In March of 2026, Francois Locoh-Donou, CEO of F5 stated, "Enterprise IT environments are not unlike a city. Every infrastructure environment, every data center, every cloud region, every colocation facility, is like a neighborhood in that city. Apps are like buildings. Traditional applications are monolithic structures. Microservices are like residential complexes. APIs are roads connecting buildings, crisscrossing neighborhoods. Your data: that is the power grid required in every thriving city."

API security has plenty of problems and the only way to solve them is to share knowledge. At your average conference, you might catch an API security talk somewhere in between a threat intel panel and a cloud security talk. Meanwhile every app, every AI model, every third-party integration depends on APIs. When secure, all is well. When they’re not… disaster. 

That's where the Hacking APIs Conferences come in.

For me this was a big year.

In cybersecurity we are all finding our place with our new best frenemy AI. Will it displace us? Will it conquer us? Or will it just tell us that we are the smartest best hacker that ever hacked?