apidays Dubai & Middle East 2022
2022-06-28..2022-06-29
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[apidays Dubai & Middle East 2022, apidays Dubai & Middle East 2023]
who it's for
open banking product managers, payments product managers, fintech founders and executives, platform engineers, api architects, security engineers, developer relations and ecosystem leads
topics
open banking regulation in Saudi Arabia; embedded finance monetization patterns; api security for open banking; api marketplace design and federation; automating api governance; data mesh architecture in banking; conversational personalization for services; mock api servers for testing; Stargate api layer for Cassandra; monitoring api ecosystems at global scale; Apigee-based personalized banking journeys
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome and Opening Remarks [Day1] | Mehdi Medjaoui | 06m |
Apidays launches its first Middle East edition centered in Dubai and says the series runs 10 years with 75 events, 50,000 past attendees and a 300,000-strong… | ||
| Future of Finance is Open | Sanjeev Kumar | 37m |
Open finance moves from regulator nudges (UK since 2016) to widespread market action: Stripe enters open banking, Apple acquires Credit Kudos, big banks and… | ||
| Role of APIs in Insurance Transformation | Frederik Bisbjerg | 28m |
Claims that insurance can move fast by isolating core systems with an API layer and building a plug‑and‑play front end; current environment requires connecting… | ||
| Panel : Open Banking - Expectations, Opportunities and Challenges. | Abe Karar, Alina Beleuta, Jubran Alshahrani | 45m |
Panel argues GCC moves fastest on open banking with Salt Edge already pre-integrated with core banking stacks in the region and regulators (SAMA, Bahrain)… | ||
| The state of Open banking in Saudi Arabia | Jubran Alshahrani | 29m |
Claims that 2022 is the breakout year for open banking in Saudi Arabia with a draft regulation due within months and full rules by 2023, backed by 3–4 banks by… | ||
| Open Banking and Halal Payments | Faysal Ghauri | 21m |
Claims a Sharia-based payments ecosystem and Canadian super‑app that uses bank APIs to stitch customers’ dispersed accounts into services like Zakat automation… | ||
| Panel : Open Banking - Learnings and best Practices from UK and Europe. | Helen Child, Chris Michael, Dmitrii Barbasura, Kevin Guest | 51m |
UK open banking shows concrete progress and clear gaps: a coordinated standard and conformance regime produces real deployments for accounting reconciliation… | ||
| Open & Embedded Banking - A differentiator in the Middle East. | Matthias Biehl | 26m |
Shows an airline integrating multi-banking airline app capabilities by calling banks’ APIs to aggregate accounts, plus examples of QuickBooks and Lyft… | ||
| Should I Buy or Build Open Banking ? | Kevin Guest | 29m |
Implemented open banking for the UK’s largest payment acceptance institution (handles £650bn/year) reduces 2 million annual payment errors to zero errors after… | ||
| Panel : Embedded and Open Finance. | Serena Sebastiani, Mohamed Roushdy, Aamir Janjua, Helen Child | 52m |
Region-wide push for standards and sandboxes: Accenture helps Saudi publish national open banking specs, ADGM launches an open finance lab with four banks and… | ||
| Journey to Open Finance and Open Data | Prasanth Puthanveedu | 23m |
India builds a production-grade digital public goods stack around unified payment interface (UPI) and a consent layer called the Data Empowerment and… | ||
| Embedded Financial Services & Path to Growth | Burak Uluocak | 23m |
Mikro Group explains how embedded finance moves from concept to product by wiring bank APIs, e-invoicing and treasury systems into merchant apps so shops can… | ||
| API, the next 10 years: Beyond the Interface | Mehdi Medjaoui | 25m |
API strategy focuses on concrete wins: an API both exposes capabilities and hides legacy complexity, and embedded APIs beat merely open APIs by reaching… | ||
| Embedded Finance: Enabling ecosystems to drive financial growth and inclusion. | Oluseye Farodoye | 26m |
Claims that embedded finance can unlock about $230 billion of revenue by 2025, and that API-led firms can boost market cap roughly +12% while lifting profit… | ||
| Does Lipstick work? | Craig Hughes | 32m |
Claims that a shiny front-end fixes legacy failings: a savings balance is blocked by an AML alert raised by overnight analytics on shadow bookkeeping that… | ||
| APIs for Business Scalability | Faisal Mohammed Banaeamah | 25m |
Shows how travel booking moves from walk‑in to digitization to full digitalization, with airlines (Saudia, Flynas, Emirates) exposing backend systems as APIs… | ||
| Approaches to Open Finance | Erkan Dervis | 25m |
Defines open banking vs Banking as a Service vs platform banking, cites PSD2 (2015) and the UK CMA decision (2016) as adoption milestones, and notes Turkey’s… | ||
| How to enable personalised experiences using Conversational. | Tejas Venkatesh | 26m |
Claims that messaging + conversational AI beats web/apps for personalization with concrete numbers: 175 million WhatsApp messages/day and survey results like… | ||
| Open Banking Challenges and Hurdles | Maurizio Garzelli | 24m |
Banks and regulators must stand up a central authority and QTSP flow, adapt legacy APIs and auth systems to support consent and reusable PSD2/UK Open Banking… | ||
| Improving API Security Posture. | William Ebenezer, May Brooks-Kempler | 33m |
Built and deployed a dedicated API security solution that automatically discovers and inventories APIs, flags sensitive parameters, and captures forensic logs… | ||
| API Security in Open Banking Context | Yusuf Khan | 24m |
Open banking needs stronger API controls so FAPI (OAuth2/OIDC profiles) adds specific requirements: private_key_jwt or mutual TLS for client authentication… | ||
| Secure your Apps and APIs with strong authentication and Adaptive Access. | John Gren | 18m |
Claims that 95% of companies suffered API incidents in 2021 and 34% lack an API security strategy, then shows concrete tooling: OAuth2 / OpenID Connect, the… | ||
| How to Build & Monetize an Enterprise API Marketplace, a Real-World Case Study. | Jason Cumberland, Rina Sarkar | 25m |
Builds a live enterprise API marketplace using MuleSoft plus HyperCurrent for metering, billing and offers, launching with six NLP APIs that process… | ||
| Stargate, an OSS Api Layer for Apache Cassandra. | Cedrick Lunven | 52m |
An open source proxy called Stargate sits over Apache Cassandra and exposes REST, GraphQL, gRPC and Document APIs so teams can create, read, update and delete… | ||
| Making Banking Joyful: Personalized Journeys using Apigee & Google Ecosystem. | Harish Kumar | 45m |
A working chatbot journey ties Apigee API management to Dialogflow CX and Google Cloud services to plan a trip end to end — flights, hotels, rides and merchant… | ||
| Increasing Team Productivity with Mock API Servers. | W. Ian Douglas | 49m |
Shows how Postman turns three saved examples (two REST, one GraphQL) into a live mock server so front-end and back-end work in parallel, claiming measurable… | ||
| Customer Spotlight with Safaricom | Oluseye Farodoye | 26m |
A mobile money platform describes migrating integrations to Apigee and scaling to 60 million transactions a day, about 2 billion API requests a month, 52,000… | ||
| Poor API design is not sustainable. | Nico Balestra, Markus Müller | 49m |
Poor API design raises operating and delivery cost, causes documentation to drift, and fragments implementations — one case condenses six versions into one to… | ||
| Welcome and Opening Remarks [day2]. | Mehdi Medjaoui, Prasanth Puthanveedu, Novshad Ali Shaik | 09m |
Day two opens by summarizing day one’s themes: adoption of open finance as embedded banking, APIs as core business functions, and the shift from compliance to… | ||
| Digital Transformation in Governance | Moayad Ratrout | 28m |
Predicts one billion dollar market for APIs and AI by 2028, cites Dubai’s paperless drive that removed billions of papers, and reports a Saudi mega project… | ||
| Deploying a national Open Finance infrastructure [...] | Abe Karar | 38m |
Argues that countries must pick among three deployment models—in‑house, vendor, or consortium—and gives concrete deployments: Bahrain phases regulatory rollout… | ||
| Digital Leadership and Digital Ecosystem | Hadis Nazari | 22m |
Claims that APIs drive ecosystems with 2,000+ APIs worldwide (2019) and 34% annual growth, and that APIs account for >60% of revenue for leading e‑commerce… | ||
| How to scale your business through payments [...] | Mohammed Al Alami | 25m |
Outlines how to scale across a fragmented MENA payments market by supporting local networks and flows: Meda handles 95% of Saudi card transactions and 39M of… | ||
| Modernising mission-critical applications without stopping the bank. | Sudhindra Balaji | 25m |
Danske Bank modernizes its core banking by moving data and functionality off mainframe into cloud in three phases: distributed read (stream mainframe data to a… | ||
| Understanding the Challenges and Benefits of NDC | Ann Cederhall | 27m |
NDC is an IATA airline-only XML standard introduced to replace EDIFACT but registers under 10% adoption after 10 years; airlines use differing platforms so… | ||
| Leveraging APIs for Aviation | Aslam Mohammed | 26m |
Built a contactless end-to-end passenger journey at Bangalore airport by leveraging existing and new APIs to stitch together airline, airport, security and GDS… | ||
| What are SMART APIs? How to apply them in Travel, Insurance and Banking. | Patrick Brosse | 24m |
SMART APIs combine data-centric state resources with hypermedia links and event-driven subscriptions so long-running processes (like document checks) expose a… | ||
| The Future of API Security | Vandana Verma Sehgal | 26m |
API security focuses on concrete failures: Express.js demo shows validation bypass where sending an array instead of a string turns a parameter into an… | ||
| Monitoring the API Ecosystems at Global Scale | Baljeet Malhotra | 21m |
Claims that 83% of internet traffic is API driven and that hundreds-to-thousands of public APIs per enterprise can scale to millions globally, backed by a… | ||
| Digital Transformation: Potential Pitfalls, Protection, and PETs [...]. | Sonal Rattan, Frederick Purcell | 35m |
Claims that by 2025 less than 50% managed by 2025 of enterprise APIs remain unmanaged and that 91% of organizations report API incidents set the urgency… | ||
| The API-First World is for Non-Developers, too! | Ian Douglas | 24m |
Claims that non-developers can drive API-first design using Postman Flows as a low-code visual programming tool that launched in Sept 2021, with concrete… | ||
| Automating API Governance | Nauman Ali | 25m |
Argues that codified, runnable rules stop manual gates from blocking delivery: build an automated style guide that enforces OpenAPI 3.x, hostname and path… | ||
| How APIs and Event driven architecture [...] | Chaitanya Kothawade | 28m |
Describes an implemented event-driven system that replaces file polling with a publish/subscribe pipeline using Kafka/MQ/Rabbit and microservices that publish… | ||
| Connecting the World/Cities with Events Flows and APIs Interactions. | Franklin Antony | 24m |
Argues that APIs and event streams coexist as the next platform, citing predictions of 463 exabytes of data by 2025 and 30 billion IoT devices to justify an… | ||
| Better APIs through Better More Timely Data | Amarjit Basra | 28m |
Argues that APIs improve only when backed by a fast, elastic data platform that delivers high-throughput writes and low-latency reads and shifts batch ETL to… | ||
| Data Mesh Architecture in Banking | Mahmoud Yassin | 23m |
Argues that banking must move analytics ownership into business domains, backing it with four concrete principles: data domain ownership, data as a product, a… | ||
| Abstraction using APIs | Vikram Vasudevan | 24m |
Proposes an API-driven data abstraction platform that connects SQL, NoSQL, graph, time-series, ERPs and other sources via community connectors, does… | ||
| Building effective API Marketplace with Federation | Shylaja Sundararajan | 26m |
Claims a practical catalog segmentation pattern that uses API metadata to auto-generate virtual collections via a background auto-curation job, removing manual… | ||
| Building successful API developer programs | Pavan Keshavamurthy | 26m |
Treat APIs as products: invest in a branded developer portal, give a clear product value proposition, and measure outcomes like apps per API and conversion… | ||
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