8:00 AM
Keynote: The Value of Your API Platform, Today and Tomorrow
Join Apollo GraphQL’s co-founder Matt DeBergalis (CTO) as he explores Apollo’s journey in defining a modern API platform with GraphQL and its impact on enterprise development. The session will delve into key milestones, reveal and demo what’s new in Apollo GraphOS, and showcase how Apollo continues to lead the way in API design and functionality.
9:35 AM
Keynote: Exploring Apollo's New Products, a deep dive
In this keynote, attendees will hear more about Apollo’s latest product announcements. You don't have to be a GraphQL expert to use Apollo, and these new features will help users get started with a GraphQL API platform even faster.
10:15 AM
An AI-enabled Supergraph: From Text-to-Query to Conversational Agents
Join Ben Newman, Principal Software Engineer at Apollo as he explores an how generative AI and GraphQL APIs are better together.
Effective governance: How Intuit scales schema stewardship with automation
Conventionally, GraphQL governance has been ambiguous, particularly when contextualizing API and schema design to the frameworks of different companies. This presentation will delve into the intricacies of Intuit’s GraphQL stewardship journey. From the creation of a new subgraph service until its eventual publishing, it will highlight the importance of automation tools and the standardization of the review process to ensure smooth, efficient operations.
Federating Coinbase at scale: Safely decomposing the monolith while the bulls are running
As the DRI for Coinbase’s transition from REST to GraphQL, Stephanie is no stranger to large-scale migrations. Join her as she shares the next phase of the journey: decomposing their GraphQL monolith using Federation. Take away the technical solutions, mindset changes, and best practices Coinbase uses to transform their massive schema into a network of cohesive subgraphs, driving reliability, developer experience, and team autonomy—all while preparing for the next bull run!
Modernizing the enterprise: How GraphQL is transforming Ford Credit
As the financial services arm of Ford Motors, Ford Credit is modernizing its tech stack to simplify the customer’s vehicle financing journey while enhancing the overall ownership experience for its clients. In this talk, we’ll share why we chose GraphQL Federation to power our digital modernization efforts. From internal education and managing stakeholders to partnering with internal architecture and security teams, you'll get the inside story of how we are moving from mainframes to a world-class federated API platform.
What's new in Apollo Client
Learn why Apollo Client, Apollo iOS, and Apollo Kotlin continue to be the most popular libraries for connecting web and mobile experiences to your graph. Whether you’re a seasoned app developer or a platform engineer seeking to learn more about these essential tools, there will be something for you in this talk. We’ll cover: The latest framework integrations: React Suspense, Server Components, Jetpack Compose Core GraphQL innovations for better user experiences The latest runtime and buildtime capabilities A new schema-based testing package Browser extensions and IDE plugins: IntelliJ, VS Code And of course, The Big Picture: why this matters to your business and how to make your GraphQL clients a pillar of your graph strategy.
10:50 AM
AI has entered the chat: Building a multi-party LLM chatbot with GraphOS's federated subscriptions
Get messages in real time from GPT as well as the other humans talking in the group chat, along with their online/offline and rate limit status, through federated subscriptions. On the backend, reliably connect to OpenAI and maintain chat group state without a database through durable functions, where a function can run forever, and we can trust that the function's variables will have the correct data, even if the process running the function is restarted.
A Request For Comment: Federating standards and schema design patterns at Fidelity
Creating GraphQL schemas at Enterprise scale involves science, art, and compromise. Striking the right balance between usability, schema evolution, and existing implementation is essential. Join this talk to learn how Fidelity uses RFCs to democratize the decision-making process in GraphQL standards and schema design. Discover specific patterns we use in our supergraph, developed as a result of this collaborative process.
Defer then React: The secret to optimizing performance and revenue for PlayStation Store
Sony PlayStation is a fan favorite, not only for its gaming experiences but also for the way we deliver those experiences to our players. Even milliseconds of delay in the customer experience can lead to immediate revenue dips, posing a constant challenge. Join this talk to discover how we pair @defer and React to optimize the performance of our React apps and keep our revenue game strong.
GraphQL Federation: A Roadmap to Modern Healthcare Technology
To deliver a connected "world of health," CVS faced a challenge: evolving a monolithic tech stack to meet the demands of personalized, data-driven healthcare. Discover why CVS chose GraphQL federation to break down team silos, speed up feature iteration, and deliver AI-driven recommendations—all while building in security by design and transforming their developer ecosystem.
Turning your graph into a developer platform with Apollo
Does this story sound familiar? A dev team adopts a new piece of technology. They build a POC, deliver an initial use case, do some internal evangelism, and now other teams want to use it too. But how do you expand to more teams without also creating redundancy and inefficiency? You need a platform! At Apollo, we’re building a graph platform that consists of our Router, our Clients, and our Control Plane. In this talk, we’ll do a deep dive into the Apollo Control Plane and show you how to safely scale your graph from one subgraph to hundreds. We’ll show you how to leverage Schema Proposals, Linting, Graph Visualization, Customized Checks, and more to create a paved path to success for your subgraph & client developers.
11:25 AM
Beyond REST: Delivery Hero's GraphQL-powered evolution
Delivery Hero, a global leader in online food delivery, faced a challenge: it's microservices were like a digital spaghetti junction, with data requests taking detours and wrong turns, leading to slowdowns and frustrated developers. But a hero emerged in the form of a federated GraphQL! This talk spills the beans on how we transformed our tech stack with GraphQL federation, proving that especially in the world of food delivery, avoiding spaghetti can go a long way to ensuring everyone enjoys meal time.
Building the next-gen GraphQL chatbot: Secure and intelligent query generation with vectorized schema models
In the fast-paced world of AI, chatbots are at the forefront of transforming user interactions. Yet, getting a chatbot to generate secure, reliable GraphQL queries is no small feat. This session shares how to leverage vectorized schema models to translate natural language input into accurate query plans matched against a Persisted Query List (PQL), ensuring every query execution is secure and aligns with user intent. Whether you’re a developer or AI enthusiast, this session shows how to push the boundaries of what's possible with GraphQL and AI, making query generation intuitive, intelligent, and safe.
Composing your UI with GraphQL: Building federated component systems that scale
GraphQL federation has changed how we think about data and it's time to adopt that thinking to how we build UIs and component systems. In this talk Gabe will share his deep experience from building component systems at Apple, Netflix and now StubHub to help you design yours. What are the advantages GraphQL brings to a traditional React component system? How can fragments optimize the composability of your components? How to reduce duplication while reducing the time you need to ship new features? Join to learn!
Introducing a native query planner in Apollo Router
Join Iryna Shestak, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Apollo as she shares a new enhancement to Apollo Router.
Mastering collaboration: How Wayfair built ownership into the Supergraph
Take a deep-dive into the technical solution Wayfair built to foster collaboration and accountability in the Federated Graph. Understand the dynamics of federated ownership, learn how Wayfair built ownership into the Graph using the @owner directive and leveraged it to supercharge collaboration and accountability through ownership reviews in schema proposals and ownership approvals in PRs.
12:00 PM
Block's GraphQL Copilot: Easier schema discovery and query automation via LLMs & RAG
Curious to see how AI can ease and accelerate your developer experience? Join this talk to learn how you can use Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to make schema discovery and query generation easier in federated GraphQL systems with massive schemas. We'll explore how using vector embeddings and prompt engineering can help you quickly turn natural language queries into accurate GraphQL operations with a process that gets better over time.
Federated GraphQL- a catalyst for digital transformation in Walmart stores for associates
As part of Walmart's Stores & Associates digital transformation journey, we aim to make it easier for our 2.2 million global associates to manage their personal, team, and productivity data. Join our talk to learn how we are building a unified API using Apollo Federation. We'll share how the Me@Walmart app brings together all associate productivity apps, enabled by our unified federated gateway. Additionally, you'll learn about our approach to data governance, developer experience powered by our AI integrations and tools in this large and complex ecosystem.
Headline: Product managers unlock success for The New York Times's Supergraph
As the central hub where platform capabilities are collaboratively built and broadly consumed to power our suite of reader experiences, the Supergraph is, in a very real sense, the "product" that underlies all our other products. Join this talk to learn what a critical role Product Management has played for the Supergraph at The New York Times and how you can best involve product in your graph program.
How RS Group reduced cost and accelerated releases by moving to GraphOS Router
RS Group, as champion of the Apollo Federation for many years, embraced the migration from the Node-based to Rust-based entry to the Apollo Federation and faces different challenges given legacy infrastructure with incredible benefits after its completion. Learn how we successfully migrate with zero downtime to the Apollo Router Core, reduce cost and improve our release process with automation.
Is my car charging? How JUCR delivers real time EV charging status with federated subscriptions
Explore how JUCR delivers seamless live updates to thousands of EV charging customers across Europe using GraphQL subscriptions and the new HTTP callback protocol in Apollo Federation. This talk will explore our journey in integrating real-time data delivery, overcoming technical challenges, and enhancing the EV charging experience. Learn about our implementation strategies, the benefits of Apollo Federation, and how we keep our customers informed with live updates.
12:35 PM
Beyond the initial quest: PlayStation's game plan for enterprise-wide graph adoption
Embarking on a new game or platform journey, it’s easy to imagine the final quest achieved. But where to start, which paths to choose and avoid, and how to skill-up along the way? In this talk, discover how we expanded our graph beyond the initial business unit use case, tripled our traffic, halved our costs, and built the momentum and results necessary to begin our ultimate quest: GraphQL on your PS Console.
Building a thriving Supergraph ecosystem
The most successful organizations combine low-friction, self-service DX for subgraph teams into a connected and cohesive API whole that is truly greater than the sum-of-parts. If you are wondering how to balance the big picture vision with practical utility of delivery, how to increase self-service adoption, keep and build momentum and awareness within your org’s engineering and product teams, this is the panel for you. Hear from three champions who have built thriving supergraph ecosystems within their organizations and learn their practical tips for success.
Entities 201: A deep dive into query plans, @context, and the future of entities
In Federation, the Entities are the core building blocks that impact everything: query planning, subgraph boundaries, schema design, and even performance features like caching. Let’s do a deep dive into how Entities work; when to use them and how you might be abusing them; how you can share data across services with the new Fed directives; and what might be coming in the future with the Composite Schemas Working Group.
Fake it 'til You Build it: Navigating GraphQL Mocking Solutions
In GraphQL development, effective mocking is essential for rapid prototyping, testing, and integration. However, building robust mocks is challenging. This talk explores various GraphQL mocking techniques and how each serves different use-cases, highlighting obstacles like providing valuable mocks, handling federated schemas, and meeting both client and server needs. We'll discuss the strategies for customizable, high-fidelity mocks and future improvements.
Patterns for frictionless federation in Liberty Mutual's platform marketplace
At Liberty Mutual, we view GraphQL Federation as a powerful tool for reducing developer friction and facilitating rapid iteration on world-class software. Beyond the "spec" is a dynamic API platform marketplace that brings together all our internal API contributors and consumers. Join our talk to learn how we defined "marketplace patterns" to reduce complexity, lower friction, and remove hurdles to adoption, setting up our large engineering organization and our entire enterprise for success.
1:10 PM
Making it easier for everyone: How Booking.com securely decomposed their monolith with GraphQL federation
At Booking.com, we decomposed our monolith into 120 federated subgraphs handling more than 6B requests-per-day. As you might imagine, adoption at this scale brings challenges in schema governance, compliance, and security. Learn how we overcame each of these challenges by scaling our schema design and integration processes, building operational pipelines to ensure PCI/PII compliance, leveraged linting, and plans for automated pentesting for more than 1,500 queries and mutations.
OneGraph: Indeed as a platform
Indeed set out five years ago to move from bespoke, inconsistent APIs to a unified platform. Join us as we explain how a proof of concept and an API First mandate transformed our culture and led to OneGraph, which provides access to over 200 subgraphs and serves 120B requests per month.
On performance: Entity caching and best practices on optimizing Supergraph performance
There is no silver bullet when it comes to performance, it requires a wholistic understanding of your architecture and applying the right tools to the parts that need tuning. Join us as we overview the common performance pitfalls of each supergraph component and the tools and best practices needed to address those. We’ll cover new tools like the router’s Entity Caching as well as many others. Attendees will be empowered with a strategy to address performance in their organization as well as a broad understanding of the tools and techniques at their disposal.
Unified API strategy: How Northwestern Mutual harmonizes domain and experience APIs
Identifying the boundaries and responsibilities between experience and domain layers can be challenging. Experience teams want easy to consume APIs that lighten the load on the Supergraph and assist in providing render ready data to our clients. Domain teams insist on staying true to the domain model and offer little help in the way of orchestrating cross domain operations. In this talk, we will explore this divide, the challenges we’ve faced and how Northwestern Mutual aims to bridge the gap.
1:30 PM
GraphOS Router Success Stories
If you're not yet enjoying the benefits of entity caching, federated subscriptions, crazy low latency and super efficient scaling of the Apollo GraphOS Router, or not sure you need them, then this is the panel for you. Apollo's Sr. Staff Product Manager, Chandrika Srinivasan, has assembled three champions who led their company's adoption from Gateway to Router to explore the benefits gained, lessons learned, and share rollout plans that will make your migration go quickly, with zero downtime. There's never been a better time to adopt GraphOS Router, and it's not just about the performance.
1:45 PM
Apollo Language Server: The subgraph DX
Tired of running Rover for composition errors? What if your editor could catch them instantly? The wait is over - we’ve spent this year working on new tools that make subgraph authoring an absolute delight. Together, we’ll walk through some of our favorite new features powered by the language server that make your Federation workflows a breeze.
Better together: How Cox Automotive secures their Graph with Apollo and Kong
In this talk, we’ll share how Cox Automotive employs both Apollo and Kong to secure our graphs at scale. You’ll learn how we've implemented client awareness, access control, and rate limiting using both Kong and Apollo. Then we'll go further, explaining how we integrate with AWS native solutions (Route 53, WAF) to implement networking best practices such as routing, health checks, failover, and secure connections to sub-graphs in different accounts.
How T-Mobile unlocks revenue streams with field-level monetization for GraphQL APIs
Field Level Monetization Solution for GraphQL APls, which is a streamlined layer designed to calculate and apply charges for each operation at the field level. This enables enterprises to effortlessly establish a rating and charging platform for their GraphQL APls, thereby facilitating the monetization of these services.
How Xolvio drives Supergraph adoption with Narrative-Driven Development
The challenge of creating a unified data layer for an entire company involves fostering collaboration and shared understanding, not just between different teams but also across product, design, and engineering functions. Learn how Xolvio helps enterprises scale their Supergraphs by leveraging the emerging Narrative-Driven Development approach for more efficient collaboration and increased velocity.
2:20 PM
Building resilient APIs: Techniques for easy and effective error handling
Error handling is a critical aspect of developing robust GraphQL applications. Misuse or misunderstanding of errors can lead to applications that fail to function correctly, causing frustration for both developers and users. In this talk, we will explore how to effectively manage errors in GraphQL, ensuring they are wrapped in a useful way, the implementation details are hidden behind them, and common design pitfalls are avoided.
Designing for durability: Ticketmaster’s 3-step guide to timeless schemas
Designing a schema for your business can be daunting. Where to begin, and what does "good" look like? Join our talk to learn Ticketmaster’s simple three-step process for establishing both a long-term vision and a short-term plan for your schema. This approach will help your teams meet today’s needs quickly, while preserving flexibility for whatever tomorrow holds.
Driving innovation: Transforming development with GraphQL at AlphaSense
Explore how AlphaSense’s adoption of GraphQL with Apollo revolutionized development practices, resulting in significant improvements in velocity and developer experience. Learn about the innovative approaches and accomplishments that positioned AlphaSense as a leader in GraphQL adoption, harnessing the power of Apollo Federation
No assembly required: How Indeed takes new subgraphs to production in 5 minutes or less
Tired of hand-rolling new subgraphs? Looking to accelerate your new API's journey to Production, complete with metrics and a schema ready to integrate into your supergraph? Explore how Indeed, the world’s largest job site, has adopted platform engineering practices to allow a turnkey developer experience. Select your preferred development language, provide details to configure subgraph ownership, and choose your Indeed specific GraphQL features. In minutes your new subgraph is ready for use.
Securing your GraphQL APIs with Apollo: Best practices for authentication and authorization
In this session, Solal Raveh from Wiz and Jason Barnett from Apollo will guide you through everything you need to know to secure your GraphQL APIs. Learn best practices for implementing authentication (AuthN) and authorization (AuthZ) mechanisms, ensuring only authenticated users access protected data. Discover how to integrate security measures with Apollo Router into your infrastructure for a robust API layer. We'll also discuss how a strong cross-functional relationship enhances security for Apollo GraphQL and Wiz. Join us to safeguard your GraphQL APIs!
2:55 PM
How American Airlines is self-servicing auth with @policy directive, OPA, Backstage and GitHub
Join us as we delve into the world of self-servicing the @policy directive using Open Policy Agent, Backstage, and GitHub at American Airlines. We'll explore how this approach not only streamlines policy management but also accelerates developer productivity. Learn how to remove compliance friction, enabling your platform team to offer GraphQL as a service to the enterprise, and ultimately, enhance your organization's enablement and growth.
Lean schema design: How Autodesk brings design and product thinking to engineering teams
At Autodesk, we are evolving processes that bring customer-centric, user-experience-design methodologies into our API design and development lifecycle. We refer to this as API Experience Design, or APIX. In this presentation, we will explore how engineering teams can use empathy and design practices borrowed from the user experience design field to create user-friendly APIs through early and continuous engagement with customers, creating great API experiences, and user satisfaction.
Rapidly iterating your Supergraph: Short-lived branches for an ever-changing world
The rapid world of AI requires teams to balance speed and safety. At Shutterstock, we have 37 subgraphs and counting, including AI-driven recommendations, asset generation, and translations. To ensure they all contribute harmoniously to our core CreativeMedia type and drive our innovation forward, we need to test changes to this type on every pull request. Join our talk to learn how we use short-lived “ephemeral” versions of the supergraph alongside each subgraph change, empowering teams to test flows crossing the boundaries of their subgraphs.
Schema contracts: The most powerful GraphOS feature you're probably not using
Wayfair is one of the world’s leading home goods brands, offering 14 million items to 22 million active customers. Its teams support a wide range of end users like category managers, customer service agents, suppliers, and omnichannel shoppers. Apollo Schema Contracts enable Wayfair to power these users’ disparate needs using a single Supergraph. Learn how Wayfair’s novel approach to field-level tagging addresses security concerns and simplifies code while delivering a better developer experience.
Turning hesitancy into excitement: monday.com's to-do list for convincing your leaders and teams to federate
Federated APIs are the future, but securing buy-in from your tech leaders and teams requires more than just an architectural vision. Come hear our step-by-step process for convincing hesitant stakeholders of the benefits and making the adoption of federation so easy it was a no-brainer.
It's time to get teams excited about owning their piece of the API and to build scalable APIs that are a pleasure, not a nightmare, to maintain!