Apollo Summit
Connect everything.
Build anything.
The world's largest GraphQL event returns to San Francisco featuring 30+ sessions from the teams proving that your API platform can and should become your AI platform.
October 6–8, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Join us in person
@ The Midway
An event for
Platform engineers
Developers and builders
AI infrastructure leads
Technical leaders
Discover what's next
GraphQL
MCP
AI Agents
Agent governance
Why attend
What you'll learn
Discover how GraphQL makes agent deployments successful by reducing token costs, enforcing field-level security, and making APIs discoverable.
Who you'll meet
Connect with platform engineers, AI leads, and the GraphQL community building API infrastructure for apps and agents today.
What to expect
Dive into hands-on in technical workshops and leave ready to prove that speed and control are not a tradeoff.
conference themes
Control what clients — agents and applications alike — can do.
Manage agent identity, start from zero-rights defaults, enforce field-level access policies, and manage credentials in a single layer. Empower both dev and non-dev employees to build agents and apps on a trusted platform.
Run GraphQL and GraphOS confidently in production.
Learn best practices from the organizations managing some of the largest graphs in the world. Hear about the latest in Federation, Router optimization, schema governance, Apollo Connectors, Apollo MCP Server, and how agent management fits into the stack you already own.
Deploy the context graph.
Agents need access to everything, whether it's already in your graph or not. Understand how to connect REST APIs, SQL data sources, MCP servers, third party systems, and more into your context layer. Realize new value from your existing systems.
agenda overview
Your high level agenda view. Browse the current catalog to get familiar with the sessions and check back often for session and speaker updates. Agenda is subject to change.
- How Intuit Built an Agent Safety Layer on Persisted QueriesAlan Cai
How do you know an operation is safe to hand an agent? Intuit puts six checks in front of each one, so anything approved is ready to expose as an MCP tool. more...
- When One Graph Isn't the Answer: Marriott's Purpose-Built GraphsKenny Hammerlund
If your graph already works, does that make it the right surface for agents? Kenny built the graph behind Marriott's API platform, now at 5 billion requests a month, and argues sometimes not. more...
- Substrate first, agents second: How N-able's MCP changed everythingDhanik Alkegama
Can you put agents in front of your APIs without fixing what is underneath? N-able's partners validated the answer by building against its public MCP server unprompted. more...
- Yahoo News, Rebuilt by AI Agents: Our Graph Is the GuardrailEthan Adams
Every team is asking how much code they can safely let agents write. Yahoo News answered by shipping the whole app that way, now in production. more...
- The Self-Pruning Graph: Federation Hygiene with AI Agents at BrexClarice Abreu
What do you do when a third of your federated graph is dead code? Brex found 35%, pointed an agent at it, and deleted over 100,000 lines with no customer impact. more...
- From N+1 Tool Calls to 2: GraphQL MCP Code ModeSamuel Vazquez
Why does exploring your schema cost an agent so much? Expedia collapsed it to two operations, search and execute, and moved the traversal into a sandboxed runtime. more...
- How Wiz Scales Multi-Tenancy: Stateless Tenants and Router CoprocessorsSolal Raveh
One customer seeing another's data is the worst thing that can happen to a security company. So Wiz enforces that boundary once at the edge, in an Apollo Router coprocessor, rather than trusting every subgraph. more...
- No Mandate Required: How Coolblue Built a Graph That Sells ItselfGijs Martens, Bart van Lakwijk
Which part of a graph rollout actually takes the time? At Coolblue the cutover took a week, but getting the company to actually want it on their own took a bit longer. more...
- Safe-by-Design at Wayfair: Deploy with End-to-End Graph CanariesGreg Wardwell
How do you keep evolving a big federated graph without widening the blast radius? Wayfair routes canary traffic only to the subgraphs that can already serve the new shape. more...
- Evening event
(More detailed schedule to come)
why attendees love summit
Push the envelope on our understanding of GraphQL technology."
Flipe Massuda
Principal Engineer / Thinkific
A strong reminder of what's possible."
Abhishek Ranjan
Staff Product Manager / The Trade Desk
Innovative solutions to the challenges we faced scaling our graph practice. Highly recommended!"
Mike Kibbel
Senior Engineer / Thrivent
A supportive community and diverse insights from companies working with GraphQL."
Sofia Carrillo
Senior Software Engineer / Gusto
Interacting closely with Apollo specialists was a highlight."
Sam Combs
Senior Full Stack Engineer / Xolvio
The sheer impact that a well-implemented graph platform can have on an organization."
Ahmed Munir
Software Engineer / Costco
Push the envelope on our understanding of GraphQL technology."
Flipe Massuda
Principal Engineer / Thinkific
A strong reminder of what's possible."
Abhishek Ranjan
Staff Product Manager / The Trade Desk
Innovative solutions to the challenges we faced scaling our graph practice. Highly recommended!"
Mike Kibbel
Senior Engineer / Thrivent
A supportive community and diverse insights from companies working with GraphQL."
Sofia Carrillo
Senior Software Engineer / Gusto
Interacting closely with Apollo specialists was a highlight."
Sam Combs
Senior Full Stack Engineer / Xolvio
The sheer impact that a well-implemented graph platform can have on an organization."
Ahmed Munir
Software Engineer / Costco
Push the envelope on our understanding of GraphQL technology."
Flipe Massuda
Principal Engineer / Thinkific
A strong reminder of what's possible."
Abhishek Ranjan
Staff Product Manager / The Trade Desk
Innovative solutions to the challenges we faced scaling our graph practice. Highly recommended!"
Mike Kibbel
Senior Engineer / Thrivent
A supportive community and diverse insights from companies working with GraphQL."
Sofia Carrillo
Senior Software Engineer / Gusto
Interacting closely with Apollo specialists was a highlight."
Sam Combs
Senior Full Stack Engineer / Xolvio
The sheer impact that a well-implemented graph platform can have on an organization."
Ahmed Munir
Software Engineer / Costco
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frequently asked questions
Yes! Your Summit 2026 registration includes breakfast, lunch, and unlimited coffee and snacks. Select your dietary preferences when you register.
Thanks for your interest in speaking at Apollo Summit. We are not accepting proposals at this time.
Currently we are not offering any student discounts.
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Yes! For your convenience we have reserved a limited number of rooms at three hotels. The direct booking links are below. Rooms will be released on 9/1, so please book early to reserve your room. LUMA Hotel San Francisco (1.8 miles from the Midway) Hotel Via (1.9 miles from the Midway) Parc 55 by Hilton (3.3 miles from the Midway)
Stay tuned. More information is coming soon.
For the majority of attendees, festivities will begin around 5pm on Tuesday, October 6 and will end around 4pm on Thursday, October 8. Please schedule your travel accordingly.
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