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Michael Watson

Granite Bay, CA, USA

Michael Watson was Head of Developer Relations at Apollo GraphQL, where he's spent ~8 years helping enterprises adopt GraphQL at scale. He founded the MCP Server Builder Series, a 3,000+ developer community with events in SF, NYC, London, and Amsterdam. Michael has delivered keynotes on agentic MCP workflows and worked with engineering teams at Netflix, Walmart, Wayfair, and more.
— taken from Michael's GraphQLConf 2026 speaker profile

Around the community

Talks & appearances

GraphQLConf 2025 ↗

Sponsored Session: Schema Design Patterns: Leveraging Existing REST APIs for Rapid GraphQL Adoption

GraphQLConf 2024 ↗

Dynamic (but Safe) Operations: Using AI to Generate Trusted Operations from Text Prompts