Join Kong at this year's Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit. The much anticipated virtual event will feature thought leaders like Kong CTO and Co-Founder [Marco Palladino](https://konghq.com/about-kong-inc)Marco Palladino.
Gartner's Summit brings together application leaders from around the world to improve the way they architect, develop and integrate applications that enable composable business. And Kong will be there in both the U.S. (May 26 – 27) and EMEA (June 16 – 17) sessions.
Kong was recently named a Leader in the [2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Lifecycle API Management](https://konghq.com/reports/gartner-magic-quadrant-api)2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Lifecycle API Management. Kong CTO and Co-Founder Marco Palladino will lead a live session at the Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit, sharing **three strategies to deliver innovation in the middle of transformation. **
The fact is** 62% of technology leaders** are actively pursuing innovation but are slowed by technical debt. Overcoming these challenges means having reliability, security and observability within distributed applications. In this session, Marco discusses how connectivity is helping companies leverage their legacy application investments into new innovations, while paying off technical debt and accelerating their businesses into new markets.
Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2021 is the place to learn from trusted Gartner experts and share ideas with other IT and business leaders. It's an opportunity to discover new insights to help craft an application and software engineering strategy to meet business needs.
[Sessions](https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/na/applications-us/agenda)Sessions will focus on the following themes:
Create a modern, agile applications organization capable of powering innovation and digital transformation.
Help your organization to transform into an intelligent, composable business with an adaptable, resilient application and software engineering strategy.
Navigate the complexities of Microservices, Platform-as-a-Service, APIs, Cloud Native Architectures, AI, Digital Experience Platforms and more.
Attendees visiting the Kong digital booth in either the U.S. or EMEA events can [sign in and request a meeting](https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/na/applications-us)sign in and request a meeting with a Kong technical resource.
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So join us at the virtual Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit**, **and make sure to tune in for Marco Palladino's session.
**Meet with a Kong technical resource at the Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit.**
*Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management, Paolo Malinverno, Mark O'Neill, Aashish Gupta, Kimihiko Iijima, 22 September 2020. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.*
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