DeveloperWeek 2015 Conference + EXPO

APIs are a critical component to developing ecosystems around your technology as well as building modern born on the cloud web and mobile applications. Given the popularity of building social functionality into new applications it should come as little surprise that daily API calls of some of the more popular social networking platforms can number in the billions. While impressive as a stand alone statement about the increasing value and significance of building and using APIs, it also highlights a substantial new market opportunity. Today, using new Watson APIs, developers are not only build new applications, services and APIs for industries like healthcare and travel, but using natural language processing technology to better understand users by taking advantage of things like social APIs.