Kong Summit 2022
Where API Innovation Runs Wild
San Francisco, CA
#KongSummit2022
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In its fifth year, Kong Summit brings the Kong community together for a chance to discuss building new ideas, tapping into developer-driven innovation, and modernizing connectivity without sacrificing security and governance. Over two days, sessions will explore real-world solutions to building, securing, consuming, and connecting APIs and microservices.
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Early Bird
$499.00
Full access pass to keynotes, sessions, expo, receptions, and networking on 9/28-9/29.
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General Admission
$599.00
Full access pass to keynotes, sessions, expo, receptions, and networking on 9/28-9/29.
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Last Minute
$699.00
Full access pass to keynotes, sessions, expo, receptions, and networking on 9/28-9/29.
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Venue
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Kong Summit will be held at the beautiful Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco. Book early to guarantee a great room right at the venue.
Featured Speakers
Marco Palladino Kong, CTO and Co-Founder
Marco Palladino Kong, CTO and Co-Founder
Marco Palladino is an inventor, software developer and Internet entrepreneur based in San Francisco, California. He is the co-founder and CTO of Kong, the most widely adopted open source API platform. Besides being a core maintainer, Marco is currently responsible for the design and delivery of the Kong products, while also providing the technical thought leadership around APIs and microservices within Kong and the external community. Marco was also the co-founder of Mashape, which started in 2010 and is today the largest API marketplace in the world.
Viktor Gamov Kong, Principal Developer Advocate
Viktor Gamov Kong, Principal Developer Advocate
Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Kong, a cloud connectivity company. Viktor has comprehensive expertise in building distributed systems and cloud-native architectures using open source technologies. He enjoys helping architects and developers design and develop low latency, scalable, and highly available systems. He is a professional conference speaker on distributed systems, streaming data, JVM, and DevOps topics.
Kat Morgan Kong, Developer Advocate
Kat Morgan Kong, Developer Advocate
Kat Morgan is a Developer Advocate at Kong Inc. She is experienced in the delivery and support of enterprise Linux infrastructure, Kubernetes infrastructure and middleware, and DevOps practices. She is a host of Kubevirt (a CNCF Sandbox Project) community meetings, a member of the Puluminaries community, and a founding member of UOR Framework.
Christian Hernandez Codefresh, Head of Developer Experience and Community Management
Christian Hernandez Codefresh, Head of Developer Experience and Community Management
Christian is a well rounded technologist with experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, enterprise architecture, tech support, advocacy, and management. Passionate about OpenSource and containerizing the world one application at a time. Lately he's been focusing on Kubernetes, DevOps, Cloud Native architecture, and GitOps practices.
Martin Kölbel Mercedes-Benz Group AG, API Management, Solution Architect
Martin Kölbel Mercedes-Benz Group AG, API Management, Solution Architect
Martin has more than 20 years of experience as Solution Architect in international projects. For the past 6 years he was involved in ramping up the Mercedes-Benz API management platform and in establishing an API community where he gained indepth insights in the needs of API consumers and providers. He's the product owner of API gateways and contributer to gateway plugins and Kong Gateway development.
Anuj Sharma Amazon Web Services (AWS), Sr Container Specialist Solutions Architect
Anuj Sharma Amazon Web Services (AWS), Sr Container Specialist Solutions Architect
Anuj is a container specialist solution architect at Amazon Web Services and has been building on AWS for over 7 years. He has hands-on industry experience for over 15 years in application and infrastructure development. When not developing, he likes to hike around Mt Rainer.
FAQs
September 28-29, 2022 | Keynotes, sessions, networking in expo, party.
September 27, 2022 | Training (a separate ticket is required)
September 27, 2022 | Hackathon (registration is encouraged for developers but not required)
The Palace Hotel San Francisco
2 New Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94105
Plan your stay by visiting the hotel booking page.
Not to worry! All session recordings will be posted after the event.
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Kong is committed to the health and safety of our customers, partners, employees, and team members. Below you will find the current COVID-19 guidelines. We encourage you to return to the website regularly for updates. Revisions will be made in accordance with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the City of San Francisco requirements as well as requirements set forth by the event venue.
Health and safety guidelines
- Indoor and outdoor masking is recommended
- Enhanced cleaning will be performed throughout the venue and program areas. (See The Palace Hotel and Marriott International's Commitment to Clean)
- Hand sanitizer will be available throughout the program
- Do not attend if you are feeling ill or have any symptoms of COVID-19.
We encourage you to review the health and safety protocols in place for the City of San Francisco.
The Kong Summit Hackathon is a hybrid event consisting of an online open submission period open to all Kong Community members from September 1-27th, 2022 and an in-person live Hackathon event in San Francisco on September 27th, 2022.Kong Summit attendance is not required to participate in either event, however you can add on the in-person Hackathon event during your Kong Summit registration.Please see the Hackathon event page for all event details and updates.
The annual API Innovator Awards give us the opportunity to shine a light on the projects and people who are ahead of the pack in their use of Kong. Submissions are open for nominees -- and will be open through August 11. All winners will be recognized at the awards ceremony during Kong Summit 2022 on September 29, 2022. Winners will receive a trophy, recognition via social promotion and a press release, a promotional toolkit, a donation to a charity (Kong will provide the funding and the list of charity options) and a chance to chat on a panel at the awards ceremony.Visit the API Innovator Awards page for more information and to submit your project!
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