Apollo Summit 2026 Keynote

Apollo MCP Server started with a simple ask. When MCP first came out, customers wanted their agents to reach their own GraphQL APIs, so we built a server that turns GraphQL operations into MCP tools, with no hand-written tool per endpoint.

Is My Graph Healthy? Natural Language Access to GraphOS

Join Faisal Waseem, Staff Solutions Architect at Apollo, as he walks through the security architecture of Apollo Router and GraphOS, covering control plane governance, router-level authentication and authorization, demand control, and what it means to govern a GraphQL API in a world where AI agents are active consumers of your data.

GraphQL API Security in the Agentic AI Era

In one hour, we’re going to take a working OAuth-protected Apollo MCP Server — the kind you probably already have — and walk through exactly what’s wrong with it, why, and what to do about it

MCP Server Auth: Scopes, Step-Up Flows, and Token Exchange

In this session, we'll demo the latest additions to GraphOS, including Apollo Skills, API key management in Studio, and schema proposal improvements. We’ll also cover key platform updates on Connectors and Apollo Federation. 

Apollo GraphQL Product Briefing 2026: Highlights and Roadmap Preview

You've built an MCP server, and now you want a real agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, whatever your users happen to bring) to connect to it securely, on behalf of an actual signed-in user. The moment you try, you run into OAuth. And MCP's take on OAuth has a twist that trips up almost everyone the first time.

Getting Started with MCP Server Auth

You don't need to replace your REST APIs to get the benefits of GraphQL. Apollo Connectors let you pull existing endpoints directly into your graph using configuration in the schema, no resolver code required. 

Connect REST APIs to GraphQL with Apollo Connectors

Sharon Gorla on the API layer behind Starbucks mobile ordering, coming to baristas behind the counter, and exactly what AI agents need next.

Starbucks Runs on a Graph. Now Agents Want In.

Apollo GraphQL CEO Matt DeBergalis and American Airlines Senior Principal Architect Pragadeesh Prakasam came together at AI Agent Conference to explore how one of the world's largest airlines built the unified API architecture now powering AI agents in production. 

The API Layer Is The Agent Layer: What's Standing Between Your AI Agents and Production

AI coding agents are only as useful as the context you give them. For GraphQL developers, that means understanding what Skills are, how MCP works, and how the agent loop actually operates under the hood.

What Your Agent Knows: Skills, MCP, and the Agentic Development Loop

This session is for engineers and architects who want to get more out of Apollo Router. Whether you're running a federated graph or a single GraphQL API, deep in your router deployment or just getting started, this session meets you where you are. 

Apollo Router Best Practices: Performance, Security & Governance at Scale

Generative AI, MCP, and agentic protocols are reshaping every layer of the API landscape, from how APIs are designed and consumed to how they're governed and secured. The 2026 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for APIs maps the most critical innovations software engineering leaders must act on as AI agents become the dominant class of API consumers. 

Hype Cycle for APIs

American Airlines' Senior Principal Architect reveals how a context layer built over 1960s-era systems became the foundation for AI agents in production - on a 90-day cycle. The twin pressures every enterprise is facing, and how AA found a way through.

How American Airlines Puts AI Agents in Production Every 90 Days

Christian Ernst has spent seven years building the context layer behind Booking.com - the federated graph between the business and every human, app, and agent that needs to reason over it. Hear why governance had to be rebuilt as the platform scaled, how LLM hallucination became the perfect mock-data engine, and why the graph built for Booking's apps turned out to be the graph AI agents needed too.

Built for Travel, Ready for AI: Inside Booking.com's API Context Layer

In this hands-on workshop, Apollo GraphQL shows frontend developers how to take an existing web app and wire it up to an AI agent end-to-end.

Your UI, Inside the Chat Window: Building with Apollo & MCP Apps

The MCP Apps spec is a recently launched standard for building interactive applications that live inside AI chat interfaces like ChatGPT and Claude, where users can take real actions without ever leaving the conversation

The Future of MCP Apps 

This workshop is designed for developers who already have a foundation in GraphQL and are ready to explore federated GraphQL. Whether you're evaluating Apollo Federation for your organization or looking to deepen your understanding, you'll leave with a working local environment and the concepts to build on it.

Build Your First Federated Graph: A Hands-On Workshop

Learn how Wayfair uses Apollo Federation to ship faster, experiment without engineering bottlenecks, and scale developer productivity with AI — across one of the largest federated graphs in production.

Scaling All the Things: How Wayfair Experiments, Builds, and Ships Faster with Apollo

Join us live to see how to build MCP Apps using Apollo Client and Apollo MCP Server. 

Building MCP Apps with Apollo Client and Apollo MCP Server

Response Caching is live in GraphOS Router now. Join us to see it work end-to-end, walk through a live demo, and ask Apollo engineers your production questions.

Boost GraphQL performance with Response Caching in Apollo GraphOS Router

In this session, we'll explore the architectural patterns that separate production-ready graphs from proofs-of-concept. You'll learn how organizations large and small have evolved their GraphQL implementations to handle new use cases - and how they're now extending those same graphs to power AI-driven experiences.

What Comes After Apollo Client: Preparing Your Graph for What's Next

How N-able's plan for success paid off when their API growth went viral

N-able's Bet on API Growth with Apollo

Block is using Apollo Connectors and their in-house Goose AI Assistant to automate bringing thousands of APIs onto the graph. Learn how they’re doing it - and how you can too.

Block Automates MCP Access for Thousands of APIs with Apollo

Discover how to secure MCP-powered agents with robust auth patterns, setting up telemetry to gain visibility into real workloads, and have an early look at new MCP features coming soon.

Going Deeper with Apollo MCP Server: Auth, Telemetry & What’s Next?

Learn how Indeed built its AI hiring assistant on Apollo Federation, cutting latency and powering real-time recruiter experiences with Talent Scout.

How Indeed is powering AI recruiting with a federated graph

If you’re building agentic applications, you know the challenge: LLMs need reliable, efficient access to your APIs. MCP provides the standard for this connection, and Apollo MCP Server provides a standard-based way to connect any GraphQL API to LLMs.

Apollo MCP Server: Power your next wave of AI-driven development

This session shows how Apollo Federation and GraphOS help you scale GraphQL properly. Learn how to build a federated supergraph that orchestrates multiple services through a single endpoint, and leverages GraphOS for schema management and observability, implementing an architecture that serves billions of operations daily.

The Platform You Didn't Plan For: Scaling GraphQL Beyond the Prototype

In this workshop, we’ll leverage entities across subgraphs, build resilience by handling partial errors gracefully, and optimize our graph's performance. By the end, you’ll take your graph from "it works" to "it scales"

Connectors Workshop: Handling Entities & Errors In The Graph

Join us for exclusive customer office hours on the newly launched Apollo GraphOS Operator, a Kubernetes-native operator for deploying and managing GraphQL federated architectures.

Customer Office Hours: Apollo GraphOS Operator Demo and Q&A

Join Torsten Volk, Principal Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), and Shane Myrick, Chief Architect at Apollo GraphQL for an exclusive look into the findings of our latest research on API Orchestration: Where Developer Agility Meets Business Impact.

API Orchestration: Where Developer Agility Meets Business Impact

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to declaratively connect your REST endpoints to your graph using just configuration in the schema. We’ll walk through how to fetch and combine data, pass arguments, troubleshoot your work, and more—all using tools built right into Apollo.

Connectors Workshop: Declaratively Connect REST APIs and GraphQL

Apollo is introducing updates to make graph-based API orchestration more accessible and practical for teams of all sizes. In this webinar, we’ll walk through these new capabilities and show how they can accelerate your development process.

Apollo Summer ’25 Product Release 

API landscapes are evolving rapidly, particularly due to the growing interest in AI applications. Fragmented services, inconsistent tools, and the proliferation of backend-for-frontend models make even minor changes risky, decreasing developer productivity and increasing the costs of developing solutions.  

API Orchestration:  Where Developer Agility Meets Business Impact

Drive your engineering efficiency by reducing the API orchestration burden.

Stop Passing the Hot Potato: Leveraging API Orchestration to drive developer efficiency

Learn how to streamline your GraphQL workflows with MCP and get ready for Code with Claude

Get started with MCP tools for your GraphQL API today

Practical architecture tips for layering APIs

Designing a Layered API Strategy: Incorporating GraphQL for Scalability and Performance

API Orchestration: Moving beyond API management for enterprise transformation

Learn how to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into your project without writing a single line of code.

Integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT with no code using Connectors

Building APIs for stability and designing for scale can be challenging, especially when your APIs power everything from microservices to LLMs.

Optimizing API Resilience with Graph-based Orchestration

learn methods of orchestrating APIs in AI-driven experiences and watch a dynamic customer experience come to life.

API orchestration and AI: Thinking beyond simple RAG

Getting to production with Apollo Connectors

learn how to join together APIs that connect systems, support the next digital transformation, and give your business a competitive edge in a fast-changing market.

API Orchestration: Moving Beyond API Management for Enterprise Transformation

Unlock the true power of your Lambdas and DynamoDB data

Orchestrate your AWS Lambda and DynamoDB instances

Benefit from faster development time, improved quality, and powerful build & run time tooling. Whether you’re new to GraphQL or a seasoned expert, learn why it’s the fastest, safBenefit from faster development time, improved quality, and powerful build & run time tooling. Whether you’re new to GraphQL or a seasoned expert, learn why it’s the fastest, safest way to orchestrate your APIs.est way to orchestrate your APIs.

New innovations from Apollo. Don’t miss out.

Learn methods of orchestrating APIs in AI-driven experiences and watch a dynamic customer experience come to life.

Not just another chatbot: Dynamic customer experiences with API orchestration and LLMs

In this one-hour, hands-on workshop, explore the powerful realm of Apollo Connectors, designed for developers who want to streamline their API integrations.

Simplifying API Integrations with GraphQL: A hands-on look at Apollo Connectors

Explore technical guidance and first-hand insights on how to introduce a new technology into your organization’s stack in a fashion that will drive efficiencies and deliver tangible business benefits.

Drive the Success of a Layered API Strategy with GraphQL Federation

Build an API orchestration layer that follows along the OData Basic and Advanced Tutorials.

Orchestrating OData APIs with Apollo Connectors in 30 minutes

 Training AI is expensive and can lead to the risk of leaking sensitive data or polluting a training set, so how can we get our LLMs, and AI-driven experiences the data they need safely and securely?

AI, APIs and GraphQL: A Playbook for Dynamic API Access for AI-Driven Experiences

Join and build an API orchestration layer that uses the Stripe REST API to create products with pricing information and ultimately create a checkout session with those products.

API Orchestration in 30 Minutes: A Stripe Checkout Workflow with Apollo Connectors

Automating graph expansion: How to speed scaling from 1 to N subgraphs

The value of your API platform, today and tomorrow

How RS Group reduced cost and accelerated releases by moving to GraphOS Router

Federating Coinbase at scale: Safely decomposing the monolith while the bulls are running

Exploring Apollo's new products, a deep dive

Building a thriving supergraph ecosystem

Introducing a native query planner in Apollo Router

Turning hesitancy into excitement: monday.com's to-do list for convincing your leaders and teams to federate

OneGraph: Indeed as a platform

How T-Mobile unlocks revenue streams with field-level monetization for GraphQL APIs

Driving innovation: Transforming development with GraphQL at AlphaSense

Beyond the Initial Quest: PlayStation's game plan for enterprise-wide graph adoption

Securing your GraphQL APIs with Apollo: Best practices for authentication and authorization

Making it easier for everyone: How Booking.com securely decomposed their monolith with GraphQL federation

How American Airlines is self-servicing auth with @policy directive, OPA, Backstage and GitHub

Patterns for frictionless federation in Liberty Mutual's platform marketplace

Better together: How Cox Automotive secures their Graph with Apollo and Kong

What's new in Apollo Client

Is my car charging? How JUCR delivers real time EV charging status with federated subscriptions

Defer then React: The secret to optimizing performance and revenue for PlayStation Store

Composing your UI with GraphQL: Building federated component systems that scale

Modernizing the enterprise: How GraphQL is transforming Ford Credit

GraphQL Federation: A Roadmap to Modern Healthcare Technology

Federated GraphQL- a catalyst for digital transformation in Walmart stores for associates

Beyond REST: Delivery Hero's GraphQL-powered evolution

Mastering collaboration: How Wayfair built ownership into the Supergraph

Headline: Product managers unlock success for The New York Times's Supergraph

Effective Governance: How Intuit scales schema stewardship with automation

A Request For Comment: Federating standards and schema design patterns at Fidelity

An AI-enabled Supergraph: From text-to-query to conversational agents

Turning your graph into a developer platform with Apollo

GraphOS Router Success Stories

No assembly required: How Indeed takes new subgraphs to production in 5 minutes or less

Rapidly iterating your Supergraph: Short-lived branches for an ever-changing world

AI has entered the chat: Building a multi-party LLM chatbot with GraphOS's federated subscriptions

Block's GraphQL copilot: Easier schema discovery and query automation via LLMs & RAG

Building the next-gen GraphQL chatbot: Secure and intelligent query generation with vectorized schema models

Entities 201: A deep dive into query plans, @context, and the future of entities

Designing for durability: Ticketmaster’s 3-step guide to timeless schemas

How Xolvio drives Supergraph adoption with narrative-driven development

Lean schema design: How Autodesk brings design and product thinking to engineering teams

On performance: Entity caching and best practices on optimizing supergraph performance

Apollo Language Server: The subgraph DX we've been waiting for!

Building resilient APIs: Techniques for easy and effective error handling

Fake it 'til You Build it: Navigating GraphQL Mocking Solutions

Schema Contracts: The most powerful GraphOS feature you're probably not using

Unified API strategy: How Northwestern Mutual harmonizes domain and experience APIs

Gartner predicts that by 2026, more than 30% of the increase in demand for APIs will come from artificial intelligence and tools using large language models...

Preparing Enterprise APIs for AI-enabled Experiences

The Year Ahead for GraphQL: Combining APIs for the AI Era

Give AI-driven experiences secure, simple, and trusted access to APIs with a supergraph

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