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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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79Speakers
23Sponsors
0On the bill · sessions
84Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at 2026, in alphabetical order.
Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth
Staff Technical Program Manager · Google
Alexis Roberson
Senior Developer Educator · LaunchDarkly
Amit Shah
Director, Product Marketing · Kong
Anil Inamdar
Global Head of Data Services · NetApp Instaclustr
Ankush Agarwal
Software Engineer · OpenAI
An Phan
Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer · Hippo Harvest
API World Speakers
Apurva Godghase
Lead Computer Vision Engineer · Brambles
Arun Gupta
Director Open Source Ecosystem and developer platform · NVIDIA
Arunkumar Mathiyazhagan
Sr Software Engineer · Amazon Web Services
Asanka Abeysinghe
CTO · WSO2
Ashish Shubham
Runs the show bussiness · ThoughtSpot
Ashutosh Shanker
Senior Principal Engineer · Palo Alto Networks
Ayan Gupta
Cloud Advocate · Microsoft
Badita Florin
Founder · DomainScope
Brenton House
Principal Advisor, Automation and Emerging Technology · IBM
Charit Upadhyay
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (DevSecOps + CloudOps/AIOps) · Adobe
Christopher Mindus
CTO & Co-founder · Mindus SARL
Colin Dalby
Solutions Engineer · Apryse
Cristina Flaschen
CEO & Co-Founder · Pandium
Dale Spoonemore
Creator · Seed to Spoon Gardening App
Daniel Davis
Co-Founder/CEO · TrustGraph/Stealth
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AkamaiShowcase+
ApryseExhibitor
AVAPExhibitor
AxwayExhibitors
BrunoShowcase
CloudAPPiExhibitor
DynadotExhibitor
FoxitOfficial
GuardsquareExhibitor
ImpartShowcase
KongShowcase
Kong Inc.Showcase
Maven MuleShowcase
Name.comShowcase Plus
Perfect CorpExhibitor
Perfect Corp.Exhibitors
Quantea CorporationExhibitors
RunpodExhibitors
SeedlingExhibitor
SerpApiShowcase+
SmartBearExhibitor
WundergraphShowcase+
WunderGraphShowcase Plus
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 84 companies show up — and 6 bet on three roles at once?

84 companies. six 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
6All threespeak · spons · exh
14Sponsoringsponsor only
64Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

WunderGraph·Akamai·Apryse·Guardsquare·Kong·Name.com

Speakers by seniority

47% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1924%
  • Founder / Owner56%
  • VP-level34%
  • Director / Head of1013%
  • Manager / Lead1519%
  • Product11%
  • Engineer · IC1620%
  • Advisor / Investor11%
  • Other roles911%

Of 79 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01WunderGraphSp·S2V
  2. 02AkamaiSp·S1V
  3. 03ApryseSp·E1V
  4. 04GuardsquareSp·E1V
  5. 05KongSp·S1V
  6. 06Name.comSp·S1V
  7. 07AVAPSp·E
  8. 08AxwaySp·E
  9. 09BrunoSp·S
  10. 10CloudAPPiSp·E
  11. 11DynadotSp·E
  12. 12FoxitSp·O
  13. 13ImpartSp·S
  14. 14Maven MuleSp·S
Sponsors by tier
exhibitor8
35% of 23
exhibitors4
17% of 23
official1
4% of 23
showcase5
22% of 23
showcase+3
13% of 23
showcase plus2
9% of 23
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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