Date: September 3 – 5, 2025
Overview
Join thousands of global technical leaders, engineers, software architects, and executives at the world’s largest and longest-running API & microservices event – in its 12th year! Attend API World (Sept 3-5, 2025, San Francisco Bay Area & Sept 10-12, 2025, Live Online) to discover the latest in developer technologies, languages, platforms, and tools.
API technologies empower developers & engineers to build upon the backbone of the multi-trillion-dollar market for API-driven products and services. Today’s cloud-based software and hardware increasingly runs on an open ecosystem of API-centric architecture, leading to the explosion of growth in the API Economy.
API World puts the API Product Lifecycle on center stage. We cover topics across the industry, including: API Design/Architecture, API Strategy/Enterprise Modernization, API Scalability/Management, Service Mesh, Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices Design/Architecture, API Testing/Usability, API Security IoT APIs, Marketing APIs, APIs and IaaS, Data and Machine Learning, Blockchain APIs, OpenAPI, Swagger, GraphQL, REST, and many more.
API Providers
API World is more than just the preeminent venue for connecting to developers and buyers. You can connect to thousands of API consumers as well as hundreds of tech companies interested in API Innovation.
API Users
Stop going to generic business software conferences. Smart companies plug into technology products via API. Learn about your options across data-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, communications API’s, and dozens more.
This year, API World will feature an OpenAPI track. Stay tuned for more details.
Registration and Participation
The OAI Track is an integral part of API World 2025 Conference & Expo. Attendees have to register through the registration page of API World 2025 Conference & Expo
OAI Track Program, September 3 – 5, 2025
All times are shown in local time (PDT)
Workshop, Wednesday September 3, 2025
- 12:00: OpenAPI Workshop: API Management in Practice: Delivering at Scale with OpenAPI and Arazzo, Erik Wilde, Frank Kilcommins
In-Person Agenda, Thursday September 4, 2025
- 09:30: OAI Track Welcome and OpenAPI in the Age of AI, Erik Wilde
- 10:00: Getting the Right API Faster: DX and AX with Example Mapping, OpenAPI, and Arazzo, Frank Kilcommins
- 10:30: Your APIs Aren’t Ready for Agentic AI — OpenAPI Can Fix That, David O’Neill
- 11:00: The AI-Powered API Stack: Automating API Development, Testing, and Documentation with GenAI, Manasa Hari
- 11:30: The Third-Wave of API Management, Adrian Machado
- 13:00: Building APIs for the AI Era: Why OpenAPI is Non-Negotiable, Shireen Nagdive
- 13:30: Build AI-Ready APIs with MCP, Emmanuel Paraskakis
- 14:00: OpenAPI’s AI Renaissance: From Description to Orchestration, Kevin Swiber
- 14:30: AI‑Powered APIs and API‑Enabled AI: A Symbiotic Evolution Driving Mutual Innovation, Neelesh Pateriya
- 15:00: API Governance: The Latest Trends Making Teams Love API Standardization, Jeremy Glassenberg
- 15:30: Into the OpenAPI Multiverse: Why OAS, Arazzo, and Overlays are essential for an AI-Ready Future, Budhaditya Bhattacharya
- 16:00: Beyond OpenAPI: How to Build a Well-Connected Metadata Catalog Across Silos, Simon Heimler
Virtual Agenda, Friday September 5, 2025
- 10:00: Getting the Right API Faster: DX and AX with Example Mapping, OpenAPI, and Arazzo, Frank Kilcommins
- 10:30: Your APIs Aren’t Ready for Agentic AI — OpenAPI Can Fix That, David O’Neill
- 11:00: The AI-Powered API Stack: Automating API Development, Testing, and Documentation with GenAI, Manasa Hari
- 11:30: The Third-Wave of API Management, Adrian Machado
- 13:00: Building APIs for the AI Era: Why OpenAPI is Non-Negotiable, Shireen Nagdive
- 13:30: Build AI-Ready APIs with MCP, Emmanuel Paraskakis
- 14:00: OpenAPI’s AI Renaissance: From Description to Orchestration, Kevin Swiber
- 14:30: AI‑Powered APIs and API‑Enabled AI: A Symbiotic Evolution Driving Mutual Innovation, Neelesh Pateriya
- 15:00: API Governance: The Latest Trends Making Teams Love API Standardization, Jeremy Glassenberg
- 15:30: Into the OpenAPI Multiverse: Why OAS, Arazzo, and Overlays are essential for an AI-Ready Future, Budhaditya Bhattacharya
- 16:00: Beyond OpenAPI: How to Build a Well-Connected Metadata Catalog Across Silos, Simon Heimler
