Platform Summit 2025 videos are live!
Bill Doerrfeld | December 1, 2025
Watch all the sessions on YouTube.
Head over to the Nordic APIs YouTube channel to watch nearly 60 speaker sessions, keynotes, and panel discussions from this year's Platform Summit!
API enthusiasts and architects alike will enjoy this new wealth of knowledge on the top API industry insights from the year.
The talks span areas like API design and standards, agent-to-API connectivity, MCP, access control and API security, governance, architectural case studies, and plenty more.
Also — if you'd like your own fancy video, the call for speakers is already open for
Platform Summit 2026! More information and sponsorship opportunities are on the
event page.
Block's open source initiative is helping to build brand reputation, attract talent, boost partnerships, guide internal open source best practices, and aid long-term system reliability.
Achieving ROI with AI requires a mix of strong leadership stewardship upfront, shifting the talent framework, and embedding proper monitoring and governance throughout the lifecycle.
I recently explored what goes into creating a solid AI agent knowledge base — from the types of data it should contain to the retrieval mechanisms and architecture patterns that support reliable agentic behavior.
I recently spoke with LinkedIn VP of Engineering Prashanthi Padmanabhan about the making of their Hiring Assistant, an agent recruiters are using to optimize the applicant selection process.
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Explore whether vector native databases outperform traditional DBs with vector add-ons for AI. Learn use cases, tradeoffs, and expert insights.
Join me in Stockholm for Platform Summit 2025 and the API Security UnConference, October 13–15. Exciting talks, networking, and more.
MCP shines for indeterministic workflows, novel integrations, and giving AI coding agents context on the fly. But for more predictable automation it may be overengineeering.
