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This week in APIs, the central theme was how enterprises can modernize critical systems without putting the business at risk.
Most organizations still rely on legacy platforms that support essential workflows, valuable business logic, and years of operational knowledge. The problem is that these systems become harder to change over time: integrations slow down, new features carry more risk, and no team wants to be responsible for breaking something the business depends on every day.
APIs create a safer path forward. By placing a stable API layer around older systems, teams can build new services, gradually move traffic, and modernize one capability at a time rather than betting everything on a full rewrite. Translation layers, backward compatibility, monitoring, and rollback plans turn modernization from one high-pressure cutover into a series of manageable steps.
The wider API landscape is moving in the same direction. As AI gateways, agent workflows, event-driven systems, and new security standards become part of enterprise architecture, APIs are doing more than connecting applications. They are becoming the controlled boundary where systems, policies, data, and automation meet.
The takeaway: The strongest modernization strategies do not try to replace everything overnight. They use APIs to create clear boundaries, reduce risk, and give teams the confidence to evolve the systems they already rely on.
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FOST India is bringing the conversation around APIs, AI, and enterprise platforms to Bengaluru this August.
On August 19-20, API architects, platform engineers, developers, and technology leaders will come together to explore how API-driven systems are evolving for AI agents, autonomous workflows, and machine-driven ecosystems.
The program will cover the issues teams are navigating right now: API monetization, security, governance, platform strategy, event-driven architecture, and the operational work required to run AI-connected systems at scale.
Whether you are building the next generation of digital products or managing the platforms behind them, FOST India is a space to get practical about what modern API programs need to deliver.
Conrad Bengaluru · Bengaluru, India · August 19-20, 2026
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We’re excited to welcome a great lineup of speakers at FOST Munich, including:
Nick Gushchin (Swiss AI Chatbot Factory) – on using AI to transform internal IT support through ticket triage, workflow automation, and smarter asset management.
Marco Antonio Sanz (APIQuality) – on bringing AI into the APIOps cycle, from API creation through deployment and standards compliance.
Jan Vlnas (Mews) – on introducing an API gateway to a decade-old monolith, and the hidden dependencies teams uncover when modernizing real-world API infrastructure.
Hugo Guerrero (Kong) – on why AI agents should be asynchronous, and how event-driven architecture can make agentic systems more resilient, scalable, and observable.
Dr. Ahmed Ebada (HOPn) – on orchestrating AI across unreliable APIs, with practical approaches to failover, structured fallbacks, and operational resilience.
Siham Boutayeb (Odaseva) – on closing the gap between board-level risk governance and the architectural reality of data resilience.
We’re also proud to be supported by our global partners:
IBM – a global leader in enterprise AI, automation, and hybrid cloud, helping organizations build, deploy, and operate intelligent applications at scale.
Postman – an API collaboration platform that helps teams design, test, document, and govern APIs as APIs become the foundation for AI-connected applications.
Google Cloud – providing cloud infrastructure, AI platforms, and developer tools that help organizations build and scale modern, data-driven applications.
Boomi – an integration and automation platform helping organizations connect applications, data, people, and processes across increasingly complex digital ecosystems.
Akamai – a global leader in edge security and delivery, protecting APIs and digital experiences at scale as API traffic and security threats continue to grow.
