We are getting ready to close the APIStrat call for papers next week and we wanted to take a moment to give a shout out to the amazing lineup we’ve assembled as part of the steering committee, who are helping guide the event. As well as the folks on the program committee who will be helping review the talks submitted as part of the CFP process, and ultimately craft the program. These are the people who will help set the tone for the conversation that occurs at APIStrat in Nashville, and we are very pleased to have them helping out.
Here are the members of the APIStrat steering committee, playing different leadership roles in the conference, making sure everything gets done by September:
Steering Committee
- Darrel Miller (@darrel_miller) – Workshop Chair – Microsoft
- Emmanuel Paraskakis (@manp) – OAI Chair – Oracle + Apiary
- Erin McKean (@emckean) – Program Chair – IBM
- Kin Lane (@kinlane) – Marketing Chair – API Evangelist
- Lorinda Brandon (@lindybrandon) – Community Chair – Capital One DevExchange
- Steven Willmott (@njyx) – Chair – Red Hat
- Tim Burks (@timburks) – Program Vice Chair – Google
Next up, we nineteen folks on the program committee who you will have to WOW with your talk submissions so that you can get on stage at APIStrat in Nashville:
Program Committee
- Amy Palamountain (@ammeep) – GitHub
- Ash Hathaway (@Ash_Hathaway) – Pivotal
- Carly Thelander (@CarlyNThelander) – MilkRun
- David Biesack (@davidbiesack) – Apiture
- Gail Frederick (@screaminggeek) – eBay
- George Atala (@gmatala) – Quantero Capital
- Glenn Block (@gblock) – Auth0
- Gregory Koberger (@gkoberger) – ReadMe
- James Higginbotham (@launchany) – LaunchAny
- Jennifer Riggins (@jkriggins) – the eBranding Ninja
- Joey French (@josephtfrench) – Intrinio
- Kyle Dallaire (@kyledallaire) – Capital One Digital
- Melissa Jurkoic (@melissa_jurkoic) – Amadeus Hospitality
- Phil Sturgeon (@philsturgeon) – WeWork
- Sai Vennam (@sai_vennam) – IBM
- Shelby Switzer (@switzerly) – Healthify
- Skip Hovsmith (@skiphovsmith) – Critical Blue
- Taylor Barnett (@taylor_atx) – Stoplight
- Tessa Mero (@TessaMero) – Cisco
- Yina Arenas (@yina_arenas) – Microsoft Graph
Thank you so much to everyone involved. It takes a lot of work to pull together an event like this. Everyone involved is participating because they believe in the event, as well as the health of the wider API community. Once again, we feel like we have assembled a pretty amazing lineup of folks to help make sure APIStrat adequately represents the community, coming from a diverse range of companies delivering APIs and services to the sector.
While the primary roles for the event are filled, there are still plenty of opportunities to get involved. First, make sure you have submitted your talk–you only have one week left to get it in. Second, there are sponsorship opportunities available, and we need the financial support of the API community to be able to make the event happen again. Feel free to reach out, and we’ll see what we can do to get you involved, and part of the goings on in Nashville this year. Thanks again to our steering and program committee members, and we’ll see you all in September.