Join us for Kong 
Partner Summit 2025

The Kong Partner Summit is a global event where partners discover new cutting-edge products, learn how to bring more value to their customer base, gain expert insights, and network with industry leaders. Through keynotes, hands-on training, and business impact sessions, attendees will expand their expertise, accelerate growth, and strengthen partnerships with Kong.

Kong Partner Summit will take place October 13, 2025, in New York City at Convene Brookfield Place, 225 Liberty, located in Brookfield Place in downtown Manhattan's Financial District at 225 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10281. For more information about parking and public transportation, go here.

API Summit Live takes place following this event on October 14-15, 2025, in the same location.

Sponsors for this event will be by invite only. You may still submit for Call For Papers (info below).

Want a better chance at getting your session accepted? We’re looking for partner success stories that bring in joint customers to speak on stage! 😉

Yes! We encourage you to stay throughout the following event.

Ticket pricing and tiers will be launched in the coming weeks. Sign up to receive updates on API Summit Live 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.

Maybe! We're looking for speakers from Kong’s partner program, 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 papers page to toss your hat in the ring.

Tip: Speakers who bring a joint customer are more likely to be accepted!

The agenda and other announcements will be released as we get closer to this year’s event. Updates on the Kong Partner Summit will be in the partner newsletter.

Kong Events including API Summit by Kong, partner events, 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.

Review all the Event Terms and Code of Conduct here.