GraphQL Day

About

GraphQL Day is a one-day community event on the 29th of October hosted at FOST (Future of Software Technologies, think federation of conferences!). API Days spans 28th - 29th October.

It is an opportunity to connect with other API ecosystems, meet new and seasoned GraphQL users, educate about GraphQL, share best practices, and have fun!

The event is open to everyone — whether you run GraphQL in production or are evaluating it for your next project.

Schedule

All times in Melbourne Time (AEDT, UTC+11)


Federation for the JVM

GraphQLFederation

Feddi gateway is the first open source implementation of the community driven GraphQL spec. This talk will introduce feddi gateway.


Andreas Marek

Closing the Loop: How GraphQL Gives Coding Agents Eyes on What Actually Matters

GraphQLAI Agents

Coding agents are reshaping how we build software. Implementing features, refactoring systems, and shipping changes at a pace unthinkable 6 months ago. But to be successful with agents you need the right feedback loop. One that guides your agent to success, not into the spiral of death.


Michael Staib

ChilliCream, Founder


Ask, Don't Fetch: Why GraphQL + MCP Is the Native Language of AI Agents

GraphQLAI Agents

REST APIs were designed for human-built clients that know exactly what URL to call. AI agents are different — they reason, plan, and decide what data they need at runtime. That mismatch is quietly becoming one of the biggest friction points in enterprise AI adoption.


Akshay N Shaju

IBM, Senior Engineer


Telling Your Success Story: Illustrating Graph Impact Through Observability

GraphQLObservability

Building a graph requires real up-front investment - designing schemas, deploying new infrastructure, and onboarding teams onto unfamiliar platforms costs precious time and energy. So why bother?


Tim Hingston

Apollo GraphQL


GraphQL in the Real World: The Security and Governance Playbook Nobody Gives You

GraphQLSecurity

GraphQL makes APIs remarkably flexible: clients can ask for exactly the data they need, compose resources through a single endpoint, and evolve schemas without constantly introducing new URLs. But that flexibility changes the security and governance problem.


Wishula Jayathunga

WSO2


Teach Your AI Agent GraphQL

GraphQLAI Agents

You can hand your GraphQL work to an AI agent today, but it tends to make the same mistakes developers have made for years: schemas that are nullable everywhere, anonymous queries, and code that ignores partial errors. Most of the time the model isn't the problem. It just doesn't know your API or your team's conventions, so it guesses.


Dale Seo

Apollo GraphQL, Software Engineer


Beyond the Experience Graph: The Data Graph Meets AI

GraphQLAI Agents

Most of us know GraphQL as the "Experience Graph", shaped around screens and clients. But GraphQL can be used elsewhere in your architecture: as a Data Graph, a strongly-typed abstraction directly over your data layer, giving every consumer - services and AI agents alike - a single place to access all your data.


Eddy Nguyen
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Why attend GraphQL Day?

Real-World Talks

Hear how teams actually use GraphQL — what worked, what didn't, and what they'd do differently.

Cross-Community

FOST brings together GraphQL, AsyncAPI, OpenAPI, and JSON Schema communities. Learn across boundaries.

Open Source

Meet library maintainers and core contributors. Ask questions, report bugs, discuss roadmaps.

Workshops

Hands-on sessions to try new tools and techniques with guidance from the people who build them.

Networking

A focused single-day format means everyone's in the same room. Easy to meet people.

Free for Speakers

All speakers get a free conference ticket. Submit a talk and share what you've learned.

Become a speaker

Any GraphQL topic is welcome: feedback from the trenches, introductions, technical deep-dives, workshops, lightning talks and more!

The FOST audience includes non-GraphQL experts from other communities (AsyncAPI, OpenAPI, JSON Schema, ...) as well as CTOs and business decision-makers. Submissions that address this diverse audience are especially appreciated.

All speakers will get a free conference ticket.

We aim to reply no later than 1 month before the event. We realize this can be short notice for international travellers — speakers should feel free to reach out to the team on Discord with any questions.

Submit a talk

Past Speakers

GraphQL Spec contributors, engineers from Apollo, ChilliCream, The New York Times, and more shared the stage at GraphQL Day Paris 2025.

Benjie Gillam

GraphQL TSC, GraphQL Foundation

Michael Staib

Co-Founder, ChilliCream

Ivan Goncharov

Head of R&D, Keenethics

Martin Bonnin

Android Engineer, Apollo GraphQL

Benjamin Coenen

Sr Staff Engineer, Apollo GraphQL

Aurélien David

Co-founder & CTO, Pennylane

Benjie Gillam

GraphQL TSC, GraphQL Foundation

Michael Staib

Co-Founder, ChilliCream

Ivan Goncharov

Head of R&D, Keenethics

Martin Bonnin

Android Engineer, Apollo GraphQL

Benjamin Coenen

Sr Staff Engineer, Apollo GraphQL

Aurélien David

Co-founder & CTO, Pennylane

Benjie Gillam

GraphQL TSC, GraphQL Foundation

Michael Staib

Co-Founder, ChilliCream

Ivan Goncharov

Head of R&D, Keenethics

Martin Bonnin

Android Engineer, Apollo GraphQL

Benjamin Coenen

Sr Staff Engineer, Apollo GraphQL

Aurélien David

Co-founder & CTO, Pennylane

Benjie Gillam

GraphQL TSC, GraphQL Foundation

Michael Staib

Co-Founder, ChilliCream

Ivan Goncharov

Head of R&D, Keenethics

Martin Bonnin

Android Engineer, Apollo GraphQL

Benjamin Coenen

Sr Staff Engineer, Apollo GraphQL

Aurélien David

Co-founder & CTO, Pennylane

An Ngo

Lead Engineer, bol

Jens Neuse

CEO, WunderGraph

Pascal Senn

COO, ChilliCream

Matthias Le Brun

Frontend Developer & Designer

Vanessa Johnson

Android Engineer, The New York Times

Jonathan Rainer

Staff Engineer, Apollo GraphQL

An Ngo

Lead Engineer, bol

Jens Neuse

CEO, WunderGraph

Pascal Senn

COO, ChilliCream

Matthias Le Brun

Frontend Developer & Designer

Vanessa Johnson

Android Engineer, The New York Times

Jonathan Rainer

Staff Engineer, Apollo GraphQL

An Ngo

Lead Engineer, bol

Jens Neuse

CEO, WunderGraph

Pascal Senn

COO, ChilliCream

Matthias Le Brun

Frontend Developer & Designer

Vanessa Johnson

Android Engineer, The New York Times

Jonathan Rainer

Staff Engineer, Apollo GraphQL

An Ngo

Lead Engineer, bol

Jens Neuse

CEO, WunderGraph

Pascal Senn

COO, ChilliCream

Matthias Le Brun

Frontend Developer & Designer

Vanessa Johnson

Android Engineer, The New York Times

Jonathan Rainer

Staff Engineer, Apollo GraphQL

Event Partners

FOST - Future of Software Technologies

GraphQL Day is organized by the community for the community and hosted at FOST (Future of Software Technologies).

Gallery

Photos from GraphQL Day.

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