Join us for a UK cross-government online meetup focusing on API management in the public sector on Wednesday 24 March 2021, 14:00 to 16 :30 GMT.

What’s happening at this meetup?

It can be a challenge to develop and maintain APIs - and even to find them. The Data Standard Authority’s API and Data Exchange Community of Practice meetups provide a forum to look at common challenges and share experiences and solutions from across the UK public sector.

The most common challenges include:

• Getting senior leader and stakeholder buy-in and resourcing for providing APIs.
• Helping organisations to change how they design and provision APIs to drive better services.
• Seeing the provision of an API (or multiple APIs) as a service, and building something useful and visible to users.
• Ensuring that APIs have a high level of security.
• Choosing the best API solutions for the context, and knowing when to change.
• Coping with success - making sure that our service can scale over time with increased numbers of APIs and users.

Our March meetup will feature speakers from across the public sector talking about their experiences with managing API platforms and catalogues.

The agenda and speakers will be announced closer to the date. The meeting will be held on Microsoft Teams, which can be accessed via PC, laptop and mobile devices via browser or app.

All our meetups and events are aimed at helping us learn from each other and move towards better data-sharing. Anyone from the public sector in the UK is welcome to attend. Please register using your work email address.

To keep up to date, join the #apis channel on the Government Digital Slack, and/or this community's Slack at ukgovtapidx.slack.com or email api-programme@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk to join the mailing list.