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.
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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.
Building Blocks of the Agentic Enterprise
AI agents are moving from experimental systems into production: automating workflows, calling external tools, and making autonomous decisions on behalf of users and organizations. This is a fundamentally different kind of software, and it requires infrastructure that has never existed before, not because the existing stack is broken, but because it was built for software that executes predefined logic, not software that decides what to do, chooses which tools to use, and spends money on its own.
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Nadheesh Jihan is an AI leader at WSO2 with 8+years of experience applying AI across IAM, API Management, and enterprise integration. He brings a multidisciplinary perspective, combining deep systems expertise with a strong understanding of how AI and agentic architectures fit into real-world enterprise environments. He is a core contributor to the Agent Manager initiative, shaping how agentic AI systems are built and governed at scale. His work focuses on applying AI to enterprise platforms while also leveraging those platforms to enable scalable, production-grade AI systems.
Introduction to AI Agent Manager
Enterprises are deploying AI agents at an unprecedented pace, but most are flying blind. The gap between building an agent and running one reliably in production has never been wider. Shadow agents access production APIs without oversight, prototypes are pushed to production without guardrails, and agents operate using shared human credentials with no audit trail.
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Asanka brings over 12 years of experience in the technology domain, with a strong foundation in messaging systems, enterprise integration, and platform engineering. He currently leads the architecture and engineering of Agent Manager at WSO2 - an AI agent management solution built on top of cloud-native infrastructure. With deep expertise spanning enterprise integration, developer platforms, and now AI agent management, Asanka has been instrumental in helping enterprises architect and execute their integration and platform strategies using WSO2 products.
Managing the Agent Lifecycle at Scale
As enterprises shift from AI experimentation to production deployment, managing AI agent lifecycles at scale has become a key challenge. Unlike traditional software, AI agents are nondeterministic, context-driven, and continuously evolving. This shift requires reimagining the software development lifecycle as an Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC).
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Malith Jayasinghe is VP of AI at WSO2, where he leads initiatives to build scalable, secure, and production-ready AI systems for the enterprise. With over 15 years of experience in building, scaling, and optimizing complex systems, he focuses on making AI production-ready and improving developer productivity. His work spans AI strategy, agent platforms, observability, evaluation, governance, security, and enterprise integration. An architect, product leader, and frequent speaker at events such as DeveloperWeek, the Global Big Data Conference, and DEV DAY, Malith shares insights on enterprise AI, software architecture, and emerging technology trends. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from RMIT University, Australia, and has published in respected academic venues including IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) and the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC).
You Can’t Have AI Without Interoperability—And You Can’t Scale Interoperability Without AI
AI in healthcare is advancing rapidly—but its effectiveness is fundamentally constrained by fragmented, inconsistent data. Interoperability provides the structured, normalized foundation AI depends on, yet traditional approaches to interoperability remain slow, expensive, and difficult to scale.
This session explores the emerging symbiotic relationship between interoperability and AI. Let’s discuss how interoperable data unlocks high-quality AI, and how AI—through agentic systems, automation, and continuous learning—can dramatically accelerate interoperability itself.
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Chami Rupasinghe is an experienced Product Leader at Microsoft working on the next generation of healthcare interoperability and AI systems. He focuses on rethinking how data moves across healthcare—evolving from static pipelines to intelligent, agent-driven systems that continuously improve. With a background spanning product, data science, and cloud platforms, and over a decade of experience leading engineering teams, Chami works at the intersection of AI, interoperability, and platform design to enable trustworthy, scalable healthcare intelligence.
From Legacy Core to Modern Operations: Utica First Insurance’s Journey to an API-Driven Architecture
Utica First Insurance, a regional commercial property and casualty insurer serving small businesses and contractors, recently completed a significant transformation of its core insurance platform as part of a broader effort to modernize operations and support a more efficient underwriting environment.
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John Burns is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Utica First Insurance, where he leads the company’s technology strategy and enterprise systems modernization initiatives. He is responsible for advancing digital capabilities across the organization while ensuring the stability and performance of core insurance platforms. John has played a key role in guiding Utica First through its recent core system transformation and in implementing technologies that improve operational efficiency across underwriting and business operations.
Dan Sobotincic is President of Daystar, where he works with insurers and MGAs to modernize complex insurance operations through integration, orchestration, and automation. With deep experience in insurance technology and enterprise architecture, Dan helps organizations connect core systems, workflows, and data sources to support more efficient underwriting and operational processes. His work focuses on helping insurers unlock the full value of their technology investments by introducing flexible integration and orchestration capabilities across their platforms.
Agentic AI in regulated industries - Learnings from Generative AI applications in Fintech
Financial services have moved from GenAI experimentation to production-grade agentic systems reshaping how regulated enterprises operate. This session traces the evolution of AI maturity in FSI—from early LLM pilots to autonomous agents driving measurable business value across compliance, capital markets, and customer operations. We'll examine where agentic workloads are delivering returns today, walk through a reference architecture for compliance automation, and tackle the harder questions: How do you govern agents in a regulated environment? Who's accountable when an agent acts?
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Nuwan Bandara is the Head of Technology for Fintech at Amazon Web Services, where he helps financial services customers harness AI, cloud, and emerging technologies to drive real business impact. Based in New York City, he brings over 17 years of experience spanning software engineering, product, and architecture leadership—including 12 years scaling a technology startup from pre-seed through Series C. Nuwan is passionate about bridging innovative technology and traditional finance, guiding organizations through transformation with practical, actionable strategies.
Accelerating Banking Modernization with an AI-Powered Financial Platform
Banking modernization has long been a complex, high-stakes marathon—a necessary evolution that often stalls under the weight of legacy technical debt. While the industry is eager to embrace Artificial Intelligence, progress remains largely experimental as banks rightly navigate risks around data privacy and model reliability.
The true breakthrough lies in the middle ground: using AI not just for customer engagement, but as a high-velocity engine for structural modernization.
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Seshika plays a vital role in helping banks worldwide optimize and accelerate their digital initiatives. With her deep understanding of technology and its application in the financial sector, she provides valuable guidance and expertise to financial institutions, working closely with governments, regulatory bodies, and financial institutions across the globe. She frequently speaks at international technology conferences, where she shares her insights and expertise on various topics such as open banking, security and privacy, digital identity and digital transformation.
Agentic Healthcare: The New Operating System for Medicine
Healthcare's workflows, from prior authorization and referral chains to claims adjudication and clinical decision support, are being fundamentally rewritten by AI agents. Yet as autonomy scales, the risks shift from software bugs to critical patient safety events. A misconfigured agent acting on stale context isn't just a technical failure; it's a clinical one. This session introduces the platform layer built for healthcare that enables agents to act with speed and intelligence while remaining governed, auditable, and secure.
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Mifan is a senior leader heading the Solution Architecture function, the team that handles customer technical interactions and technical selling at WSO2. Mifan also works on the solutions side of WSO2 products. He works with many large customers to define their strategic roadmap and assist with architecture strategy. Before joining WSO2, Mifan has played multiple technology leadership and advocacy roles, including as co-founder and CTO of a technology startup, and as consultant spatial and technology architect for many government and private initiatives. He was also a founding member and board director of the Sahana Software Foundation, a global foundation that created the Open Source Sahana Disaster Management System. Mifan is a frequent speaker at events globally, dabbles in music, and is a fan of the Arsenal football club.
Fan Identity at Scale: IGT’s WSO2 Authentication for Sports & Gaming
In today’s digital-first sports and entertainment landscape, seamless and secure customer authentication is critical to delivering frictionless fan experiences. This session explores how Everi leverages WSO2 Identity Server to power authentication across a diverse ecosystem of mobile and web applications spanning professional sports, wagering, and casino platforms.
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Asim Thakker is a seasoned technology executive currently leading the Mobile team at IGT, a global leader in gaming, digital, and financial technology. With a career spanning high-growth startups and Fortune 500 giants, Asim specializes in scaling complex product organizations and bridging the gap between ambitious technical roadmaps and business ROI. He is recognized for building high-performance cultures rooted in collective accountability and mutual trust. A frequent advocate for driving expansion by eliminating complexity, Asim focuses on architecting secure, high-volume identity systems that power seamless fan experiences in the sports and gaming industries.