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Oct 14 – 15, 2025New York City

API Summit Live 2025:
Call for Proposals

API Summit Live brings together builders and businesses around the world with the global Kong community to discuss the latest trends in developer-driven innovation and explore real-world solutions to building, securing, consuming, and connecting APIs and microservices.

Interested in presenting? We’re looking for speakers from Kong’s community of users and customers and beyond!

Suggested topics

Share your insights, projects, success (and horror) stories, or lessons learned. Working on something cool? Want to explore a specific topic? Got a hot take on a trending topic? We want to hear from you!

Take to the spotlight at API Summit and talk about building new ideas, empowering developers, modernizing connectivity, ensuring security and governance, or one of the potential topics below.

Successes and challenges around AI and LLMs
Creating an elevated developer experience
API threats or security for microservices applications
Adopting multi-cloud or going hybrid
Running microservices at scale
Cloud native patterns — managing services in Kubernetes
Exposing APIs as a product
API design, testing, and collaboration
Observability in a microservices architecture
Amplifying automation

Dates to Remember

All talks this year will be 30 minutes in length and take place in person during the conference. One complimentary pass for the event will be provided for the speaker. There will be no compensation for travel or accommodations. If selected to speak, you must adhere to all deadlines or risk having your talk removed from the schedule.

Call for proposals opens

March 20, 2025

Call for proposals closes

11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST), June 26, 2025

Event dates

October 14-15, 2025

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