Valtter Rajakannas

Markus Petman

Hanna Sillanpää

Tomas Bolin

Tim Sevenich

Marjukka Niinioja

Oscar Santolalla

Allan Knabe

Mike Jackson

Merja Kajava

Dan Erez

Jürgen Buchmann

Katerina Kairo

Frank Kilcommins

Hugo Guerrero

Claire Barrett

APIOps Helsinki 2026

APIOps community organizes open meetups and build and share knowledge around the business and technical considerations on APIs, API Development, API management, and API Economy.Join our meetups, talk, give a workshop or sponsor. One of the continuous themes in the meetups is APIOps Cycles - lean and open (CC-BY-SA 4.0) business oriented method for API development and management.P﻿reviously we ran the meetups via Meetup but have now transferred to Eventbrite, that's why there are no events pre-September 2025 visible.

APIOps community

For API platform leaders, architects, IAM owners, and product teams navigating AI-driven change.

Epicenter

<h2>Welcome to APIOps Helsinki 2026!</h2><h2>Who This Is For</h2><h3>You should be here if you:</h3><ul><li>Own or build an API platform in an enterprise</li><li>Design APIs used by AI agents or automation</li><li>Are responsible for governance, IAM, or monetization</li><li>Need to align business, product, and platform teams</li></ul><h3>This is not for you if you:</h3><ul><li>Want beginner-level API content</li><li>Prefer vendor-driven presentations</li><li>Don’t have real API challenges to solve</li></ul><h3>Best experienced as a team</h3><p>This event works best when you bring 2–4 people from your organization: platform, IAM, product, and architecture.</p><ul><li>→ Align faster across roles</li><li>→ Make decisions on the spot</li><li>→ Avoid “conference → no change” syndrome</li></ul>

June 2

Registration & Networking

How product-platform shifts unlock AI-ready delivery at enterprise scale.

Keynote: Architecting Happiness: From Legacy to AI Driven Product Platform

 Get a clear starting point for APIOps—what to implement first and what to ignore to move faster.

APIOps in 20 Minutes (Orientation)

Strech Break - move to tracks

Why most API strategies aren’t able to compete with funding with AI programs and what to do about it.

TRACK A: Your API Strategy Is Not Ready to Compete With AI Investments (Yet)

Learn how to design APIs that AI agents can reliably use—not just human developers.

TRACK B: AI-Native APIs: Designing Platforms for Agentic Systems

 Walk away with a working MCP wrapper implementation pattern.

Create an MCP Wrapper for Your API (50 min workshop)

Understand how value is shifting beyond APIs—and how to reposition your platform accordingly.

TRACK A: SaaS Lives – Value Shifts to the Workspace

 Learn how to structure identity and access so your APIs can support AI-driven use cases securely.

No Identity, No Agents: Why IAM Is the Foundation of AI-Driven API Ecosystems

Coffee Break & Networking

How API platforms move from cost center to measurable business value

TRACK A: Turning API Programs into Revenue

Why identity becomes the control layer for AI-driven systems.

TRACK B: Identity-First APIs: IAM as the Real Platform

50 min clinic, come when you can, leave when you must. Define roles, responsibilities, and decision points for your API platform—so execution doesn’t stall.

Design Your APIOps Operating Model

TRACK A: TBA

Understand what needs to change in your gateway layer to support AI agents and new traffic patterns.

TRACK B: From API Gateways to AI Gateways: The Next Platform Layer

Compare competing platform bets before locking your roadmap.

Panel - Are APIs Still the Platform, or Are AI Agents Replacing Them?

Networking until 17:00

June 3

Coffee & Arrival

Set the stage for a day of hands-on learning and community problem-solving.

Day 2 Opening words

Connect ecosystem decisions directly to platform execution.

Keynote: From Ecosystem Design to API Strategy

Stretch Break & Move to Tracks

FIDA turns APIs from integration points into regulated products — and most platforms aren’t ready for that shift.

TRACK A: FIDA, Open Finance and the Future of API Ecosystems

Covers Arazzo 1.1 and why workflows matter for agent execution.

TRACK B: Beyond OpenAPI: Workflows That AI Agents Can Actually Execute

60 min clinic, come when you can, leave when you must. Get feedback on your API design, governance and roadmap from an APIOps perspective, with a focus on AI-driven use cases.

API Product Design Clinic - with APIOps Cycles and AI skills

Networking Break & Move to Tracks

 Test automation patterns and tools to keep up with the speed of API- and AI-driven development.

TRACK A: Boosting API Testing

Why MCP implementations hit scaling limits—and how to dynamically route and inject only the tools relevant to each request to maintain performance and reasoning quality.

TRACK B: Scaling MCP: Avoiding Context Bloat with Gateway & Registry Patterns

60 min clinic, come when you can, leave when you must. Pressure-test your monetization model with practitioners.

API Monetization Clinic 

Identify why your APIs are not adopted and what to change to increase real usage.

TRACK A: Why Developers Ignore Your APIs

Learn how to give AI agents access to APIs while maintaining control, security, and auditability.

TRACK B: AI Agents and Secure API Access

Lunch & Networking

Get direct feedback on your governance and operating model.

TRACK A: APIOps Clinic – Strategy, Governance and Platform Design

Test agent integrations and identify what breaks in practice.

TRACK B: AI Lab – APIs, MCP and Agent Integrations

Hands-on scoring and improvement using agent skills combined with open-source frameworks and tooling.

WORKSHOP: You May Have OpenAPI, But Is It AI-Ready?

Surface priority decisions with peers facing the same constraints

TRACK A: Guided Unconference – API Strategy and Platform Leadership

Debate real trade-offs for agent-ready developer platforms.

TRACK B: Guided Unconference – AI Agents and Developer Platforms

Strategic roadmap for APIOps teams as agents become dominant API consumers.

KEYNOTE: APIOps in the Age of AI Agents: What to Prioritize Next

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