API Platform Conference 2026 - Antoine Bluchet - Are APIs Still Relevant in the AI Era

Every release of API Platform has bet on the same idea: model your domain once, and let the framework expose it everywhere. This year that bet meets its biggest test — agents that operate your software without a human ever touching the interface. In this opening keynote I'll walk through what's new in API Platform 4.4 and 5.0, with a focus on what makes an existing API agent-ready: native MCP support, and a Hydra gateway that lets an agent discover your tools by navigating the API instead of…