# AWS Immersion Day San Francisco: Kong Konnect and AI Gateway
**In-Person, Hands-on Workshop with Kong & AWS**
**This event is free but will fill up - reserve your seat today!**
## AWS Immersion Day: San Francisco
In the era of GenAI, there is no AI without APIs — in addition to a modern, API-first strategy, developers need a robust “AI as APIs” strategy to ensure seamless integration, optimize performance and governance, and achieve long-term scalability of GenAI applications.
Join us for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn how Kong Konnect enables federated API management across the entire API lifecycle and how Kong AI Gateway and Amazon Bedrock provide essential capabilities for scaling AI use cases securely and efficiently.
**What You’ll Learn**
- - Kong Konnect Architecture Overview
- - AI Gateway Essentials
- - Deploying Konnect on AWS
- - Explore API and AI Use Cases
- Authentication
- AWS Lambda integration
- AI Prompt Engineering
- AI Semantic Caching
- And much more…
**What's Needed?**
Bring your laptop as you will need to connect to the internet.
Attendees will be guided through the AWS and Kong Konnect setup process, including comprehensive walkthroughs of the Kong Konnect Gateway Manager, Kong AI Gateway, Kong Plugins, and Monitoring systems.
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