Next Summit: 10th December at FOST Paris | Register here
Paris
Date | 10 December 2025
Location | CNIT Forest, 2 Place de la Défense, 92092 Puteaux
Time | 11h20 to 17h15
Segment 1 | 11h20 to 12h50
Learning from Digital Natives
Run as a bilingual English/French session
Claire BARRETT
Founder
APIsFirst
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Sebastien LAYE
Founder & Economist
ASLAN AI
Markus MÜLLER
Field CTO APIM
Boomi
Organisations’ success with API- and AI-enabled products and business models relies on the right cultural mindset, engineering discipline, and commercial pragmatism. In practice, this looks like being really good at things typical “digital native” (or born-tech) organisations do from their early beginnings. For incumbent players in mature industries, many of their API- and AI-enabled transformations can look like adopting these practices themselves.
This session will start with a “fireside chat” between Sebastien Laye, Markus Müller, and Claire Barrett on what API-enabled innovation looks and feels like from their experiences working with and at digital native organisations. The conversation will draw out comparisons and lessons for organisations in incumbent / mature industries.
The remainder of the session will include global themes and lessons from 10 prior API Economy Summits that have been run since September 2024. This part will be highly interactive, with opportunities for people to share their own stories, examples and learnings, in facilitated round table conversations.
This is your opportunity to get practical lessons and case studies to take away for you and your teams to grow their API economy participation and success.
Segment 2 | 14h00 to 16h00
Meeting API Ambitions… Over Time
Run as a bilingual English/French session
"Shape innovations to your own reality"
Germán HÜTTEMANN
Tech & Product Strategy
Schneider Electric
Large organisations, particularly those with mature products and services across profitable markets around the globe, can find their API plans and ambitions may change significantly from their initial ideas, to what they end up actually achieving and going forward with.
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Germán Hüttemann leads Schneider Electric’s IoT and Data Platform products with experience designing and implementing API-related programs and teams at globally recognised brand businesses.
This session will take a deep dive into Germán and his colleagues’ experiences with taking API-as-products from ideas to plans to the reality of bringing them to life.
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From evangelisation to monetisation, from portals to partnerships, from ambitions to reality—this session covers them all from a humble, yet practical, strategy and product perspective.
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Germán’s experiences provide case studies and lessons you can apply in your own organisations, use with your teams, and observe at your clients.
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This session follows our highly popular format for The API Economy Summit: small format round table conversations of six to eight people per table. You get to hear from Germán and then explore the questions he raises in a structured, while relaxed, setting.
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Participants are expected to be commercial, digital or technical practitioners involved in bringing digital and API- or AI-enabled strategies to life in their organisations.
Segment 3 | 16h30 to 17h15
Convincing the Unconvinced
Run as a bilingual English/French session
To celebrate the final API Economy Summit for 2025, this session will dive into a recurring topic over the previous 10 summits across five cities around the world: getting others to “get” what The API Economy is all about.
In seemingly AI-saturated conversations, the need for a clearly defined stable of API products has never been greater.
Yet too many people tell us that they still struggle to get their colleagues, even their customers or their partners, fully on board with understanding the potential from participation in the API Economy.
This session is about sharing what works (or otherwise) with convincing the unconvinced about the API Economy.
Why it matters. Where to get education and training. How to grow understanding and involvement, and lead to results.
This session is a facilitated round table discussion on the methods and techniques to get others committed to action towards making it their business to understand the business of APIs.
Bertrand Masson and Claire Barrett are seasoned change agents who work with their consulting clients and other API economy thinkers to help them articulate and realise their API ambitions.
