What we’re about
Welcome to Kong! We are so happy you are joining our global community!
This group is for everyone who is interested in learning more about APIs, microservices, Kubernetes, service mesh, and more. We are best known as the creator and primary supporter of Kong Gateway, the most widely adopted open-source API gateway.
Become a Community Organizer
We are always on the look for awesome community members to lead our user groups. The community organizer’s role is crucial to the success and vitality of Kong’s community. If you are interested in learning more, please email us at: meetups@konghq.com
Speak at a Meetup
We always want to hear from our community members about their awesome use cases! You can do a short talk of 15/20mins or a detailed technical presentation of 25/45min. Our team is happy to guide you through the process and help you with the presentation. And of course, all our community speakers get awesome swag!
Apply to speak: https://bit.ly/3JMA9Ws
Kong YouTube Channel - All of our community events are recorded and uploaded to YouTube. From User Calls, to tutorials, technical deep dives, we have it all!
Subscribe now: https://www.youtube.com/c/KongInc
Learn more about Kong
- Kong community - https://konghq.com/community
- Kong Champions - https://konghq.com/kong-champions Our champions are frequent contributors who play a key part in Kong’s community. Are you a Kong Champion? Apply today!
Upcoming events
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- Network event
•OnlineLeading the Agentic Transformation: A Blueprint for the AI-Native Enterprise
Online131 attendees from 80 groupsRegister Here
DEVELOPER DAY
The shift from static AI chatbots to autonomous, goal-oriented agents represents the most significant architectural shift in a decade. This agentic transformation requires more than just new models; it demands a fundamental evolution of our connectivity infrastructure. In this closing session for our AI Gateway series, we will synthesize the lessons from our 101 and 201 Workshops to show how Kong is being engineered to serve as the backbone for this new era.
We will explore the technical roadmap for supporting multi-agent orchestration, the role of the gateway in managing "machine-to-machine" reasoning, and how Kong’s future-state features will accelerate your organization’s agentic transformation while maintaining absolute security and cost-control.
In preparation for the Developer Day, take a look at our 101 & 201 Workshops:
1 attendee from this group - Network event
•OnlineWhy AI Connectivity Matters
Online8 attendees from 80 groupsAI is reshaping enterprise connectivity—turning it into a strategic lever for speed, cost control, and competitive advantage.
The problem is fragmentation. Most organizations have different tools, policies, and teams managing each connection point in their AI data path. The result: latency compounds, costs spiral, and governance becomes impossible at scale.
Join Kong CEO Augusto Marietti and CTO Marco Palladino for a candid conversation on how to unify your entire AI data path—from agents to models to tools—and move from pilot experiments to production scale. You'll also hear from SVP of Product Reza Shafii and Head of Product Marketing Alex Drag on what's new and what's coming in 2026: the Agentic Trust Layer, Agent Gateway, AI-native WAF, real-time data monetization, and comprehensive AI cost governance—the infrastructure layer enterprises need to operationalize AI. Learn how to prepare your stack for the demands of AI-native architecture.
Whether you're building AI governance, controlling costs, or planning your next generation of AI infrastructure, this is where the decisions that define the next decade get made.
Past events
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![[Workshop 201] Beyond the Gateway: Governing Secure and Observable AI Agents](https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/f/0/4/highres_531104804.jpeg)
