One-day Conference about API Documentation and Developer Portals

API The Docs is an event for tech writers, API developers, product owners and developer evangelists who embrace documentation as a crucial aspect of a great developer experience. The conference is a great opportunity to share and discuss the latest best practices, strategies and new trends relevant to API documentation and developer portals!

Venue

The first ever API The Docs conference in the USA is organized in the prestigious American Writers Museum, located on the second floor of a Michigan Avenue office building. The museum is just a few steps from Millennium Park and other cultural attractions, and it's close to a number of Chicago's major hotels. It's a cultural gem - the colorful, interactive space provides a unique event atmosphere!

Partners

Huge thank you to Margaret Eker, Laura Vass, Mike Jang and Bob Watson for selecting amazing talks for this edition, and a big shout-out to the Write the Docs Chicago meetup group for co-organizing!

Code of Conduct

API The Docs Chicago follows the ground rules of the Write The Docs community: be friendly, be respectful, be careful in the words that you choose. If you need to report any issue for a reason, please contact info@apithedocs.org. All reports will be kept confidential.

Speakers

Allen Dean profile img

Allen Dean

IBM Watson

Case Study: Integration and automation create delightful API docs

Shy Ruparel profile img

Shy Ruparel

Contentful

Write your Docs like nobody reads them

Amy Negrette profile img

Amy Arambulo Negrette

Cloudreach

Gateways to Gateways: API Development in the Cloud

Darren Shelcusky profile img

Darren Shelcusky

Ford

From Zero To Sixty:Driving A DocOps Based Approach To APIs At Ford Motor Company

Jessica Parsons profile img

Jessica Parsons

Netlify

Sauntering Beyond Swagger with Open Source Tools

Karen White profile img

Karen White

BigCommerce

(Re)designing a Developer Portal that Your Developers will Want to Use

Robert Delwood profile img

Robert Delwood

iManage

Making Great Documentation: Seven Steps That Go Beyond Autogeneration

Amara Graham profile img

Amara Graham

IBM

One Size Still Doesn't Fit All

Bob Watson profile img

Bob Watson

Mercer University

The Inverted Funnel of Developer Documentation

Jenny Wanger profile img

Jenny Wanger

SpotHero

The UX of DX: User Testing in the Invisible World of APIs

Monika Alfoldi-Zorgo profile img

Mónika Alföldi-Zörgő

Pronovix

Devportal Information Architecture: a 4-step method

Venue

180 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60601 USA