Conference Description
Key Takeaways
- Multi-day conference in Stockholm examining how APIs must evolve to serve AI agents as primary consumers
- Over 60 speakers covering API security, identity management, governance, and platform engineering
- Sector-specific case studies from finance and healthcare industries
- Technical focus on OAuth2, FAPI 2.0, OpenAPI, and event-driven architectures
- Designed for API architects, platform engineers, CTOs, and security professionals from regulated industries
About the Event
Nordic APIs Summit 2026 is an in-person conference addressing the fundamental shift in API design and management as autonomous AI agents increasingly become the primary consumers of application programming interfaces. The summit brings together API practitioners, enterprise architects, and business leaders to examine how organizations must adapt their API strategies for machine-driven usage patterns.
The program features more than 60 expert speakers delivering keynotes, panel discussions, and breakout sessions. A half-day unconference dedicated to API security provides additional depth on governance and threat mitigation. Sessions are recorded for on-demand viewing after the event.
Technical Focus Areas
The summit covers API-first development strategies, identity and access management, and zero-trust security implementations. Sessions address data sovereignty requirements, cloud-agnostic and hybrid architecture patterns, and platform observability. The concept of agent experience (AX), which concerns optimizing APIs for consumption by autonomous systems rather than human developers, features prominently in the program.
Specific technologies and standards under discussion include OAuth2, FAPI 2.0, OpenAPI specifications, Machine Control Protocol (MCP), and event-driven architectures. The agenda also covers API monetization strategies and business models suited to environments where AI agents drive consumption.
Industry and Regulatory Context
Case studies from finance and healthcare sectors illustrate how regulated industries are approaching API governance and compliance challenges. Sessions address identity sprawl, data regulation compliance, and the operational complexity of managing APIs across cloud and hybrid deployments. The program examines how organizations can scale and standardize API platforms while meeting sector-specific security requirements.
Who Should Attend
The summit targets API architects, platform engineers, integration architects, CTOs, product managers, and security professionals. Attendees typically work in enterprise IT, product, and engineering departments within finance, healthcare, technology, and other regulated sectors. The content spans technical implementation details through to strategic planning, serving both senior engineers and executive leadership.
Sponsors and exhibitors include Curity, Axway, Gravitee, WunderGraph, Akamai, Kong, WSO2, Postman, Swedwise, Tyk, and adorsys.