Programme

In this interview Jef Bussens explains that APIs are essential building blocks of a modern customer journey. Ilse de Vis will ask him why it is necessary that business departments create more involvement – even claim ownership – over their API layer. After watching this interview you will know about the strategy of a layered API vision, in which the deeper and technical APIs are enclosed by more functional structured APIs, which can be offered to the outside world.

If your company wants to grow, innovate and develop continuously in this digital area, a good in-depth and substantiated integration strategy is crucial for your organisation.

Although it remains difficult for lots of enterprises to map all available datasources and data flows and to integrate all those systems and applications in one.

Therefore Niek Jacobsen will present you in this session how AXI have set up an API Management platform for Gezinsbond.

He will talk about the business case for Gezinsbond and explain the motivation for choosing the open source Gravitee.io platform.

Niek will also discuss the choice to host the platform in the cloud and what the consequences of that choice were. As a final point he will explain how the APIs were adequately secured.

Via this interview you will find out the benefit from using API’s and you will become inspired by their peers’ stories and experiences. You will learn how IBM’s API lifecycle management capabilities, increases productivity and improves outcomes across the multi-layered teams involved in API-led innovation efforts.

What if building APIs on heterogeneous back-end data sources was simple and required no heavy custom development? It can be, with Denodo’s Data Virtualization platform. Learn how to rapidly build and deploy standardized RESTful, OData and GraphQL APIs with low code/no code simplicity on any data source, from relational databases to cloud and on-premises data lakes, legacy systems to modern applications like SAP and Salesforce. With a knowledge of source systems’ protocols, a state-of-the-art query optimizer and advanced security features, the Denodo platform allows you to build a rationalized and easy-to-maintain data access layer.

In this interview, Ilse de Vis will talk to Colin Domoney, API Security Research Specialist at 42Crunch about the fact that APIs are the number one attack surface for hackers. Colin will share his experience on the right approach to protecting APIs and will discuss how to achieve continuous end-to-end protection for corporate APIs.

In this video Peter Oosterlynck, senior API Management expert at Axway, will present a very brief overview of the Axway Amplify API Management solution suite. After that he will spent the majority of the session on the latest additions to the Amplify platform with a focus on the Amplify Unified Catalogue/MarketPlace. More and more (large) organizations have made a large set of APIs available for internal and external usage. Often, they delivered the APIs using several different API Gateways (Amazon, Axway, Azure, Google Apigee, SalesForce MuleSoft, etc). The next key challenge is re-use of the APIs made available by as many as possible API consumers. An API Portal connected to all different API Gateways in use and automatically showing all APIs to interested consumers is needed to improve re-use. The Axway Amplify Unified Catalogue is the only multi-vendor API gateway currently offered by one of the leading gateway vendors and shows the unique, independent position of Axway in this market. Make sure you attend this break out session if you want to learn more about this unique offering!

How to build a composable enterprise, combining the strengths of all data and business functions of all your departments and business partners? How to bypass the organizational and technical struggle? How to keep things simple and move fast to results?

In this video some new and different ideas are shared about minimizing risk and maximizing results in the integration space. In this session some new and different ideas are shared about minimizing risk and maximizing results in the integration space. These ideas are not only about API Strategy. It touches the other topics of this API Event as well.

This roundtable intends to discuss how to design good APIs. What are your issues when it comes to designing? Discuss this with your peers and share your pitfalls and best practices. Learn from each other and join the discussions.

This roundtable intends to discuss the best security and privacy of APIs. What are your issues when it comes to this? Discuss this with your peers and share your pitfalls and best practices. Learn from each other and join the discussions.

This roundtable intends to discuss the best practices in connecting business & technical requirements. This is a well know issue for our participants. How do others deal with this? Please join the discussion and share your pitfalls and best practices. Learn from each other and join the discussions.