apidays Hong Kong 2022
2022-08-24..2022-08-25
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who it's for
api product managers, banking and fintech architects, platform engineers, developer experience engineers, security engineers, data engineers, engineering managers
topics
open banking APIs; api gateway architectures; event-driven microservice architecture; GraphQL API modernization; OpenTelemetry instrumentation; ksqldb stream processing; openai GPT-3 integration; federated learning for data collaboration; data mesh and data APIs; api monetization strategies; offensive API penetration testing; asynchronous API design and tooling
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome and Opening Remarks | Patrick Fan | 10m |
Apidays Hong Kong marks its third local edition and the global series' 10th anniversary, running 40 sessions, 4 workshops with over 1,000 attendees expected… | ||
| The Open API Ecosystem | Martin Liu | 21m |
Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks builds an open banking API directory and an open API hub that onboards data suppliers and tech providers (synthetic… | ||
| The API Trends and Beyond | Jimmy Tsang | 27m |
Data show APIs powering >80% of digital projects, 90% of developers use APIs (69% third‑party), and microservices doubled pods from ~500 to >1,000. Popular… | ||
| Powering Modern Business Banking Through APIs | Richard Lord | 25m |
HSBC describes moving from a service catalog to a programmable bank that exposes real‑time payments, trade finance and FX via APIs, with an omni product for… | ||
| Digital Ecosystem enabled by API & Big data | Gary Ho | 27m |
Insurance firm describes an implemented digital backbone: an integrated data platform that consolidates policy, claims, health, call recordings and third‑party… | ||
| Innovation and Impact - Adopting APIs for enterprise transformation. | Nelson Chan | 21m |
Claims that APIs drive enterprise transformation by tying together 200+ services via APIs on a pay‑as‑you‑go platform with millisecond billing for Lambda, and… | ||
| Open Banking Ecosystem – Development, Opportunities & Challenges. | Jonathan Cheung | 18m |
Overview of global open banking shows two regimes: mandatory model (UK/EU/AU) versus market-driven model (SG/TW/HK) and Hong Kong moves to phase three: deposit… | ||
| Capturing business value with API | Trevor Cheung | 21m |
Bank of China (Hong Kong) outlines concrete deployments: 100+ open APIs live across account, payments, trade and info, plus 169 IGTB APIs for corporate… | ||
| Matchmaking ESG & Sustainability with Open Banking APIs | Enrique Goizueta | 24m |
Meniga uses open banking APIs to calculate transaction-based carbon footprints, normalizes disparate feeds into a single layer and surfaces relatable metrics… | ||
| Banking & Open APIs | Gary Lam | 30m |
Virtual bank joins Hong Kong’s HKMA open API drive as one of 28 participants and claims practical results: launched an industry-first buy now pay later… | ||
| Connecting to Web3 – DeFi and beyond | Giovanni Lesna | 25m |
Claims that a Web3 bridge can let Web2 data providers monetize APIs with minimal setup, using Airnode to expose any REST API on-chain, ChainAPI for… | ||
| Insights As a Service with APIs | Joey Wong | 25m |
Telcos repurpose network signals into paid API products that banks and retailers call for credit scoring and location analytics, claiming a $160B addressable… | ||
| The Story of OpenAI GPT3 - Improve Observability with Tracing | Steve Ng | 25m |
OpenAI GPT-3 is a 175 billion parameter NLP API that handles slang and intent well and powers products like GitHub Copilot and Duolingo; experiments pair… | ||
| How to Build and Leverage APIs Sustainably to Reduce Digital Waste. | Brad Drysdale | 26m |
Claims that IT will consume 21% of global energy by 2030 and that the internet already accounts for about 3.7% of global carbon frame a set of concrete… | ||
| Create Value and Insight Through Privacy-preserving Data Collaboration [...] | Clive Chan | 27m |
Claims a deployed federated learning stack (based on open source FATE and a blockchain layer) that trains joint models without sharing raw data, using privacy… | ||
| Data Mesh and Data API | Kenneth Cheung | 23m |
Claims that event streaming with Confluent and Kafka turns slow, batch data into real-time data in motion, using source connectors plus a stream-processing… | ||
| Let’s build an AI-powered API | Uli Hitzel | 27m |
Builds a working sentiment-moderation API on top of OpenAI GPT-3 using prompt engineering, the Playground to train examples, and the Playground’s “generate… | ||
| The State of Observability | Motti Bechhofer | 16m |
Overview of why microservices need distributed tracing and how observability now rests on logs metrics and traces with traces providing the request-level… | ||
| Event API Products: Maximizing the Value of Your Event-Driven Architecture. | Giri Venkatesan | 23m |
Argues that enterprises must treat bundles of related events as event API products and manage them with an event portal that discovers runtime events across… | ||
| Why is API Gateway essential to business | Zhiyuan Ju | 28m |
Apache APISIX is presented as a high‑performance, real‑time API gateway donated by API7.ai with hot reload for routes and plugins via a REST API and etcd data… | ||
| Attack API Architecture | Alvin Tam | 30m |
APIs that favor developer convenience become attack surfaces because hackers exploit hardcoded mobile creds, outdated packages and predictable tokens to pivot… | ||
| Optimize Your API with Event-Driven Microservice Architecture. | Jeffrey Lam | 27m |
Argues replacing long chains of synchronous REST calls with an event-driven backbone using Kafka and connectors, claiming 10x–20x throughput gains in customer… | ||
| Stream Processing with KSQLDB and REST API Queries | Sanvy Sabapathee | 45m |
Live demo shows creating topics for users and stocks in Confluent Cloud, spinning data‑gen connectors, and using ksqlDB REST API and persistent queries to join… | ||
| Open Source Instrumentation - The Rise of OpenTelemetry | Steve Ng | 50m |
OpenTelemetry is a CNCF project that already ranks second in popularity and supplies more than a third of the telemetry seen in New Relic. The demo deploys a… | ||
| API Modernization with GraphQL | Wilson Wong | 38m |
Explains how AWS AppSync turns many backends into a single GraphQL endpoint so clients stop over‑fetching and eliminate round trips; demos show React Native +… | ||
| Welcome and Opening Remarks | Patrick Fan | 09m |
Event opens noting a virtual format amid a typhoon and lays out concrete community scale and resources: 80+ events, 300k community, 20k companies, and a ten… | ||
| Critical Role of Data in Platform Economy | Toa Charm | 27m |
Argues that data is the core asset behind platform dominance and gives concrete examples: Alibaba uses ecosystem data to power Sesame Credit, Airbnb reaches… | ||
| The API Landscape | Mehdi Medjaoui | 25m |
Annual report analyzes 1,000 companies and a live API landscape of about 1,100 tools, valuing the ecosystem at roughly $174 billion. API management shows ~27%… | ||
| Serving Data as API | Eason Lai | 26m |
Argues that a virtual layer exposes heterogeneous sources as data virtualization APIs, using API gateways, SQL endpoints, caching, data catalogs and engines… | ||
| Cloud Databases, ELT, and APIs – A Perfect Storm | Bob Brauer | 25m |
Claim: cloud databases plus ELT accelerate data availability and create a surge in API-driven services for cleaning, enrichment and sharing. Evidence… | ||
| Data collaboration with Federated Learning | Issac Wong | 25m |
Enterprise-grade federated learning platform that runs as one or two on-prem software nodes and stitches together homomorphic encryption and secure multi-party… | ||
| APIs + Data integration capabilities as tools for [...] | Ray Yip | 25m |
Claims that combining APIs with data integration cuts time to value by enabling API-first, reusable integration patterns and fast composition of apps, with… | ||
| APIs for Scaling Enterprises: Setting and Applying API Standards. | Jeremy Glassenberg | 25m |
Argues that scale requires a company-wide OpenAPI schema plus an linter baked into CI/CD that enforces casing, strong typing and tooling-compatible fields… | ||
| Digital Transformation- Potential Pitfalls, Protection and PET's. | Sonal Rattan | 25m |
Claims that 91% of organizations have suffered API breaches and that almost 50% of APIs will be unmanaged by 2025, cites Twitter’s $150M fine and Didi’s… | ||
| Best practices when monetizing APIs | Derric Gilling | 27m |
Recommends landing developers with a small paid trial (example 50–100 USD token payment) so teams can validate in staging, then convert into expansion sales… | ||
| Transforming the Bank: API-driven banking beyond Open APIs | Simon Redfern | 25m |
An open source platform that runs as both a API sandbox and production system and claims full compliance with JWT mTLS and OAuth2 PKCE, exposing every function… | ||
| Open Banking is a "How" and Embedded Finance is a "Why" | Patrick Fan | 25m |
Argues that open banking = how (standard APIs and registration, now at phase 3 in Hong Kong) while embedded finance = why (contextual flows like payroll… | ||
| Leveraging Event Streaming to Super-Charge your Business Solutions. | Mary Grygleski | 27m |
Claims a cloud‑native event streaming platform originally built at Yahoo in the early 2010s and now handling multi‑tenant, horizontally scalable workloads by… | ||
| Spinning Your Drones with Cadence Workflows and Apache Kafka | Paul Brebner | 25m |
Demonstrates a runnable drone-delivery system built with Cadence workflows orchestrating two stateful workflows (drone and order) and integrated with Apache… | ||
| The truth about anomaly detection in API security | Rob Dickinson | 25m |
Company deploys simple honeypot apps to AWS, Azure, GCP and Heroku and runs Resurface Labs’ collector to capture full request/response audit trails; every… | ||
| Offensive API Penetration Testing | Sunny Singh | 26m |
Explains why APIs are primary attack surfaces and lists the OWASP API Top 10 (2019) with concrete examples: broken object-level authorization, broken… | ||
| Creating Great Developer Experiences with Metrics and Automation. | Matt Tanner | 25m |
Shows how to measure onboarding with concrete funnels (page visit → sign up → first API call) and spots a typical drop from about 60% to 30% between stages… | ||
| Add your first asynchronous API to your app in 30 minutes | Dale Lane | 25m |
Claim: add an asynchronous API in 30 minutes using an event backbone. Demo builds a Kafka topic on Apache Kafka / IBM Event Streams, wires a GitHub webhook to… | ||
| Developers Documentation: your secret weapon | Patrick Fan | 17m |
Developer documentation must be an integral part of the product and drives adoption by earning developer love through clear entry, intermediate and advanced… | ||
| Evolving your APIs, a step-by-step approach | Nicolas Fränkel | 30m |
Demo uses Apache APISIX (Nginx-based) with etcd, Docker Compose, Prometheus and Grafana to walk a migration: create routes/upstreams, rewrite v1/v2 path, add a… | ||
| Deploying and building SDKs as a service Developer | Steve Coochin | 30m |
Builds a service that runs OpenAPI Generator in containers on AWS ECS, pulls specs from API Gateway/S3, and auto-generates SDKs across languages; what started… | ||
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