GraphQL Day@ FOST Bengaluru
hosted at
Conrad Bengaluru, India
About
GraphQL Day is a one-day community event hosted at FOST (Future of Software Technologies, think federation of conferences!).
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.
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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.
Schedule
All times in Bengaluru Time (IST, UTC+5:30)
Closing the Loop: How GraphQL Gives Coding Agents Eyes on What Actually Matters
Junior Ball Room 2
AI AgentsSchema EvolutionObservability
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.
REST in Peace? GraphQL vs REST in the Age of Agentic AI
Junior Ball Room 2
AI Agents
This talk presents a systematic, data-driven analysis comparing REST and GraphQL as the backbone for agentic tool calling. We move beyond the “REST is standard” versus “GraphQL is flexible” debate to measure what truly matters for an AI-driven workflow: Token Efficiency and Reasoning Accuracy.
Zero-to-Federation in 60 Seconds: How a GraphQL Middleware Replaced 500+ Legacy APIs and Saved 3 Years of Migration
Junior Ball Room 2
Federation
When Red Hat needed to migrate hundreds of customer-facing systems away from a legacy Salesforce REST integration, the team faced a daunting reality: 500+ custom REST APIs, each hand-written to bridge Red Hat's ecosystem with Salesforce as the data source. Rebuilding them for the new architecture would take years and a massive engineering effort.
A Mock Is a Promise: Making GraphQL Mocks Enforceable
Junior Ball Room 2
MockingContract Testing
Human in the Loop: Governing API Evolution in the Age of Agents
Junior Ball Room 2
AI AgentsSchema Evolution
Just Ask: Building a Natural Language GraphQL Agent from the Graph You Already Have (the Easy Way)
Junior Ball Room 2
AI Agents
GraphQL is powerful, but querying a GraphQL API isn't easy for everyone. Non-developers struggle with schema structure and query syntax. And even experienced developers spend time navigating deeply nested types just to fetch the right data. The promise of “just ask a question and get an answer” feels obvious, yet making it happen has been anything but simple.
Evolving GraphQL: Designing APIs That Deliver Insights with Intelligent Resolvers
Junior Ball Room 2
AI Agents
GraphQL transformed API design by enabling flexible and efficient data fetching. However, in many real-world systems, the data returned by APIs still requires additional processing and analysis before it becomes truly useful to users.
Ask, Don't Fetch: Why GraphQL + MCP Is the Native Language of AI Agents
Junior Ball Room 2
MCPAI 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.
Streaming the Graph: Architecting Flow-Based Progressive Hydration in Android
Junior Ball Room 2
AndroidError Handling
In the world of mobile, the “all-or-nothing” data fetching model is a UX killer. When a single slow field in your GraphQL query—like a complex pricing calculation or an AI-generated summary—holds up the entire response, your users are left staring at a blank screen.
Functional Testing of GraphQL APIs: Simple Checks That Catch Real Bugs
Junior Ball Room 2
Testing
In this talk, I will share simple and practical ways to test GraphQL APIs using tools like opensource (Altair)/Postman. The focus will be on real testing scenarios that help catch actual bugs.
Event Partners
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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