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2026 API Awards

The 2026 API Awards are the definitive awards for the API & microservices industry, celebrating innovation, adoption and reception in the sector and by the developer community. Hosted at API World 2026, the event features recognition across 26 categories, and winners are selected by an Advisory Board after a public nomination process. The ceremony offers exp…

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142Speakers
27Sponsors
30Exhibitors
0Sessions
147Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at 2026, in alphabetical order.

Aakash Abhay Yadav
Making Security Risk Intelligence Mainstream · Roblox
Abeetha Bala
Product Leader · Amazon Web Services
Abhijeet Ranadive
Chief Product Officer · Routable
Abhinav Wagle
Staff Software Engineer · Together AI
Abhishek Gawande
Product Leader · Okta
Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth
Staff Technical Program Manager · Google
Albert Zhao
Developer Experience Engineer · AWS
Alex Aniska
Principal Engineer · SoundCloud
Alex Barnett
VP, Head of Developer Ecosystem · Vonage
Alexis Roberson
Senior Developer Educator · LaunchDarkly
Alice Zhai
Co-Founder · Sliq
Amanda Peterson
VP of Partnerships · Cliq
Amit Shah
Director, Product Marketing · Kong
Anand Shastri
Principal Software Engineer · Atlassian
Andrew Madson
Head of Developer Relations · Fivetran
Andy Singh
CEO · Teqfocus
Andy Warzon
VP Managed Services · Caylent
Anil Inamdar
Global Head of Data Services · NetApp Instaclustr
Ankur Gupta
Senior Staff Technical Program Manager · LinkedIn
Ankush Agarwal
Software Engineer · OpenAI
An Phan
Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer · Hippo Harvest
Anshu Gupta
Founder · Fixin Security

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

AkamaiShowcase+
ApryseExhibitor
AVAPExhibitor
AxwayExhibitors
BrunoShowcase
CliqExhibitors
CloudAPPiExhibitor
DynadotExhibitor
FoxitOfficial
GuardsquareExhibitor
ImpartShowcase
KongShowcase
Kong Inc.Showcase
Maven MuleShowcase
Name.comShowcase Plus
Perfect CorpExhibitor
Perfect Corp.Exhibitors
Quantea CorporationExhibitors
QueritExhibitors
RunpodExhibitors
ScraperAPIExhibitors
SeedlingExhibitor
SerpApiShowcase+
SmartBearExhibitor
TykExhibitors
WireMockExhibitors
WundergraphShowcase+
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 147 companies show up, and 22 bet on three roles at once?

147 companies. 22 are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
22All threespeak · spons · exh
5Sponsoringsponsor only
8Exhibitingexhibitor only
112Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

WunderGraph·Akamai·Apryse·Axway·Cliq·Guardsquare·Kong·name.com·AVAP·CloudAPPi·Dynadot·MavenMule·Perfect Corp·Quantea·Querit·Runpod·ScraperAPI·SerpApi·SmartBear·WireMock·Elastic·Nutrient

Speakers by seniority

44% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite3021%
  • Founder / Owner128%
  • VP-level75%
  • Director / Head of1410%
  • Manager / Lead2820%
  • Product32%
  • Engineer · IC3122%
  • Research / Science11%
  • Advisor / Investor11%
  • Other roles1511%

Of 142 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1WunderGraphSponsor · Showcase+Exhibitor2
2AkamaiSponsor · Showcase+Exhibitor1
3ApryseSponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor1
4AxwaySponsor · ExhibitorsExhibitor1
5CliqSponsor · ExhibitorsExhibitor1
6GuardsquareSponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor1
7KongSponsor · ShowcaseExhibitor1
8name.comSponsor · Showcase PlusExhibitor1
9AVAPSponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
10CloudAPPiSponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
11DynadotSponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
12MavenMuleSponsor · ShowcaseExhibitor-
13Perfect CorpSponsor · ExhibitorsExhibitor-
14QuanteaSponsor · ExhibitorsExhibitor-
Sponsors by tier
exhibitor8
30% of 27
exhibitors9
33% of 27
official1
4% of 27
showcase5
19% of 27
showcase+3
11% of 27
showcase plus1
4% of 27
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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