The Web 1.0 was readable, the Web 2.0 was social,
now the web is programmable trough application programming interfaces, aka APIs.

DECEMBER 3, 2012 > DECEMBER 4, 2012 - Paris, @EPITA Porte d'Italie The First International event on APIs in Europe

APidays 2012 in videos

Web APIs are a unique opprtunity for companies, governments and developers to either better organize the governance of their IT into a scalable and flexible model, either leverage a complete ecosystem around the organization, exchanging data through the web for trillion of applications on billion devices.

Because each civilization has been described by the way it communicates and make exchanges, API are the beginning of a programmable civilization.

DAY 1

08.45 Opening doors
09.15 Introduction with Stéphane Distinguin / CEO of faberNovel and Mehdi Medjaoui / CEO of Webshell
09.20 Layer7 opening APIdays
09.30 Room A : 6 reasons why APIs are reshaping your business,or how to explain your CEO why he should be interested by APIs. Cyril Vart / VP strategy @faberNovel
Room B : Building bricks for your developper portal Kin Lane / APIevangelist
10.00 Room A : Future Interface : What the last 50+ years of modern computing history may tell us about the future
Mike Amundsen / Layer 7
Room B : The software developer in the golden age of APIs Ole Lensmar / Smartbear
10.30 Room A : The API Economy is Here: The Convergence of Services Governance and API Management Olivier Laplace / Technical Director, France @SOA software
Room B : Lipstick on a pig (How (not) to build a modern API on legacy system) : API design Ori Pekelman
11.00 PAUSE
11.15 Room A : On The Shoulders of Giants: Learning From the Past Ronnie Mitra / Layer 7
Room B : Big Data Analytics : how APIs make Data Actionable Adrien Schmidt / Squid solution
11.45 Room A : Building bricks for your company / Salesforces
Room B : API & ubiquity / Joshfire
12.15 Room A : What to do when services fail Jean Semere / Capgemini
Room B : Application Integration In The Age Of The APIs Renat Ziburov / elastic.io
12.45 BON APITITE !!!
13.55 Room A : ARD Paris Region opening
Room B : SOA Software opening
14.00 Room A : The Secret to a Successful API is Internal Kin Lane
Room B : API: the roots of a new SaaS ecosystem Clement Vouillon / WeloveSaas
14.30 Room A : Open API contest on banking data / AXA bank
Room B : Use, provide and support APIs / Microsoft
15.00 Room A : Disruptive Innovation with APIs Richard Pulliam / LAYER7
Room B : Payment APIS: a new revolution? Celine Lazorthes / Leetchi
15.30 PAUSE
15:45 Room A : Why Open? Steve Klabnik
Room B : Realtime M2M for the web Sebastien Beal / Orange Labs
16.15 Room A : Business models of APIs Guilaume Balas / 3scale
Room B : American Idol: The tale of 1 billion SMS / month through an API Guilhem ENSUQE / Alcatel Lucent
16:45 Room A : Saving Hackathons Swift / Sendgrid and founder of Hacker league
Room B : Capturing signal from noise – custom APIs by analysts Xavier Grehant / Dassault Systemes, Exalead
17.15 PAUSE
17.30 Room A : Strategies to deliver a Contextual API Experience Paul Fremantle / WSO2
Room B : Towards an APIzation of media? French editors debate with Social Media Club France (Le Monde, Rue89, Groupe Express Roularta, Les Echos, France Télévisions)
18.00 Room A : Making life better - from R&D to API Pavel Simonov / Imhonet.ru
Room B : Towards an APIzation of media? French editors debate with Social Media Club France
18.30 Room A : Networking
Room B : Towards an APIzation of media? French editors debate with Social Media Club France
19.00 Room A : Networking
Room B : Towards an APIzation of media? French editors debate with Social Media Club France

DAY 2

09.20 Layer7 opening APIdays

09.30 Room A : How APIs enhance Start-up creation? Anca Foster / Startup Weekend
Room B : RPC to REST : Concrete case on Payment APIs Andrei Neculau / Klarna

10.00 Room A : Best Practices - The Role of API Management Maurizio Canton / Technical Director, EMEA @SOA software
Room B : How to build a Hypermedia API your customers will love Mike Kelly

10.30 Room A : Threats on API economy : Trust, copyright, neutrality Mehdi Medjaoui / Webshell
Room B : Evolving from a monolithic to a distributed public Web API Chris O'Dell / 7digital

11.00 PAUSE

11.15 Room A : Business models for your API as a start-up Kin Lane
Room B : Designing RESTful Web Services David Zuelke

11.45 Room A : API as a product Elie Chevignard / Mailjet
Room B : Creating an API for a mobile app Romain Goyet / CTO Applidium

12.15 Room A : Developers platform presentation / Salesforces
Room B : Welcome to the Evented Web Bruno Michel / CTO af83

12.45 BON APITITE !!!

13.55 Room B : Salesforce opening

14.00 Room A : API as a product , evolution of Telecom APIs Florent Chauveau / THECALLR
Room B : Data.gouv.fr and the French Open Data policy Romain Lacombe / Etalab

14.30 Room A : Avoid API Waterfalls: Build Faster and Better Jakub Nesetril / Apiary.io
Room B : Open data and developer communities François Forgues / SNCF

15.00 Room A : Want Your Api To Stick? Try Story-Telling...Pat Cappelaere / vightel
Room B : Transparency, flexibility, efficiency, how to rethink our relation to financial data? Sebastien Treguer / Openbankforum

15.30 PAUSE

15:45 Room A : APIcultur, your natural language buzz Elena Alvarez Mellado / Molinor de Ideas
Room B : Dataculture & APIculture Christian Faure

16.15 Room A : Transforming the TV industry with an API Sébastien lefebvre / CEO Mesagraph
Room B : Opendata to open API David Thoumas / CTO Opendatasoft

16:45 Room A : APIs Break Monoliths in Banking / Holvi
Room B : Gael Musquet / Openstreetmap

17.15 Room A : Design API for embedded generosity Ismaël LE MOUEL / mail for good
Room B : Gouvernement as a platform Henri Verdier

17.45 Room A : Design API for media : Le Monde.fr
Room B : Roundtable on what is the future on Internet and APIs?

18.15 Room A : Design API for media : Le Monde.fr
Room B : Networking

18.45 APIDRINK

APIdays is proud and thankful to welcome a huge panel of international
experts of the API world

Kin Lane
API evangelist API evangelist
Mike Amundsen
Principal API Architect LAYER7
Steve Klabnik
Ruby Hero @steveklabnik
Ronnie Mitra
API Architect LAYER7
ANCA FOSTER
CEE Operations Manager Startup Weekend
Guillaume Balas
CMO 3scale
Stéphane Distinguin
CEO faberNovel
Mehdi Medjaoui
CEO WEBSHELL
Ismaël Héry
Head of developpement Le Monde
Gael MUSQUET
Chairman OpenStreetMap France
Henri Verdier
Entrepreneur MFG-RD
Xavier Gréhant
Product Manager Dassault Systèmes Exalead
Jakub Nesetril
Founder apiary.io
Björn Minkmar
Senior Product Manager XING
Renat Zubairov
co-founder elasticio
Ori Pekelman
Entrepreneur independent
Adrien Schmidt
Cofounder & CEO Squid Solutions
David Thoumas
Cofounder & CTO OpenDataSoft
Eric Scherer
Director of Future Media France Télévisions
Clement Vouillon
Cofounder WeLoveSaas
Maurizio Canton
Technical Director SOA Software
Paul Fremantle
Technical Director WSO2
Tobias Unger
GridSolut GridSolut
Celine Lazorthes
Founder & CEO Leetchi
Christian Faure
Consultant Ars Industrialis
Cyril Vart
Development & Strategy faberNovel
Yann Le Tilly
Head of ticketing SNCF
Florent Chauveau
Co-Founder and CTO THECALLR
Guilhem Ensuque
Director Product Management Alcatel-Lucent
Richard Pulliam
Strategy Executive Layer 7
Ole Lensmar
CTO SmartBear
Romain Goyet
Co-founder Applidium
Sébastien Lefebvre
CEO Mesagraph
Bruno Michel
CTO af83
Swift
Developer Evangelist SendGrid
Olivier Laplace
Senior Solution Consultant SOA Software

faberNovel helps large organizations think and act like startups.

faberNovel combines technology,design and emerging trends to invent new products, services, and experiences. Founded in 2003, faberNovel is based in Paris, San Francisco, New York and Moscow, has a team of 60 passionate people and works for large organizations such as : L'Oréal, Suez Environnement, Toys "R" Us, Danone, Essilor, bioMérieux, SNCF, France TV.
Webshell enables developers to easily make advanced web and mobile applications based on APIs.

webshell has developped a shell for the web that developers can use to combine APIs of the programmable web in minutes and really program the web. Webshell was created in 2012 by its team of 3 co-founders , in Paris, and manages the API rating agency blog and the {"apis":"the joy"} blog.

OFFICIAL SPONSORS

Layer 7

Layer 7 Technologies helps enterprises and service providers manage APIs in the Cloud; across the Internet; and out to mobile devices. The Layer 7 API Management suite provides the ability to address API security, version management, SLA enforcement, visibility and developer on-boarding requirements, in a fully-integrated suite. Enterprises and service providers can expose APIs externally or internally in a secure, reliable and manageable way, turning the enterprise into an extensible platform. Deliverable on-premise or from the Cloud, the Layer 7 API Management suite is certified to support the most rigorous security needs including PCI, FIPS, STIG and OAuth. To learn more, please visit http://www.layer7tech.com/.

epita

Established since 28 years, EPITA is a graduate school of Computer Science for those who design, develop and improve Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The school's teaching method is to provide students with the fundamentals of engineering and high competency in the fields of computer science and ICT. The Web Shell platform is the result of final year projects developed by the students as part of the major Multimedia and Information Technology (MIT).

BUSINESS SPONSORS

SOA software

SOA Software is a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA governance products that help our customers plan, build, run and share enterprise services and APIs during the complete necessary scope to make Enterprise's API a success. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, Michelin, BMW, Credit Suisse and Verizon use SOA Software products to harness the power of their technology and transform their businesses. Our products are available on-premise or as-a-Service. To learn more, please visit our web site and follow us on social networks:

http://www.soa.com @SOASoftwareInc

ARD

The Paris Region Economic Development Agency is a non-profit organization, aiming at Promoting the economic attractiveness of the region abroad, at Attracting foreign investors to Paris Region, At Coordinating the marketing of the regional offer, at Helping investors prior to and during their location to Paris Region, et Supporting areas facing economic changes.
http://www.paris-region.com

SalesForce

http://www.salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing leader. Our social and mobile cloud technologies—including our flagship sales and CRM applications—help companies connect with customers, partners, and employees in entirely new ways.