February 25-27, 2026
Montreal, Canada
GraphQL Distilled
REST APIs expose fixed endpoints, but clients are limited to predefined queries. GraphQL changes that—clients request exactly the data they need, while backends gain flexibility to unify multiple services. In this session, you’ll learn what GraphQL is, how it works, and how to build and consume GraphQL APIs.
Kito Mann
Virtua, Inc.
Kito D. Mann is the Principal Consultant at Virtua, Inc., specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, and mentoring with microservices, cloud, Web Components, Angular, and Jakarta/Java EE technologies. He is also the co-host of The Stackd Podcast and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action. Mann has participated in several Java Community Process expert groups and is an internationally recognized speaker. He is a Java Champion and Google Developer Expert Alumnus.
