apidays Australia 2025
as the organisers put it
Australia’s vibrant tech ecosystem and strong developer community make Melbourne the perfect setting to explore the future of APIs and AI. As the region embraces digital acceleration, apidays Australia brings together innovators and leaders to shape what’s next in API development and intelligent engineering.
who it's for
api architects, platform engineers, software engineers, security engineers, data engineers, engineering managers
topics
genai-compatible APIs; openapi contract driven design; api gateways as AI gateways; real-time lakehouse APIs; data and API governance; ai driven api security; graphql threat detection; agent ready api design; retrieval augmented generation with OneLake; token based rate limiting for llms; api catalog and discoverability; eval driven development for models
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Connect the humans behind APIs | Mehdi Medjaoui | 45m |
Argues that organizations must adopt an API mandate for “genai readiness”: export critical data and workflows via genai-compatible APIs, make every API… | ||
| From Data Swamp to Data Symphony: Orchestrating Governance, AI and APIs | Su Jella | 27m |
Describes migrating a messy ecosystem of 30–50 data sources into governed, trusted pipelines where APIs are messengers and data quality precedes AI; claims 95%… | ||
| Discussion between Mehdi Medjaoui and Troy Leliard,API Security. | Mehdi Medjaoui, Troy Leliard | 24m |
Claim: APIs remain the primary route into AI and therefore the main attack surface; practical attacks demonstrated include prompt injection and credential… | ||
| Unleash Your Inner API Architect: Build Agents That Deliver | Maurizio Garzelli | 35m |
Claims that 50% of business decisions are augmented by 2027 and that many agent projects fail from bad tooling drive a practical playbook: prefer… | ||
| When to Gen AI? A strategic framework for real-world AI adoption | Robert Valk | 29m |
Argues a practical two‑axis decision frame: deterministic vs probabilistic and pre‑training vs runtime inference to decide where GenAI adds value. Claims… | ||
| Opening remarks | Mehdi Medjaoui | 10m |
Event opens the 10th AP Melbourne edition and explains format choices: main room plus streamed overflow, four to five tracks today and five tomorrow, hallway… | ||
| The Impact of AI on the future of software engineering | Manjunath Bhat | 24m |
Claims that AI increases demand for software engineers—arguing not fewer but exponentially more—supported by a virtuous-cycle explanation and a precedent… | ||
| Business Wants In—Here’s How to Drive API Wins (and Keep Your Sanity) | David Irecki | 22m |
Business teams adopt AI fast and need APIs they can discover, call and trust; expect central API catalog plus no-code agent builder backed by federated… | ||
| Building AI-Driven Real-Time Lakehouse APIs | Asif Waquar | 23m |
Claims a working pipeline that turns overnight batch reporting into real-time lakehouse APIs, using Databricks for bronze/silver processing and moving the gold… | ||
| API Management in the AI Era | Nilesh Gule | 16m |
Describes using Azure API Management AI gateway to treat tokens as currency showing concrete measurements like ML 7B instruct using 110 tokens vs 17 prompt… | ||
| APIs at the Crossroads From Integration Glue to Intelligence Infrastructure | Saul Caganoff | 32m |
Built a GIS server that manages a terabyte of network data with a client SDK in C and a Unix fork-per-connection server, then repurposed it as a web service… | ||
| Advanced GraphQL Security with AI-Driven Threat Detection | Hiranya Abeyrathne | 20m |
Claims a WSO2 prototype replaces brittle static thresholds with a three-layer AI defense: LLM-generated structural policies, an embedding-based semantic… | ||
| User Brainpower vs. AI Blind Spots in API Docs | Rebecca McIntosh | 20m |
Claims that unchecked use of LLMs injects variability into API docs, wasting engineers’ finite cognitive resources through hallucination, wrong facts… | ||
| Are APIs becoming obsolete? Think MCP, ACP, A2A, AGNTCY etc. | Shreshta Shyamsundar | 27m |
Anthropic's MCP opens two‑way, context‑rich connections so LLMs can access databases and act on intent; IBM/Linux Foundation's ACP standardises cross‑agent… | ||
| GovAPIs: Trends, Policies & Citizen Engagement | Prasanna Dangalla | 12m |
Timeline traces from data.gov: thousands of datasets (2006) through 2010 rollouts like MyGov and UIDAI, GDPR (2015), to 2020 Singapore Health Data Hub and… | ||
| Are Your APIs Ready for AI Agents? | Damian Thurnheer | 13m |
AI agents become the fastest growing API consumers and require APIs to support Model Context Protocol (MCP) so agents can discover and execute functions… | ||
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