API Management for the AI Era : OpenAPI initiative masterclass

Official OpenAPI Initiative Masterclass & Certification with Erik Wilde and Frank Kilcommins

This event is in English
To attend, you must buy a ticket on this page. Seats are limited.

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## Description

This in-person masterclass, delivered by Frank Kilcommins and Erik Wilde, explores how modern API management practices and OpenAPI standards are evolving to meet the challenges and opportunities of the AI-driven digital landscape.
You will understand not only how to use OpenAPI effectively, but also how its new specifications (Arazzo and Overlays) enable automation, orchestration, and AI-driven architectures.

Through live demonstrations, guided exercises, and expert discussions, participants will learn how to design, govern, and evolve API ecosystems that power AI, while maintaining quality, security, interoperability, and compliance.

This workshop is not limited to developers. It is for anyone who needs a deeper understanding of what it means to take an API landscape into the AI age. Exercises are designed to illustrate concepts and enable experimentation.
Participants must bring a laptop with internet access (Wi-Fi provided).

➡️ An official OpenAPI initiative certificate will be delivered upon success!

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## Your instructors

### Erik Wilde

experienced and internationally known professional in the space of digital transformation and API strategy and management. Erik has a degree in computer science from TU Berlin and a PhD from ETH Zurich. Erik works at Jentic as Head of Enterprise Strategy, where he helps organizations to build the bridge between their API landscapes and their AI ambitions. He is the author of many articles and papers, various books, multiple standards, and regularly speaks at conferences around the globe. Erik’s « Getting APIs to Work » channel on YouTube is a place where developers, IT professionals, product managers, and digital leaders get regular updates about technologies, tools, events, standards, and the global API community. Erik is an OpenAPI Ambassador, organizing and speaking at events around the globe to promote the use of standards and help realize their full potential.

### Frank Kilcommins

Head of Enterprise Architecture at Jentic, where he leads efforts to bridge APIs and AI through resilient, open standards-based design and tooling.
Over his 15-plus years in technology, Frank has helped define how enterprises design, scale, and govern APIs, from driving API-led digital transformations inside major multinationals to serving as Principal API Technical Evangelist at SmartBear, where he worked across the full API lifecycle spanning thousands of APIs.
As a member of the OpenAPI Initiative’s Business Governance Board, he helped guide the evolution of the OAI from a single-specification body to a multi-spec standards ecosystem. Most notably, he is the co-author of the Arazzo Specification, now becoming the blueprint for how AI agents orchestrate workflows safely and predictably.
At Jentic, Frank’s mission is to ensure that enterprise API investments deliver real value in the AI era in ways that are performant, predictable, energy efficient, secure, auditable, and compatible with existing architectures

Both instructors are active contributors to the OpenAPI Initiative and involved in shaping the next generation of API standards.

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## Who should attend

Backend Developers
API Designers
Solutions Architects
Product Managers
Platform & Integration Teams
Technical Leaders looking to modernize their API practices for AI-driven use cases

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## What you’ll learn

### Knowledge

• Understand the strategic role of APIs in enabling AI-powered products and platforms
• Explain how OpenAPI supports automation, governance, and collaboration across teams
• Identify the components and value of a modern API management strategy in the AI era
• Understand the new OAI standards: Arazzo and Overlay

### Skills

• Use OpenAPI to document and manage APIs consistently
• Improve API quality, compliance, discovery, and AI-readiness
• Implement best practices for integrating APIs and AI systems effectively
• Know how to use Overlay and Arazzo in your API lifecycle management

### Competencies

• Align API management with organizational innovation and AI strategies
• Communicate the business value of OpenAPI standards adoption to technical and business audiences
• Drive sustainable API-first initiatives through governance and intelligent automation

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## Practical details

📅 December 10, 2025 – 13:30 to 17:30
📌 CNIT – Paris La Défense
💻 Bring your laptop (Wi-Fi provided)
🌐 English session
♿ Accessible venue
📩 For accommodations or questions: **apimasters@apidays.io**
🎫 Book here
This masterclass follows Qualiopi recommendations. You will receive a training contract by email.