eBay Connect 2026
The eBay developer community came together in person for the first time since 2019.
eBay Connect 2026 marked the return of our flagship in-person developer event, bringing together developers, partners, and technology leaders from around the world for two days of learning, collaboration, and innovation.
Attendees heard directly from eBay leaders, explored our latest platform investments, learned about new APIs and AI-powered capabilities, and connected with product and engineering teams through technical sessions, demos, and networking opportunities.
Here's what you'll find on this page:
- Presentation decks from eBay's keynote
- The winners of the 2026 eBay Star Developer Awards
- Photos from the event, capturing memorable moments from both days
Connect Presentations
Introduction: Welcome back
Keynote: Public API Vision & Strategy
AI use in eCommerce APIs: Migrations & New capabilities
eBay Services - Empowering the Growth of Marketplace & Our Sellers
Keynote: Winning Where It Matters: Focused Categories
Panel: Modernizing the Selling Experience: Modernization, Adoption, Seller Success
Developer program updates
New GraphQL API walk-through
State of the Global Marketplace / Buy Side update
Fireside chat: Our commitment to developers & APIs / Message from the CTO
Introduction: Belated Welcome back / Message from our CEO
Creating the Next Generation Buying Experience
Selling Experience update
eBay Star Developer Awards 2026
The eBay Star Developer Awards celebrate developers and partners who are driving innovation and creating exceptional experiences with eBay's APIs and developer technologies.
This year, we recognized winners across three award categories:
- Early Adopter Award – Recognizing developers who embraced new eBay technologies and APIs early, helping shape and accelerate adoption.
- Rapid Growth Award – Honoring partners who achieved significant business growth by building and scaling with eBay's developer platform.
- NOVA Award – Celebrating breakthrough innovation and creative use of eBay's platform to solve meaningful customer and business challenges.
Congratulations to this year's award recipients. Your innovation, technical excellence, and commitment to building on the eBay platform continue to inspire our global developer community.
Early Adopter Award
We're proud to recognize Capital One Shopping as this year's Early Adopter Award winner.
More than a decade ago, they were already using eBay APIs in creative ways to connect shoppers to better deals on eBay. That work helped build one of our strongest affiliate partnerships.
They've continued to build on that momentum. In 2025, they expanded their work through eBay's Promotions Feed, and today they are our largest global affiliate partner, with 55 percent year-over-year growth. Their long-standing partnership with eBay and its APIs, combined with a willingness to embrace new technologies, has helped drive innovation for shoppers while growing one of eBay's strongest affiliate partnerships.
Rapid Growth Award
We're proud to recognize Nifty as this year's Rapid Growth Award winner.
Nifty is an AI-powered SaaS platform that helps online resellers save time and grow their businesses. Sellers can upload their photos, generate complete listings in seconds, and publish them across multiple marketplaces with a single click. Nifty also helps manage inventory, automate repetitive tasks, and keep listings up to date across marketplaces, so sellers can spend less time on manual work and more time sourcing and selling.
What makes Nifty stand out is not only their product innovation, but also the sophistication of the integration they have built to make selling across marketplaces faster, simpler, and more automated for their users.
By applying AI to simplify the reseller experience, they've helped sellers work smarter while achieving remarkable growth across their business over the past year.
NOVA Award
We're proud to recognize Patturn as this year's NOVA Award winner.
What started as a small family operation in Texas has grown into a remarkable resale business built on hard work, curiosity, and a deep understanding of how to turn challenge into opportunity. Through JENDER, they manage more than 80,000 active eBay listings, have earned over 200,000 positive feedback reviews, and ship hundreds of orders every day. Along the way, they built the tools and systems needed to handle unique inventory at scale.
That experience led them to create Patturn, a plug-and-play inventory management system that helps brands recover value from returns, excess inventory, and products that might otherwise be liquidated or thrown away. Together, JENDER and Patturn are helping keep products in use longer, bringing more inventory into the circular economy, and proving that strong business performance and positive environmental impact can go hand in hand.
Their journey reflects the spirit of innovation, resilience, and community that the Nova Award celebrates.
