Build What Agents Want
Sam Altman recently said “Every company is an API company, whether they like it or not”. And Marc Benioff tweeted that Salesforce is ditching the UI, pivoting to MCP, APIs and CLI.
Headless products are coming up everywhere right now, and not just in our API world. I’ve been building APIs and API tooling for more than 15 years and have never been more excited about the future of our products.
The reason is that software vendors are betting that agents will be the next users of their products, and that this will drive exponential growth in demand and traffic.
In this talk, we’ll explore why APIs are the "atomic unit of product value" and the foundation for every other agentic tool.
You’ll walk out with a checklist on how to prepare your product for agents and what you should be building in the next two quarters so you can succeed in the agent economy.
Speakers
Emmanuel is a 3x VP Product and founder at Level 250. If you built or used APIs in the past 15 years, chances are you've used one of his products. He has led some of the most influential API tools: Apiary (550,000+ APIs), Swagger (750,000+ APIs), and Oracle's first Cloud-Native API Gateway. Before that, he built large B2B API programs at Verisk, Moody's, and Precisely. Today, he advises Fortune 500 CEOs and AI-forward startup founders on API Strategy, Developer Experience, MCP products, and AI agent readiness. He is also a member of OpenAPI and a featured speaker at apidays and other global technology conferences. His passion is helping others build products, which is why he also teaches on Maven, sharing his lessons learned to help Product Managers and Engineers fast-track their careers.