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API Conference London 2026

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PI Conference London is at the forefront of the digital transformation, bringing together innovators and thought leaders in the API space. This event is a must-attend for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of API development, design, and management, with insights from experts and industry leaders. Attendees can expect engaging keynotes, hands-on w…

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42Voices
9Underwriters
0Exhibitors
11On the bill · sessions
27Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at API, in alphabetical order.
Amity Wang
Airbnb
Andrew Walsh
Frontend Engineering Expert and Author of OpenAPI DevTools. Passionate about technology and a world traveler at heart.
Billy Thompson
DevOps & Platform Engineering | Cloud-Native & Open Source Evangelist
Bobur Umurzokov
Api7.ai
Carlos Villanúa Fernández
Solutions Architect · Traefik Labs
Christian Wenz
Web veteran and expert in web security
Dr. Olaf Zimmermann
Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
Erik Wilde
Enterprise Strategy at Jentic: AI Enablement at Scale
Filip Verloy
Heather Xiao
Leading businesses into the Open X era through data, strategy and execution
Jan Vlnas
Superface
John D Wood
Revolutionising AppSec: Putting an end to the Drama, Comedy and Tragedy of Security Theater
John Willis
DevOps & IT Risk Researcher, Author & Governance Expert
Josh Twist
CEO of Zuplo, OpenAPI-native edge gateway innovator, ex-Head of Product at Stripe, and former leader at Facebook and Microsoft Azure. · Zuplo
Kai Tödter
Expert in Java and Web Technologies and Open Source Committer
Ketty Zakariasy
API Strategy, API design , API Management Specialist | Women’s Empowerment
Marco Sanz
Innovation-oriented executive who combines strong technical expertise with business strategy and management skills.
Markus Ziller
Amazon Web Services
Maryna Rybalko
Product and Tech Leader who builds API-first payment infrastructure across 69 countries in EU, APAC, and Africa
Matthias Biehl
API Innovation Strategist and Author · API-University.com
Mehreen Tahir
Expert in Machine Learning, AI-Powered Observability & Automation
Michael Dowden
Technology leader, author, and international speaker

— and 20 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Traefik LabsGold
AxwaySilver
Equixly SrlSilver
VonageSilver
WunderGraphBronze
AI & ML EventsMedia Partner
AI Press RoomMedia Partner
Capitalbay NewsMedia Partner
DevITJobs.ukMedia Partner
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The Programme

Selected from 11 sessions on the bill.
  • TBA

    AI-Ready APIs

    KI-Systeme wie Agenten, Copilots und autonome Workflows werden zunehmend zu direkten Konsumenten von APIs. Organisationen müssen ihre APIs gezielt „AI-ready“ gestalten. Doch reiche…

    APIs for AI & Agentic Systems
  • TBA

    AI Trustworthy by Design: A Practical Path to ISO/IEC 42001 and Other AI Governance Standards

    AI is rapidly transforming products, teams and entire organisations—but without a robust governance framework, innovation can easily outpace responsibility. In this talk, we explor…

    API Governance & Operations
  • TBA

    APIs Are the New Product Surface: Designing for Developers, Platforms, and AI Agents

    APIs are no longer just technical integration points. In modern cloud and SaaS ecosystems, they are the product surface through which developers discover capabilities, platforms sc…

    API Platform Engineering
  • TBA

    Beyond OpenAPI: Workflows That AI Agents Can Actually Execute

    AI agents can call individual API endpoints, but multi-step workflows? That’s where they struggle. OpenAPI describes what each endpoint does, but not how to orchestrate them into b…

    APIs for AI & Agentic Systems
  • TBA

    Closing the Gap: Seamless Frontend–Backend APIs with tRPC

    How many hours do you spend with synchronizing API types between frontend and backend? For most teams, the answer is: too many. This talk explores tRPC — a TypeScript-native fullst…

    API Design & Development
  • TBA

    Fixing API Chaos: A Practical, Open Method to Structure API Work

    Most API problems are not caused by bad tools or missing lifecycle models. They happen because API work is fragmented across teams, roles, and responsibilities. Design happens in i…

    API Platform Engineering
  • TBA

    Hands-On Minimal API: Building Robust Endpoints

    Minimal API is a well-crafted framework, tightly integrated with the ASP.NET Core runtime. Exposing an endpoint can be as simple as a one-liner lambda, but this approach rarely sca…

    API Design & Development
  • TBA

    Images in APIs: Databases, Blobs, and Practices

    APIs often need to deliver images—logos, flags, or product photos. At first glance, storing everything in Azure Blob Storage seems obvious, but there are trade-offs in performance,…

    API Platform Engineering
  • TBA

    Mind Your Manners: API Etiquette

    We spend endless time learning to build APIs, but most development happens on the other side of the wire: consuming them. Poorly optimized clients degrade performance, bloat cloud …

    API Security
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 27 companies show up — and 2 bet on three roles at once?

27 companies. two 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.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
2All threespeak · spons · exh
7Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
18Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Traefik Labs·WunderGraph

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

7% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite25%
  • Director / Head of12%
  • Manager / Lead12%
  • Engineer · IC717%
  • Research / Science12%
  • Other roles3071%

Of 42 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Traefik LabsSp·G1V
  2. 02WunderGraphSp·B1V
  3. 03AI & ML EventsSp·M
  4. 04AI Press RoomSp·M
  5. 05AxwaySp·S
  6. 06Capitalbay NewsSp·M
  7. 07DevITJobs.ukSp·M
  8. 08Equixly SrlSp·S
  9. 09VonageSp·S
  10. 10predic82V
  11. 11Airbnb1V
  12. 12Api7.ai1V
  13. 13API-University.com1V
  14. 14AWS1V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
gold1
11% of 9
silver3
33% of 9
bronze1
11% of 9
media partner4
44% of 9
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's 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.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

Sister convocations

Same brand, other regions