API Asia Conference

2nd October 2019

API Asia Conference

Connect, Collaborate & Transform

About Us

Join us in Colombo this year API ASIA Conference 2019 to learn how digital transformation can enhance your customer experience, optimize your operations, and improve your business model. The event comprises a line-up of inspiring keynotes, insightful business & technical sessions, and networking opportunities to provide knowledge on how API can help you digitally transform. APIs are key for a successful digital transformation and sustained business growth. Not only have APIs become key for application developers to streamline operations across business and product suites, they have also become an integral part of product development, business strategy, and scalability.

Globally, companies in the FinTech, banking, transportation, logistics, travel, food delivery services, and beauty sectors are offering services for millions through APIs. This poses some interesting challenges in terms of scaling, monitoring, and deployment. This event is not only for those already in the API and platform game. It is for companies that are growing and starting to see the challenges of offering services to a large number of clients. It is also for those who want to share information, seek inspiration, and gain knowledge from experts.

Panelist

Hon. (Dr.) Harsha
De Silva

Non Cabinet Minister of Economic Reforms and Public Distribution

Asela
Perera

Dr.Sanjiva
Weerawarna

Deepal
Akuretiyagama

Nisthar
Cassim

Moderator Editor/CEO Daily FT

Madu
Ratnayake

our great speakers

Sachin
Seth

Sachin Seth is a Partner & Digital, Fintech and Innovation Practice leader with Financial Services Advisory and National leader for Cloud and technology transformation advisory in Ernst & Young India, Africa, Middle East region.

Mario
Bojilov

Mario has worked in the area of Data Analytics and Business Improvement since 1994. He is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Lecturer in Accounting Information Systems; IS Control and Governance; Enterprise Resource Planning; Systems Analysis and Design

Kay
Lummitsch

He went through every road-hole on the path to API Success. Today he is advising high-profile Digital Programs to navigate around those holes and become successful faster

Michie
Beukes

Vitality One

Seshika
Fernando

Seshika heads the financial solutions team at WSO2 where she builds financial industry-specific solutions using WSO2's middleware platform. With extensive expertise in global open banking implementations, she works closely with banks as well as regulatory bodies in crafting winning open banking strategies that suit regional and country-specific needs.

Nuwan
Dias

Nuwan is a member of the architecture team at WSO2 which spearheads the strategy and design of WSO2 products. Nuwan specializes in APIs and API Management. He spends most of his time working closely with the Engineering team in WSO2 which is responsible for the research and development of the WSO2 API Manager.

Uli
Hitzel

As a technology evangelist, he is working with modern, distributed systems. This usually includes a huge variety of concepts, platforms, and tools. Automation and open standards. Deep hands-on exposure to API design, network protocols, data formats, encoding and transformation, identity management, containerized workloads & microservices, messaging & streaming systems, Python, NoSQL databases, Git, CI/CD pipelines & DevOps.

Vinayak
Hegde

CTO in residence at Microsoft for Startups

Channa
De Silva

CEO ,Lanka Pay

Anthony
Rodrigo

Group CIO , Axiata Group

Selvaratnam
Uthaiyashankar

Shankar oversees WSO2's engineering efforts that are focused on developing middleware platform capabilities. He has provided technology consulting on customer engagements, including cloud, distributed ystems, enterprise integration, governance, and security solutions