VIRTUAL | SEPT 27-28, 2023

Agenda

3:00 AM - 3:25 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Stage | 3:00 AM - 3:25 AM PDT | 10:00 AM - 10:25 AM UTC

Become an API-first Company

Augusto Marietti

CEO & Co-founder, Kong

João Mikos

Director of Engineering - Developer Acceleration, SeatGeek

Sanjay Modi

Senior Manager, API Lifecycle Management, Comcast

3:25 AM - 4:00 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Stage | 3:25 AM - 4:00 AM PDT | 10:25 AM - 11:00 AM UTC

Customer Fireside Chat with Rabobank

Reza Shafii

VP, Product, Kong

Eduardo Barra Cordeiro

Senior Product Owner, Rabobank

Shweta Tiwari

Solution Architect, Rabobank

Frank van Valkenburg

Business Architect Integration, Rabobank

4:00 AM - 4:45 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Stage | 4:00 AM - 4:45 AM PDT | 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM UTC

VP of Product Keynote

Reza Shafii

VP, Product, Kong

Yonatan Ryabinski

Head of Resiliency Architecture Office, Vanguard

Matt DeBergalis

CTO & Co-founder, Apollo GraphQL

Smriti Jaggi

Sr. PM, Konnect Platform, Kong

Ross Kukulinski

Senior Director of Product Management, Kong

4:45 AM - 5:20 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Stage | 4:45 AM - 5:20 AM PDT | 11:45 AM - 12:20 PM UTC

AI and APIs: A Fireside Chat

Marco Palladino

CTO & Co-founder, Kong

Martin Casado

Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

5:20 AM - 5:50 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 1 - Kong Products | 5:20 AM - 5:50 AM PDT | 12:20 PM - 12:50 PM UTC

WebAssembly in Kong Gateway 3.4

Hisham Muhammad

Product Manager, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 2 - Best Practices | 5:20 AM - 5:50 AM PDT | 12:20 PM - 12:50 PM UTC

3 Kong Features That Make It Easier to Extend Kong

Vincent Behar

Senior Engineer, Ubisoft

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 3 - Customer / User Perspectives | 5:20 AM - 5:50 AM PDT | 12:20 PM - 12:50 PM UTC

APIs and Their Impact on Advanced Air Mobility

Dan Lambeth

Site Reliability Engineer, Skyports

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 4 - API Security | 5:20 AM - 5:50 AM PDT | 12:20 PM - 12:50 PM UTC

2023 API Impap0pct Report

Jim Rivas

Vice President, Corporate Communications and Brand, Kong

Christopher Whaley, PhD

Associate Professor, Brown University

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 5 - Service Mesh | 5:20 AM - 5:50 AM PDT | 12:20 PM - 12:50 PM UTC

Streamline Networking with a Service Mesh

Charly Molter

Software Engineering Manager, Kong

5:50 AM - 6:20 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 1 - Kong Products | 5:50 AM - 6:20 AM PDT | 12:50 PM - 1:20 PM UTC

Building a Modern API Platform

Greg Peranich

Senior Solutions Engineer, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 2 - Best Practices | 5:50 AM - 6:20 AM PDT | 12:50 PM - 1:20 PM UTC

Securing Azure OpenAI with Kong

Tommy Falgout

Principal Partner Solution Architect, Microsoft

Amanda Wong

Partner Solution Architect, Microsoft

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 3 - Customer / User Perspectives | 5:50 AM - 6:20 AM PDT | 12:50 PM - 1:20 PM UTC

The ABCs of AI and APIs: A Playful Primer

Jennifer Bergstrom

CTO, Mission Solutions Sector, Parsons

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 4 - API Security | 5:50 AM - 6:20 AM PDT | 12:50 PM - 1:20 PM UTC

Mitigate Top OWASP API Security Threats with Kong

Veena Rajarathna

Senior Product Manager, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 5 - Service Mesh | 5:50 AM - 6:20 AM PDT | 12:50 PM - 1:20 PM UTC

Secure exposed and third-party APIs using Cisco Panoptica and Kong Gateway

Meenakshi Kaushik

Product Management Leader, Cisco

Alessandro Duminuco

Principal Engineer, Cisco

6:20 AM - 6:50 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 1 - Kong Products | 6:20 AM - 6:50 AM PDT | 1:20 PM - 1:50 PM UTC

Why Federated API Management?

Gabriella Angiolillo

Director, Product Management, Kong

Hunsung (Eddy) Lee

Senior Product Manager, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 2 - Best Practices | 6:20 AM - 6:50 AM PDT | 1:20 PM - 1:50 PM UTC

Handling Observability from an API Gateway Perspective

Matey Aryeh

CTO, Grey Parrot IO Ltd

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 3 - Customer / User Perspectives | 6:20 AM - 6:50 AM PDT | 1:20 PM - 1:50 PM UTC

REST Enabling Your SAP System for Kong

Peter Kreiner-Sasady

CTO, Invixo Consulting A/S

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 4 - API Security | 6:20 AM - 6:50 AM PDT | 1:20 PM - 1:50 PM UTC

Best Practices for Securing APIs

Tyler Reynolds

API Security Evangelist, Traceable AI

Ahmed Koshok

Senior Solution Architect, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 5 - Service Mesh | 6:20 AM - 6:50 AM PDT | 1:20 PM - 1:50 PM UTC

Too Far, Too Furious: Multi-Region Microservices with Kong Mesh

Denis Magda

Head of Developer Relations, Yugabyte

6:50 AM - 7:05 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

6:50 AM - 7:05 AM PDT | 1:50 PM - 2:05 PM UTC

Break / Networking

7:05 AM - 7:35 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 1 - Kong Products | 7:05 AM - 7:35 AM PDT | 2:05 PM - 2:35 PM UTC

Kong Gateway: Enterprise and Open Source Roadmap

Tom Brightbill

Group Product Manager, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 4 - API Security | 7:05 AM - 7:35 AM PDT | 2:05 PM - 2:35 PM UTC

open-appsec + Kong: Automatic web application & API security using machine learning

Christopher Lutat

Product Manager, Check Point Software Technologies

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 5 - Service Mesh | 7:05 AM - 7:35 AM PDT | 2:05 PM - 2:35 PM UTC

Enhancing Kubernetes Workloads: A Journey from Ingress Controller Woes to the Power of Service Mesh

Henrik Rexed

Cloud Native Advocate, Dynatrace

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 3 - Customer / User Perspectives | 7:05 AM - 7:35 AM PDT | 2:05 PM - 2:35 PM UTC

How UC Davis Health handles increasing requests for FHIR and API connections from business partners

Carl Campbell

System Integration Engineer, UC Davis Health System

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 2 - Best Practices | 7:05 AM - 7:35 AM PDT | 2:05 PM - 2:35 PM UTC

Using Kong at Scale for Internal and External APIs

Nitin K

Technical Architect, FourKites, Inc.

Jayakumar Mohan

Staff Engineer - Performance Engineering, Fourkites

Sankar Babu

Staff Software Engineer, Fourkites India Pvt Ltd

7:35 AM - 8:05 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 1 - Kong Products | 7:35 AM - 8:05 AM PDT | 2:35 PM - 3:05 PM UTC

The Future Unveiled: Kong Konnect Roadmap

Ross Kukulinski

Senior Director of Product Management, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 2 - Best Practices | 7:35 AM - 8:05 AM PDT | 2:35 PM - 3:05 PM UTC

API Gateways: Do I need One, None, or Many? Balancing Multiple API Gateways at Vanguard

Casie Ropski

Technical Scrum Master, Vanguard

Sophia Trump

Cloud Engineer, Vanguard

Katie Zhuang

Cloud Engineer, Vanguard

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 3 - Customer / User Perspectives | 7:35 AM - 8:05 AM PDT | 2:35 PM - 3:05 PM UTC

API Productization at Lombard Odier

Ludovic Pourrat

API Architect & API Catalyst, Lombard Odier

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 4 - API Security | 7:35 AM - 8:05 AM PDT | 2:35 PM - 3:05 PM UTC

GraphQL Security Vulnerabilities in the Wild

Antoine Carossio

Co-founder & CTO, Escape

Tristian Kalos

Co-Founder & CEO, Escape

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 5 - Service Mesh | 7:35 AM - 8:05 AM PDT | 2:35 PM - 3:05 PM UTC

Unlocking Effortless Scalability and Management: Introducing EKS Kong Terraform Blueprints

Varun Sharma

Sr Lead Consultant, Amazon

8:05 AM - 8:35 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 1 - Kong Products | 8:05 AM - 8:35 AM PDT | 3:05 PM - 3:35 PM UTC

Kong Mesh: What's New and What's Next

John Harris

Principal Product Manager, Kong

Charly Molter

Software Engineering Manager, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 2 - Best Practices | 8:05 AM - 8:35 AM PDT | 3:05 PM - 3:35 PM UTC

Sky Italia’s Journey from Integration to Service Exposure

Stefano Galimberti

Cloud Platform Engineer, Sky Italia

Leonardo Migliorini

Cloud Platform Engineer, Sky Italia

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 3 - Customer / User Perspectives | 8:05 AM - 8:35 AM PDT | 3:05 PM - 3:35 PM UTC

How Europcar Embraced Cloud Native Automation with Kong Konnect

Charles Frappa

Senior Consultant API Management, Devoteam

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 4 - API Security | 8:05 AM - 8:35 AM PDT | 3:05 PM - 3:35 PM UTC

Prepare and Protect: The Evolving API Threat Landscape

Luke Babarinde

Global Solutions Architect, Imperva

8:35 AM - 8:45 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

8:35 AM - 8:45 AM PDT | 3:35 PM - 3:45 PM UTC

Break / Networking

8:45 AM - 9:15 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Stage | 8:45 AM - 9:15 AM PDT | 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM UTC

Become an API-first Company

Augusto Marietti

CEO & Co-founder, Kong

João Mikos

Director of Engineering - Developer Acceleration, SeatGeek

Sanjay Modi

Senior Manager, API Lifecycle Management, Comcast

9:15 AM - 9:50 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Stage | 9:15 AM - 9:50 AM PDT | 4:15 PM - 4:50 PM UTC

Customer Fireside Chat with Rabobank

Reza Shafii

VP, Product, Kong

Eduardo Barra Cordeiro

Senior Product Owner, Rabobank

Shweta Tiwari

Solution Architect, Rabobank

Frank van Valkenburg

Business Architect Integration, Rabobank

9:50 AM - 10:35 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Stage | 9:50 AM - 10:35 AM PDT | 4:50 PM - 5:35 PM UTC

VP of Product Keynote

Reza Shafii

VP, Product, Kong

Yonatan Ryabinski

Head of Resiliency Architecture Office, Vanguard

Matt DeBergalis

CTO & Co-founder, Apollo GraphQL

Smriti Jaggi

Sr. PM, Konnect Platform, Kong

Ross Kukulinski

Senior Director of Product Management, Kong

10:35 AM - 11:10 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Stage | 10:35 AM - 11:10 AM PDT | 5:35 PM - 6:10 PM UTC

AI and APIs: A Fireside Chat

Marco Palladino

CTO & Co-founder, Kong

Martin Casado

Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

11:10 AM - 11:40 AM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 1 - Kong Products | 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM PDT | 6:10 PM - 6:40 PM UTC

WebAssembly in Kong Gateway 3.4

Hisham Muhammad

Product Manager, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 2 - Best Practices | 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM PDT | 6:10 PM - 6:40 PM UTC

API Gateways: Do I need One, None, or Many? Balancing Multiple API Gateways at Vanguard

Casie Ropski

Technical Scrum Master, Vanguard

Sophia Trump

Cloud Engineer, Vanguard

Katie Zhuang

Cloud Engineer, Vanguard

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 3 - Customer / User Perspectives | 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM PDT | 6:10 PM - 6:40 PM UTC

Building an API-Driven Ecosystem For the Insurance Industry

Mohd Khairul Hairi Bin Mazlan

Head DevOps, Digital & Innovation Department, MNRB Holdings Berhad

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 4 - API Security | 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM PDT | 6:10 PM - 6:40 PM UTC

API Impact Report 2023

Jim Rivas

Vice President, Corporate Communications and Brand, Kong

Christopher Whaley, PhD

Associate Professor, Brown University

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 5 - Service Mesh | 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM PDT | 6:10 PM - 6:40 PM UTC

Kong Mesh: What's New and What's Next?

John Harris

Principal Product Manager, Kong

Charly Molter

Software Engineering Manager, Kong

11:40 AM - 12:10 PM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 1 - Kong Products | 11:40 AM - 12:10 PM PDT | 6:40 PM - 7:10 PM UTC

API Evolution: From Discovery to Productization with Kong Konnect

Ross Kukulinski

Senior Director of Product Management, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 2 - Best Practices | 11:40 AM - 12:10 PM PDT | 6:40 PM - 7:10 PM UTC

Using Kong at Scale for Internal and External APIs

Nitin K

Technical Architect, FourKites, Inc.

Jayakumar Mohan

Staff Engineer - Performance Engineering, Fourkites

Sankar Babu

Staff Software Engineer, Fourkites India Pvt Ltd

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 4 - API Security | 11:40 AM - 12:10 PM PDT | 6:40 PM - 7:10 PM UTC

API Security: What Works (and What Doesn't)?

Nick Rago

Field Chief Technology Officer, Salt Security

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 5 - Service Mesh | 11:40 AM - 12:10 PM PDT | 6:40 PM - 7:10 PM UTC

Secure exposed and third-party APIs using Cisco Panoptica and Kong Gateway

Meenakshi Kaushik

Product Management Leader, Cisco

Alessandro Duminuco

Principal Engineer, Cisco

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 3 - Customer / User Perspectives | 11:40 AM - 12:10 PM PDT | 6:40 PM - 7:10 PM UTC

The ABCs of AI and APIs: A Playful Primer

Jennifer Bergstrom

CTO, Mission Solutions Sector, Parsons

12:10 PM - 12:40 PM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 1 - Kong Products | 12:10 PM - 12:40 PM PDT | 7:10 PM - 7:40 PM UTC

Automate Your Own API Quality Pipelines

Dan Tolbert

API Quality and Developer Experience Leader, Cisco

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 2 - Best Practices | 12:10 PM - 12:40 PM PDT | 7:10 PM - 7:40 PM UTC

APIOps Amplified: Harnessing AI for Rapid API Delivery

Rick Spurgeon

Developer Advocate, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 3 - Customer / User Perspectives | 12:10 PM - 12:40 PM PDT | 7:10 PM - 7:40 PM UTC

Unleashing the Power of Legacy Apps: Modernizing with API Facades

Sven Bernhardt

Chief Architect, OPITZ CONSULTING Deutschland GmbH

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 4 - API Security | 12:10 PM - 12:40 PM PDT | 7:10 PM - 7:40 PM UTC

Prepare and Protect: The Evolving API Threat Landscape

Luke Babarinde

Global Solutions Architect, Imperva

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 5 - Service Mesh | 12:10 PM - 12:40 PM PDT | 7:10 PM - 7:40 PM UTC

Too Far, Too Furious: Multi- Region Microservices with Kong Mesh

Denis Magda

Head of Developer Relations, Yugabyte

12:40 PM - 12:55 PM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

12:40 PM - 12:55 PM PDT | 7:40 PM - 7:55 PM UTC

Break / Networking

12:55 PM - 1:25 PM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 1 - Kong Products | 12:55 PM - 1:25 PM PDT | 7:55 PM - 8:25 PM UTC

Kong Gateway: Enterprise and Open Source Roadmap

Tom Brightbill

Group Product Manager, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 2 - Best Practices | 12:55 PM - 1:25 PM PDT | 7:55 PM - 8:25 PM UTC

Exposing APIs as a Product with Infosys

Vijay Kannan

Principal Technology Architect, Infosys Limited

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 3 - Customer / User Perspectives | 12:55 PM - 1:25 PM PDT | 7:55 PM - 8:25 PM UTC

Unified API Management Across Any Environment, Any Cloud, Any Protocol and Any Platform

John Harris

Principal Product Manager, Kong

Smriti Jaggi

Sr. PM, Konnect Platform, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 4 - API Security | 12:55 PM - 1:25 PM PDT | 7:55 PM - 8:25 PM UTC

Securing Kong APIs with Machine Learning from Noname Security

Ryan B

Technical Director, Noname Security

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 5 - Service Mesh | 12:55 PM - 1:25 PM PDT | 7:55 PM - 8:25 PM UTC

Enhancing Kubernetes Workloads: A Journey from Ingress Controller Woes to the Power of Service Mesh

Henrik Rexed

Cloud Native Advocate, Dynatrace

1:25 PM - 1:55 PM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 3 - Customer / User Perspectives | 1:25 PM - 1:55 PM PDT | 8:25 PM - 8:55 PM UTC

Scaling Kong: Overcoming Memory Leaks, Latency, and DNS Timeout Challenges

Suren Raju

Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Careem

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 1 - Kong Products | 1:25 PM - 1:55 PM PDT | 8:25 PM - 8:55 PM UTC

The Future Unveiled: Kong Konnect Roadmap

Ross Kukulinski

Senior Director of Product Management, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 2 - Best Practices | 1:25 PM - 1:55 PM PDT | 8:25 PM - 8:55 PM UTC

Securing Azure OpenAI with Kong

Tommy Falgout

Principal Partner Solution Architect, Microsoft

Amanda Wong

Partner Solution Architect, Microsoft

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 4 - API Security | 1:25 PM - 1:55 PM PDT | 8:25 PM - 8:55 PM UTC

3 Key Principles for API Security

Tim Erlin

Head of Product, Wallarm

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 5 - Service Mesh | 1:25 PM - 1:55 PM PDT | 8:25 PM - 8:55 PM UTC

Unlocking Effortless Scalability and Management: Introducing EKS Kong Terraform Blueprints

Varun Sharma

Sr Lead Consultant, Amazon

1:55 PM - 2:25 PM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 1 - Kong Products | 1:55 PM - 2:25 PM PDT | 8:55 PM - 9:25 PM UTC

Building a Modern API Platform

Greg Peranich

Senior Solutions Engineer, Kong

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 2 - Best Practices | 1:55 PM - 2:25 PM PDT | 8:55 PM - 9:25 PM UTC

Hyperscaling API products: A governance blueprint for your company as-a-service

Pavan Keshavamurthy

CTO, Platformatory

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 3 - Customer / User Perspectives | 1:55 PM - 2:25 PM PDT | 8:55 PM - 9:25 PM UTC

Modernization Toward API-Led Connectivity for a Wealth Management Application

Ankur Kumar

Senior Director of Technology, Publicis Sapient

Day 1 - 9/27

Track 4 - API Security | 1:55 PM - 2:25 PM PDT | 8:55 PM - 9:25 PM UTC

Defense in Depth for API Security

Aldo Pietropaolo

Director Of Solutions Engineering, SGNL

2:25 PM - 8:00 PM PDT

Day 1 - 9/27

2:25 PM - 8:00 PM PDT | 9:25 PM - 3:00 AM UTC

Break / Networking

8:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT

Day 1 - 9/28

Stage | 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT | 3:00 AM - 3:30 AM UTC

Become and API-first Company

Augusto Marietti

CEO & Co-founder, Kong

João Mikos

Director of Engineering - Developer Acceleration, SeatGeek

Sanjay Modi

Senior Manager, API Lifecycle Management, Comcast

8:30 PM - 9:05 PM PDT

Day 1 - 9/28

Stage | 8:30 PM - 9:05 PM PDT | 3:30 AM - 4:05 AM UTC

Customer Fireside Chat with Rabobank

Reza Shafii

VP, Product, Kong

Eduardo Barra Cordeiro

Senior Product Owner, Rabobank

Shweta Tiwari

Solution Architect, Rabobank

Frank van Valkenburg

Business Architect Integration, Rabobank

9:05 PM - 9:50 PM PDT

Day 1 - 9/28

Stage | 9:05 PM - 9:50 PM PDT | 4:05 AM - 4:50 AM UTC

VP of Product Keynote

Reza Shafii

VP, Product, Kong

Yonatan Ryabinski

Head of Resiliency Architecture Office, Vanguard

Matt DeBergalis

CTO & Co-founder, Apollo GraphQL

Smriti Jaggi

Sr. PM, Konnect Platform, Kong

Ross Kukulinski

Senior Director of Product Management, Kong

9:50 PM - 10:25 PM PDT

Day 1 - 9/28

Stage | 9:50 PM - 10:25 PM PDT | 4:50 AM - 5:25 AM UTC

AI and APIs: A Fireside Chat

Marco Palladino

CTO & Co-founder, Kong

Martin Casado

Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

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