What happens as AI and APIs converge? Find out at API Summit 2024 by Kong.
This free two-day virtual event explores the cutting edge of building better digital experiences with insights from developers, leaders, and visionaries around the world.
For developers today, integrating AI is the most critical aspect of API management. This year, API Summit is focused on the convergence of APIs and AI and how developers can leverage APIs to innovate with AI faster and more efficiently. Discover the secrets to smarter API management, unleashing AI adoption, and balancing innovation and control.
Secure your spot. Register now here.
API Summit 2024 is the gateway to what's next in APIs and AI. Join API innovators, microservices masters, and AI visionaries and help shape the future of tech with the best and brightest in the world of AI and APIs.
This year's free two-day event includes:
Sponsors of API Summit 2024 include AWS, Google Cloud, Speakeasy, Infosys, Cognizant, and Salt Security.
Of course, you'll get all the updates about what's next from the team at Kong. CEO and Co-Founder Augusto “Aghi” Marietti will talk about the relationship between AI and APIs, CTO and CO-Founder Marco Palladino will discuss building for the new AI era, and SVP of Product Reza Shafii will dive into powering modern developer platforms with APIs.
Read on for a sampling of a few sessions.
Generative AI: Fiend or Friend? — Jenn Bergstrom, VP, Cloud and Data Solutions at Parsons, will share concrete dos and don'ts for Prompt engineering to ensure you know how to embrace and get the most possible use out of GenAI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and more. She'll also take you for a look under the hood of GenAI to ensure you get a deep understanding of the tech — and can ensure it's a friend, not a fiend for you and your organization.
I’m an API Hacker: Here’s How I Hack Everything from the Military to AI — Hackers love APIs. Why? Because they're really vulnerable. In this session, Katie Paxton-Fear, API Security Researcher at Traceable AI, pulls back the curtain on how the silly mistakes that people make and the little things developers forget are often all it takes for hackers to gain a foothold. You'll learn about four of the "best" bug bounty finds, how they were discovered, and how anyone can find them.
APIOps Evolved: Robust API Delivery with Kong — Rick Spurgeon, a developer advocate at Kong, will demonstrate automated API delivery, or APIOps, with Kong tools and solutions. Focusing on federated API management in a microservices environment, learn how you can empower application developer teams while maintaining centralized governance.
And that's just the tip of the API iceberg! To see the full list of sessions, check out the API Summit 2024 agenda now.
Along with API Summit, we've announced the 4th annual API Summit Hackathon. This year’s Hackathon will focus on API innovation emphasizing the use of AI.
Participants can enter solo or assemble a team of up to five. Submissions for the Hackathon will be accepted from September 1–11. The top two submissions will win a $1,000 gift card, and the top three runner-ups will receive a $500 gift card. Winners will be announced at API Summit 2024 on September 12, 2024.
Peruse this post for inspiration, or swing over to the 2024 API Summit Hackathon page for all the details.
API Summit is a free virtual event hosted by Kong that explores the cutting edge of building better digital experiences.
API Summit brings together the open source community and industry thought leaders alongside Kong customers and partners to discuss building what's next, tapping into developer-driven innovation, and modernizing without sacrificing security and governance.
With multiple sessions from builders and businesses around the world, the conference — now in its seventh year — has brought together thousands of trailblazers and leaders from nearly 100 countries.
Want to learn more? Check out the API Summit 2023 recap.
Don't miss this chance to shape the future of tech alongside API innovators and AI visionaries from world-class companies! Register now.
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