2026

Workshops

Tuesday, September 1, 2026 @ Santa Clara Convention Center

API World
Workshop Stage A

API World
Workshop Stage B

CloudX
Main Stage

AI TechWorld
Main Stage

12:00 PM – 12:50 PM PDT

API

Testing AI-Generated APIs at the Speed of AI: RADAR, Invariants, and 75 Automated Security Tests

Deepankar Das (CTO and Cofounder) @ LexAxiom

12:00 PM – 2:50 PM PDT

API

OpenAPI Workshop: AI-Driven API Design

Mike Amundsen (Founder and President) @ Amundsen

12:00 PM – 12:50 PM PDT

Cloud

How to Operate Your Favorite Lobster Responsibly: Threat Modeling Agentic Systems

Lenin Alevski (Security Engineer) @ Google

12:00 PM – 12:50 PM PDT

AI

Clearing the Backlog: Batch Modernization at Scale with GitHub Copilot Cloud Agents

Ayan Gupta (Cloud Advocate) @ Microsoft

1:00 PM – 1:50 PM PDT

API

Building Secure API-Driven Agentic Workflows for Privacy and Data Governance

Pranav Nitin Motarwar (Data Engineer)

1:00 PM – 1:50 PM PDT

Cloud

How Do You Forecast Hardware at Billion-User Scale?

Ankur Gupta (Senior Staff Technical Program Manager) @ LinkedIn

1:00 PM – 1:50 PM PDT

AI

Why Open Source Data Infrastructure Beats AI Platform Overspend
Anil Inamdar (Global Head of Data Services) @ NetApp Instaclustr

2:00 PM – 2:50 PM PDT

API

Inside the Mind of an API Attacker: A Hands-On AI & Defense Workshop

David Homoney (Senior Enterprise Security Architect) @ Akamai Technologies

2:00 PM – 2:50 PM PDT

Cloud

Agentic Infrastructure in the Cloud: Running Autonomous AI Systems Safely at Scale

Nishant Gupta (Tech Lead, Software Engineering) @ Meta SuperIntelligence Lab

2:00 PM – 2:50 PM PDT

AI

Vertical APIs for Agentic AI: Routing the Right Context to the Right Expert

David vonThenen @ NetApp

3:00 PM – 3:50 PM PDT

API

PRO WORKSHOP (CloudX): SerpAPI Workshop

3:00 PM – 5:50 PM PDT

API

OpenAPI Workshop: Build AI-Ready APIs

Emmanuel Paraskakis

3:00 PM – 3:50 PM PDT

Cloud

PRO WORKSHOP (CloudX): Akamai Workshop

3:00 PM – 3:50 PM PDT

AI

The Log Is the Agent

Ishaan Sehgal (CEO) @ Omnara (YC S25)

4:00 PM – 4:50 PM PDT

API

The AI Agent Playbook for People Building on Top of APIs, Not Hype

Brenton House (Principal Advisor, Automation and Emerging Technology) @ IBM

4:00 PM – 4:50 PM PDT

Cloud

Debugging AI Systems in Production: A Hands-On Failure Analysis Workshop

Sanjana Arun (Product Lead) @ eBay

4:00 PM – 4:50 PM PDT

AI

Headroom: A Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications

Tejas Chopra (Senior Software Engineer) @ Netflix

5:00 PM – 5:50 PM PDT

API

Build Your PLATFORM: 8 Patterns for AI-Assisted Development That Survive Vendor Shifts

Arun Gupta (Director Open Source Ecosystem and developer platform) @ NVIDIA

5:00 PM – 5:50 PM PDT

AI

Let’s Build Our Own Claude Code

Max Gfeller (Engineer) @ Sutro

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