Great API designs—that are smart, secure and sustainable—are born from creative teams. Teams that can move comfortably between API consumer needs, customer impacts, digital strategies, together with the data models and processes of underlying systems.

Diverse teams stimulate more diverse thinking: the kind of thinking where API creativity blossoms.

Improving better gender balance—a recognised challenge for the technology sector at large—is a starting point and/or focus for many IT teams. Including those involved in APIs. Yet progress for many feels slow despite efforts.

In this session, Claire Barrett draws on decades of championing inclusivity in tech and notably APIs, to tackle the subject head on. You’ll get practical tips for leaders and teams to bring diversity into their API teams and into the important work they do.