Talks — Kin Lane / API Evangelist
Presentation decks, slides, and supporting materials for talks by Kin Lane. Hosted at talks.apievangelist.com.
2026
APIDays Amsterdam
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| API Governance at the Agent Consumption Layer — Governing 405 operations across 36 APIs without changing team behavior |
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| OpenAPI Examples and Tags Are the Missing Link Between Your APIs and AI Agents |
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APIDays NYC
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| API Governance — A Starter Deck |
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| OpenAPI Examples and Tags Are the Missing Link Between Your APIs and AI Agents |
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APIdays Toronto (FOST) — 9–10 September
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| Agents Inherit Your Governance — Whether You Meant Them To or Not — the Kin Score composite as the foundation, Agent Readiness as the layer, measured at r = 0.882 across 27,582 providers |
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APIDays Munich
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| API Governance at the Consumption Layer — KrakenD · Tyk · agentgateway · AWS Labs OpenAPI-MCP over the same two APIs |
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APIdays London — governance track
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| You Cannot Bolt Agent Readiness Onto Ungoverned APIs — capability path, not endpoint; the weakest governed link sets the ceiling |
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APIdays London — OpenAPI track
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| OpenAPI Extensions Are Not a Mess, They Are a Map — Eighteen jobs, 1,637 extensions, and what providers keep telling us the specification will not do |
(draft — not yet submitted) |
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betterCode() API 2026
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| Sandboxes Shape What You Are Capable of Automating |
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MCP Dev Summit North America
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| Safer AI Integration Using Mock MCP Servers for Your 3rd-Party APIs |
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| The Agent Hype is at Odds with Your API Foundation — the Kin Score composite as the foundation, Agent Readiness as the layer, and what the scored catalog says about the announcements |
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FOST Paris (APIdays Paris) — 1–3 December
Two talks accepted 2026-09-04, participation confirmed 2026-09-07. Both decks are built
on the 0.19.0 snapshot, each with its own frame — but the frames are still the
placeholder wording carried over from Toronto and London. Rewrite them for the room.
| Talk |
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| Agents Inherit Your Governance — Whether You Meant Them To or Not — fourth outing of the spine |
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| You Cannot Bolt Agent Readiness Onto Ungoverned APIs — fifth outing |
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The shared rubric core
Toronto, London (governance), Nordic and both Paris decks walk the same instrument — one slide per Kin Score
facet and one per Agent Readiness dimension. Those slides are generated from the scored
catalog rather than maintained three times: see _rubric/.
Current snapshot: rubric 0.19.0, catalog 2026-09-06, 26,755 providers,
8 facets and 19 dimensions.
python3 _rubric/snapshot_rubric.py --check # run before presenting
Need a PowerPoint? python3 _rubric/export_pptx.py <deck> writes <slug>.pptx
next to the deck — text, art and speaker notes, on brand but not pixel-faithful.
Re-export after any rebuild.
Speaker
Kin Lane — API Evangelist
apievangelist.com · github.com/kinlane · [email protected]