Talks

Talks

Selected keynotes & major talks

Agent-native systems, agentic commerce & AI-native architecture

Agentic Commerce — When AI Agents Start Moving Money
UnBundled / Fintech Week CEE (Prague), 2026
Agentic Commerce (Arc Pay introduction)
Generation AI Paris Conference (apidays Paris), 2025
APIs at the Verge of AI (Keynote)
AI The Docs Online, 2025

Capability abstraction & AI-consumable APIs

What API: Your Guide to API Styles
Nordic APIs Platform Summit, 2022

Autonomous integration & integration abstraction

Autonomous Integration Mesh
Nordic APIs Platform Summit, 2021

Archive

Complete Chronological Talks Index

Year Talk Event Deck Recording Architectural Phase
2026 Agentic Commerce — When AI Agents Start Moving Money UnBundled / Fintech Week CEE (Prague, May 2026) Deck AI-native / Agent-native
2025 Agentic Commerce (Arc Pay introduction) Generation AI Paris Conference (apidays Paris, Dec 2025) Deck Playlist AI-native / Agent-native
2025 AI Meets APIs with Zdenek Nemec O'Reilly API Superstream 2025 Recording / Event page AI-native / Agent-native
2025 APIs at the Verge of AI (Keynote) AI The Docs Online 2025 Deck Event page AI-native / Agent-native
2025 AI Agents Fail 75% of the Time!? Zuplo MCP Week Playlist AI-native / Agent-native
2024 APIs for AI: Have We Failed? Nordic APIs Platform Summit 2024 Deck Playlist AI-native / Agent-native
2024 Short: What are Agentic SDKs? API Days Paris 2024 Playlist AI-native / Agent-native
2023 AI-enabled APIs Nordic APIs Platform Summit 2023 Deck Playlist Capability Abstraction & AI
2023 API Documentation & AI API The Docs Virtual 2023 Deck Recording/Event Capability Abstraction & AI
2023 Autonomous Agents: Forget about APIs apidays London 2023 Slides/Recording Capability Abstraction & AI
2023 Low code APIs that don't break INTERFACE by apidays SlideShare Capability Abstraction & AI
2022 What API: Your Guide to API Styles Nordic APIs Platform Summit 2022 Deck Capability Abstraction & AI
2022 Autonomous APIs and composability Composability Summit 2022 Integration Mesh
2022 Solving the biggest problem with APIs will unlock AI apidays Paris 2022 Capability Abstraction & AI
2021 Autonomous Integration Mesh Nordic APIs Platform Summit 2021 Deck Integration Mesh
2020 Level up: Autonomous Integration Mesh apidays LIVE Paris 2020 Deck Slides/Recording Integration Mesh
2019 Autonomous APIs: Navigation in Complex Landscapes O'Reilly Software Architecture Conf (Berlin) 2019 Event page Autonomous APIs
2019 The Mother of All APIs: From Engelbart to the Present apidays Paris 2019 Recording/Page Autonomous APIs
2018 Autonomous APIs APIdays Paris 2018 Playlist Autonomous APIs
2018 REST vs. GraphQL: Critical Review Nordic APIs Platform Summit 2018 (Keynote) Recording/Page REST & GraphQL Critique & Abstraction
2018 Good API Design API Mastermind Workshop Amsterdam (Oct 2018) Deck API Product Design
2017 Uniform Interface Hive Talks Prague Deck Event page API Product Design
2017 Creating the New: adidas APIs Nordic APIs Platform Summit 2017 API Product Design
2017 Consumer APIs Must Be Product-Driven Nordic APIs Platform Summit 2017 API Product Design
2016 Good API Design Nordic APIs Platform Summit 2016 Deck API Product Design
2016 API Design and the Future of API Description Formats APIdays Paris 2016 Recording API Description
2016 The API flow GitHub Satellite 2016 Playlist API Description
2014 Snow Crash: The API Blueprint Parser Pyvo Brno (Apr 2014) Deck API Description
2013 RESTFest 2013 RESTFest Greenville 2013 Event page API Description
2012–2016 Apiary era talks (multiple) APICraft (Detroit & other locations) / API World (San Jose) / API Strategy & Practice / Heavybit meetups (San Francisco) / apidays (Paris and other cities) API Description

The 10 Most Important Breakthrough Talks

Year Breakthrough Talk
2025 Agent-native execution Agentic Commerce / Arc Pay
2023 AI-consumable APIs AI-enabled APIs
2020 Integration abstraction runtime Autonomous Integration Mesh
2019 Autonomous integration architecture Autonomous APIs: Navigation in Complex Landscapes
2018 Constraint-driven architecture REST vs GraphQL: Critical Review
2018 Self-integrating APIs Autonomous APIs
2017 APIs as products Consumer APIs Must Be Product-Driven
2016 Contract-driven APIs API Design and the Future of API Description Formats
2016 Design-first workflows The API flow
2014 Machine-readable API contracts Snow Crash: The API Blueprint Parser