diff --git a/devday/devday/settings/base.py b/devday/devday/settings/base.py
index acea5dd0..b6995038 100644
--- a/devday/devday/settings/base.py
+++ b/devday/devday/settings/base.py
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@
 import mimetypes
 import os
 
+import requests
+
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
-import requests
-
 
 def gettext(s):
     return s
@@ -249,11 +249,8 @@ def get_variable_cascade(var_name, type=str, default_value=None):
     "DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES": [
         "rest_framework.authentication.BasicAuthentication",
         "rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication",
-    ]
-}
-
-REST_FRAMEWORK = {
-    "DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES": ["rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthenticated"]
+    ],
+    "DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES": ["rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthenticated"],
 }
 
 ROOT_URLCONF = "devday.urls"
diff --git a/devday/devday/urls.py b/devday/devday/urls.py
index 76d5a31e..958f021c 100644
--- a/devday/devday/urls.py
+++ b/devday/devday/urls.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 from devday.views import SendEmailView, exception_test_view
 from rest_framework import routers
+from speaker.api_views import PublishedSpeakerViewSet
 from talk.api_views import SessionViewSet
 from twitterfeed.views import TwitterwallView
 
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@
 
 router = routers.DefaultRouter()
 router.register(r"sessions", SessionViewSet)
+router.register(r"speakers", PublishedSpeakerViewSet, basename="speaker")
 
 urlpatterns = [
     url(r"^api/", include(router.urls)),
diff --git a/devday/speaker/api_views.py b/devday/speaker/api_views.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..62ddc21a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devday/speaker/api_views.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+from rest_framework import serializers, viewsets
+from rest_framework.relations import HyperlinkedRelatedField, SlugRelatedField
+from speaker.models import PublishedSpeaker
+
+
+class PublishedSpeakerSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
+    event = SlugRelatedField(slug_field="slug", read_only=True)
+    talk_set = HyperlinkedRelatedField(
+        many=True, view_name="talk-detail", read_only=True, lookup_field="slug"
+    )
+
+    class Meta:
+        model = PublishedSpeaker
+        fields = [
+            "url",
+            "name",
+            "twitter_handle",
+            "short_biography",
+            "slug",
+            "event",
+            "portrait",
+            "thumbnail",
+            "talk_set",
+        ]
+        extra_kwargs = {"url": {"view_name": "speaker-detail", "lookup_field": "slug"}}
+
+
+class PublishedSpeakerViewSet(viewsets.ReadOnlyModelViewSet):
+    serializer_class = PublishedSpeakerSerializer
+    lookup_field = "slug"
+
+    def get_queryset(self):
+        qs = PublishedSpeaker.objects.order_by("name")
+        event = self.request.query_params.get("event", None)
+        speaker = self.request.query_params.get("speaker", None)
+        if event:
+            qs = qs.filter(event__slug=event)
+        if speaker:
+            qs = qs.filter(slug=speaker)
+        return qs
diff --git a/devday/talk/api_views.py b/devday/talk/api_views.py
index d7a49c67..060ea2c5 100644
--- a/devday/talk/api_views.py
+++ b/devday/talk/api_views.py
@@ -1,18 +1,30 @@
-from rest_framework import serializers, viewsets
-from rest_framework.relations import StringRelatedField
-
+from rest_framework import filters, serializers, viewsets
+from rest_framework.relations import HyperlinkedRelatedField, SlugRelatedField
 from talk.models import Talk
 
 
 class SessionSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
-    event = StringRelatedField()
-    published_speaker = StringRelatedField()
+    event = SlugRelatedField(slug_field="slug", read_only=True)
+    published_speaker = HyperlinkedRelatedField(
+        read_only=True, view_name="speaker-detail", lookup_field="slug"
+    )
 
     class Meta:
         model = Talk
-        fields = ['url', 'title', 'abstract', 'published_speaker', 'event']
+        fields = ["url", "title", "abstract", "published_speaker", "event"]
+        extra_kwargs = {"url": {"lookup_field": "slug"}}
 
 
 class SessionViewSet(viewsets.ReadOnlyModelViewSet):
-    queryset = Talk.objects.filter(published_speaker__isnull=False)
+    queryset = Talk.objects.filter(published_speaker__isnull=False).order_by(
+        "-event__start_time", "title", "published_speaker__name"
+    )
     serializer_class = SessionSerializer
+    lookup_field = "slug"
+
+    def get_queryset(self):
+        qs = super().get_queryset()
+        event_slug = self.request.query_params.get("event", None)
+        if event_slug:
+            qs = qs.filter(event__slug=event_slug)
+        return qs