AI agents don’t actually do anything on their own. They don’t fetch data, they don’t book meetings, they don’t trigger workflows. They call APIs. That means if you can build APIs, you can build AI. Here’s the catch: REST APIs power the web, but they weren’t designed with AI in mind. For APIs to be truly useful, and usable by AI systems (especially agents and LLMs), they need to have eight critical characteristics.

In this talk, we’ll explore how APIs are shaping the future of intelligent automation. Using real-world examples from across industries, we’ll examine how companies are leveraging APIs to orchestrate multi-step workflows, access real-time data, and drive operational efficiency with AI. Organizations with robust, scalable, and discoverable API ecosystems will not only keep up, they’ll lead. If AI is the recipe, APIs are the ingredients. It's time we start treating them that way.

What You’ll Learn:
- The shift from human-first to machine-first consumption patterns in API design
- Emerging standards that are streamlining AI-API interactions
- Strategies to future-proof your API ecosystem for the intelligent systems of tomorrow