With API Summit 2024 coming up, we're thrilled to announce the 4th annual API Summit Hackathon!
This year’s Hackathon will focus on API innovation that emphasizes the use of artificial intelligence.
AI has taken the world by storm, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. We want to share our excitement for the technological opportunities that AI presents, so we’re creating an event that gets the Kong community involved with AI-driven API applications.
Whether you want to participate solo or assemble a team of up to five members, show off your creativity and hacking prowess while earning prizes, digital badges, and recognition amongst your peers.
The submission window for the Hackathon will be from September 1–11, but you can sign up for updates now. So what are you waiting for? Gather some peers or go at it alone and get started today!
Whether it’s an existing project or a mere seedling of thought, bring your wildest ideas to life and change the API landscape. You could use LLMs to adapt existing API usage or have AI optimize the microservice landscape of your architecture. The possibilities are endless!
All approved participants will receive a unique digital 2024 API Summit Hackathon contributor badge. The top two submissions will get a $1,000 gift card, while the next three runner-ups will receive a $500 gift card. Check out the specific submission categories and more info on the prizes on the official Hackathon webpage.
Hackathon winners will be announced at API Summit 2024 on September 12, 2024.
Not sure where to begin? Check out the Kong Community Slack Channel and chat with passionate community members and seasoned experts. Also, feel free to check out some of the 2023 Hackathon winning contributions:
- 2023 Top Overall Contribution winner: Alparslan Avci. See their AI-Powered Response Transformer for Kong Gateway plugin, designed to enhance API responses by integrating with the OpenAI chat completion API.
- 2023 Best Kong API Gateway Plugin winners: Alcides Silva, Mateus Fonseca. See their Lua-based plugin for Kong API Gateway that helps translate specific fields in JSON to more than 60 languages.
- 2023 Best Developer Portal Hack winners: Mohammed Chakmakchi, Andrew Kew, Sam Gardner-Dell. See their open source reference implementation of a Konnect Developer Portal Client leveraging the Kong Developer Portal Client API and JavaScript SDK.
- 2023 Best Analytics Plugin winners: Prema Namasivayam, Dhaval Mavani, Satyajit Sial. See their AI-powered Kong plugin that uses NLP and semantic analysis to produce reports from unformatted and unstructured data.
- 2023 Best Kong Configuration Assistant: Danilo Fukuoka Rosa. See their repository that contains an add-on to the Kong Developer Portal that leverages ChatGPT to create Kong plugins.
Go to the 2024 API Summit Hackathon page now for more information, FAQs, and to submit your contribution!