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.
- 8:00 AM
- Registration Open & Info Desk8am-6pm PT · Apollo Yard/Michigan Street
- BreakfastBreak8am-9am PT · Apollo Yard/Michigan Street
- 9:00 AM1 hr
- 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.
- Main Stage
- 10:00 AM30 min
- Networking BreakBreakApollo Yard/Michigan Street
- 10:30 AM
- Agentic Services10:30am-11am PT · Main Stage
Join Apollo's Janice Wilson and Keith Halsall as they explore how agentic systems are built, trusted, and controlled on Apollo's platform.
- 10:30am-12:30pm PT · Workshops
Your graph serves agents now, not just people, so a break costs more. Work through schema checks, composition failures, and new subgraphs with Apollo GraphOS workflows and agentic tooling, and leave with guards that keep it from happening again.
- Agentic Services10:30am-11am PT · Main Stage
- 11:00 AM
- Federation Hygiene with AI Agents at Brex11am-11:30am PT · Main 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.
- 11am-2pm PT · Apollo Lounge
Schedule a 1:1 20 minute meeting with an Apollo expert to answer all of your tough questions.
- Federation Hygiene with AI Agents at Brex11am-11:30am PT · Main Stage
- 11:30 AM30 min
- 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.
- Booking.com's Hard Lessons, Your Head StartMain Stage
- 12:00 PM1 hr
- Lunch BreakBreakApollo Yard/Michigan Street
- 1:00 PM30 min
- 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.
- How N-able's MCP Changed EverythingMain Stage
- 1:30 PM
- GraphQL MCP Code Mode1:30pm-2pm PT · Main 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.
- 1:30pm-3pm PT · Workshops
A support bot and a billing agent might hit the same graph, yet need very different access. In this hands-on workshop, you'll connect an agent to a context graph, scope its permissions, hide sensitive fields, and see what happens, and leave with a working pattern for exposing a graph to agents safely.
- GraphQL MCP Code Mode1:30pm-2pm PT · Main Stage
- 2:00 PM
- 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.
- When p99 Tells You Nothing2pm-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.
- Marriott's Purpose-Built Graphs2pm-2:30pm PT · Main Stage
- 2:25 PM15 min
- Give Your Agent Apollo's ExpertiseLightning TalkDale SeoSkills and the GraphOS MCP ServerApollo Lounge
What does an agent need to build your graph well? Apollo's expertise, and a live view of the graph it's changing. Dale Seo shows Apollo Skills and the GraphOS MCP Server working together, from schema design to "Is my graph healthy?"
- 2:30 PM30 min
- 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.
- A Case Study on Yahoo News and Agentic GuardrailsMain Stage
- 2:50 PM15 min
- Your Company Needs a BrainLightning TalkAntônio FalcãoBuild Yours with Xolvio + 10kRApollo Lounge
Your company needs a brain, so where do you start? Xolvio and 10kR partnered to build the brain featured in this year’s keynote. They name its primitives, then show you how to build the one every team needs first: an agent your colleagues can share and edit without code, and properly governed. You leave with a file format you can copy tomorrow, and a reason to visit the booth for the rest.
- 3:00 PM30 min
- Networking Break & Meet the Experts OpenBreakApollo Yard/Michigan Street
- 3:30 PM
- 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.
- 3:30pm-5pm PT · Workshops
A support bot and a billing agent might hit the same graph, yet need very different access. In this hands-on workshop, you'll connect an agent to a context graph, scope its permissions, hide sensitive fields, and see what happens, and leave with a working pattern for exposing a graph to agents safely.
- Grounding API DiscoveryLightning TalkRama PalaniappanHow 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.
- How Coolblue Built a Graph That Sells Itself3:30pm-4pm PT · Main Stage
- 4:00 PM30 min
- 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.
- Deploying with End-to-End Graph CanariesMain Stage
- 4:20 PM15 min
- Apollo InnovationsLightning TalkBen NewmanAgentic ConnectorsApollo Lounge
Join Apollo's Ben Newman as he shares a new, fast and powerful way to connect API services into your graph with Apollo Connectors.
- 4:30 PM30 min
- 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.
- Stateless Tenants and Router CoprocessorsMain Stage
- 5:00 PM30 min
- Networking BreakBreakApollo Yard/Michigan Street
- 6:00 PM3 hr
- SplashdownSplash Sports BarSplash 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.