Journeys in Enterprise Modernization Through API Management
APIs are no longer just technical enablers—they’re the foundation of security, compliance, and innovation. Managing these strategic assets effectively is critical, especially in industries where trust, regulation, and scale matter.
Speakers
Per Nordanlind is a Solution Architect at Bolagsverket, specializing in application modernization and the implementation of target architecture for the organization. His work focuses on services related to information provisioning, including customer APIs and the development of a new IT platform tailored for these needs. With over 12 years of experience as a Solution Architect, Per has spent the past four years at Bolagsverket, driving innovation in API design and integration. He is passionate about creating scalable, future-proof solutions that enhance digital service delivery.
Jürg Schärer is an experienced financial technology professional currently serving as Product Owner of API Management in Deutsche Bank. With a decade of development experience in trading and accounting applications, Jürg brings deep technical expertise to digital banking transformation. Previously responsible for production management of EMEA cash processing applications in DB Corporate Bank, he later led the implementation of a microservice platform to RESTify core banking systems. Now leading Deutsche Bank's internal API management platform, Jürg specializes in bridging traditional banking infrastructure with modern API-driven architectures, enabling enhanced integration capabilities and developer experiences across the organization.
Ricardo serves as the Principal Architect at Securitas Direct by Verisure, where he leads the strategic and conceptual design of complex systems, ensuring architectural integrity from inception to delivery. Passionate about improving developer experience, he specializes in platform engineering and Internal Developer Platforms, driving the adoption of cutting-edge practices that enhance productivity and quality.</br></br>In addition to his industry role, Ricardo is a faculty member at IE University, where he teaches Computer Programming, focusing on the development of optimized distributed systems. His expertise bridges innovation in both professional and academic spheres.
Federated API Management for Enterprise Agility
Enterprises today operate APIs across multiple gateway providers, including cloud-native, on-premise, and hybrid environments. Managing these gateways separately leads to governance challenges, inconsistent security policies, and operational inefficiencies. A federated API management model enables organizations to unify diverse API gateways—whether from cloud providers, open-source projects, or enterprise solutions—under a single control plane for centralized policy enforcement, traffic management, observability, and security.
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Sanjeewa is an experienced engineering leader with over 13 years in enterprise integration, focusing on API management and event-driven architectures. He directs API management software products at WSO2, highly regarded in the industry and consistently ranked among the top by analysts. His strategic consulting has positively impacted various companies worldwide. Additionally, as a recognized thought leader, Sanjeewa has imparted his extensive knowledge at more than 15 global IT conferences, specializing in API security and protocols.
Advancing API Governance for Scalable Systems
As organizations increasingly rely on APIs to drive innovation and scale, effective API governance has become a cornerstone of successful digital strategies. This talk explores the evolution of API governance frameworks to meet the demands of modern scalable systems. We’ll examine the challenges posed by growing API ecosystems, such as ensuring consistency, security, and compliance while enabling agility and developer autonomy.
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As the Head of Solution Architecture for APIM at WSO2, Vidura is responsible for shaping technical direction with product teams and addressing customer needs. As a Field CTO, he collaborates with global customers to craft strategic roadmaps, offering technical guidance and architecture strategies for digital experiences. With over 25 years of global experience across finance, logistics, aviation, and energy, Vidura brings deep expertise. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from RMIT University, Australia.
Managing Egress APIs for AI and SaaS Applications
As organizations rapidly adopt AI services and SaaS platforms, managing egress APIs (outbound calls to external services) has become essential. Traditional API management focuses on inbound traffic, but modern architectures must also govern, secure, and optimize outbound traffic to providers like OpenAI, and Salesforce.
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Arshardh Ifthikar is an expert in API Management, Generative AI application development, and enterprise integration, specializing in building scalable API architectures and optimizing egress control for AI and SaaS applications. As a technical lead of the API Manager team, he has played a key role in helping numerous customers successfully deploy and integrate advanced API management solutions. With a strong focus on AI-driven innovations, Arshardh brings deep expertise in shaping modern API ecosystems.
API-First Architectures for Modernization
The shift to API-first architectures is reshaping how organizations modernize, integrate, and scale their digital ecosystems. APIs are no longer just an interface—they are the foundation of streamline development, enhance agility, and enable seamless interoperability across platforms and services.
This session explores the key principles of API-first modernization, including governance, security, and AI-driven optimization of API ecosystems. It highlights strategies to eliminate legacy bottlenecks, enhance developer experience, and future-proof technology stacks.
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Thilini is an Associate Director at WSO2, leading the engineering team for the API Manager Business Unit. She drives the technical strategy and execution of WSO2’s API management product line.<br/><br/>With over a decade of experience at WSO2, Thilini has extensive expertise in API management, particularly in security, API design and governance. Her leadership drives product development, fosters innovation, and ensures solutions align with evolving customer requirements. She empowers her team to consistently deliver high-quality API solutions that meet the needs of diverse industries while advancing the future of API management.
Tech Strategy for Modernization
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, staying relevant demands more than incremental improvements—it requires modernization at the core. This talk explores key strategies for enabling businesses to embrace transformation effectively while minimizing disruption. From adopting cloud-native architectures and API-first approaches to leveraging microservices and DevOps practices, we’ll uncover the technologies and methodologies that drive agility and scalability.
Speakers
As the Head of Solution Architecture for APIM at WSO2, Vidura is responsible for shaping technical direction with product teams and addressing customer needs. As a Field CTO, he collaborates with global customers to craft strategic roadmaps, offering technical guidance and architecture strategies for digital experiences. With over 25 years of global experience across finance, logistics, aviation, and energy, Vidura brings deep expertise. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from RMIT University, Australia.
Post-Quantum Security: Threads and Strategic Actions
Beside showing a lot of benefits, quantum computing imposes a significant threat: it has the potential to break today’s security infrastructure midterm. The talk sketches the origin of this thread, and the reactions of the cryptography community. To counter this threat, organizations must take measures that are briefly touched on.
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Frank, the WSO2 Technology fellow, has been a full professor of computer science at the University of Stuttgart, Germany since 2004. He is also the founder and director of the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems. His research interests include middleware, cloud computing, quantum computing, and pattern languages. Before joining the university, he worked at IBM, serving in software development roles. He was also the main co-inventor and chief software architect of IBM's business process management and workflow products. He has received recognition for his technical contributions from leading organizations and is an elected member of the Academy of Europe as well as the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He holds appointments as a member of the Expert Council for Quantum Computing of the German Government and as a Kurt Gödel visiting professor for Quantum Computing at TU Wien.
From Data Center to Hyperscaler: Leveraging Hybrid Deployment Models
The transition from traditional data centers to hyperscale cloud environments represents a pivotal shift in IT infrastructure, driven by demands for scalability, efficiency, and cost optimization. However, maintaining certain infrastructure in on-premises data centers remains essential for various reasons, including service co-location, enhanced security and compliance requirements.This requirement to function across diverse environments has led applications to seamlessly operate within a hybrid framework, spanning both on-premises/traditional data centers and hyperscale cloud platforms.
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Nadeesha is a director for solutions architecture and the head of the APAC and ANZ region at WSO2. In his role Nadeesha involves with customers in the region to design and build robust, scalable architectures for customers from multiple domains. Nadeesha has over 15 years experience in the industry.
Choreo Bridging Kubernetes and Enterprise Development
Kubernetes provides a robust foundation for cloud-native applications, but enterprise adoption requires more than just Kubernetes itself. To fully meet enterprise demands, organizations must build a platform on top of Kubernetes, integrating multiple CNCF projects for CI/CD, security, observability, scaling, automation, and traffic control. However, this approach introduces significant complexity, shifting focus away from core business objectives and burdening development teams with infrastructure challenges.
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Lakmal Warusawithana is the VP and Distinguished Engineer at WSO2, with extensive experience as a Cloud Architect and Platform Engineer specializing in cloud-native technologies. With a proven track record in designing and implementing scalable platforms, he has been instrumental in simplifying enterprise development through modern infrastructure solutions. Previously, he served as Vice President of the Apache Stratos PaaS Project and co-founded thinkCube in 2005, where he led engineering, scalability, and service delivery for Collaborative Cloud Computing products tailored to telecom operators. A seasoned speaker, Lakmal has shared his expertise at major industry events, including ApacheCon, CloudOpen, QCon, JaxLondon, Cloud Expo, CloudStack Collaboration Conference, and WSO2Con.
From Friction to Flow: Streamlining Enterprise Software Development
In today’s digital-first world, enterprises are defined by the digital experiences they deliver. At the core of this transformation are enterprise software developers—the architects of these digital experiences. However, they often face challenges such as fragmented tooling, complex dependencies, and inefficient information that hinder productivity.
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Tishan is an associate director at WSO2, currently leading API-first team in Choreo product. In his current role, Tishan heads the effort to help enterprises leverage API-first development methodology in their enterprise architecture through Choreo which involves features like Marketplace and Connection story. He has experience over a decade in enterprise integration with WSO2. He has helped multiple clients to design and implement their enterprise integration journey using WSO2 on-prem products in the form of on-site consultations, design reviews, and support issues before moving on to the SaaS offering, Choreo. Experience gathered during that tenure is gearing his current contributions in API-first domain. Tishan also has experience in the Complex Event Processing domain prior to his integration journey specializing in distributed event processing. He is a published author and presenter in that domain and a contributor to “Siddhi” open source event processing project.