Kong Summit 2022
Where API Innovation Runs Wild
September 28-29, 2022
San Francisco, CA
That's a Wrap!
That's a wrap on the fifth annual Kong Summit! Thank you to the builders, leaders, and visionaries who joined us and helped make Kong Summit 2022 our best event yet. Check out the Kong blog for highlights. And stay tuned for keynote recordings and news about upcoming events.

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Featured Speakers

Augusto Marietti Kong, President and Co-Founder
Augusto Marietti Kong, President and Co-Founder
Augusto Marietti is the CEO and co-founder of Mashape. Originally from Rome, Italy, Marietti at the age of 19, founded MemboxX, one of the first data storage services in Europe in early 2007. In 2009, Marietti co-founded Mashape in a garage in Milan, Italy. The company quickly moved to San Francisco, USA, and raised $1.6M in funding from prominent institutional investors including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Index Ventures and individuals including Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors. Marietti holds a BSc in Economics from the Catholic University of Milan.

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.

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.

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.

Gareth Ainsworth Head of Cloud HSBC Wholesale, HSBC
Gareth Ainsworth Head of Cloud HSBC Wholesale, HSBC

Dervis Avdic Engineering Manager, IKEA
Dervis Avdic Engineering Manager, IKEA
Dervis Avdic is an Engineering Manager at IKEA at Ingka Group Digital. Previously, he worked as a Software Engineer at Tetra Pak and IKEA, and as Product Owner at IKEA. He resides in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Schedule
Tuesday
- Training
- Partner Summit
Wednesday
- Keynote Presentations
- Breakout Sessions & Demo Sessions
- Ask the Experts
- API Ecosystem Solutions Expo
- Welcome Reception
Thursday
- Keynote Presentation
- Breakout Sessions & Demo Sessions
- Ask the Experts
- API Ecosystem Solutions Expo
- Awards and Prizes
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Venue
Kong Summit will be held at the beautiful Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco.
2 New Montgomery St,
San Francisco, CA 94105


FAQs
Not to worry! The keynote recordings will be posted after the event.
The full Summit agenda is available now.
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 virtual event with an online open submission period from September 1-27th, 2022.
Contributions are encouraged from all Kong Community members and you can even earn a Kong Summit ticket though your contribution (plus additional prizes and swag)!
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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