Breakout Session

From API Confidence to AI Readiness

Thursday, Nov 5 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM

Details

Many IT teams trust the Smartsheet API but are wary of "AI." Here's the secret: MCP is the API. Every MCP tool call runs through the same permissions and infrastructure your IT team already approved. This session goes deep on what the API actually does today, like standardized project structures, bulk operations, and webhook-triggered automations, and shows how that same foundation, plus growing audit visibility, powers MCP tomorrow. Attendees leave understanding that adopting the API now means AI readiness later.

User Level

Intermediate

Speakers

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Vasil Kosturski

Principal SE

Vasil is a Principal Engineer at Smartsheet, where he leads the squad that built Smartsheet’s remote MCP server from concept through GA. He drove the system design, AWS architecture, and the AI-specific optimizations covered in this post. More broadly, he works across Smartsheet’s developer ecosystem and shapes its public API platform. Before Smartsheet he spent over a decade in distributed systems and real-time data, most recently as Lead Developer at Sportradar building large-volume Kafka-based event-processing pipelines. He is based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

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Galina Jordanowa

Senior Product Marketing Manager II

Galina translates complex AI and product capabilities into clear, strategic market narratives and GTM motions. With 26+ years in B2B SaaS marketing and a dev background that means she actually gets how builders think, she's spent her career connecting technical depth with business impact — and stays genuinely energized by what's next in AI and the new ways it's reshaping how teams build and work.