Neha Sampat, CEO, provides 10 predictions for the 2016 API economy. 1) Everything that matters will have an API. APIs have grown 600% since 2010 with over 14,000 APIs currently. 2) New infrastructure will be digitally connected through APIs to improve efficiency such as reducing energy usage by 30%. 3) Developers will focus on integrating APIs to create new applications and services. 4) Views of open source will change as enterprises recognize its strategic value.

2. Neha
Sampat
CEO
What’s in Store for 2016?
@nehasf

4. Predictions for the 2016 API Economy

5. The Internet
of Things
It is Not….

6. The Internet
of APIs It Is.

7. Move over IoT –
2016 is about the Internet of APIs

8. 14,377 APIs as of yesterday.
600% growth in APIs since 2010

9. Prediction #1: Everything that
matters will have an API.

11. Prediction #2: New infrastructure
will have a digital heartbeat.

12. Songdo, South Korea:
Cut energy & water usage by 30%.

13. 30% congestion due to parking
400M Streetline events in 5 yrs

14. Florida Power & Light to deploy
500,000 smart LED sreetlights.

16. Prediction #3: Every developer
will be a conductor.

17. Integrating best-of-breed
microservices is the best way.

18. Why do enterprises
value open source?

19. Prediction #4: The “Open Source”
promise will be viewed differently.

21. Prediction #5: Citizen Integrators
will step up their game.

22. We must embrace disruptive
transformation and become a
data-driven business
empowered by big data and
analytics.

23. Prediction #6: CEOs will
start to ask about APIs

24. IT innovators
become more like Batman.

25. Prediction #7: Traditional IT
becomes irrelevant.

27. Prediction #8: API Management
becomes [business] critical.

28. I don’t
always opt in
.
But when I
do, I’m VIP.

29. Prediction #9: The API economy
will drive the “opt-in” economy.

31. Prediction #10: Events become
first-class citizens.

32. Thank You
@nehasf