Apollo Summit

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.

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1. 9:00 AM

   1 hr 30 min
   • Apollo KeynoteMatt DeBergalis
     Main Stage

     Kick off Summit 2026 with a look at what's next for agentic infrastructure. You'll hear Matt DeBergalis, CEO and co-founder, share Apollo's vision, built on the open standard of GraphQL, for the layer that lets AI agents navigate the silos that make up the modern enterprise. Matt unveils the platform announcements that anchor this year's Summit and what they mean for the teams building the next generation of applications. Apollo's engineering and product leads will then walk you through what's shipped since Summit 2025 and what's next: architecture decisions, live product moments, and the patterns teams need to build on Apollo today. Watch it built live, in real time.

2. 10:30 AM
   • Apollo Innovations Deep DiveJanice Wilson, Mia Ayeke, Susannah Kirby, Ross Regitsky
     Agentic Services10:30am-11am PT · Main Stage

     Join Apollo's Janice Wilson and engineers Mia Ayeke, Susannah Kirby, and Ross Regitsky as they explore how agentic systems are built, trusted, and controlled on Apollo's platform.

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   • Evolving Your Graph Without Breaking ItWorkshopMichelle Mabuyo
     10:30am-12:30pm PT · Workshops

     Your graph doesn't just serve people anymore. AI agents rely on it too. If your graph can't be trusted, everything that depends on it is at risk. This workshop is for anyone running (or about to run) a large federated graph who's ready to track down what broke, why it broke, how to fix it, and how to add guards to prevent it from happening again.

3. 11:00 AM

   30 min
   • The Self-Pruning GraphClarice Abreu
     Federation Hygiene with AI Agents at BrexMain Stage

     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. It runs weekly now, and reviewing the pull request is the only step left for a person.

4. 11:30 AM

   30 min
   • From 10k to 200k RPSChristian Ernst
     Booking.com's Hard Lessons, Your Head StartMain Stage

     What breaks first when traffic outgrows the architecture you have? Booking.com rebuilt the engine while flying the plane, turning one graph into the backbone of a global travel platform. Not magic, and not more containers.

5. 1:00 PM

   30 min
   • Substrate First, Agents SecondDhanik Alkegama
     How N-able's MCP Changed EverythingMain Stage

     Can you put agents in front of your APIs without fixing what is underneath? Dhanik says no. He built N-able's graph first, then exposed it to agents via Apollo MCP Server. Their partner AI agents started using it before it was announced. Validation.

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   • From N+1 Tool Calls to 2Samuel Vazquez
     GraphQL MCP Code ModeMain Stage

     Why does exploring your schema cost an agent so much? Expedia collapsed it to two operations, search and execute, and moved the schema traversal and introspection into a sandboxed runtime. A smaller MCP surface makes a more capable agent.

6. 1:30 PM

   1 hr 30 min
   • Giving Agents Access Without Giving Up ControlWorkshopMichelle Mabuyo
     Workshops

     For AI agents to be helpful, they need access to your business' services. But how do you give them that access without giving up control? A support bot and a billing agent hitting the same graph of data need different levels of access, and shipping without that distinction is a problem you won't find until someone asks for the wrong thing. This workshop is for anyone who wants to control what a client, human or AI, can see and do.

7. 2:00 PM
   • When One Graph Isn't the AnswerKenny Hammerlund
     Marriott's Purpose-Built Graphs2pm-2:30pm PT · Main Stage

     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. Think smarter graphs not bigger ones.

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   • When p99 Tells You NothingLightning TalkLionel Nébot Janvier
     How Autodesk Builds a Per-Operation SLO2pm-2:15pm PT · Apollo Lounge

     Every request to Autodesk's federated gateway arrives on the same /graphql path, so a cached lookup and a deep traversal look identical to the metrics. Aggregate p99 alerts on that endpoint are both too noisy to page on and too blind to catch a regression. There’s a better way.

8. 2:25 PM

   15 min
   • Give Your Agent Apollo's ExpertiseDale Seo
     Skills and the GraphOS MCP ServerApollo Lounge

     Two tools make building your graph with an AI agent fast and reliable. Apollo Skills give the agent Apollo's expertise in Federation, Connectors, and Router, so it designs better schemas and writes correct operations. The GraphOS MCP Server lets the agent read your live graph, so it can answer a question like "Is my graph healthy?" by pulling launch history, composition errors, lint, router status, and metrics.

9. 2:30 PM

   30 min
   • Rebuilt by AI AgentsEthan Adams
     A Case Study on Yahoo News and Agentic GuardrailsMain Stage

     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. The checks that keep it safe were in place before any agent touched the code.

10. 3:30 PM
    • No Mandate RequiredGijs Martens, Bart van Lakwijk
      How Coolblue Built a Graph That Sells Itself3:30pm-4pm PT · Main Stage

      Which part of graph adoption takes the time? At Coolblue all production traffic moved through the graph in the first week, and every team that followed opted in without a mandate. What won them over: a utility, not a religion.

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    • Giving Agents Access Without Giving Up ControlWorkshopMichelle Mabuyo
      3:30pm-5pm PT · Workshops

      For AI agents to be helpful, they need access to your business' services. But how do you give them that access without giving up control? A support bot and a billing agent hitting the same graph of data need different levels of access, and shipping without that distinction is a problem you won't find until someone asks for the wrong thing. This workshop is for anyone who wants to control what a client, human or AI, can see and do.

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    • Grounding API DiscoveryLightning TalkRama Palaniappan
      How to Keep Your Agents from Guessing3:30pm-3:45pm PT · Apollo Lounge

      Poor API discovery is a pain point in all large graphs. Intuit runs 1,800+ operations across TurboTax, QuickBooks, Identity, Payroll and Developer Platform, where the hard question isn't how to write a query. It's which operation to call. Their AI Skill, gql-discover, reads the schema, the usage telemetry and a derived ontology, and chooses the way a senior engineer would.

11. 3:55 PM

    15 min
    • Apollo Agentic InnovationsAdam DeLisse
      Tool DiscoveryApollo Lounge

      Join Apollo's Adam DeLisse as he shares new insights on how tool discovery improvements make agentic systems faster and more accurate.

12. 4:00 PM

    30 min
    • Safe-by-Design at WayfairGreg Wardwell
      Deploying with End-to-End Graph CanariesMain Stage

      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. Metered exposure, fast rollback.

13. 4:20 PM

    15 min
    • Apollo Agentic InnovationsGrayton Ward, Ben Newman
      Service DeliveryApollo Lounge

      Apollo's Grayton Ward and Ben Newman on how services get built, managed, and made discoverable for agentic systems.

14. 4:30 PM

    30 min
    • How Wiz Scales Multi-TenancySolal Raveh
      Stateless Tenants and Router CoprocessorsMain Stage

      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. One place to get right.

15. 6:00 PM

    3 hr
    • SplashdownSplash Sports Bar
      Splash Sports Bar

      Get ready to Splashdown! We've landed day one, now it's time to sit back, relax, and enjoy an evening of food, drinks, and games just steps from Chase Center.