Videos
Videos
Level 250 video lessons, talks, and podcasts on API product management, AI-ready APIs, MCP, API documentation, and API product careers.
Lightning Lessons
Lightning Lesson What does an API product need to be agent-ready?
Lightning Lesson on Maven, recorded live on October 6, 2025, on the 12 essentials API products need to become ready for AI agents.
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Lightning Lesson How do you build an MCP server from an API?
Lightning Lesson with AI Collective, recorded live on August 27, 2025, on generating, testing, and publishing an MCP server from an OpenAPI spec.
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Lightning Lesson How do you build AI-ready APIs with MCP?
Lightning Lesson on Maven, recorded live on May 28, 2025, on why MCP matters for API providers and how to generate an MCP server from OpenAPI specs.
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Lightning Lesson Is your API ready for AI agents?
Lightning Lesson on Maven with Superface CTO Zdenek Nemec, recorded live on May 21, 2025, on preparing APIs for AI agent consumption.
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Lightning Lesson How do you develop, deploy, and secure an API with AI tools?
Lightning Lesson on Maven, recorded on May 7, 2025, on using AI tools to build, test, deploy, and secure an API from a validated specification.
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Lightning Lesson How do you create API documentation with AI?
Video from a live Lightning Lesson with Theneo CEO Ana Robakidze on Maven, April 30, 2025, on using AI to create clearer API documentation.
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Lightning Lesson How do you prototype an API with AI?
Lightning Lesson on Maven, recorded on April 16, 2025, on using LLMs to create OpenAPI specs, validate designs, and deploy mock APIs.
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Lightning Lesson How do you use AI for API product decisions?
Lightning Lesson on Maven with Moesif CEO Derric Gilling, recorded on April 9, 2025, on using AI analytics to improve API product decisions.
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Lightning Lesson How do you break into API product management?
Video from a live Lightning Lesson on Maven, January 29, 2025, on API PM responsibilities, where to find roles, interview prep, and upskilling.
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Kin Lane, The API Evangelist / Jul 2026 Is an API just a product?
Kin Lane conversation tracing Emmanuel Paraskakis's path from the idea that an API is just a product through design-first API work and today's LLM-enabled spec-driven workflows. Covers requirements, domain, and standards docs feeding user stories and validated OpenAPI specs, and why an agreed source of truth matters more than the intermediate format.
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Nordic APIs / Jun 2026 How do you control AI and API costs?
LiveCast with Derric Gilling and Emmanuel Paraskakis on reducing AI token and API costs through monitoring, routing, API design, and governance.
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WSO2 / Jun 2026 Why are APIs the atomic unit of product value?
WSO2Con North America 2026 talk on headless products, agents as the next users, and APIs as the atomic unit of product value. Emmanuel walks through a practical checklist for agent-ready products and what API and product teams should build in the next two quarters.
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Naftiko / Feb 2026 How does spec-driven development change API products?
Naftiko podcast conversation with Kin Lane and Emmanuel Paraskakis on API products, design-first history, and spec-driven development.
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Bruno Pedro — API Changelog / Feb 2026 Is MCP just an API?
API Changelog interview recorded at apidays Paris on the relationship between MCP and APIs. Emmanuel discusses why strong OpenAPI descriptions can produce better MCP servers for LLM task success, and where MCP fits into API strategy.
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apidays / Dec 2025 Where does MCP stand one year in?
apidays Paris talk on where MCP stands one year in: who is building on it, real-world adoption, the state of the spec, and the gaps still ahead. Emmanuel also covers the tension between security and utility, including why the "S" in MCP stands for security.
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Zuplo (AI Week) / Oct 2025 What do autonomous agents actually need from your APIs?
Zuplo AI Week conversation on what autonomous agents need from APIs, including authentication, instant provisioning, billing, MCP, and documentation.
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Moesif — APIs Over IPAs podcast / May 2025 What does an API product manager actually do?
APIs Over IPAs episode with Emmanuel Paraskakis on what API product managers do, from developer experience to metrics and AI-driven consumption.
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Zuplo / Mar 2025 How do you prototype APIs with LLMs and free tools?
Zuplo walkthrough with Emmanuel Paraskakis on using LLMs and free tools to design, mock, validate, and iterate on OpenAPI specs.
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Treblle / Feb 2025 How do governance and strategy shape API products?
Treblle webinar on how API governance can enable scalable, secure, high-performing API products without slowing innovation. Covers balancing control, flexibility, automation, AI-driven governance, adoption, security, scalability, and the connection between API design, compliance, and business success.
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Oracle Developers / Apr 2018 How do you prototype an API before writing any code?
Oracle Developers hands-on session on prototyping a REST API before writing code with API Blueprint, Apiary, and mock servers. Covers creating a documented API spec that can be shared, collaborated on, and used as a working prototype with a frontend application.
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