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apidays Australia 2026

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apidays Australia 2026 ran Oct 28–29, 2026 at MCEC in Melbourne, Australia. It is an API conference that expected about 2,500 attendees. ConferenceGrid lists 23 speakers, 19 sponsors and 15 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Oct 10, 2026 · dates verified May 4, 2026

apidays Australia 2026 centers on 'Sovereign Intelligence: APIs for a Human-Centric Private and Public Sector.' As AI governance transitions from policy to enforcement, attendees will explore how APIs enable transparency, accountability, and regulatory compliance for generative AI in both public and private settings. The conference promises practical session…

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23Speakers
19Sponsors
15Sessions
29Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at apidays, in alphabetical order.

Artem Koshelev
Principal Engineer · Atlassian
Ashish Kumar
Asif Waquar
Solutions Architect · Munich Re
BMK Lakshminarayanan
Chuck Herrin
Claudio Tag
Dasith Wijesiriwardena
Hrittik Roy
Joey Wong
Kanchana Wickremasinghe
Vice President & General Manager API & Integration · WSO2
Liz Fong-Jones
honeycomb
Mal Curtis
Principal Software Engineer · Nvidia
Manjunath Bhat
VP Analyst and Gartner Fellow, Software Engineering Practice · Gartner
Mara Cajar-Robinson
Mehdi Medjaoui
Nat Sakimura
Chairman of the Board, OpenID Foundation · OpenID Foundation
Nilesh Gule
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect · Avanade
Peter Adeosun
Security Engineer and Platform · Wesfarmers
Richard Owens
Director · Vanillah
Saul Caganoff
Siham Essodaigui
Head of Applied AI
Su Jella
Lecturer and Subject Architect · Torrens University

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

SalesforcePlatinum
BoomiGold
DatadogGold
Google Cloud ApigeeGold
IBMGold
WSO2Gold
AkamaiSilver
Auth0Silver
DeloitteSilver
F5Silver
GraviteeSilver
AdaptivBronze
EasygoBronze
GraphQL FoundationBronze
KongBronze
New RelicBronze
OrkesBronze
Pinch PaymentBronze & Community
Pinch PaymentsBronze & Community

Agenda

Selected from 15 sessions.

  • 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM

    Session 2: America's AI Policy Conundrum

    The Executive AI Security Forum
  • 10:30 AM – 10:55 AM

    Don't Waste Your Backpressure: Engineering Better AI Harnesses as a Team

    Enterprise API & AI Deployments
  • 10:30 AM – 10:55 AM

    Who's Accountable When the Agent Gets It Wrong? Governance, risk and the accountability gap in the agentic enterprise

  • 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM

    Making use of the Kin Score in the Australian/ANZ region

  • 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM

    We taught AI Agents to cheat - we didn't realise how good they'd be at finding all the gaps we left open

    Workshops
  • 10:55 AM – 11:20 AM

    The Enterprise Knowledge Graph

    Enterprise API & AI Deployments
  • 11:00 AM – 11:25 AM

    Conformance for Inference: How We Reduced Bad Deploys on a GPU Platform

  • 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM

    Session 3: The Realities of AI-Powered Offense

    The Executive AI Security Forum
  • 11:20 AM – 1:00 PM

    The API Economy in an AI-everywhere world

Quick answers

When is apidays Australia 2026?
apidays Australia 2026 ran Oct 28–29, 2026 at MCEC in Melbourne, Australia.
Where is apidays Australia 2026 held?
apidays Australia 2026 was held at MCEC in Melbourne, Australia.
Who is speaking at apidays Australia 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 23 speakers, including Artem Koshelev (Principal Engineer, Atlassian), Ashish Kumar and Asif Waquar (Solutions Architect, Munich Re).
Who sponsors apidays Australia 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 19 sponsors, including Salesforce, Boomi, Datadog, Google Cloud Apigee and IBM.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 29 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

29 companies. one 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
1All threespeak · spons · exh
18Sponsoringsponsor only
10Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

WSO2

Speakers by seniority

17% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • VP-level29%
  • Director / Head of29%
  • Manager / Lead29%
  • Engineer · IC417%
  • Other roles1357%

Of 23 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1WSO2Sponsor · Gold1
2AdaptivSponsor · Bronze-
3AkamaiSponsor · Silver-
4Auth0Sponsor · Silver-
5BoomiSponsor · Gold-
6DatadogSponsor · Gold-
7DeloitteSponsor · Silver-
8EasygoSponsor · Bronze-
9F5Sponsor · Silver-
10Google Cloud ApigeeSponsor · Gold-
11GraphQL FoundationSponsor · Bronze-
12GraviteeSponsor · Silver-
13IBMSponsor · Gold-
14KongSponsor · Bronze-
Sponsors by tier
platinum1
5% of 19
gold5
26% of 19
silver5
26% of 19
bronze6
32% of 19
bronze & community2
11% of 19
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.

Related events · by shared sponsors
ConferenceDateCityShared sponsors
apidays Paris 2026December 1, 2026Paris8
apidays New York 2027May 1, 2027New York8
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North AmericaNovember 9, 2026Salt Lake City7
Open Source SecurityCon 2026November 9, 2026Salt Lake City7
apidays Singapore 2027April 13, 2027Singapore7
WeAreDevelopers Conference India 2026November 25, 2026Bengaluru4

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