Join the builders and leaders taming the API jungle live and in person at [Kong Summit 2022](https://konghq.com/conferences/kong-summit)Kong Summit 2022 September 28-29, 2022, at the historic Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. Registration is [now open](https://konghq.com/conferences/kong-summit)now open.
Kong Summit 2022 will feature more than 70 speakers across over 40 sessions, with insights from innovators and visionaries from companies like IKEA, Mercedes-Benz Group AG, McAfee, Wayfair, Okta, AWS, Sky Italia, HashiCorp, and (of course) Kong.
Kong Summit 2022 speakers include:
In its fifth year, Kong Summit brings the Kong community — customers, partners, the open source user community, and industry thought leaders — together for a chance to discuss building new ideas, tapping into developer-driven innovation, and modernizing connectivity without sacrificing security and governance.
At Kong Summit 2021, we brought together nearly 5,000 of Kong's open source user community, customers, partners and industry thought leaders from nearly 100 countries. That digital event brought a taste of San Francisco to an international audience.
This year, we're bringing that international audience to San Francisco for our biggest and (dare we say) best conference yet.
*Want to keep up with Kong Summit? Follow the conversation on Twitter at *[*#KongSummit22*](https://twitter.com/hashtag/KongSummit2022)*#KongSummit22**.*
Level up your Kong know-how and prepare to get certified as a Kong Gateway Certified Associate or Kong Gateway for K8s Certified Associate. Free training and certification prep courses offered Sept. 27. Register for training and get a $100 discount voucher for your exam bundled with your ticket.
Visit the [Kong Summit 2022 page](https://konghq.com/conferences/kong-summit)Kong Summit 2022 page for more information.
On September 27, Kong will host its second annual [Kong Summit Hackathon](https://konghq.com/conferences/kong-summit/hackathon)Kong Summit Hackathon, an all-virtual event designed to foster creativity within the Kong community. Submissions are open September 1-27.
Kong Summit 2022 will wind down with a ceremony celebrating the winners of our [API Innovator Awards](https://konghq.com/blog/api-innovator-awards)API Innovator Awards.
These awards highlight the projects and people who have accelerated digital transformation through innovative uses of Kong technology. Applications are now open until August 11.
Visit [the API Innovator Awards page](https://konghq.com/conferences/kong-summit/api-innovator-awards)the API Innovator Awards page for more details and to submit a nomination.
Kong Summit is the conference where API innovation runs wild.
At Kong Summit, innovators and visionaries connect and cut through the buzzwords to get into the thick of things — exploring real-world solutions to building, securing, consuming, and connecting APIs and microservices.
You'll go beyond product features to exploring big ideas with businesses and builders doing things differently. You'll get hands-on. You may even get a little wild. Because innovation takes a willingness to go off the map.
Registration is [now open](https://konghq.com/conferences/kong-summit)now open.
This year, at our in-person API Summit , we’re excited to shine a light on the projects and people who aren’t just implementing Kong, but reinventing it. The Kong Innovator Awards recognize outstanding and future-facing projects from Kong custome
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API Summit 2023 is a wrap! Over the two-day conference (our sixth-annual event), we packed in over 40 hours of content in 100 sessions touching on everything from ensuring reliable connectivity to generative AI. We heard from investors about the fut
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Kong API Summit has come and gone! Whether you joined us in San Francisco or missed this year's big shindig, here are some of the highlights from the event and a round-up of all the Kong news dropped over the past two days. Kong Summit 2022 recap
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Each year at Kong Summit , we shine a light on projects and people ahead of the pack in their use of Kong. And what better way to do that than with a shiny gorilla statue. We call them the API Innovator Awards . The API Innovator Awards recognize
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We are now deep into our most anticipated event of the year, Kong API Summit 2021 (there's still time to register for Day 2!). More than 4,000 people have registered from 87 countries for the virtual event. After a full day of knowledge and surpri
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In 2019, my team at Kong introduced a new open source project called Kuma . Now a sandbox project of the CNCF , Kuma is a modern, universal control plane for service mesh based on Envoy . As we celebrate Kuma's achievements, I want to thank th
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What a year we have had! Hypergrowth, a huge community, and lots of recognition. But what we are most proud of is how Kong's technology has impacted the world, thanks to our users. We can't thank these users and the community enough for making Kong
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