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About the authors
Mehdi Medjaoui
Founder, APIdays
apidays.io
Mehdi Medjaoui is the founder of APIdays
Conferences, the main conference series on APIs
worldwide, and also founder of OAuth.io, an API
integration middleware already powering more
than 25,000 applications.
Mehdi has evangelized APIs since 2011, and
strongly believes APIs define a new supply chain:
on the business, the technical, and the legal side of
the web.
Mehdi is a regular speaker and industry influencer
at many API and developer conferences, where
he is known for sharing his point of view on the
industry and where the API economy is going,
always with opinionated ideas that help drive the
debate forward.
Mark Boyd
Platformable
platformable.com
Mark Boyd is a writer and API industry analyst.
He writes regularly about the growth of the API
economy for ProgrammableWeb, The New Stack,
and has chaired several API conferences. He has
published a number of ebooks on the API lifecycle,
container technologies, serverless, GraphQL, and
best practices for API adoption.
Mark also regularly conducts industry research
and manages data-driven projects that draw on
open data and proprietary sources.
With a public health and urban planning
background, Mark is especially interested in how
APIs can enhance citizen and local business
engagement and help local governments
transform into a city-as-a-platform model.
