API — the Application Programming Interface — is a group of subroutine definitions, tools, and protocols for developing application software. Generally speaking, it is a set of defined methods of communication among software components.
API is the new thing in the IT industry. An API-driven service allows you to integrate whatever functionality you desire into your own system, and today's technology makes it easy to integrate an API into virtually any solution you can think of. If you are an IT company working in any area of application, it will interest you to know of a conference that brings together stakeholders and participants with a common interest in APIs.
API World is an annual event that assembles one of the largest gatherings of company executives, entrepreneurs, and engineers in one place — with the singular aim of developing and improving the API economy.Why it exists
Wherever your interest lies in API application, you will be fully served: the event connects you with experts in API design, strategy, and the implementation of new developments and services, as they concern using API technology in today's world.
01API World 2017
The API World 2017 conference is the world's largest conference and expo on API development. As a vendor-neutral conference and expo, it is organised to foster the growth of the new API economy. API World is designed to build on the mission of improving independence and facilitating knowledge, trust, connection, and business in the developer community of API consumers and providers. The 2017 event had 3,000 attendees — experts drawn from diverse fields of technology.
02The Organization
The overall event is designed as a conference, an expo, and a meet-up. This edition was put together by DevNetwork and slated to run from September 25 to 27 at the San Jose Convention Center in the United States.
03The Scope Of The 2017 Event
Just like past editions, API World 2017 covers the key areas of API application — API strategy and design, APIs for machine learning, IoT APIs, monetizing APIs, and many more fields of API practice.
A major area of coverage at API World is microservices. The conference aims to send participants home fully equipped with up-to-date best practices in microservices — an architecture for facilitating quick development and resilient software design.
A collection of the world's best in IT, API World Conference and Expo 2017 boasts about 200 speakers presenting some of the newest innovations and implementations on the subject at hand. Among the notable speakers: Neha Sampat, CEO of Built.io; Aldo Bucchi, principal architect at MuleSoft; Aaron Hedges, Vimeo's API product manager; and Abhinav Asthana, founder and CEO of Postman. Others include Adam Tornes, senior product manager at Twitter; Akshay Aggarwal, co-founder of Déjà vu Security; and Alan Winter, web development team leader at MobiDev, among others.
Many sponsors also came forward to make the 2017 conference and expo a success — over 35 sponsors on the list of companies, many of them also exhibitors at the event. These include 42Crunch, ABBYY, Accusoft, Citigroup, Autodesk, Apollo, and Aspose.
As an expo, the conference dedicates September 26–27 to exhibitors and sponsors showcasing their products. With a 3,000-plus qualified audience, the conference provides 50-plus booths for exhibitors to share their work — making it the largest API Expo in recent times.
04Top Highlights
- Biggest API expo, with 3,000-plus attendees and 50-plus booths
- Biggest API conference, with 200 speakers
- 1,000-plus integration partners
- A wealth of tracks to attract engineers, executives, API consumers, and developers
- DataWeek and the Integrate conference
- API hiring mixers and a hackathon
- 15-plus partner events
The industrial segment includes attendees from:
- Finance
- Business to business
- Business to customer
- Payment processing
- Retail
- Advertising
- Data management
- Media
- Technology
- Communication
- Education and training
05API World And Integrate 2017
API World is not restricted to meetings between consumers and developers alone. The conference is designed to be co-located, in the same venue, with Integrate 2017 — where integration partners from hundreds of companies meet a wide community of API consumers.
Worth knowing: the Integrate workshop is designed to teach participants how to program better with APIs — including fireside chats and panels from great speakers on the ground, plus an array of developers to interact with and exchange ideas.