API Awards 2023 | API World | 24 October 2023 | Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA

This awards is the world’s largest API & microservices conference, and the 2023 API Awards are the definitive awards for the API & microservices industry.

This awards are given out for 20 categories, and the Advisory Board for API World, made up of industry veterans, will select category winners after the public nomination process concludes.

This awards celebrate innovation, adoption and reception in the API & microservices industry and by the developer community.

Nominations are public and any technology, product or service that is or interacts with an application programming interface (API) or microservice is eligible for nomination. Nominees for the Innovator Award must be a person or team responsible for a significant innovation in the industry.

Categories:
• Innovator of the Year
• Best API Debut
• Best in API Infrastructure
• Best in API Management
• Best in API Middleware
• Best in API Security
• Best in Business Software APIs
• Best in Automotive APIs
• Best in Communications APIs
• Best of Data APIs
• Best in DevOps APIs
• Best in Enterprise APIs
• Best in Finance APIs
• Best in Health APIs
• Best in IoT APIs
• Best in Media APIs
• Best in Microservices APIs
• Best in Microservices Infrastructure
• Best in Payment APIs

2023 Speakers

Vicky Deliwala
Leader, Software Engineering, Cisco Systems

Swetha Sridharan
Senior Offering Manager, API Management Software, IBM

Gautham Pallapa
Founder, Transformity and Executive Advisor, VMware

Nick Rago
Field CTO, Salt Security

Jim Bennett
Principal Developer Advocate, liblab

Vedran Cindrić
CEO, Treblle

Noel Wirzius
Product Lead Network APIs, Deutsche Telekom

Giora Engel
VP of API Security, Akamai

Manfred Bjørlin
Enterprise Cloud Integration Architect, Cegal AS

Quinn Hou
Software Engineer, Dapper Labs

Khurram Latif
Managing Director, AI and Data Engineering, Deloitte Consulting

Olga Podolyako
Principal API Architect, Microsoft

Allard Buijze
CTO and Founder, AxonIQ

Michaël Chaize
Sr. Director of Product, Shutterstock

Alex Drag
Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Gravitee

Amuthan Ganeshan
Principal Engineer, US Bank

Timo Stark
Principal Technical Product Manager, NGINX

Abhishek Pandey
Tech Lead, Meta

Noam Honig
Creator, Remult

Sean Falconer
Head of Marketing and Developer Relations, Skyflow

Brian Otten
Chief Catalyst, North America VP, Axway

Ravid Mazon
Security Researcher, Palo Alto Networks

Sourabh Satish
CTO/Co-Founder, Pangea

Jeferson Fernando
Founder, LINUXtips

Sophia Trump
Cloud Engineer, Vanguard

Robin Chalas
Principal Engineer, Les-Tilleuls.coop

Stephen Spalding
Engineer, Netflix

Francois Lascelles
Distinguished Engineer, Broadcom Software

Rob Engel
Vice President of Software Engineering, MLB

Jeremy Ventura
Director Security Strategy & Field CISO, ThreatX

Navdeep Sidhu
CEO, meshIQ

John Rau
Product Marketing, TinyMCE

Casie Ropski
Technical Scrum Master, Vanguard

Tiago Mendo
CTO, Probely

Katie Wasilenko Miller
Developer Relations Advisor, Data Protocol

Daniel Myers
Senior Manager, Principal Developer Advocate, Snowflake

Omri Gazitt
Co-founder & CEO, Aserto

Memi Lavi
Senior Software Architect & Consultant, Polar Technologies

Aditya Chouhan
Engineering Manager, Encora

Mayank Shekhar
Director of Product Management & Strategy, Oracle

Timothy Cochran
Technical Director, Thoughtworks

Ronny de Jong
Security Technology Specialist, Microsoft

Rohit Ghumare
Developer Advocate, solo.io

Rajib Deb
Specialist Leader, AI and Data Engineering, Deloitte Consulting

Jim Barton
Field Engineer, Solo.io

Emile Kfouri
Sr. Director of the Developer Ecosystem, Autodesk

Dan Barahona
Founder, APIsec

Justin Hiza
Vice President, Data Services, Shutterstock

Matteo Pelati
Co-Founder, Dozer

Timo Rüppell
VP of Product, FireTail

Neelesh Pateriya
Principal Engineer, Cisco

Michael Watson
Developer Relations Manager, Apollo GraphQL

Gareth Faull
Platform APIs, LSEG

Ray Camden
Sr. Developer Evangelist, Adobe

William Glazier
Director of Threat Research, Cequence Security

Vanjikumaran Sivajothy
Senior Manager - Software Product Architecture and Engineering, Equinix

Debosmit Ray
Co-Founder, CEO, DevZero

Pål Bendiksen
Cloud Solution Architect and technical mentor with focus on Azure and Enterprise Integration

Andrew Slivker
CTO, Nevatech

Guy Ludvig
Head of DevOp, Frontegg

Adam Wyss
Law Platform Enterprise Architect, Chevron

Gopi Iyer
Sr. Engineering Manager - API Strategy, John Deere

Ken Cenerelli
Senior Technical Writer, Google Cloud

Sid Maestre
VP Developer Relations, APIMatic

Asanka Abeysinghe
CTO, WSO2

Vamsi Ravula
Developer Advocate, Red Hat

María Amelia Castañeda
QA Manager/Account Manager, Crowdar

Shai Sachs
Staff Software Engineer, Chewy

Ran Nozik
Co-founder and CTO, Helios

Steven Woyte
Integration Architect and Product Manager, Volkswagen AG

Mrina Sugosh
DevRel, TinyMCE

Ricardo Covo
Principal Consultant - App Innovation & Modernization, ObjectSharp

Indu Chaube
Software Architect and Engineer, Cisco Systems

Matt Steele
VP of Growth, APIwiz

Ravi Balupari
Founder & CTO, CloudVector (Acquired by Imperva)

Augusto Goncalves
Developer Advocate Manager, Autodesk

Mia Hari
API & Integration Lead, Chevron

Joel Mckown
Solutions Architect, Nonamesecurity

Kevin Jones
Developer Relations Engineer, Edge and Node

Manasés Jesús
CTO | API Advocate, Magnesio IO

Josh Twist
CEO and co-founder, Zuplo

Ali N. Khan
Field CISO, ReversingLabs

Jayadatta Vallabhaneni
Enterprise Integration Tech Lead, Juniper Networks

Allen Helton
Ecosystem Engineer, Momento

Ram maddali Ram
SVP - Head of Open Banking Engineering, US Bank

Jasmin Guliani
Software Engineering Technical Leader, Cisco Systems

Robert Hodges
CEO, Altinity

Aman Kumar
Software Engineer, Microsoft

Basu Sugeerappa
Director API COE, Fidelity Investments

Eileen Lowry
VP, IBM Automation - Integration, IBM

Meenakshi Kaushik
Leader Product Management, Cisco

Ram Bansal
Senior Developer Advocate, Nylas

Vaidik Kapoor
VP Engineering (DevOps & Security), Grofers

Muthu Raju
CEO, apiplatform.io

Pål Stian Bendiksen
Cloud Solution Architect, Cegal AS

Ivan Pesenti
Software Developer, SorintLab

Sagar Batchu
Co-Founder & CEO, Speakeasy

Meric Aydonat
Sr. Product Manager, API Management, Software AG

Jim Moffitt
Developer Advocate, Tinybird

Nele Lea Uhlemann
Developer Advocate, Fiberplane

Arpit Chaudhary
Sr. Software Developer, Apple

2023 Sponsors and Partners

PARTNER:
• Apollo GraphOS
• Deloitte
• IBM

OFFICIAL:
• Curity
• Gravitee.io
• Tinybird

BASIC:
• AxonIQ
• 42Crunch
• Broadcom Inc.
• Kong
• Sauce Labs
• Speakeasy
• Software AG
• Treblle
• Apiplatform.Io
• APIMatic
• FireTail
• Imperva
• Inigo
• Liblab
• Mesh IQ
• RingCentral
• Salt
• Snowflake
• Stellate
• TinyMCE
• Zuplo
• Adhi Software
• Akamai
• Air Slate
• Cequence
• CData
• DigitalAPICraft
• Dozer
• Dream factory
• Free Climb
• Impart
• OpenText
• Postman
• Probely
• Pronovix
• Send bird
• Ship Engine
• Signal wire
• Speed scale
• Traceable
• PayPal

COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
Apiumhub
Axure RP
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