FOST Singapore 2026 - The Execution Layer: Building APIs for the Agentic Era

This talk covers the importance of APIs and API management in enhancing user experiences and achieving AI governance at a corporate level. The speaker highlights how leveraging data can lead to hyper-personalization, allowing businesses to connect with customers in a more intimate way. Collaboration and partnership among organizations are emphasized as crucial strategies for scaling impact and making AI advancements accessible to a broader audience. The discussion showcases the role of conferences like API Days in fostering community and shared learning within the tech ecosystem.

[applause] [music] >> My name is Mehdi Medjaoui. I'm the founder and chairman of API Days Conferences. API Days Singapore is actually a great conference on everything about agent experience and how APIs and API management enable you to achieve AI governance at the corporate level. >> Hi, I'm Tasha Chua from the Singapore Exchange. So, I'm a regulator turned salesperson and I've always enjoyed human-to-human interaction, which is why

it's great that I'm at the forum today meeting people from diverse backgrounds [music] and I'm having a lot of fun. Great job, organizers. I hope to be here again next year. >> What I've shared in my presentation is how we can bring data to delight customer and hyper-personalization as a tool to reach millions, but to reach customer [music] in a more personalized and intimate way. >> So,

first I want to thank Boss Conference for inviting the AI Collective Singapore chapter to be part of the API Days. This is so important because we have to do things collectively, [music] together, collaborate and partner because by doing that we scale, we are able to impact more people and bring the realities of [music] AI to a larger audience.