AMSTERDAM

10-11 October, 2019

The Conference for API Documentation, Developer Experience & Developer Portals. Scheduled talks on Day 1 & unconference discussions & DevPortal Awards Gala on Day 2. Slides & recordings are available!

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Unconference Day

This will be the first conference, where we dedicate a full day to informal exchange of information and ideas between attendees.
What to expect and what to do on this day?

»» propose a discussion topic by pinning it to the whiteboard (eg. work-related challenge, a research that you're doing, a topic that interests you; all within the scope of API documentation, developer portals or DX)
»» join any of the discussions you find interesting; there'll be 3 parallel discussions in each time slot
»» don't expect slides - unconference sessions are for in-depth discussions, mutual problem solving, and networking
»» share, learn and enjoy

Code of Conduct

API The Docs Amsterdam 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.

Sold out!

30.09.2019

Thank you for your huge interest in the event! The conference is sold out and sadly we can't allocate more tickets. Conference talks will be recorded and posted on the Pronovix blog in late October. Follow us on Twitter to see what we're cooking for 2020!

Speakers list is final

28.08.2019

We're happy to share that the lineup is final – there'll be 11 talks in Amsterdam, based on many different industry experience. Looking forward to learn from all!

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Ticket sale is open!

03.07.2019

Super early-bird tickets are on sale now – buy your ticket till the end of July for only €100! Early-bird tickets will cost €125 in August and regular tickets will be €150 from September on. All ticket types are valid for both days & DevPortal Awards Gala.

See you in Amsterdam!

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Speakers

Sejal Parikh

Salesforce

An Inside Look at a Large-scale Writer-driven REST API Doc Solution

Kelsey Lambert

Salesforce

An Inside Look at a Large-scale Writer-driven REST API Doc Solution

Anthony Roux

Amadeus IT

What Makes an API Product Successful?

Jaap Brasser

Rubrik

Advancing Your API Strategy in an Infrastructure World

Maria Garcia Luengo

Amadeus IT

Bulletproofing Your APIs: Why Users’ Feedback Matters

Alexandra Stramarko

Atradius

Business Integration Made Easy with APIs

Mark Simpson

Griffiths Waite

Business Integration Made Easy with APIs

Lorna Jane Mitchell

Nexmo

GitHub as a Landing Page

Phil Sturgeon

Stoplight

API Descriptions as Production Code

Alvaro Navarro

Amadeus IT

Effective API Governance: Lessons Learnt

Stephanie Shin

Shopify

How to embed UX thinking in your next API

Aaron Verber

Marqeta

Leaping Forward: Finding The Future of Your API Docs

Sven Strack

Pronovix

Engineer stunning (API) documentation

Agenda

08:30-09:00 Registration & welcome coffee

Grab your badge and drink a coffee.

09:00-09:30 Welcome by Kristof Van Tomme & Koen Adolfs

09:30-10:00 Lorna Jane Mitchell: GitHub as a Landing Page

You can write the best, most structured documentation in the world - and your users will still arrive by some other route. This session focuses on the GitHub repos that your documentation references, and how to prepare for these to be the entry point for someone.

10:00-10:30 Aaron Verber: Leaping Forward: Finding The Future of Your API Docs

Learn how to scale beyond old choices and find the next big thing for your API documentation. This talk will use the past, present, and future of Marqeta’s docs to provide a framework for growing and evolving your own.

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:30 Sven Strack: Engineer Stunning (API) documentation

Many of us have heard about Docs As Code. Applying the same tooling and delivery CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) pipelines as developers to improve the quality of (API) documentation sounds nifty. We’ll take a look at the philosophy, best practices and how to get started.

11:30-12:00 Jaap Brasser: Advancing Your API Strategy in an Infrastructure World

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. This is an accurate summary of what my initial journey of evangelizing API usage was like. In this talk I will take the audience through our journey, what worked, what didn’t work and what we learned along the way.

12:00-12:30 Anthony Roux: What Makes an API Product Successful?

In the jungle of public APIs, how do you build a product that will outplay the other ones? In today’s world having an easy to use API is not enough. Your competitors provide SDKs, interactive documentations, gamification, demos & tutorials. I will give your all the tips to have a rocking API product.

12:30-13:30 Lunch break

Lunch is served at CIRCL's canteen.

13:30-14:00 Maria Garcia: Bulletproofing Your APIs: Why Users’ Feedback Matters

The uncomfortable truth about DX: everyone talks about it, and yet only a few get it right. What about you? We know testing and feedback collection can be hard, but we’re here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be that way: from bug hunting challenges to hackathons, we’ve got a few ideas to share.

14:00-14:30 Mark Simpson, Alexandra Stramarko: Business Integration Made Easy with APIs

Integration is often seen as a technical burden rather than an opportunity to drive commercial relationships with customers. Get the proposition right through channel agnostic API-first documentation and you will attract business stakeholders as well as developers for sustained digital partnerships.

14:30-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-15:30 Kelsey Lambert, Sejal Parikh: An Inside Look at a Large-scale Writer-driven REST API Doc Solution at Salesforce

23 different REST APIs, 26+ teams, 150+ writers — how we built a unified solution. In this session, hear the inside story of how a handful of writers developed a REST API doc solution and earned the trust of executives and engineering teams across Salesforce along the way.

15:30-16:00 Alvaro Navarro: Effective API Governance: Lessons Learnt

Have you ever wondered how big companies deal with large amount of APIs? How do they keep consistency among the catalogue? Either if you are already running an internal API governance or you are thinking about start a new one, this talk will share our do’s and don’ts with the rest of the community.

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-17:00 Phil Sturgeon: API Descriptions as Production Code

API Description Documents (a.k.a “specifications”) can be used for all sorts of time and money saving things. Stop worrying about “keeping specs in sync with code” and use your specs as production code, speeding up development and reducing mismatch bugs.

17:00-17:30 Steph Shin: How to Embed UX Thinking in Your Next API

At the heart of scalable and intuitive APIs is great user experience, but the UX of an API is rarely considered. Learn how to integrate UX strategies to create improved API experiences using real life examples and lessons learned from upgrading Shopify’s own API.

17:30-18:00 Wrap-up & Thank you

09:00-09:30 Session proposal & welcome coffee

Find the board and post a topic that you'd like to discuss with your peers.

09:30-09:45 Welcome by Kristof Van Tomme & Koen Adolfs

General introduction to the world of unconferences.

09:50-10:30 Sessions