Apidays India 2025
as the organisers put it
India is leading one of the world’s most ambitious digital transformations—making it a powerful stage for exploring how APIs can drive scale, inclusion, and innovation across sectors from finance to public services.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Apidays India 2025 Highlights | 02m | |
Panels summarize real outcomes on API governance and API economics, plus case studies on scaling and shifting to event-driven architecture and building… | ||
| Designing and Testing Resilient APIs for India Scale | Naresh Jain | 25m |
Eight concrete patterns for India-scale APIs: a local-first POS that runs offline and uses isomorphic modules (JavaScript/WebAssembly npm packages) to avoid… | ||
| From REST to Events: API Workflow Testing & Mocking with a Single Arazzo Spec | Naresh | 24m |
Demonstrates an end-to-end workflow proof: author an intent, auto-generate an Arazzo specification that stitches OpenAPI and AsyncAPI steps, then run a… | ||
| The APIs Mandate for GenAI & Agentic-Readiness | Mehdi Medjaoui | 44m |
Argues that APIs as operating system is the practical route to GenAI adoption: mandate teams to expose business-critical data and workflows via… | ||
| Welcome & Conference Overview | Mehdi Medjaoui, Naresh Jain | 21m |
Overview of the conference structure and concrete resources: 13 years of API events, about 80 events to date representing a community of roughly 300,000… | ||
| Unlocking the secret to success in the API Economy | Claire Barrett | 40m |
Argues that human practices, not raw speed, determine API success: teams must adopt product not project thinking, fund incremental proofs, and establish… | ||
| Models For Resilience | Sam Newman | 55m |
Explains resilience as measurable system performance and maps three practical models: Woods’s four capabilities (robustness, rebound, graceful extensibility… | ||
| Fishbowl Discussion on APIs and AI | 45m | |
Fishbowl catalogs practical shifts: teams move from REST and microservices to making APIs agent experience ready with machine‑readable specs, AI gateways and… | ||
| The Next Decade of an API Strategy in an AI World - Panel Discussion | Prashant Hen | 01h 03m |
Panelists argue APIs become the transaction fabric for AI: banks put LLMs behind APIs for decisioning, audit trails and rate limits, and fintechs already… | ||
| The Flawed Logic of Universal API Governance in Large Enterprises | Sam Newman | 02m |
Argues that a one-size-fits-all API policy fails because different APIs have different cost of change and use cases, so governance must be tiered rather than… | ||
| Bringing Clarity to Complex Event Driven Architectures with Standardized API Language | Lucasz Gornicki | 02m |
AsyncAPI v2 introduces a generic core plus protocol-specific bindings that map brokers' topics, channels, queues and routing keys so systems keep protocol… | ||
| The Transition from Strict APIs to Flexible, Context-Aware Interfaces | Gautam Hazari | 07m |
Claims that 2019 saw 83% of web traffic (2019) driven by APIs set the baseline for why endpoints mattered, but agentic AI changes the game: agents choose tools… | ||
| APIs: The Invisible Engines Behind India’s Digital Economy Transformation | Siddhant Agarwal | 02m |
India claims APIs as the backbone of cross-sector integration, citing UPI instant payments that flipped cashless transfers from rare to near-instant within… | ||
| From Documentation to Production: AsyncAPI Contracts Solving API Drift | Lukasz Gornicki | 02m |
Treating AsyncAPI as a literal contract eliminates API drift by making documentation the single source for broker configuration, access and topic creation… | ||
| Why AsyncAPI Is Essential for Modern Event-Driven Architectures | Hari Krishnan | 03m |
AsyncAPI is presented as the practical standard that models message schemas, channels and real patterns for event-driven systems, not a vague guideline: it… | ||
| [ Keynote preview ] Resiliency in Distributed Systems: Beyond Just Two Copies Behind a Load Balancer | Sam Newman | 02m |
Keynote preview argues that resilient distributed systems require more than two identical service instances behind a load balancer; it grounds that claim in… | ||
| [ Keynote preview ] Unlocking Value from APIs: Claire Barrett on Empowering Tech Teams for Success | Claire Barrett | 02m |
Argues that treating API work as API economist activity — not just coding — increases measurable adoption because teams link integration, design and security… | ||
| Future Proof APIs for Billions - Powering India's Digital Economy | 01m | |
Mark your calendars: October 8-9, 2025 | Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Bengaluru
India's API ecosystem is exploding, and the brightest minds are gathering to chart… | ||
| Compliance-As-Code For API Security - session preview | Kamalika Majumder | 03m |
Demonstrates how Compliance-as-Code translates specific ISO 27,0001 controls into executable checks that run in CI/CD pipelines and against third‑party API… | ||
| The 'A' Revolution: Apps, APIs & AI - a Singularity | Gautam Hazari | 24m |
Claims that Apps and screens vanish within 2–5 years as Agentic AI combines Apps, APIs and predictive/gen‑AI into goal‑driven agents; concrete demo: Rabbit R1… | ||
| API Product Management with an AI tools & mindset | Paridhi Upadhyay | 22m |
Argues that AI shortens weeks of manual market research to minutes or a day and cuts heavy validation cycles that cause ~60% of launch delays, using concrete… | ||
| The Exponential Value of Agentic AI: Product Lessons from Data to Decisioning | Savitha Ajitraj | 53m |
Claim: agentic AI multiplies value only if data and APIs are clean. Example builds include an adaptive onboarding flow for merchants that cut drop rates by… | ||
| AI & the state of APIs in 2025 | Shrey Pasricha | 26m |
Survey data shows 91% of organizations use or plan to use APIs, the API management market hits $4.4 billion in 2025, and 78% already run API management for… | ||
| AI, Innovation, Standards & Scale for Large Telcos | Sudhir Kumar Mittal | 27m |
Large-telco scale architecture claims 100x productivity by combining a standards-backed API catalog with an AI developer platform: a Geo Developer Studio… | ||
| Operationalizing API Management at Scale on India’s Enterprise Frontlines | Dhanush Raju | 17m |
Field deployments with 25+ enterprises in finance, banking and telecom use Kong gateway to implement mTLS + KMS so chatbot tokens cannot read Salesforce data… | ||
| API Discovery: Turning Hidden APIs into Strategic Assets | Bino Varghese, Akhil | 24m |
A working pipeline reconstructs OpenAPI specs from runtime traces: a Kubernetes cluster with Istio + OpenTelemetry sends traces to a collector where an… | ||
| Running MCP Server in Production: Lessons from Razorpay | Chirag Chiranjib | 28m |
Built a production MCP server that powers payment links and order/payment tool calls, demonstrated sending a checkout link via a WhatsApp MCP integration, and… | ||
| Reimagining the Banking Core: APIs as the Digital Fabric of Transformation | Dheeraj | 26m |
Demo moves money by face scan using five backend APIs — face detection API, face recognition API, payment API, UPI verification and account checks — and… | ||
| Accelerating Workflow Orchestration: Automated Code Gen Using Arazzo & MCP | Kartik | 24m |
Arazzo definitions drive a custom Java/Quarkus generator that turns workflow specs into executable backend code with generated models, clients and a runnable… | ||
| I Spoke to My API — Before It Was Even Built | Ketan Padegaonkar | 22m |
Uploads an OpenAPI spec, auto-validates and enriches the YAML, and exposes the API as a chat-driven simulator using a custom backend and OpenAI agents. The… | ||
| Enforcing API Standards for K8s CRDs at Scale using OpenAPI, Arazzo & Overlay | Mitul | 18m |
Converts CRDs into a machine‑readable OpenAPI schema via controller‑gen or openapi‑gen, runs Spectral linting in CI, and applies declarative Arazzo workflows… | ||
| Marketplace by APIs: Product Thinking, Integration Patterns & Platform Evolution | Sreekanth | 23m |
Marketplace runs as an API-first domain products platform where listing, software, maker and data-exposure domains are treated as products with documented… | ||
| Modern API Strategy: From Gateways to Event Mesh | Suresh Palaka | 35m |
Claim: APIs and events are jointly managed under Unified API Management combining OpenAPI and AsyncAPI so synchronous REST and event-driven APIs coexist. Event… | ||
| Evolving Bank API platforms for humans & Agents | Vikas Korikkar | 23m |
Bank APIs at Standard Chartered evolve from portals and sandboxes (scaled to 50 markets) toward machine-consumable, intent-first catalogs because LLMs and… | ||
| Rethinking Software Quality: Why API Testing Needs to Change | Ameet Deshpande | 25m |
Claims that API testing must scale to match AI-driven code velocity, showing a concrete workflow: import Swagger or Postman, use AI-generated assertions to… | ||
| Operating Systems as a Service: The Evolution of Platforms | Dr. Shailesh Kumar | 43m |
Argues that enterprises need domain, life and work operating systems built from a core events-and-functions layer, not ad hoc stacks; defines five concrete… | ||
| Building APIs for Developers & Machines | Himanshu Aggarwal | 26m |
Claim: contract-driven development cuts integration friction by enforcing specs in CI, generating client/server artifacts, and running consumer tests (Pact)… | ||
| Overcoming Data Barriers for Successful AI Projects | Jigar Bhansali | 21m |
An analyst says 85% fail because AI lacks access to real enterprise data, so the core claim is that integration — not better models — makes or breaks projects… | ||
| From Backend Powerhouses to Web-Friendly APIs: Unlocking | Meiyappan Kannappa | 28m |
Shows a practical recipe: replace microservice REST glue with gRPC over HTTP/2 with protobuf for interservice calls (multiplexing, bidirectional streaming) and… | ||
| Practical Implementation & Automation of APISBOMs | Mohit Rampal | 32m |
Introduces an API-SBOM that combines gateway scans, runtime ingestion and CI/CD hooks to build a live API inventory; a bank case shows three counts — 375, 200… | ||
| Testing Pyramid in the Age of AI: From Unit, Integration to API Testing | Neha Gupta | 22m |
Reexamines the Testing Pyramid, Trophy and Honeycomb and claims those models are artifacts of a pre‑AI era, arguing modern practice favors a Testing… | ||
| API testing lessons from the Insurance Domain | Peter Thomas | 40m |
Argues that traditional Given-When-Then API tests fail for insurance rating and shows a working prototype: a simulator that emits step-by-step calculations… | ||
| How APIs Turn Fragmented Journeys into Seamless Experiences | Sushant Mathur | 26m |
Claims that bookings routinely touch five or more systems and that travel stacks still rely on legacy mainframes and SOAP lead to concrete solutions: build… | ||
| Using Agentic Orchestration to Test APIs | Ameet Deshpande | 54m |
Hands-on demo of QAPI (Qapi.com) shows importing OpenAPI Postman or WSDL specs, running the endpoint once, then using Nova AI agent to generate assertions and… | ||
| API Observability by Design: Building Systems That Tell Their Own Stories | Deepti | 48m |
Argues for treating observability as visualization-first, product-driven metrics and shows concrete wiring: hook an OpenTelemetry + Jaeger + Prometheus +… | ||
| Observability in AI-Powered Applications with Amazon Bedrock | Jones Zachariah Noel N | 22m |
Shows a live serverless demo: a Lambda Function URL that calls Amazon Bedrock models (Llama 3, Mistral, GPT) and sends telemetry into New Relic so traces show… | ||
| From Black Box to Glass Box: AI-Driven Observability for Modern APIs | Prabhath Murthy | 21m |
A unified telemetry pipeline is built using OpenTelemetry + Kafka feeding Elastic/Jaeger/Prometheus and single-search Elastic/Elastic stack so on‑call… | ||
| You Can’t Do AI Without Quality APIs | Aanchal Mishra | 22m |
Postman reports AI-related traffic rising 73% year over year and argues APIs must be re‑engineered for agents: five concrete requirements are… | ||
| Beyond the Spec: Making OpenAPI More Human | Eeshaan Shreyas Sawant | 22m |
Argues that poor docs and complexity block adoption — Postman shows 55% lack of documentation, private APIs make up 56% of consumption, and some firms get >75%… | ||
| Untangling the API Spaghetti With BPMN Diagrams | Mourjo Sen | 19m |
Argues that BPMN diagrams become the executable definition that untangles microservice sprawl, using a concrete key-value store with history and translation… | ||
| Circuit-Breakers: A Live Synth & Visual Journey | Sandeep Shetty, Joel Rosario | 30m |
"Step into a world where technology, creativity, and community collide. As part of the evening networking at API Days India, we bring you a live electronic… | ||
| Schema-Driven Redaction of sensitive fields in Kafka Events Using AsyncAPI | Abijith | 23m |
Claims a schema-first system that uses AsyncAPI vendor extensions like x-acme-redact:true to mark sensitive fields and a parser that loads the spec into an… | ||
| AsyncAPI's Role in Shift Left Streaming Architectures | Ankit Kumar | 18m |
Argues that using AsyncAPI as a single source of truth moves schema, security and governance to the event source and prevents downstream poison pills and… | ||
| From FaaS to Fiasko? Why We Said Goodbye to Serverless | Bhavana Gannu | 20m |
Company migrates a three‑year serverless payout workflow into a phased microservice called Money-Payouts, removing AWS Step Functions state fees and most AWS… | ||
| Structure to Streams: Applying Full-Lifecycle API Management to ED Systems | Dakshitha | 28m |
Argues that using AsyncAPI 3 plus an API gateway (example: WSO2 API Manager) turns Kafka/WebSocket streams into productized APIs: spec-first contracts generate… | ||
| Event-First Thinking: Building Data-Driven Integration Architectures | Garima Srivastava | 29m |
Argues that event-driven integration replaces brittle point-to-point plumbing in huge SAP landscapes by standardizing event metadata and routing; SAP builds a… | ||
| Migrating AsyncAPI 2.6 to 3.0 Safely with Backward Compatibility Checks | Hari Krishnan | 23m |
Live demo migrates an AsyncAPI 2.6 spec to 3.0 using a converter, Kafka in Docker, a Spring Boot order service, and Specmatic to generate contract tests from… | ||
| Strategies for Generating Dynamic, Realistic Mocks for Messaging APIs | Harshvardhan | 22m |
Shows how to turn AsyncAPI contracts into stateful, time-aware mocks that emit Kafka messages from a Docker Compose test stack, generate dynamic IDs and… | ||
| How Companies Actually Use AsyncAPI | Lukasz Gornicki | 23m |
AsyncAPI is used as config-as-code to stop API drift and automate infra: teams push AsyncAPI YAML into CI/CD and the system generate Helm charts and CRDs that… | ||
| Good CoP, Bad CoP: A Community-Driven EDA Transformation | Shilpa Prabhu Nagavara | 28m |
A chaotic landscape of 40+ remote teams and inconsistent event formats becomes a standardized, self‑service EDA in months: a small steering committee (about… | ||
| Kafka Is Not Always the Answer: Making Smart AsyncAPI Architecture Decisions | Sneha | 23m |
Teams assume Kafka by default but a return-label automation proves that assumption wrong: a simple API-to-Kafka pipeline spawns four retry topics plus a… | ||
| A Shared Responsibility: Get Involved in Sustaining The Initiative | V Thulisile Sibanda | 18m |
AsyncAPI reports 7,400+ workspace users and about 2,800 active contributors, spread globally with India among the top contributors; the project runs 49… | ||
| Run Specs & Avoid Wrecks — A "Speed With Seatbelts" Lab | Joel Rosario | 50m |
Demonstrates a contract‑first workflow built on Specmatic: author OpenAPI/AsyncAPI specs, generate realistic examples, record traffic with a proxy to create… | ||
| Hands-on guide to monitor your API-driven AI/LLM applications | Zameer, Jones | 48m |
Hands-on demo of New Relic’s AI Monitoring shows a Flask app calling GitHub-hosted LLMs instrumented with the New Relic Python agent, capturing tokens, latency… | ||
| Build AI-Powered Automation Tools: MCP Workshop for Developers & Engineers | Srini, Sai | 01h 31m |
Workshop teaches MCP fundamentals and walks through a TypeScript MCP server that exposes add and multiply tools plus a resource, communicates via JSON‑RPC over… | ||
| Power up LLMs to be Factual Ninjas using GraphRAG | Siddhant Agarwal | 49m |
GraphRAG claims to cut LLM hallucinations by combining vector embeddings stored as node properties with an extracted entity/knowledge graph so retrieval does… | ||
| Simplifying Instrumentation in complex systems at scale with Open Telemetry | Zameer | 45m |
Shows how teams get zero‑code auto‑instrumentation with OpenTelemetry SDKs and the OpenTelemetry Kubernetes Operator injecting agents across many deployments… | ||
| Unlocking Data Silos Securely: Standards‑Based APIs for Regulated Sectors | Erandi | 21m |
Shows a concrete path: build facade APIs in an experience layer that translate legacy systems into standards such as FHIR, Open Banking/FAPI and ISO 20022… | ||
| Compliance-As-Code For API Security | Kamalika Majumder | 54m |
Claims a working Compliance-as-Code system that codifies ISO 27001 controls (ISO reduced from 114 to 93) and maps about 34 technical controls for user/endpoint… | ||
| Securing AI Integration with API's | Sangeeta Sinha | 24m |
Claims that API-AI integrations raise new exploit classes like model extraction and prompt injection, shows a demo of Salt (free dashboard) and Wallarm-style… | ||
| Distributed API Mgmt Patterns: Hybrid Approaches for Connected Enterprises | Satheesh | 20m |
Claims a production hybrid API platform built with IBM API Connect and DataPower gateways that uses a centralized control plane with distributed data planes… | ||
| Designing Trust: How to improve API Adoption & Developer Experience | Shriya Chauhan | 19m |
Redesign of the AsyncAPI website during Google Summer of Code 2025 focuses on concrete changes: curated documentation journeys that route newcomers… | ||
| Give Agents the Right Keys - Identity Assertion for Enterprise APIs | Sohail Pathan | 27m |
Enterprises gain a concrete fix for app‑to‑app and agent access: the Identity Assertion Authorization Grant (ID‑JAG) routes agent requests through the… | ||
| API Gateway Recipes: Solutions for Operation, Integration & Security | Thomas Bayer | 46m |
Collection of concrete gateway patterns and what actually works: use short-circuit + template mock to block, deprecate or fake endpoints and return harmonized… | ||
| Authentication Showdown: Who Rules the Cookie Kingdom? | Suriya Prakash Balasubramanian | 18m |
Compares Cypress, Rest Assured and Postman on a cookie-based login flow: login API returns token which is placed into the cookie and used by a create-room call… | ||
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