API Resilience

Roberto works for the largest public service media company in Switzerland. Starting out as an IT architect and later as an enterprise architect, he initiated an API program at SRG-SSR based on requirements coming not only from the business but also from opportunities discovered through their hackathons, in which they actively support innovation and digital transformation.

Join us to hear more about the main takeaways coming from organizing hackathons and how to make the results sustainable. What effects did the pandemic have on a public broadcaster`s operations and how did they manage to keep up with the changing media landscape. What makes a company more resilient when facing the challenges of accelerated digital transformation. How can an organization become more adaptive because of APIs? In this interview Roberto also explains how SRG SSR intends to be meaningful for the public interest and help with addressing the information shocks that are currently going through our society.

“Software is eating your car” claims John Musser (Director, Platforms, Ford Autonomous Vehicles). This episode explores new affordances and unique functionalities that are triggered by a broader connectivity between vehicles, IoT devices and other elements of the transportation space.

The interview delves into questions, like

The hosts are Kristof Van Tomme (CEO & co-founder, Pronovix) and Mark Winberry (director of US operations, Pronovix).

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“Successful transformation comes from balancing trade-offs, choices between two right ways of executing” claims Claire Barrett (Director, APIsFirst Consulting). This interview explores how API success creates a bow wave for an organisation’s wider digital transformation, and why it is important to recognise the humans behind API success. It also delves into concepts like inside out project thinking, intentional teams and other key issues, like

The hosts are Kristof Van Tomme (CEO & co-founder, Pronovix) and Mark Winberry (director of US operations, Pronovix).

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In this episode of API Resilience, Ainhoa Pulido (API Manager, Lufthansa) and Flavio Geraldes (API Manager, Lufthansa) explore the importance of purpose and innovation when it comes to creating or integrating APIs. They also delve into how crisis helps API programs evolve, and how finding the common ground in understanding and language is crucial when working with different departments of a large organization.

The hosts are Kristof Van Tomme (CEO & co-founder, Pronovix) and Mark Winberry (director of US operations, Pronovix).

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In the first part of the API Resilience interview Kin Lane talked about Digital Literacy & Democratizing APIs. The 2nd part of the conversation went towards more philosophical territories where Kin, Mark and Kristof explored how an essentially transactional space like APIs and digital transformation can and should still have non-transactional aspects. They also talked about how organizations can be more successful by acknowledging the human aspect besides transactional goals and how developer portals can support this.

The hosts are Kristof Van Tomme (CEO & co-founder, Pronovix) and Mark Winberry (director of US operations, Pronovix).

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“Our shared responsibility is to help industries where we belong to adopt and push forward their API programs and API community initiatives” claims Aleksei Akimov (Head of API, Adyen).

In this episode we look into how an API-first payment processing company adopting the design-first methodology is able to iterate on their APIs fast, how their non-binary thinking of their audience helps them to maintain a consistent API program, and what extra meaning can a Van Gogh exhibition add to the way they think about APIs.

The hosts are Kristof Van Tomme (CEO & co-founder, Pronovix) and Mark Winberry (director of US operations, Pronovix).

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It pays off to cater to both technical and business audiences, claims Katrien Van Gijsel (Business Innovation Manager, KBC & Verzekering). In this episode of API Resilience, Katrien explains how the democratization of developer experience paid off for the organization and how their partners found new ways towards digital transformation.

The hosts are Kristof Van Tomme (CEO & co-founder, Pronovix) and Mark Winberry (director of US operations, Pronovix).

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Will APIs make it possible in the future to build systems that are rather optimized for cooperation and resilience than profit and sheer growth? What is the difference between writing code for a machine vs. all the machines? Why APIs resemble creative game spaces or ant colonies, and why is it an antipattern to create sequential workflows when designing APIs?

Mike Amundsen, the well known speaker and author/co-author of 18 books shared his fascinating vision of the role of APIs and complex systems in the past and the future of our societies, and also talked about his upcoming new book titled Design and Build Great Web APIs.

The hosts are Kristof Van Tomme (CEO & co-founder, Pronovix) and Mark Winberry (director of US operations, Pronovix).

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“Democratizing APIs is about making people aware that APIs exist, and that they can use them too, it’s not just for wizards on the hill […] anyone can do it”, says Kin Lane (Postman). In this week’s episode of API Resilience, he explains why digital literacy and democratizing APIs go hand in hand, and why imagination is key when you’re creating an API program. He also describes ways technical environments such as developer portals can be inclusive towards business stakeholders and their business use cases, and why an established common vocabulary is essential.

The hosts are Kristof Van Tomme (CEO & co-founder, Pronovix) and Mark Winberry (director of US operations, Pronovix).

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In this edition of API Resilience, Sophie Rutard (Head of API, Euler Hermes) shares how a paper-centered business improved its operations by making efforts towards digital transformation – from value proposition through buy-in to API governance. She explains the pioneering spirit behind their actions, why and how a mathematical model helped, and how they cut their monolith into sustainable microservices. A fascinating conversation with insights that can help every company grow!

The hosts are Kristof Van Tomme (CEO & co-founder, Pronovix) and Mark Winberry (director of US operations, Pronovix).

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