{"slug": "postman-at-apidays-munich-2026", "title": "Postman at APIdays Munich 2026", "summary": "Postman attended APIdays Munich 2026 on July 8-9, where its team demonstrated AI-powered API tools and led workshops on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), citing its 2025 State of the API Report showing only 10% of developers regularly use MCP. The company's Senior Developer Relations Advocate Gbadebo Bello delivered a main-stage talk on building context-aware AI agents and a hands-on workshop, while booth demos covered mock servers, native Git support, and agent mode.", "body_md": "# Postman at APIdays Munich 2026\n\nEarlier this month, the Postman team headed to [APIdays](https://www.apidays.global/) [Munich (July 8-9)](https://www.apidays.global/events/munich) for two days of talking APIs with developers and architects. As an AI-first company, we came to share what we’re building and to show how APIs are becoming the foundation that makes AI useful: the layer that lets agents act on real systems safely and reliably.\n\nIt’s a good moment for that conversation. In Postman’s [2025 State of the API Report](https://www.postman.com/state-of-api/2025/), only one in four developers said they design APIs with AI agents in mind. And while 70% have heard of the [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/), only 10% use it regularly. Munich was full of people working to close that gap.\n\n## Beyond code generation: building context-aware agents\n\nOn the main stage, **Gbadebo Bello**, Senior Developer Relations Advocate at Postman, gave a talk on how to build AI agents that go beyond generating code to actually reasoning about the systems they work with.\n\nHis main point: context is the answer. Agents are only as good as what they know about your APIs, data, and constraints, and APIs are how you give them that context. He walked through how to ground agents in real API specifications so they act reliably instead of guessing.\n\n## Hands-on: the AI-powered API and MCP workshop\n\nOn Wednesday, Gbadebo led a hands-on AI-powered API and MCP workshop, where attendees rolled up their sleeves and worked through connecting AI to APIs using the [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification), the emerging standard for giving agents structured, governed access to tools and data.\n\nIt was the perfect complement to the main-stage talk. Instead of only hearing *why* context matters, participants got hands-on with *how* to wire it up, turning APIs into the tools that agents can safely reason over and act on.\n\n## Live at the Postman booth\n\nAway from the stage, **Gbadebo Bello **(Senior Developer Relations Advocate), **Danny Dainton** (Senior Developer Advocate II), and **Andreas Zettl** (Corporate Solutions Engineer) delivered live demos across both days. They spoke about:\n\n[Working with local mock servers in Postman](https://www.postman.com/product/mock-servers/)[Postman’s Native Git support](https://learning.postman.com/docs/use/native-git/overview)[Building context-aware agents](https://www.postman.com/product/agent-mode/)[Getting your APIs ready for the AI era](https://www.postman.com/product/ai-engineer/)\n\nBetween the three of them, they kept demos running, and answered questions, from a steady stream of developers from all kinds of backgrounds across both days.\n\n## Trivia, headphones, and a whole lot of developers\n\nThe booth wasn’t all screens and slides. We ran developer trivia with [Bitwit](https://getbitwit.com/), which turned quiet show-floor moments into friendly competition. Our top three finishers each walked away with a prize and some well-earned bragging rights.\n\nCongratulations to our trivia winners:\n\n- First place: Philipp\n- Second place: Zeeshan\n- Third place: booking\n\n**These are the anon display names players chose when joining the quiz.*\n\nThanks to everyone who put on the headphones, jumped into the trivia, and traded ideas with us about where agents and APIs go next.\n\n## A personal note from Munich\n\nOn a personal note, this was my first time in Munich, and even though most of my time was (happily) spent at the booth, I did sneak out for one short break. I made it count. I did a quick loop through **Viktualienmarkt** for a proper currywurst and stopped into the magnificent **Heilig-Geist-Kirche (Church of the Holy Spirit)** right by the market. Its pink-and-white Rococo interior, gilded angels, and awe-inspiring ceiling are the kind of thing that makes you pray for an easy 200 OK. And, okay, I made one quick detour into [Cartier](https://stores.cartier.com/germany/munchen/maximilianstra%C3%9Fe-20) on Maximilianstraße.\n\nBetween the conversations on the show floor and the little slice of the city I got to see, Munich set a high bar. Danke schön, Munich. We’ll be back.\n\n## See you at the next one\n\nMunich was just one stop on a much longer road. If you didn’t get to say hi this time, you’ll have plenty of chances. The Postman team is heading to:\n\n- APIdays India: Aug 19-20\n- APIdays Toronto: Sep 9-10\n- APIdays London: Sep 30-Oct 1\n- APIdays Paris: Dec 1-3\n\nAnd that’s only APIdays. We run developer events all over the world, all year long, so come learn, connect, and (yes) play some trivia with us. See where we’ll be next on our [Postman Developer Events Luma calendar](https://luma.com/postman-dev-events).\n\n## Resources\n\n[APIdays Munich event page](https://www.apidays.global/events/munich)[Model Context Protocol specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification)[Postman 2025 State of the API Report](https://www.postman.com/state-of-api/2025/)[Postman Agent Mode](https://www.postman.com/product/agent-mode/)[Postman Native Git documentation](https://learning.postman.com/docs/use/native-git/overview)[Postman Developer Events Luma calendar](https://luma.com/postman-dev-events)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/postman-at-apidays-munich-2026", "canonical_source": "https://blog.postman.com/postman-at-apidays-munich-2026/", "published_at": "2026-08-04 16:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-04 16:42:01.475661+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Postman", "APIdays Munich", "Gbadebo Bello", "Danny Dainton", "Andreas Zettl", "Model Context Protocol", "Bitwit"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/postman-at-apidays-munich-2026", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/postman-at-apidays-munich-2026.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/postman-at-apidays-munich-2026.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/postman-at-apidays-munich-2026.jsonld"}}