In this landscape, APIs are crucial for enabling AI integration and readiness, fundamentally transforming application development.

Discover techniques for strategic AI implementation, responsible automation, and effective API management to establish an AI-ready enterprise. Whether you’re an API developer, AI practitioner, or business stakeholder, this talk will provide insights for effective AI orchestration and turning AI readiness into a competitive advantage.

Key Takeaways:
- Practical methods to enhance AI integration with APIs
- Using AI ethically with APIs
- Insights on achieving AI readiness and avoiding pitfalls
Speakers
avatar for Stephen Fishman

Stephen Fishman

Field CTO, Boomi
Stephen Fishman (Fish), NA Field CTO for Boomi and author of "Unbundling the Enterprise," is a technologist who combines creativity, rigor, and human-centric problem-solving. He excels in aligning technology with business strategy, emphasizing iteration and cross-disciplinary collaboration... Read More →
Thursday November 7, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am PST
API World -- Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED, API World

11:30am PST

PRO SESSION (API): Meadow: LLM Agents for Data Tasks
Thursday November 7, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
Vishal Motwani, Numbers Station AI,  Founding Product Manager 
Amit Shah, JLL, Senior Director  

Numbers Station Labs is excited to release Meadow, the first open source agentic framework built for data workflows. Data workflows are multi-step processes where an analyst first transforms, generates, and analyzes structured data to gain insights and take action. Mutli-AI-agent architectures are proving to be the key to solving highly complex tasks with AI that one model alone cannot solve, and are paving the way for end-to-end data workflow automation. None of the existing general-purpose agent frameworks are tailor-built for data analysts and lack support for sharing knowledge across a data layer, data-aware task deconstruction, and iterative data debugging. To address these concerns, we’ve built Meadow—the first multi-agentic framework for data tasks where all agents are data-aware and can communicate via shared data layer, hierarchically plan data tasks, and query the data interactively to debug. Early results show that Meadow, without any expensive labeled examples, is within 3.6 points of state-of-the-art on the Spider text-to-SQL benchmark and realizes lifts of up to 20 points over simple, zero-shot text-to-SQL prompts. Meadow is also capable of detecting data errors and uncovering incorrect benchmark queries that did not take into account extra white spaces in the data.
 
Speakers
avatar for Vishal Motwani

Vishal Motwani

Founding Product Manager, Numbers Station AI
avatar for Amit Shah

Amit Shah

Senior Director, JLL
Thursday November 7, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: API Strategy, API Case Studies & Success Stories

11:30am PST

OPEN SESSION (API): Crafting the Future: Web3 Innovation Powered by APIs
Thursday November 7, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am PST
API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
Aman Johar, DATACURVE, Founder and CEO

The emergence of Web3 technologies, built upon decentralized networks such as blockchain, is revolutionizing the digital landscape. At the heart of this revolution, APIs will play a pivotal role in enabling interoperability, connectivity, and functionality within the Web3 ecosystem. This session will delve into the intricacies of leveraging APIs to unlock the full potential of Web3 platforms, exploring their impact on industries ranging from sports, entertainment, retail, finance, gaming and beyond.
 
Speakers
avatar for Aman Johar

Aman Johar

Founder and CEO, DATACURVE
A seasoned Silicon Valley executive, Aman, is currently the co-founder of DATACURVE , and is focused on sculpting the veryfoundations of the next era of human-machine interaction and immersive experiences. With an ability to identify andcapitalize on nascent technologies, he has directly... Read More →
Thursday November 7, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am PST
API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

1:00pm PST

PRO SESSION (API): Post-Quantum API Security - Preparing Your APIs for Q-day
Thursday November 7, 2024 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
Michael Kwan, Broadcom, Architect

Quantum computing seems like a distant-future technology, but if you consider the pace of enterprise modernization, the quantum threat may be just around the corner - and APIs are a primary target. When is Q-day exactly? Nobody knows yet, but equally unknown is the scale of the corrective measures that will be required of your API infrastructure.

In this presentation you will learn:
- How quantum computing introduces a new security risk
- What is the API-specific exposure associated with this threat
- How and when do you need to start preparing your APIs
- What will be the costs in terms of computing resources and API retrofit projects
- What we are learning from post-quantum API security research and initial tests so far

Speakers
avatar for Michael Kwan

Michael Kwan

Architect, Broadcom
Michael Kwan is an accomplished software engineer and architect with passion creating scalable, secured, robust software solutions. At Broadcom, currently, his focus is designing solutions to help businesses develop, protect, and secure their APIs and valuable resources.
Thursday November 7, 2024 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: Lifecycle, API Security / Compliance

1:00pm PST

OPEN SESSION (API): A World of AI Is a World of APIs; Securing the Most Modern of Modern Apps
Thursday November 7, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
Chuck Herrin, F5, Field CSO
Corey Ball, Moss Adams, Senior Manager - Penetration Testing

F5 secures and optimizes traffic for some of the largest AI projects in the world, and organizations are planning to spend an average of 18% of 2025 IT budgets on AI implementation.
What many are missing is that outside of a few edge cases, nearly all training, usage, attacks, and data loss against AI models come through APIs, and APIs themselves expose critical information about models such as data labels and confidence scores, facilitating model theft, transfer attacks, and other issues unique to securing LLMs.
In this session, we’ll talk about the ties between AI security, APIs, and how to structure a Defense in Depth architecture to secure your AI factory and models from the beginning, rather than after the fact.
Speakers
avatar for Corey Ball

Corey Ball

Senior Manager - Penetration Testing, Moss Adams
Corey has provided cybersecurity consulting services since 2011, and has primarily focused his expertise on the energy, financial, legal, and health care industries. He has extensive technical experience in multiple security areas, including penetration testing, web application security... Read More →
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Chuck Herrin

Field CSO, F5
Chuck’s purview includes customer advocacy and active engagement across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Channel operations to bring thought leadership and alignment of solutions with the real-world problems our enterprise customers face every day.  Prior to F5, Chuck was the CTO... Read More →
Thursday November 7, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

1:30pm PST

PRO SESSION (API): Anatomy of Inter-Agentic APIs
Thursday November 7, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
Swanand Rao,M9, Co-Founder

With the viral adoption of AI driven by commercially available LLMs newer venues of business have opened up. These new business models are driven by the likes of Co-pilots and virtual agents that bring in tremendous productivity gains across business workflows. Concepts like Generative AI and Conversational AI have already gained mainstream popularity. A new branch of AI that is gaining momentum is that of Agentic AI. This talk is geared towards identifying mechanisms that make inter-agentic communication possible and the ontology of such interactions solving for needed concepts of roles, tasks, memory, tools, context and prompts for a scalable and reliable inter-agentic business workflow.
 
Speakers
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Swanand Rao

Co-Founder, M9
Swanand has a track record in product and engineering leadership. He was a Director of Product Management at Adobe. His experience extends to roles at Microsoft, Oracle, and other Fortune 500 companies. A prolific writer, Swanand has contributed to the field of product management... Read More →
Thursday November 7, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web & XR

1:30pm PST

OPEN SESSION (API): Building an API Ecosystem to Enable Generative AI
Thursday November 7, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
API World -- Main Stage
Ed Olson-Morgan, Marsh McLennan, Core API & Innovation Lead

Driving value from generative AI isn't just about large language models. Integrating them with the right data, services and supporting capabilities through APIs is just as important.

Learn how Marsh McLennan's Generative AI Services project built an API-based environment to nourish AI experimentation and underpin AI impact through production applications serving their 90,000 employees as well as a world-wide client base.
Speakers
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Ed Olson-Morgan

Core API & Innovation Lead, Marsh McLennan
Ed Olson-Morgan is an experienced technology leader with a diverse background across technical fields as well as business, consulting and strategy. He is currently the Core APIs and Innovation Lead at Marsh McLennan, where he is building a team of software engineers and technologists... Read More →
Thursday November 7, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
API World -- Main Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

2:00pm PST

PRO SESSION (API): Is There a Future for Secure Data in the World of AI and Cyber?
Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
Brenton House, IBM, Principal Cybersecurity and AI Advisor

Generative AI has revolutionized the tech world in the past months. With its insatiable thirst for data, all eyes have turned to APIs and the security (or lack of) protecting them. Large data breaches have become so common that security researchers are overwhelmed with the terabytes of leaked data finding its way to the Dark Web. Learn both the ugly secrets behind cyber threats and the successful strategies used to stop them.
 
Speakers
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Brenton House

Principal Cybersecurity and AI Advisor, IBM
Brenton House is an ex-hacker, developer, strategist, and now Principal Cybersecurity and AI Advisor for IBM webMethods. Known for his unique creative work and YouTube channel, Brenton has produced several hit series including The Redacted Hacker, AI: Man vs. Machine, and API Cybersecurity... Read More →
Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: Lifecycle, API Security / Compliance

2:00pm PST

OPEN SESSION (API): How AI Is Redefining API Integrations and How Developers Will Benefit from It
Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
Dominik Rampelt, APICHAP, CEO & Co-Founder

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming every facet of our lives, including the way we approach API integrations. In this talk, we will explore the profound impact AI will have on developers and the necessary steps to harness its full potential. The future of API development will focus heavily on an API-Contract First approach, where developers become architects defining APIs and data flows. The implementation will then be assisted by various AI tools.

Join us to discover how tools like APICHAP enable developers to implement APIs for your services and integrate with any datasource in just a few seconds. Learn how to leverage the power of AI in your daily development work. In the future, the best API developers won't just write code—they'll design the blueprint for AI to follow.
Speakers
avatar for Dominik Rampelt

Dominik Rampelt

CEO & Co-Founder, APICHAP
Dominik is an API Advocate with over a decade of experience in building hundreds of APIs, backends, and system integrations. Throughout his career, Dominik has witnessed the evolution of APIs, from the rise of REST APIs and API-Contract development to the advent of AI-assisted API... Read More →
Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

2:00pm PST

OPEN SESSION (API): Transforming Lending with Open Banking: A Case Study in Building a Cash Flow Underwriting System
Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
API World -- Expo Discovery Stage
Amol Gote, Innova Solutions, Solutions Architect

In the evolving landscape of financial services, implementing a cash flow underwriting system aims to expand credit access and enhance risk assessment. This session will cover an approach that leverages open banking, machine learning, and dynamic underwriting rules to provide creditworthiness evaluation beyond traditional credit scoring methods. It will cover the case study of iCreditWorks - a Fintech organization where this pattern was implemented.

The system consists of four critical components:

(1) A financial data aggregator to securely link customers' bank accounts, utilizing open banking APIs and traditional integration techniques.

(2) Collaboration with a specialized partner that employs machine learning models to analyze transaction data, generating a comprehensive cash flow score and identifying verifiable income.

(3) Developing and implementing underwriting rules that integrate the cash flow score and income data to make informed lending decisions.

(4) The seamless integration of these components into a mobile application and backend infrastructure, ensuring a user-friendly experience and efficient loan application processing.

This session discusses the cash flow underwriting system's design, implementation, and strategic significance. It highlights its potential to extend credit access by surpassing traditional credit scores and opening new avenues for financial inclusion and risk assessment. It also introduces a technical implementation approach for cash flow underwriting by integrating multiple services and using open banking for bank account linking for transaction data.
Speakers
avatar for Amol Gote

Amol Gote

Solutions Architect, Innova Solutions
Amol Gote is a seasoned technology professional adept at building scalable, resilient microservices in Java and .NET. He excels at deploying and managing microservices in AWS and Azure environments and boasts technical proficiency across multiple applications and tools. His expertise... Read More →
Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
API World -- Expo Discovery Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

2:30pm PST

PRO SESSION (API): APIs Without Borders: Exploring the World of Locationless API Management
Thursday November 7, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
Vamsi Ravula, Red Hat, Developer Advocate

Locationless API management is a paradigm shift in API governance and security. This innovative approach allows organizations to efficiently manage their APIs distributed across multiple clouds and clusters without exposing them publicly over the internet. Instead, it leverages a sophisticated layer seven service network, offering a secure and seamless solution for API management. By operating locationless, businesses can maintain a high degree of control and privacy over their APIs, mitigating the risks associated with public exposure while facilitating efficient communication between services across diverse deployment environments.

A Layer 7 service network provides the necessary infrastructure to establish secure connections between services, regardless of location. Through this network, APIs can be efficiently managed and accessed within a controlled environment, ensuring that sensitive data and functionalities remain protected. This locationless API management approach not only enhances security but also streamlines operations, as it minimizes the complexities of public-facing API management. As organizations continue to prioritize data privacy and security, locationless API management, powered by technologies like a Layer 7 service network, emerges as a game-changing solution that empowers businesses to securely manage and utilize their APIs without the need for public internet exposure.
Speakers
avatar for Vamsi Ravula

Vamsi Ravula

Developer Advocate, Red hat
Vamsi Ravula is a Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat working on Red Hat Application Foundations, application connectivity, and API management technologies. He is passionate about understanding customers' challenges and use cases and showcasing how Red Hat products can address... Read More →
Thursday November 7, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: API Innovation, Hybrid APIs

3:00pm PST

PRO SESSION (API): Fusion Tech Art: Leveraging APIs to Integrate AI, ML, and Creative Disciplines
Thursday November 7, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
Ayesha M. Ali, Metavisionaries, Co-Founder / Creative Director

This session will explore the transformative potential of APIs in the realm of Fusion Tech Art and interdisciplinary content creation. Emphasizing the integration of frontier technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), we will discuss how APIs serve as the vital connectors enabling seamless communication and collaboration across diverse creative fields. Participants will gain insights into how APIs facilitate innovative approaches that merge art, technology, fashion, and more.
Objectives:
• Introduce the Concept of Fusion Tech Art: Explain the importance and impact of Fusion Tech Art in the modern digital and creative industries.
• Highlight the Role of APIs: Discuss how APIs act as the backbone of integrating AI, ML, and various creative disciplines.
• Demonstrate Practical API Integration Techniques: Showcase new interdisciplinary approaches enabled by APIs and practical techniques that can be adopted by entrepreneurs and creatives.
• Case Study: Present a detailed case study of my project sent to space in collaboration with NASA and SpaceX, illustrating the power of API-driven integration.
• Ethical and Sustainable Practices: Address the ethical considerations and sustainability issues related to API-driven AI and tech projects, both on Earth and in space.
Session Outline:
1. Introduction to Fusion Tech Art:
• Definition and significance of Fusion Tech Art in contemporary creative practices.
• Overview of how APIs enable the integration of AI, ML, and other technologies into creative projects.
2. Current Landscape of Frontier Technologies:
• In-depth look at the latest developments in AI, ML, and their applications through APIs.
• Examples of cutting-edge tools and platforms that utilize APIs for interdisciplinary integration.
3. Seamless Interdisciplinary Techniques through APIs:
• Step-by-step guide on adopting an interdisciplinary approach using APIs.
• Demonstration of API functionalities that enable the merging of art, technology, fashion, and other fields.
4. Case Study: Art Project to Space via APIs:
• Detailed narrative of my project sent to the International Space Station (ISS) with NASA and SpaceX, focusing on the API integrations that made it possible.
• Insights into the creative process, collaboration, and execution of the project.
• Lessons learned and tips for aspiring creatives and entrepreneurs on leveraging APIs.
5. Ethics and Sustainability in API-Driven Fusion Tech Art:
• Discussion on the ethical implications of using APIs in AI and content creation.
• Sustainability discourse and its importance in tech-driven projects.
• How to ensure responsible and sustainable practices when utilizing APIs in creative projects.
Target Audience:
• API developers and technologists interested in the creative applications of their work.
• Artists and designers looking to integrate technology into their projects using APIs.
• Entrepreneurs and creatives seeking innovative interdisciplinary approaches.
• Educators and students in the fields of art, technology, and design.
Expected Outcomes:
• Increased awareness and understanding of Fusion Tech Art and the role of APIs in enabling it.
• Practical knowledge of API-driven tools and techniques for merging diverse creative disciplines.
• Inspiration from real-world examples and successful case studies.
• A framework for ethically and sustainably implementing API-driven AI and tech in creative projects.
Speakers
avatar for Ayesha M. Ali

Ayesha M. Ali

Co-Founder / Creative Director, Metavisionaries
Ayesha is an Internationally acclaimed Visual Tech-Artist and Wearable Art Designer/Researcher, focusing on Fusion-art practices. Her work often explores the synergy between humans and machines, the intersection of technology and identity. By combining sci-fi themes, and the hidden... Read More →
Thursday November 7, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web & XR
 
Tuesday, November 12
 

11:00am PST

[Virtual Exclusive] PRO WORKSHOP (API): Learn to Maximize AI performance through Open-Source Computer Vision based Retail Solution
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
Neethu Elizabeth Simon, Intel, Senior Software Engineer
Antonio Martinez, Intel, Software Engineer
Brian McGinn, Intel, Software Solution Developer
 

Computer vision is revolutionizing various industries, and retail is no exception. While AI applications have many benefits, proof-of-concepts do not scale successfully into larger, implemented deployments. Retailers, independent software vendors (ISVs), and system integrators (SIs) require a good understanding of both hardware and software, maintaining AI models in production and having in-depth knowledge of costs involved in setting up and scaling these systems. Vision workloads are significantly larger, complex, undergo multiple stages of processing and therefore require systems to be architected, built, and deployed with several considerations. To make it easier for software developers to understand the optimizations and hardware capabilities, Automated Self-Checkout is developed- an open-source initiative for vision-enabled retail use cases, providing optimized code blocks, documentation, and performance benchmark data to enhance and accelerate developer’s product and project work.

This Open-Source project is a community developed project that provides the tools needed to launch and benchmark a computer vision-based workload on your local device.

In this hands-on workshop we will demonstrate how to utilize the automated-self-checkout solution to run Docker containers with open-source Intel OpenVINO toolkit and benchmark their performance on different hardware platforms. Through this interactive workshop, attendees will be able to setup and run the AI computer vision-based retail pipelines using this solution. Attendees will also gain knowledge on how to benchmark the workloads using this tool for obtaining maximum hardware performance.
Speakers
avatar for Antonio Martinez

Antonio Martinez

Software Engineer, Intel
Antonio is a software engineer with a strong focus on AI applications. He has more than 10 years of experience in software development.He currently holds the esteemed position of technical lead at Intel, where he is responsible for guiding projects and leading teams to develop cutting-edge... Read More →
avatar for Brian McGinn

Brian McGinn

Software Solution Developer, Intel
Brian McGinn is a software architect and technical lead at Intel for the Health, Education, and Consumer Technologies group. He has developed software with Intel for the past 13 years and most recently working with open source computer vision and AI solutions in the retail space... Read More →
avatar for Neethu Elizabeth Simon

Neethu Elizabeth Simon

Senior Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
Neethu Elizabeth Simon is an IOT/ML Senior Software Engineer in Network & Edge Group at Intel Corporation, with vast industrial experience in building smart end-to-end computer vision-based AI/ML solutions in retail, biopharma, healthcare etc. Neethu holds Master’s in Computer Science... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: API Innovation, Industries: Open Banking & Healthcare & Retail

11:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): Next Gen API Ecosystem
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C
John Power, Ostia Solutions, CEO

Join us for a look into the next generation of API Ecosystem design and deployment, led by industry experts John and Leo. In this workshop, you'll learn how a No-Code approach can transform the API lifecycle: enabling rapid development, and fostering greater collaboration among stakeholders.

We'll tackle common challenges head-on, including ensuring consistency across environments (Sandbox, Test & Production) and refining partner, developer and end-user experiences.

Speakers
avatar for John Power

John Power

CEO, Ostia Solutions
John Power has over 40 years experience in software development and has focused on the the design and deployment of APIs / API Ecosystems for the past 20 years.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C
  API World: API Innovation, Hybrid APIs

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): Using Vector Databases for Multimodal Search and Retrieval Augmented Generation
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C
Zain Hasan, Together AI, Senior ML DevRel Engineer

Many real-world problems are inherently multimodal, from the communicative modalities humans use such as spoken language and gestures to the force, sensory, and visual sensors used in robotics. For machine learning models to address these problems and interact more naturally and wholistically with the world around them and ultimately be more general and powerful reasoning engines, we need them to understand data across all of its corresponding images, video, text, audio, and tactile representations.

In this talk, Zain Hasan will discuss how we can use open-source multimodal embedding models in conjunction with large generative multimodal models that can that can see, hear, read, and feel data(!), to perform cross-modal search(searching audio with images, videos with text etc.) and multimodal retrieval augmented generation (MM-RAG) at the billion-object scale with the help of open source vector databases. I will also demonstrate, with live code demos, how being able to perform this cross-modal retrieval in real-time can enables users to use LLMs that can reason over their enterprise multimodal data. This talk will revolve around how we can scale the usage of multimodal embedding and generative models in production.
Speakers
avatar for Zain Hasan

Zain Hasan

Senior ML DevRel Engineer, Together AI
Zain Hasan is a Senior ML DevRel Engineer at Together AI an open-source vector database. He is an engineer and data scientist by training, who pursued his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Toronto building artificially intelligent assistive technologies. He then... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C
  API World: API Innovation, Industries: Open Banking & Healthcare & Retail

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): Catalyst APIs: Your Solution for Fragmentation, Code Sprawl and Vendor Lock-in
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
Fernando Rocha, Diagrid, Customer Success Engineer

Starting a new project can be daunting. Choosing a technology for messaging, storage, workflows (and others) is a big commitment that takes time for developers. An ever increasing number of libraries, frameworks, cloud services and infrastructure lead to code sprawl, refactoring, lock-in, and security vulnerabilities, forcing developers to become experts of everything and ship code that’s hard to maintain. Switching between technologies is a risky, incredibly complex, and costly process. The flexibility is there, but it has a big price.

Meet Catalyst!

Powered by Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime), the 12th largest Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, Catalyst provides developers with APIs that remain consistent while the underlying infrastructure can be swapped out with little to no code changes. For teams using multiple programming languages or running in multiple clouds, Catalyst provides a single API for interacting with the underlying infrastructure, drastically reducing the amount of code and maintenance you’re on the hook for. Not only that, these APIs already embed best practices on security and reliability. If that's not amazing enough, Catalyst runs as-a-service, so there’s nothing to install or manage!

Join us to learn how Catalyst can add infrastructure flexibility, zero trust security, and fault tolerance to your distributed solutions with no extra development time!
Speakers
avatar for Fernando Rocha

Fernando Rocha

Customer Success Engineer, Diagrid
Fernando is a Customer Success Engineer @ Diagrid.io specializing in distributed architectures on Dapr OSS.Fernando is also a founding member of the Cloud Native Vancouver Chapter. For the last 10 of his 15 years of experience in IT, Fernando has been helping teams modernize and innovate... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: Microservices World, Microservices Design & Architecture

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): AI Needs APIs: Dynamic Data Access for Next-Gen Experiences
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C
Andrew Carlson, Apollo GraphQL, Principal Field Architect

Gartner predicts that by 2026, more than 30% of the increase in demand for APIs will come from artificial intelligence and tools using large language models. API sprawl is a hazardous form of technical debt. It has hard costs from hosting and scaling a fleet of APIs, real security risks and an increased operational burden from the sheer number of APIs that platform engineering teams need to manage. With GraphQL, any client, even an LLM, can request exactly the data they need without over or under-fetching. And with federated GraphQL, the data can come from any underlying API.

Learn popular use cases for implementing the graph in an AI-driven experience, how organizations can safely adopt AI on a spectrum from low to high trust, and why GraphQL is an ideal API access layer for AI.
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Carlson

Andrew Carlson

Principal Field Architect, Apollo GraphQL
Andrew is an experienced Principal Architect and leader who lives to collect experiences and new perspectives, and he’s gathered a lot of hobbies along the way.When he’s not helping companies like Ford, Amex, Sherwin-Williams, and Unilever scale their architecture and technical... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C
  API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web & XR

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): Need a Backend for Your Frontend?
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A
Terje Woldseth, Softeria AS, CEO

Can you create your API-enabled backend with a no-code service?

Explore the opportunities provided by no-code/low-code providers to create POCs, MVPs and production-grade solutions.

Reduced cost and time-to-market vs. the flexibility of a homegrown backend.
Speakers
avatar for Terje Woldseth

Terje Woldseth

CEO, Softeria
CEO and founder at Softeria AS, CTO and founder at Twoday Avento AS, CTO and founder at Payex AS
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A
  API World: API Innovation, Hybrid APIs
 
Wednesday, November 13
 

9:00am PST

[Virtual] PRO WORKSHOP (API): Automating and Scaling the Creative Process with Adobe Firefly Services
Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C
Raymond Camden, Adobe, Senior Developer Evangelist

Creatives of all sorts are under pressure to generate assets for multiple campaigns, regions, products, styles, and more. Generative AI can be an incredible boost for productivity while allowing designers control over the creative process. In this session, I'll introduce you to Adobe's Firefly Services, a set of easy to use REST APIs for AI image creation, image manipulation, and audio and video enhancements. 
Speakers
avatar for Raymond Camden

Raymond Camden

Senior Developer Evangelist, Adobe
Raymond Camden is a Senior Developer Evangelist for Adobe. He helps developers learn and adopt multiple APIs at Adobe. He is the author of multiple books on web development and has been actively blogging and presenting for almost twenty years. Raymond can be reached at his blog... Read More →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C
  API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI, IoT, Blockchain, Web3, XR

9:30am PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (API): IBM - Leading the Future with AI and APIs, a Powerful Duo
Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Main Stage
Rashmi Kaushik, IBM, Director, Product Management, Integration Portfolio
Ram Menon, IBM, Director, Product Management, Integration Portfolio
Speakers
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Rashmi Kaushik

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 →
avatar for Ram Menon

Ram Menon

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 →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED, API World

11:30am PST

[Virtual] PRO SESSION (API): How We Built a Billion $$ API Business for a Leading Retailer (Best Buy)
Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
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. 
Speakers
avatar for Kumar Kandaswamy

Kumar Kandaswamy

Serial platform builder, Platformify
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 →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: API Innovation, Industries: Open Banking & Healthcare & Retail

1:30pm PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (API): Apollo GraphQL -- The Year Ahead for GraphQL Federation: Combining APIs for the AI Era
Wednesday November 13, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Main Stage
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.
Speakers
avatar for Geoff Schmidt

Geoff Schmidt

CEO & Co-founder, Apollo GraphQL
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 →
avatar for Michael Watson

Michael Watson

Developer Advocate, Apollo GraphQL
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 →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED, API World

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (API): U.S. Bank -- APIs and AI - Building Intelligent Applications
Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Main Stage
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. 
Speakers
avatar for Suman Devarasetti

Suman Devarasetti

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 →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED, API World

2:30pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN SESSION (API): Rest Doesn’t Cut It. I Needed a Simple JSON API—So I Built One
Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Expo Discovery Stage
Mike Bowers, FairCom, Chief Architect

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.
Speakers
avatar for Mike Bowers

Mike Bowers

Chief Architect, FairCom
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 →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Expo Discovery Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

2:30pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN SESSION (API): Supergraph: Putting the Domain Back in Your API First Architecture
Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Main Stage
Praveen Durairaju, Hasura, Staff Developer Advocate

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.
Speakers
avatar for Praveen Durairaju

Praveen Durairaju

Staff Developer Advocate, Hasura
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 →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Main Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

3:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN SESSION (API): Accelerate AI Adoption with an AI Gateway
Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:00pm - 3:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
Steve Poyer, Kong, Senior Solutions Engineer

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.
Speakers
avatar for Steve Poyer

Steve Poyer

Senior Solutions Engineer, Kong
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 →
Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:00pm - 3:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

4:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN SESSION (API): Code Automation for APIs
Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Expo Discovery Stage
Terence Bennett, DreamFactory Software, CEO

A discussion of low code APIs - internal/private APIs use cases. Discuss when to adopt design first vs data first API development.
 
Speakers
avatar for Terence Bennett

Terence Bennett

CEO, DreamFactory Software
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.
Wednesday November 13, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Expo Discovery Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World
 
Thursday, November 14
 

9:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN SESSION (API): Unleashing GenAI's Potential for Advanced API Linting
Thursday November 14, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL CloudX -- Expo Innovation Stage
Sridhar Kunisetty, Equinix, Principal Architect

An API linter plays a crucial role in ensuring that API specifications adhere to established standards, best practices, guidelines, and are free from potential errors. It is an essential component in the development process to ensure that APIs are well-designed, consistent, maintainable, reliable, secure and follow the organization's conventions and guidelines.

We present a new approach to API linting by harnessing the power of Generative AI (GenAI). Our solution involves training a Large Language Model (LLM) to act as an Advanced API Linter, capable of not only answering correctness queries but also analyzing API specifications and providing a comprehensive list of errors, violations, and issues.

Unlike traditional API linters, our GenAI solution eliminates the need for complex validation rules and specialized expertise. By training the LLM with our organization's API standards, best practices, and guidelines, we enable it to understand and enforce these rules effortlessly. Moreover, the training process is straightforward, and we can alternatively provide the necessary content as a context in the prompt to the LLM.

One of the key advantages of our GenAI approach is its user-friendliness. Instead of grappling with new syntax or programming languages to define validation rules, users can express their requirements in plain English. This democratizes API linting, empowering developers to improve API quality through self-service and facilitating the seamless adoption of an API-First approach.

During this session, we will showcase a range of use cases that demonstrate how GenAI can be leveraged to achieve advanced API linting capabilities. Additionally, we will explore the potential of utilizing a Small Language Model (SLM) as an alternative to the LLM, opening up new possibilities for API linting efficiency.

Join us as we unveil the future of API linting, where GenAI revolutionizes the development process, enhances API quality, and empowers developers to build robust and reliable APIs effortlessly.
Speakers
avatar for Sridhar Kunisetty

Sridhar Kunisetty

Principal Architect, Equinix
Sridhar has over 20 years of experience working in technical and management roles in startups and large companies in Silicon Valley Bay Area. Before joining Equinix to lead the API program, he was a Distinguished Engineer and a Chief Architect at other companies. He is a lead inventor... Read More →
Thursday November 14, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am PST
VIRTUAL CloudX -- Expo Innovation Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

10:00am PST

[Virtual] OPEN SESSION (API): Unlocking Live Data Access for AI
Thursday November 14, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
Anushrut Gupta, Hasura, Senior Product Manager, Generative AI

“Over the last 3 months, summarize the top billing issues faced by my enterprise customers within the first 30 days of their onboarding.”

On the surface, building an internal AI customer intelligence application that can answer questions like this is a perfect use-case for Gen AI.
However, building a production ready app that retrieves the data (RAG) before hauling it off to your favorite LLM for summarization soon becomes a terrible engineering experience.

The data is spread across 3 places: a tickets database (eg: elastic), a CRM (eg: salesforce) and your user-accounts transactional database (eg: postgres).
In production, your app can’t access the data from these databases directly. Given security & privacy concerns, your app won’t have direct access to these databases.
Making independent retrieval requests to each of these sources and then joining them in memory might be prohibitively expensive and needs a level of query planning to do efficiently.
Moving all data into one location is expensive to build, maintain and govern
Predictable quality is further made hard because underlying data formats and storage interfaces are continuously changing.
Different types of user queries might require additional filtering and joining of data, which becomes hard to generalize.

APIs solve almost all of these very well known challenges. APIs offer standardization and security. APIs can provide a stable contract to interact with underlying data.

And in all likelihood, you already have APIs on these internal and external data sources.

Ironically, while APIs have become a necessity for other parts of the stack, they are clearly not the first thing that AI engineers building RAG reach for.

In this talk, we’ll discuss:
Why API based retrieval doesn’t work well for RAG
What we need from our existing internal and external APIs to make them RAG ready
How we can get existing APIs to become RAG ready without needing to rebuild the APIs

This talk will be technical, with code demos (possibly with some live coding!) and end with key resources (reference architectures, API best practices, tools/technologies) that attendees can take back to their work.
Speakers
avatar for Anushrut Gupta

Anushrut Gupta

Senior Product Manager, Generative AI, Hasura
Thursday November 14, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

11:00am PST

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (API): Boomi - The AI Revolution is API-Enabled
Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Main Stage
Stephen Fishman, Boomi, Field CTO

As AI becomes more prevalent, communication between API endpoints is expanding rapidly. The current API economy is just the tip of the iceberg compared to what lies ahead in an AI-driven future. In this landscape, APIs are crucial for enabling AI integration and readiness, fundamentally transforming application development.

Discover techniques for strategic AI implementation, responsible automation, and effective API management to establish an AI-ready enterprise. Whether you’re an API developer, AI practitioner, or business stakeholder, this talk will provide insights for effective AI orchestration and turning AI readiness into a competitive advantage.

Key Takeaways:
- Practical methods to enhance AI integration with APIs
- Using AI ethically with APIs
- Insights on achieving AI readiness and avoiding pitfalls
Speakers
avatar for Stephen Fishman

Stephen Fishman

Field CTO, Boomi
Stephen Fishman (Fish), NA Field CTO for Boomi and author of "Unbundling the Enterprise," is a technologist who combines creativity, rigor, and human-centric problem-solving. He excels in aligning technology with business strategy, emphasizing iteration and cross-disciplinary collaboration... Read More →
Thursday November 14, 2024 11:00am - 11:50am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED, API World

11:30am PST

[Virtual] PRO SESSION (API): Meadow: LLM Agents for Data Tasks
Thursday November 14, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
Laurel Orr, Numbers Station AI, ML Architect
Ines Chami, Numbers Station AI, Co-founder & Chief Scientist

Numbers Station Labs is excited to release Meadow, the first open source agentic framework built for data workflows. Data workflows are multi-step processes where an analyst first transforms, generates, and analyzes structured data to gain insights and take action. Mutli-AI-agent architectures are proving to be the key to solving highly complex tasks with AI that one model alone cannot solve, and are paving the way for end-to-end data workflow automation. None of the existing general-purpose agent frameworks are tailor-built for data analysts and lack support for sharing knowledge across a data layer, data-aware task deconstruction, and iterative data debugging. To address these concerns, we’ve built Meadow—the first multi-agentic framework for data tasks where all agents are data-aware and can communicate via shared data layer, hierarchically plan data tasks, and query the data interactively to debug. Early results show that Meadow, without any expensive labeled examples, is within 3.6 points of state-of-the-art on the Spider text-to-SQL benchmark and realizes lifts of up to 20 points over simple, zero-shot text-to-SQL prompts. Meadow is also capable of detecting data errors and uncovering incorrect benchmark queries that did not take into account extra white spaces in the data.
 
Speakers
avatar for Ines Chami

Ines Chami

Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Numbers Station AI
avatar for Laurel Orr

Laurel Orr

ML Architect, Numbers Station AI
Laurel Orr is an ML architect at Numbers Station, a startup that applies Foundation Model technology to the enterprise data stack. Her research interests include how to use FMs to solve classically hard data wrangling tasks and how to put FM technology into deployment. Before Numbers... Read More →
Thursday November 14, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: API Strategy, API Case Studies & Success Stories

11:30am PST

[Virtual] OPEN SESSION (API): Crafting the Future: Web3 Innovation Powered by APIs
Thursday November 14, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
Aman Johar, DATACURVE, Founder and CEO

The emergence of Web3 technologies, built upon decentralized networks such as blockchain, is revolutionizing the digital landscape. At the heart of this revolution, APIs will play a pivotal role in enabling interoperability, connectivity, and functionality within the Web3 ecosystem. This session will delve into the intricacies of leveraging APIs to unlock the full potential of Web3 platforms, exploring their impact on industries ranging from sports, entertainment, retail, finance, gaming and beyond.
 
Speakers
avatar for Aman Johar

Aman Johar

Founder and CEO, DATACURVE
A seasoned Silicon Valley executive, Aman, is currently the co-founder of DATACURVE , and is focused on sculpting the veryfoundations of the next era of human-machine interaction and immersive experiences. With an ability to identify andcapitalize on nascent technologies, he has directly... Read More →
Thursday November 14, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am PST
VIRTUAL API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

12:00pm PST

[Virtual Exclusive] PRO SESSION (CloudX): Building Guardrails for Generative AI: Security, Compliance, and Responsible Innovation
Thursday November 14, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A
Ken Huang, DistributedApps, CEO and Chief AI Officer

This presentation introduces a comprehensive framework for testing and validating the security of generative AI applications, particularly those built on large language models (LLMs). Developed by Ken Huang (the Speaker) and World Digital Technology Academy's AI Safety, Trust, and Responsibility (STR) working group, the framework addresses the new attack surfaces and risks introduced by generative AI.

The standard covers the entire AI application stack, including base model selection, embedding and vector databases, prompt execution/inference, agentic behaviors, fine-tuning, response handling, and runtime security. For each layer, it outlines specific testing methods and expected outcomes to ensure AI applications behave securely and as designed throughout their lifecycle.

Key areas of focus include model compliance, data usage checks, API security, prompt injection testing, output validation, and privacy protection. The framework also addresses emerging challenges like agentic behaviors, where AI agents autonomously perform tasks based on predefined objectives.
Speakers
avatar for Ken Huang

Ken Huang

CEO and Chief AI Officer, DistributedApps
Ken Huang is a prolific author and renowned expert in AI and Web3, with numerous published books spanning AI and Web3 business and technical guides and cutting-edge research. As Co-Chair of the AI Safety Working Groups at the Cloud Security Alliance, and Co-Chair of AI STR Working... Read More →
Thursday November 14, 2024 12:00pm - 12:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A
  API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web & XR

12:30pm PST

[Virtual Exclusive] PRO SESSION (API): APIs/Interfaces Using Azure Integration Services
Thursday November 14, 2024 12:30pm - 12:55pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
Harsh Sharma, Shell, Associate Software Engineer

How to build API/Interfaces using Azure Integration Services like logic App, APIM, Service Bus, Function App.
 
Speakers
avatar for Harsh Sharma

Harsh Sharma

Associate Software Engineer, Shell
Harsh Sharma is an experienced professional having 2 years of experience in building APIs/Interfaces using Azure Integration Services, C# and .NET Core. Additionally he having experience in Research & Development by publishing 2 research papers in IEEE based on Networking & Machine... Read More →
Thursday November 14, 2024 12:30pm - 12:55pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: API Strategy, Integration Management

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO SESSION (API): Post-Quantum API Security - Preparing Your APIs for Q-day
Thursday November 14, 2024 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
Michael Kwan, Broadcom, Architect

Quantum computing seems like a distant-future technology, but if you consider the pace of enterprise modernization, the quantum threat may be just around the corner - and APIs are a primary target. When is Q-day exactly? Nobody knows yet, but equally unknown is the scale of the corrective measures that will be required of your API infrastructure.

In this presentation you will learn:
- How quantum computing introduces a new security risk
- What is the API-specific exposure associated with this threat
- How and when do you need to start preparing your APIs
- What will be the costs in terms of computing resources and API retrofit projects
- What we are learning from post-quantum API security research and initial tests so far

Speakers
avatar for Michael Kwan

Michael Kwan

Architect, Broadcom
Michael Kwan is an accomplished software engineer and architect with passion creating scalable, secured, robust software solutions. At Broadcom, currently, his focus is designing solutions to help businesses develop, protect, and secure their APIs and valuable resources.
Thursday November 14, 2024 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: Lifecycle, API Security / Compliance

1:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN SESSION (API): A World of AI Is a World of APIs; Securing the Most Modern of Modern Apps
Thursday November 14, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
Chuck Herrin, F5, Field CSO
Corey Ball, Moss Adams, Senior Manager - Penetration Testing

F5 secures and optimizes traffic for some of the largest AI projects in the world, and organizations are planning to spend an average of 18% of 2025 IT budgets on AI implementation.
What many are missing is that outside of a few edge cases, nearly all training, usage, attacks, and data loss against AI models come through APIs, and APIs themselves expose critical information about models such as data labels and confidence scores, facilitating model theft, transfer attacks, and other issues unique to securing LLMs.
In this session, we’ll talk about the ties between AI security, APIs, and how to structure a Defense in Depth architecture to secure your AI factory and models from the beginning, rather than after the fact.
Speakers
avatar for Corey Ball

Corey Ball

Senior Manager - Penetration Testing, Moss Adams
Corey has provided cybersecurity consulting services since 2011, and has primarily focused his expertise on the energy, financial, legal, and health care industries. He has extensive technical experience in multiple security areas, including penetration testing, web application security... Read More →
avatar for Chuck Herrin

Chuck Herrin

Field CSO, F5
Chuck’s purview includes customer advocacy and active engagement across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Channel operations to bring thought leadership and alignment of solutions with the real-world problems our enterprise customers face every day.  Prior to F5, Chuck was the CTO... Read More →
Thursday November 14, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

1:30pm PST

[Virtual] PRO SESSION (API): Anatomy of Inter-Agentic APIs
Thursday November 14, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
Swanand Rao,M9, Co-Founder

With the viral adoption of AI driven by commercially available LLMs newer venues of business have opened up. These new business models are driven by the likes of Co-pilots and virtual agents that bring in tremendous productivity gains across business workflows. Concepts like Generative AI and Conversational AI have already gained mainstream popularity. A new branch of AI that is gaining momentum is that of Agentic AI. This talk is geared towards identifying mechanisms that make inter-agentic communication possible and the ontology of such interactions solving for needed concepts of roles, tasks, memory, tools, context and prompts for a scalable and reliable inter-agentic business workflow.
 
Speakers
avatar for Swanand Rao

Swanand Rao

Co-Founder, M9
Swanand has a track record in product and engineering leadership. He was a Director of Product Management at Adobe. His experience extends to roles at Microsoft, Oracle, and other Fortune 500 companies. A prolific writer, Swanand has contributed to the field of product management... Read More →
Thursday November 14, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web & XR

1:30pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN SESSION (API): Building an API Ecosystem to Enable Generative AI
Thursday November 14, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Main Stage
Ed Olson-Morgan, Marsh McLennan, Core API & Innovation Lead

Driving value from generative AI isn't just about large language models. Integrating them with the right data, services and supporting capabilities through APIs is just as important.

Learn how Marsh McLennan's Generative AI Services project built an API-based environment to nourish AI experimentation and underpin AI impact through production applications serving their 90,000 employees as well as a world-wide client base.
Speakers
avatar for Ed Olson-Morgan

Ed Olson-Morgan

Core API & Innovation Lead, Marsh McLennan
Ed Olson-Morgan is an experienced technology leader with a diverse background across technical fields as well as business, consulting and strategy. He is currently the Core APIs and Innovation Lead at Marsh McLennan, where he is building a team of software engineers and technologists... Read More →
Thursday November 14, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Main Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO SESSION (API): Is There a Future for Secure Data in the World of AI and Cyber?
Thursday November 14, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
Brenton House, IBM, Principal Cybersecurity and AI Advisor

Generative AI has revolutionized the tech world in the past months. With its insatiable thirst for data, all eyes have turned to APIs and the security (or lack of) protecting them. Large data breaches have become so common that security researchers are overwhelmed with the terabytes of leaked data finding its way to the Dark Web. Learn both the ugly secrets behind cyber threats and the successful strategies used to stop them.
 
Speakers
avatar for Brenton House

Brenton House

Principal Cybersecurity and AI Advisor, IBM
Brenton House is an ex-hacker, developer, strategist, and now Principal Cybersecurity and AI Advisor for IBM webMethods. Known for his unique creative work and YouTube channel, Brenton has produced several hit series including The Redacted Hacker, AI: Man vs. Machine, and API Cybersecurity... Read More →
Thursday November 14, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: Lifecycle, API Security / Compliance

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN SESSION (API): How AI Is Redefining API Integrations and How Developers Will Benefit from It
Thursday November 14, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
Dominik Rampelt, APICHAP, CEO & Co-Founder

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming every facet of our lives, including the way we approach API integrations. In this talk, we will explore the profound impact AI will have on developers and the necessary steps to harness its full potential. The future of API development will focus heavily on an API-Contract First approach, where developers become architects defining APIs and data flows. The implementation will then be assisted by various AI tools.

Join us to discover how tools like APICHAP enable developers to implement APIs for your services and integrate with any datasource in just a few seconds. Learn how to leverage the power of AI in your daily development work. In the future, the best API developers won't just write code—they'll design the blueprint for AI to follow.
Speakers
avatar for Dominik Rampelt

Dominik Rampelt

CEO & Co-Founder, APICHAP
Dominik is an API Advocate with over a decade of experience in building hundreds of APIs, backends, and system integrations. Throughout his career, Dominik has witnessed the evolution of APIs, from the rise of REST APIs and API-Contract development to the advent of AI-assisted API... Read More →
Thursday November 14, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

2:00pm PST

[Virtual] OPEN SESSION (API): Transforming Lending with Open Banking: A Case Study in Building a Cash Flow Underwriting System
Thursday November 14, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Expo Discovery Stage
Amol Gote, Innova Solutions, Solutions Architect

In the evolving landscape of financial services, implementing a cash flow underwriting system aims to expand credit access and enhance risk assessment. This session will cover an approach that leverages open banking, machine learning, and dynamic underwriting rules to provide creditworthiness evaluation beyond traditional credit scoring methods. It will cover the case study of iCreditWorks - a Fintech organization where this pattern was implemented.

The system consists of four critical components:

(1) A financial data aggregator to securely link customers' bank accounts, utilizing open banking APIs and traditional integration techniques.

(2) Collaboration with a specialized partner that employs machine learning models to analyze transaction data, generating a comprehensive cash flow score and identifying verifiable income.

(3) Developing and implementing underwriting rules that integrate the cash flow score and income data to make informed lending decisions.

(4) The seamless integration of these components into a mobile application and backend infrastructure, ensuring a user-friendly experience and efficient loan application processing.

This session discusses the cash flow underwriting system's design, implementation, and strategic significance. It highlights its potential to extend credit access by surpassing traditional credit scores and opening new avenues for financial inclusion and risk assessment. It also introduces a technical implementation approach for cash flow underwriting by integrating multiple services and using open banking for bank account linking for transaction data.
Speakers
avatar for Amol Gote

Amol Gote

Solutions Architect, Innova Solutions
Amol Gote is a seasoned technology professional adept at building scalable, resilient microservices in Java and .NET. He excels at deploying and managing microservices in AWS and Azure environments and boasts technical proficiency across multiple applications and tools. His expertise... Read More →
Thursday November 14, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Expo Discovery Stage
  OPEN SESSIONS, API World

2:30pm PST

[Virtual] PRO SESSION (API): APIs Without Borders: Exploring the World of Locationless API Management
Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
Vamsi Ravula, Red Hat, Developer Advocate

Locationless API management is a paradigm shift in API governance and security. This innovative approach allows organizations to efficiently manage their APIs distributed across multiple clouds and clusters without exposing them publicly over the internet. Instead, it leverages a sophisticated layer seven service network, offering a secure and seamless solution for API management. By operating locationless, businesses can maintain a high degree of control and privacy over their APIs, mitigating the risks associated with public exposure while facilitating efficient communication between services across diverse deployment environments.

A Layer 7 service network provides the necessary infrastructure to establish secure connections between services, regardless of location. Through this network, APIs can be efficiently managed and accessed within a controlled environment, ensuring that sensitive data and functionalities remain protected. This locationless API management approach not only enhances security but also streamlines operations, as it minimizes the complexities of public-facing API management. As organizations continue to prioritize data privacy and security, locationless API management, powered by technologies like a Layer 7 service network, emerges as a game-changing solution that empowers businesses to securely manage and utilize their APIs without the need for public internet exposure.
Speakers
avatar for Vamsi Ravula

Vamsi Ravula

Developer Advocate, Red hat
Vamsi Ravula is a Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat working on Red Hat Application Foundations, application connectivity, and API management technologies. He is passionate about understanding customers' challenges and use cases and showcasing how Red Hat products can address... Read More →
Thursday November 14, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: API Innovation, Hybrid APIs

3:00pm PST

[Virtual] PRO SESSION (API): Fusion Tech Art: Leveraging APIs to Integrate AI, ML, and Creative Disciplines
Thursday November 14, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
Ayesha M. Ali, Metavisionaries, Co-Founder / Creative Director

This session will explore the transformative potential of APIs in the realm of Fusion Tech Art and interdisciplinary content creation. Emphasizing the integration of frontier technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), we will discuss how APIs serve as the vital connectors enabling seamless communication and collaboration across diverse creative fields. Participants will gain insights into how APIs facilitate innovative approaches that merge art, technology, fashion, and more.
Objectives:
• Introduce the Concept of Fusion Tech Art: Explain the importance and impact of Fusion Tech Art in the modern digital and creative industries.
• Highlight the Role of APIs: Discuss how APIs act as the backbone of integrating AI, ML, and various creative disciplines.
• Demonstrate Practical API Integration Techniques: Showcase new interdisciplinary approaches enabled by APIs and practical techniques that can be adopted by entrepreneurs and creatives.
• Case Study: Present a detailed case study of my project sent to space in collaboration with NASA and SpaceX, illustrating the power of API-driven integration.
• Ethical and Sustainable Practices: Address the ethical considerations and sustainability issues related to API-driven AI and tech projects, both on Earth and in space.
Session Outline:
1. Introduction to Fusion Tech Art:
• Definition and significance of Fusion Tech Art in contemporary creative practices.
• Overview of how APIs enable the integration of AI, ML, and other technologies into creative projects.
2. Current Landscape of Frontier Technologies:
• In-depth look at the latest developments in AI, ML, and their applications through APIs.
• Examples of cutting-edge tools and platforms that utilize APIs for interdisciplinary integration.
3. Seamless Interdisciplinary Techniques through APIs:
• Step-by-step guide on adopting an interdisciplinary approach using APIs.
• Demonstration of API functionalities that enable the merging of art, technology, fashion, and other fields.
4. Case Study: Art Project to Space via APIs:
• Detailed narrative of my project sent to the International Space Station (ISS) with NASA and SpaceX, focusing on the API integrations that made it possible.
• Insights into the creative process, collaboration, and execution of the project.
• Lessons learned and tips for aspiring creatives and entrepreneurs on leveraging APIs.
5. Ethics and Sustainability in API-Driven Fusion Tech Art:
• Discussion on the ethical implications of using APIs in AI and content creation.
• Sustainability discourse and its importance in tech-driven projects.
• How to ensure responsible and sustainable practices when utilizing APIs in creative projects.
Target Audience:
• API developers and technologists interested in the creative applications of their work.
• Artists and designers looking to integrate technology into their projects using APIs.
• Entrepreneurs and creatives seeking innovative interdisciplinary approaches.
• Educators and students in the fields of art, technology, and design.
Expected Outcomes:
• Increased awareness and understanding of Fusion Tech Art and the role of APIs in enabling it.
• Practical knowledge of API-driven tools and techniques for merging diverse creative disciplines.
• Inspiration from real-world examples and successful case studies.
• A framework for ethically and sustainably implementing API-driven AI and tech in creative projects.
Speakers
avatar for Ayesha M. Ali

Ayesha M. Ali

Co-Founder / Creative Director, Metavisionaries
Ayesha is an Internationally acclaimed Visual Tech-Artist and Wearable Art Designer/Researcher, focusing on Fusion-art practices. Her work often explores the synergy between humans and machines, the intersection of technology and identity. By combining sci-fi themes, and the hidden... Read More →
Thursday November 14, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
  API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web & XR
 
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Santa Clara Hyatt Regency Lobby
VIRTUAL API World -- Expo Discovery Stage
VIRTUAL API World -- Main Stage
VIRTUAL API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage A
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage B
VIRTUAL API World -- Workshop Stage C
VIRTUAL CloudX -- Expo Innovation Stage
VIRTUAL CloudX -- Main Stage
VIRTUAL CloudX -- Stage 1
VIRTUAL Dev Innovation Summit -- Main Stage
Virtual Expo Hall
  • 1. Badge Pick-up & Registration
  • 2. Experiences & Official Events
  • 3. Expo Hours
  • 4. Hackathon
  • 5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED
  • API World: API Innovation
  • API World: API Strategy
  • API World: Lifecycle
  • API World: Microservices World
  • CloudX: Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure
  • CloudX: Cloud-Native Development
  • CloudX: Cloud Strategy Conference
  • CloudX: DevOps Summit
  • Dev Innovation Summit
  • OPEN SESSIONS
  • Talk Type
  • OPEN Session
  • PRO Session
  • PRO Workshop
  • Track or Conference
  • AI & ML (CloudX)
  • API Case Studies & Success Stories (API World)
  • API Design / Architecture (API World)
  • API Leadership Summit (API World)
  • API Ops & Scalability & Usability (DX) & Testing (API World)
  • API Program Management (API World)
  • API Security / Compliance (API World)
  • API World
  • API World: API Innovation
  • API World: API Lifecycle
  • API World: API Strategy
  • API World: Microservices World
  • API-First Development (API World)
  • APIs (Dev Innovation)
  • Automated Testing & Monitoring & Reporting (CloudX)
  • CI/CD (CloudX)
  • CI/CD / Deployment (API World)
  • Cloud Development Technologies (CloudX)
  • Cloud Development Technologies (Dev Innovation)
  • Cloud Infrastructure (CloudX)
  • Cloud Innovation (AI & Edge & etc) (CloudX)
  • Cloud Security (CloudX)
  • Cloud Talent & Skills (CloudX)
  • CloudX
  • CloudX: Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure
  • CloudX: Cloud Strategy Conference
  • CloudX: Cloud-Native Development
  • CloudX: DevOps Summit
  • Containers & Kubernetes (CloudX)
  • Deployment Strategies (CloudX)
  • Dev Innovation (CloudX)
  • Dev Innovation Summit
  • Developer Tools (Dev Innovation)
  • DevSecOps (CloudX)
  • Digital Acceleration (CloudX)
  • Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web3 & XR (API World)
  • Future of Cloud-Native Computing (CloudX)
  • Hybrid & Multi-Cloud (CloudX)
  • Hybrid APIs & Low Code APIs (API World)
  • Industries: Open Banking & Healthcare & Retail (API World)
  • Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudX)
  • Integration Management (API World)
  • Microservices Design & Architecture (API World)
  • Microservices Design (CloudX)
  • Microservices Management (CloudX)
  • Observability (CloudX)
  • OPEN Session
  • Platform Engineering (API World)
  • Programming Languages (Dev Innovation)
  • Roundtables
  • Service Mesh & Containers & Kubernetes (API World)
  • Sponsor Spotlight
  • Virtual
  • In-Person/Virtual
  • In Person
  • Virtual
  • Virtual Exclusive