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In-Person | Oct 14 - 15, 2025 | New York City

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Join developers, leaders, and visionaries from around the world as we explore the latest innovations around APIs, microservices, and AI.

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Strategies and tactics for ensuring reliable connectivity across APIs, Kubernetes, microservices, and service meshes.

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Hands-on technical workshops, real-world experiences, thought leadership, and Kong product announcements.

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Insights into modernizing architectures, creating business value, how to connect across clouds, and beyond.

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Want to share your API story?

API Summit by Kong brings the API 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.

We're looking for speakers from Kong’s user community, customers, and beyond! We want to hear how you are using Kong’s portfolio of products, as well as other open source tools within the ecosystem.

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2024 Keynote speakers

We explored big ideas with the businesses and builders doing things differently. We shared real-world solutions to building securing, consuming, and connecting APIs and microservices. Plus, we covered the latest in AI and developer-driven innovation.

Augusto Marietti

CEO & Co-founder, Kong

Marco Palladino

CTO & Co-founder, Kong

Reza Shafi

SVP, Product, Kong

Rohan Deshpande

Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Daniel Franzén

Head of Open Banking, SEB

Uma Bhemisetty

EVP Chief Information Officer, Michaels

2024 featured speakers

Vincent Behar

Senior Engineer, Ubisoft

Katie Paxton-Fear

API Security Researcher, Traceable AI

Madan Thangavelu

Sr.Director of engineering, Uber

Jenn Bergstrom

Vice President of Cloud and Data Solutions, Parsons

Sven Legl

IT Architect and Innovation Manager, Siemens

Josh Woodward

Senior Software Engineer, API Experience, Seatgeek

FAQs

API Summit Live by Kong is an in-person event that brings together the brightest minds in the API space to share knowledge and learn about the latest innovations around APIs, microservices, and AI. Discover best practices to build, run, and govern APIs across any environment or deployment pattern; how to achieve zero-trust; secrets for boosting developer productivity; ways to reduce operational overhead and maximize return on investment; and more.

API Summit Live will take place October 14-15, 2025, in New York City.

Ticket pricing and tiers will be launched soon. Sign up to receive API Summit Live updates to be the first to hear when tickets go on sale.

The event will be taking place in Downtown New York City at Convene Brookfield Place, 225 Liberty. Hotel blocks and recommendations will go live when tickets go live in the coming weeks.

Maybe! We're looking for speakers from Kong’s user community, customers, and beyond to discuss trends and tips plus real-world solutions to building, securing, consuming, and connecting APIs and microservices. Head over to our call for proposals page to toss your hat in the ring.

The agenda and more details about the event will be released as we get closer to this year’s event. Sign up to receive updates on API Summit Live.

Kong Events including API Summit by Kong, local Meetups, and any other public event organized by Kong are community-focused events with the goal of providing a collaborative environment for solution architects, users, developers, and other community members to learn not only how to be successful when leveraging Kong, but also in becoming Kong experts.

The Kong Events Team is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery are not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks, workshops, parties, Twitter, and other online media. API Summit by Kong participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event at the discretion of the event organizers.

Event staff will be available and monitoring communication channels throughout the conference. We value your attendance. If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please email events@konghq.com.

These rules are intact throughout the duration of the conference.

2024 Sponsors

Silverback

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Google Cloud

Gorilla

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Chimpanzee

Digibee
Inigo
Moesif
Wallarm

Orangutan

Traceable

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