Mike Amundsen

The ultimate API expert. #api

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Mike Amundsen

The ultimate API expert. #api

#API

An internationally known author and speaker, Mike Amundsen travels the world consulting and talking about network architecture, web development, and the intersection of technology and society. He works with companies large and small to help them capitalize on the opportunities, APIs and microservices present for both consumers and the enterprise.

Mike is a frequent speaker at conferences and events, and has written numerous books on web architecture and API design. In addition to his writing and speaking, Mike is an active member of the technology community, and has served on the board of the OpenAPI Initiative and the API Academy. He is also a former Principal API Architect at CA Technologies, where he helped to develop and promote the company's API strategy. Mike is a specialist in API design and development, and has played an integral role in shaping the modern web API landscape.

Topic focus: Architecture, APIs and microservices

Check out some of Mike’s past talks:

GOTO Chicago 2020 - GraphQL, gRPC and REST, Oh My! : A Method for Unified API Design
GOTO Chicago 2019 - Discovering RESTful Web Microservices

A few of Mike’s books:

Upcoming conference sessions featuring Mike Amundsen

From Automation to Augmentation: Designing AI Coaches That Amplify Expertise

Generative AI excels at producing answers, but producing one-off answers isn’t the same thing as developing durable capability. Recent research from Anthropic suggests that heavy reliance on generative systems can improve short-term performance while weakening long-term skill formation. That realization isn’t new. Douglas Engelbart argued that computers should augment human intellect, not displace it. J. C. R. Licklider imagined a partnership in reasoning, not a delegation of thought.

In this talk, Mike Amundsen explores a practical alternative. By separating work into distinct cognitive phases, expanding possibilities, structuring and interrogating ideas, and executing deliberately, we can design interactive AI experiences that strengthen human reasoning instead of bypassing it. AI coaches are one concrete implementation of this approach. Join Mike for an introduction to the skill formation challenge, examine a better pattern for working with AI, and get a live demo of an AI coach in action.

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 10:45 AM @ Accelerate Chicago 2026

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