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Trend 4: Support. Teams of 8–10 are becoming teams of 2–5. 46% plan to link AI and API teams more closely. 56% are moving to RevOps. #PlatformTeams #FutureOfWork 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

Scaling GenAI starts with scaling the APIs underneath it. Welcome @googlecloud Gold Sponsor of #apidaysParis 2026, part of FOST. Apigee helps you design, secure and scale APIs with confidence. 🗓 1–3 Dec · CNIT Forest, Paris 🎟 apidays.global/events/paris #Apigee #GenAI

Trend 3: Context is everything. Each API governance practice is in place at just 44% of orgs on average, AI practices at 38%. The fix: toll-gate teams and agent harnesses. #APIGovernance 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

Every AI agent is only as reliable as the APIs it calls. Welcome @getpostman , Platinum Sponsor of #apidaysParis 2026, part of FOST: one platform for API design, testing and docs, built for the AI era. 🗓 1–3 Dec · CNIT Forest, Paris 🎟 apidays.global/events/paris #Postman #APIs

Trend 2: Interoperability. Standards and sovereignty will replace vendor lock-in and walled gardens. 83% say standards matter; only 29% use AI for compliance. #APIStandards 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

Trend 1: Quality. We're entering a thrive-over-growth era. 60% have changed or plan to change tooling or cloud providers, led by cost and sovereignty. #APIStrategy #DigitalEcosystems 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

Manufacturing: the widest gap between AI ambition and API readiness. Only 5 of the top 56 providers had discoverable OpenAPI specs. 84% had an API security incident. #Manufacturing 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

Retail is ~34% of global API traffic, more than any other sector. After adopting UCP, Bake & Brew saw online sales up 30%, mostly via agents. #Retail #AgenticCommerce 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

Banking APIs have passed through 8 phases, from compliance to agentic commerce. UK open banking: 2.81B API calls a month. India's UPI: 22.64B. #OpenBanking #Fintech 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

Three macro AI risks dominated 2026: AI as a "reverse centaur", environmental impact, and an economic bubble. Each has a practical response. #ResponsibleAI #AI 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

AI across the API lifecycle, 2025 → 2026: Docs: 52% → 64% OpenAPI/AsyncAPI specs: 43% → 60% Testing & mocking: 37% → 58% Design review: 29% → 46% #APIs #APIDesign 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

"A frontier without any rules." Only 2 AI governance practices are used by over half of orgs: training and approved-tool lists (both 53%). Gateways (42%) are rising. #AIGovernance 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

89.6% say AI makes them more productive (up from 82%). 65% now find AI results reliable (up from 45%). But only 29% get guidance on checking AI output. #AI #Productivity 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

AI is moving to the backend. Research & strategy: 53% → 64% Building agents: 42% → 51% Customer service: 29% → 22% Tolerance for AI slop is dropping. #AI #AIAgents 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

Standards had a big year: the biggest MCP spec revision yet, A2A v1.0 with 150+ orgs in production, OpenAPI 3.2 and Arazzo + AsyncAPI. Which are you betting on? #MCP #OpenAPI #A2A 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

Regulators now mandate APIs: EU Data Act, UK DUA Act, US CMS FHIR rules, e-invoicing in India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Poland and more. Your regulatory roadmap is your API roadmap. #APIs 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

2026 in APIs & AI: MCP becomes an industry standard, Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter, Nvidia buys Hugging Face. And broken auth is still the top cause of API CVEs. #APIs #MCP 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

Your next API consumer isn't human. Gartner: 30% of API demand will come from AI agents. Cloudflare: AI agent requests up 1,700%+ since 2025. Can agents find your APIs? #AIAgents #MCP 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

The API economy in 2026: $21.93B API management market by 2031 $14.2T global economic impact of APIs by 2027 58–83% of web traffic is API calls #APIs #APIEconomy 📥 Free report: apidays.global/resources 🗼 Paris in December: joinfost.io/events/paris

🙌 Thank you to @Easygoau , sponsor of apidays Australia 2026! Say hello to the team at MCEC. 📅 28–29 Oct · MCEC Melbourne joinfost.io/events/australia #apidays