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Intro Level OpenAPI Specification Technical Overview/Workshop at APIStrat 2018

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Please join us for a hands-on workshop on OpenAPI 3.0 at APIStrat 2018 in Nashville on Sept. 24. You can drop-in for this session only or stay for the advanced workshop right after.  Be sure to bring your own laptop to participate. This will be an OpenAPI Specification Technical Overview/Workshop – A hands-on training session introducing essential capabilities of OpenAPI and its most commonly used features.

You will learn:

  1. What’s OpenAPI 3.0
  2. OpenAPI and Server Objects
  3. Paths and Path Parameters
  4. GET Operation and Responses
  5. Query and Header Parameters
  6. POST, PATCH, and PUT
  7. Documentation with markdown

Ron Ratovsky
Swagger Developer Evangelist, SmartBear
Ron is the technical liason for the OpenAPI Initiative's Technical Steering Committee
Ted Epstein
RepreZen CEO
Ted Epstein, CEO of RepreZen, has been helping organizations succeed with API strategy and architecture for over 10 years. Ted participates in the OpenAPI Technical Design Community as a governing board member, and leads the architecture of RAPID-ML, the first API description language to bring the power of Domain-Driven Design to REST APIs. Ted is co-organizer of the API-Craft NYC Meetup and speaks at conferences including QCon, EclipseCon, APIStrat, API-Craft, and Data Modeling Zone.
Emmanuel Paraskakis
Sr. Director of Product Management, Oracle API Platform
Emmanuel has been working on delivering APIs for customers for over a decade and is a passionate member of the API Community. The last three years he has been crafting API tooling as part of Apiary, recently acquired by Oracle. Currently, he is heading up Product Management for Oracle’s API Platform, a full lifecycle suite of products for API Providers and Consumers. He is also the organizer for the API Craft San Francisco Meetup Group with over 1,000 members.

Convincing Your Boss to Send You to APIStrat

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At API Strategy and Practice – better known as APIStrat – *brings together everyone – from the API curious to today’s leaders – to discuss opportunities and challenges in the API space. APIStrat sparks conversations between API providers and API consumers, startups and enterprise, developers and architects, and all types of integrators.* The event covers a broad spectrum of the API lifecycle as well as best practices around progressive web apps, the offline-first approach, and stories from end-users. This conference hosted by the OpenAPI Initiative, curators of the de facto standard in API design: OpenAPI Specification includes talks on Kubernetes, GraphQL, RPC, JSON, Microservices, Hypermedia and how best to implement them.

We understand that you are busy and may not have the time or just don’t know what to say to your boss around the importance of sending you to this conference. Not to fret. We’ve created an email template for you to use. Feel free to use the full letter or pieces of it, and let us know if it helped you get to the conference!

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Hi {Boss’ Name},

I’d like to attend APIStrat taking place Sept. 24–26 in Nashville, TN. Vendor-neutral by design, the conference offers case studies, panels, session presentations and lightning talks that tap into emerging trends in API architecture and implementation, with a keen interest in material that provides clarity on the rapidly evolving, sometimes complex, landscape.

The track(s) that will benefit our business the most include {Insert Most Appropriate Track: accessibility, application development and APIs, artificial intelligence and machine learning, community and developers, serverless, internationalization, IoT, performance, progressive web apps, security, standards, testing tools and infrastructure}. You can view the full schedule here.

Additional topics/benefits of the conference include:

The event costs $599 through September 14. I would be happy to write a post-conference report and share with other members of the team on what I’ve learned and how we can implement tools and techniques into our business strategy.

Thanks,

{Your Name}

Something for Everyone at APIStrat 2018

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APIStrat 2018 is just a month away and I could not be more excited for the lineup we have this year! The program committee did another exceptional job in bringing in a wide range of topics and speakers, opening up opportunities for practitioners across not only the entirety of the API lifecycle but all levels of technical expertise as well. Register before September 14 and save $200 off your conference fee. Come on down to Nashville for the premier API event of the year.

As we all know, there is not an industry or vertical that does not consume APIs in some form or fashion. Because of the broad scope of APIs that means every company should want to be a part of the conversation of what is happening next in APIs. At APIStrat, you can learn directly from the people designing the next evolution of the OpenAPI Spec and the tooling ecosystem it supports.

Review the schedule by topic

Join Jenn Schiffer at APIStrat 2018

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Join the OpenAPI Initiative and hundreds of API developers, strategist and thought leaders for APIStrat 2018 on Sept. 24-26 in Music City.

APIStrat brings together everyone – from the API curious to today’s leaders – to discuss opportunities and challenges in the API space. APIStrat sparks conversations between API providers and API consumers, startups and enterprise, developers and architects, and all types of integrators.

KEYNOTE SPOTLIGHT: Jenn Schiffer


Jenn Schiffer is an engineer, artist and tech humorist. Most people know her for her incredible strength and also for being the Community Engineer of http://Glitch.com at Fog Creek. She organizes JerseyScript, a monthly web developer social in Jersey City where she’s based, and built everyone’s favorite free online pixel art editor, http://Make8BitArt.com .

REGISTER TODAY

Whether your business consumes or produces APIs, this conference is the best opportunity to interact with the companies and developers who are pushing the envelope in API implementation.

We look forward to seeing you in Nashville

Join Cristiano Betts at APIStrat 2018

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Join the OpenAPI Initiative and hundreds of API developers, strategist and thought leaders for APIStrat 2018 on Sept. 24-26 in Music City.

APIStrat brings together everyone – from the API curious to today’s leaders – to discuss opportunities and challenges in the API space. APIStrat sparks conversations between API providers and API consumers, startups and enterprise, developers and architects, and all types of integrators.

KEYNOTE SPOTLIGHT: Cristiano Betta

Cristiano is a Developer Experience designer who helps companies small and large to improve their developer onboarding, activation, and support. He likes to look at great developer onboarding flows, analysing and documenting the best practices and pitfalls of common design practices. Although he has over 15 years of development experience he believes that at the core we’re all beginners at some things, and documentation and onboarding should reflect that notion. In the past he’s worked as a contractor, startup founder, event organiser, and developer advocate at PayPal.

REGISTER TODAY

Whether your business consumes or produces APIs, this conference is the best opportunity to interact with the companies and developers who are pushing the envelope in API implementation.

We look forward to seeing you in Nashville

Join Virginia Eubanks at APIStrat 2018

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Join the OpenAPI Initiative and hundreds of API developers, strategist and thought leaders for APIStrat 2018 on Sept. 24-26 in Music City.

APIStrat brings together everyone – from the API curious to today’s leaders – to discuss opportunities and challenges in the API space. APIStrat sparks conversations between API providers and API consumers, startups and enterprise, developers and architects, and all types of integrators.

KEYNOTE SPOTLIGHT: Virginia Eubanks

Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor; Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age; and co-editor, with Alethia Jones, of Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith. Her writing about technology and social justice has appeared in The American Prospect, The Nation, Harper’s and Wired. For two decades, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements. Today, she is a founding member of the Our Data Bodies Project and a Fellow at New America. She lives in Troy, NY.

 

 

 

REGISTER TODAY

Whether your business consumes or produces APIs, this conference is the best opportunity to interact with the companies and developers who are pushing the envelope in API implementation.

We look forward to seeing you in Nashville

The First Batch Of APIStrat 2018 Nashville Keynotes Are Up

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We recently published the schedule for APIStrat 2018 in Nashville, TN, and now we’ve published the first batch of keynote speakers for the event. We are pretty excited regarding the interest we’ve had in speaking at APIStrat this round, and the lineup we’ve managed to secure the main stage. Making for a pretty compelling set of voices for the 9th edition of APIStrat.

As we roll into August, we wanted to showcase four distinct voices we are bringing to the main stage in Nashville for this round of API Strategy & Practice:

Virginia Eubanks (@PopTechWorks)
Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor; Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age; and co-editor, with Alethia Jones, of Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith. Her writing about technology and social justice has appeared in The American Prospect, The Nation, Harper’s and Wired. For two decades, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements. Today, she is a founding member of the Our Data Bodies Project and a Fellow at New America. She lives in Troy, NY.

Kate O’Neill (@kateo)
Kate O’Neill, “tech humanist,” is founder and CEO of KO Insights, an award-winning thought leadership and advisory firm helping companies, organizations, and cities make future-aligned meaningful decisions based on human behavior and data. Author of 3 books including PIXELS AND PLACE: Connecting Human Experience Across Physical and Digital Spaces, Kate speaks regularly at industry conferences and private events, providing keynotes, participating in panel discussions, and leading creative brainstorming workshops for groups of all sizes.

Jenn Schiffer (@jennschiffer)
Jenn Schiffer is an engineer, artist and tech humorist. Most people know her for her incredible strength and also for being the Community Engineer of http://Glitch.com at Fog Creek. She organizes JerseyScript, a monthly web developer social in Jersey City where she’s based, and built everyone’s favorite free online pixel art editor, http://Make8BitArt.com .

Cristiano Betta (@cbetta)
Cristiano is a Developer Experience designer who helps companies small and large to improve their developer onboarding, activation, and support. He likes to look at great developer onboarding flows, analysing and documenting the best practices and pitfalls of common design practices. Although he has over 15 years of development experience he believes that at the core we’re all beginners at some things, and documentation and onboarding should reflect that notion. In the past he’s worked as a contractor, startup founder, event organiser, and developer advocate at PayPal.

We worked hard to continue bringing the leading API voices from across the space, but we felt it was also important to push forward the conversation on important issues that are relevant to the wider tech sector. We feel these four voices reflect the type of event we think the API sector needs in 2018, adding to the diverse set of personalities we’ve already brought together as part of the APIStrat session and workshop lineup.

Make sure you don’t miss out on the conversation this September 24th through 26th in Nashville, TN. Get registered for APIStrat 2018 today, and spend some time looking at the session and workshop lineup we have planned. We have more announcements coming so stay tune, and there are still opportunities to support APIStrat as a sponsor, so that you can help make sure the conversation that has been going on since 2013 continues.

We look forward to seeing you in Nashville September 24th through 26th!

A Shout Out to the APIStrat Steering and Program Committees

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We are getting ready to close the APIStrat call for papers next week and we wanted to take a moment to give a shout out to the amazing lineup we’ve assembled as part of the steering committee, who are helping guide the event. As well as the folks on the program committee who will be helping review the talks submitted as part of the CFP process, and ultimately craft the program. These are the people who will help set the tone for the conversation that occurs at APIStrat in Nashville, and we are very pleased to have them helping out.

Here are the members of the APIStrat steering committee, playing different leadership roles in the conference, making sure everything gets done by September:

Steering Committee

Next up, we nineteen folks on the program committee who you will have to WOW with your talk submissions so that you can get on stage at APIStrat in Nashville:

Program Committee

Thank you so much to everyone involved. It takes a lot of work to pull together an event like this. Everyone involved is participating because they believe in the event, as well as the health of the wider API community. Once again, we feel like we have assembled a pretty amazing lineup of folks to help make sure APIStrat adequately represents the community, coming from a diverse range of companies delivering APIs and services to the sector.

While the primary roles for the event are filled, there are still plenty of opportunities to get involved. First, make sure you have submitted your talk–you only have one week left to get it in. Second, there are sponsorship opportunities available, and we need the financial support of the API community to be able to make the event happen again. Feel free to reach out, and we’ll see what we can do to get you involved, and part of the goings on in Nashville this year. Thanks again to our steering and program committee members, and we’ll see you all in September.