API Strategy and Practice Conference Announces AT&T, Layer 7 and Ping Identity as Sponsors; Five New Speakers Added

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The API Strategy and Practice Conference today announced AT&T (http://www.att.com), a telecommunications services provider, Layer 7 (http://www.layer7tech.com), a CA Technologies company helping enterprises and services providers manage APIs in the cloud, and Ping Identity (https://www.pingidentity.com), a cloud identity management solution, as sponsors of the second edition the Conference. In addition, the conference today added five new high profile speakers from Comcast, Parse, Sendgrid, SmartBear and Zapier. The event will take place in San Francisco, California from October 23 – 25, 2013, at the Parc55 Hotel, near Union Square.

The San Francisco event marks the API Strategy Conference debut for AT&T and Layer 7. Ping Identity will be supporting the event for the second time, being one of the early supporters of the first edition of the API Strategy & Practice Conference.
Five new speakers have also been added to the next API Strategy & Practice Conference program. They are Adam Duvander, Developer Communications Director at Sendgrid; Bryan Helmig, Co-founder of Zapier; Ilya Sukhar, Co-founder of Parse; Jon Moore, Chief Engineer at Comcast Interactive Media; and Ole Lensmar, Chief Architect at SmartBear Software. The full list of speakers can be found on the official website of the event: http://www.apistrategyconference.com/2013SF/speakers.php
Early bird ticket sales are ending soon. Those interested in APIs who wish to attend can save $200 by registering before July 25th here: http://apistrategyconference.com/2013SF/register.php
The API Strategy & Practice Conference is co-organized by 3scale (http://www.3scale.net) and API Evangelist (http://www.apievangelist.com) and is made possible by the generous support of our sponsors including AT&T, Layer 7, Paypal, Ping Identity, Mulesoft, Parasoft, Walgreens, Zencoder, 540.coApiary.ioAppery.io, Apiphany, Pearson, Reverb!, SmartBear, Webshell, AnyPresence, and App Developers Alliance.
About 3scale:
Founded in 2007, 3scale provides a Plug & Play SaaS API Management platform and infrastructure enabling developers and companies to securely open, control, manage, operate and monetize their API to 3rd parties (e.g. developers, business partners, etc). 3scale’s API Management solution is flexible, secure and web scalable enabling the distribution of a company’s data, content or services to multiple devices or mobile/web applications as well as the productization of its APIs. For more information visit www.3scale.net
About API Evangelist
API Evangelist is run by Kin Lane, a technology professional with an obsession for Application Programming Interfaces or APIs. His blog at API Evangelist chronicles API evolution and seeks to provide insights and best practice from both a technical and business perspective. He also writes at APIVoice and APIStack.