Name: [In-Person Meetup] The End of Hardcoding AI access
Start: 2025-05-21T16:00:00.000Z
Location: Die Zentrale Coworking

We are thrilled to invite you to our next in-person Meetup in Delhi!
Kong makes connecting APIs and microservices across today’s hybrid, multi-cloud environments easier and faster than ever.

We power trillions of API transactions for leading organisations globally through our end-to-end API platform.

**When**
May 10th , 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

**Where**
HCDS Technologies, Gurgaon

**Agenda**
**11:00 - 11:10 AM - Registration**

**11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Introduction to Kong Gateway, Akshay Pandey, Senior Associate, Cognizant**
This session provides a comprehensive introduction to APIs and API management, focusing on practical implementation with Kong Konnect Gateway.
Key topics include:

* Fundamentals of API management
* Getting started with Kong Konnect Gateway
* Exploring Kong plugins for extended functionality

**12:00 - 12:45 PM : Kafka Queued Up: Unlocking Share Groups with KIP-932 Chirag Wadhwa, Software Engineer, Confluent**
Kafka has long dominated the pub-sub space, but KIP-932 introduces a powerful new consumption model: **share groups**, enabling true queue-style semantics by allowing multiple consumers to process messages from the same partition concurrently. This talk dives deep into the technical foundations of share groups—covering partition coordination, record state management, offset tracking, and persistence. We’ll unpack the design decisions, trade-offs, and internal mechanisms that make queueing in Kafka both scalable and reliable. If you're curious about how Kafka is evolving to support high-concurrency consumers with minimal changes to its core architecture, this session is for you.

**12:45 - 02:00 PM Food and Networking**
Dedicated time for attendees to munch, network, establish connections, and bond over shared interests.
Look forward to hosting you for great learning session and networking over a lunch.

Kong/DELHI

Kong Meetups

Gaurav Malhotra

Sahil

Yashansh Srivastava

Sehaj

Pawan Rajput

Ansh Saxena

Animesh Das

Nikhil Kumar

ANUJ TREHAN

sachin kumar

Aastha Bhalla

Shubham Bajpai

yashibagoli.bagoli

harshita harsh

rsourabh.sharma999

Gourav Singh

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Sourav Singh

[In-Person Meetup] Delhi : Apache Kafka + Kong Meetup 

HCDS Technologies 

As organizations evolve, so do the demands on their API infrastructure. Flexibility in deployment—whether on-premises, in the cloud, or as a fully managed service—has become critical to building scalable, secure, and future-ready systems.

In this webinar, we'll explore how to design and operate an API management strategy that supports a wide range of deployment models without sacrificing control, performance, or security. Learn how hybrid architectures and fully managed platforms can coexist, giving your teams the ability to choose what works best—today and into the future.
Whether you're managing APIs across multiple environments or looking to consolidate under a unified model, this session will provide the insight you need to evaluate your options and move forward with confidence.

Key Takeaways:

* **Architectural Flexibility**: Understand how to select and evolve your deployment strategy across on-prem, cloud, and managed models.
* **Unified Platform Approach**: See how to bring together different environments under one governance and operational framework.
* **Cost Efficiency and ROI**: Explore the economic trade-offs between hybrid and SaaS models.
* **Security and Scalability**: Learn how to maintain enterprise-grade security and performance, regardless of where or how your APIs are deployed.

Kong/PARIS

seydina

Architectural Freedom: The Gateway to Enabling Your Hybrid Multi-Cloud Strategy

Online event

We are thrilled to invite you to our first in person meetup in Pune!

Kong makes connecting APIs and microservices across today’s hybrid, multi-cloud environments easier and faster than ever. We power trillions of API transactions for leading organisations globally through our end-to-end API platform.

In this meetup, our speakers will dive into building Multi-Region API Infrastructure and managing Reliable API Gateways with Kong.

**When**
May 17 , 10:30AM - 2:00 PM

**Where**
Intangle Labs, Pune

**Agenda**
**10:30 - 11:00 Networking, everyone gathers**

**11:00 - 11:15** **Introduction to Kong Community (Virtually) By Juhi Singh, Developer Advocate**

**11:15 - 12:00 Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways: Ensuring Reliable Gateway Management by Nandakumar, Senior SRE Kong**
Dive into the world of Kong Konnect’s Dedicated Cloud Gateways, where scalability meets reliability. Learn how we seamlessly manage gateways to ensure high availability and optimized performance. This session explores the architecture, key features, and best practices that empower businesses to achieve smooth API operations in the cloud.

**12:00 - 12:45 : Building a Multi-Region API Infrastructure with Kong Gateway by Saurabh Mishra DevOps Lead, Global Payments & Toshal Khawale, Engineering Leader**

**12:45 to 1:00 : Kong Quiz**

**1:00 - 2:00 Lunch & Networking**
Would love to host you over a great lunch and networking session.

**Take home some awesome Kong swag!**

Kong Community Team!
See you there!

Kong/Pune

Toshal Khawale

Saurabh Mishra

Pushpak Umesh Borse

Gautam Dholaria

Sachin Khisti

Talib Sayyed

Pranali Navgrahe

Vishvas Dubey

SIDDHARTH

Rahul Ambhore

tushar jambhekar

DamodarJivrajani 

Utkarsha Shelke

Satveer

Mahesh

Mayur Rathi

Tarim Ansari

Sumit Kumawat

Shubham Dwivedi 

[In-Person Meetup] Kickoff Meetup – Kong User Group Pune

Intangles Lab

We are thrilled to invite you to our Meeutp in collaboration with OPITZ CONSULTING in Frankfurt!

Kong makes connecting APIs and microservices across today’s hybrid, multi-cloud environments easier and faster than ever.

We power trillions of API transactions for leading organizations globally through our end-to-end API platform and service offerings.

**When**
May 21, 18:00 - 21:00

**Where**
Die Zentrale Coworking, Berger Str. 175, 60385 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

**Agenda**
18:00 - 18:30 Networking, Snacks & Drinks
18:30 - 19:15 [Talk 1] The End of Hardcoding AI Access by Sven Walther (Principal Solutions Engineer, Kong)
19:15 - 20:00 [Talk 2] Taming Kubernetes Traffic: Secure, Scalable, and Observable with Kong Gateway by Sven Bernhardt (Chief Architect, OPITZ CONSULTING Deutschland GmbH)
20:00 - 21:00 Q&A, Networking, Snacks & Drinks

**Talks**
*1) The End of Hardcoding AI Access*
When starting your AI journey you typically build all your LLM access including access control, prompt guarding, caching, observability and more over and over again in code. How about the possibility to not only automate all of this by using declarative configuration but also to get a company wide standard which can be adopted in seconds for all LLMs at once?

We will have a look a the architecture of the Kong AI Gateway how it can be used both de-centralized and centralized at the same time and see this all live in action on examples with different LLM providers in the same setup

*2) Taming Kubernetes Traffic: Secure, Scalable, and Observable with Kong Gateway*
Kubernetes is powerful, but API chaos is just around the corner without structure, visibility, and security. Enter Kong Gateway, your traffic controller and policy enforcer in the fast-moving world of microservices.
In this session, you’ll learn how to integrate Kong into Kubernetes using the Kong Ingress Controller for intelligent routing, authentication, rate limiting, and service discovery.

We’ll also explore how the Kong Gateway Operator enables centralized management of multi-tenant, multi-gateway environments, with built-in support for TLS termination, secrets management, and observability via Prometheus and Grafana.

To avoid the usual YAML sprawl, we’ll look at how GitOps and Infrastructure as Code help version, roll out, and automate gateway configurations in a reliable and auditable way.

**Speakers**
*Sven Walther (Principal Solutions Engineer EMEA, Kong)*
Sven is responsible for all technical questions, presentations and installations for Kong Inc. prospects in the API and services space in the European region. He has more than 20 years experience with different enterprise IT solutions consuming, providing and managing APIs. He is currently focused on providing the world-class solutions for APIs, services and Developer Engagement.

In his professional career he soon focused on the idea of selling by providing consultancy in both the commercial and the technical space. Seeing is believing is one of his major concepts for presentations showing real systems instead of a stack of slides.

After having successfully completed studying economics he started his career on leading enterprise software companies being responsible for his home market Germany as well Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has been working for leading software vendors in development focused industries in technical driven presales roles ever since.

*Sven Bernhardt (Chief Architect, OPITZ CONSULTING)*
Sven is a technology enthusiast and works for OPITZ CONSULTING in Germany as Chief Architect as part of the Corporate Development team. In his role, he manages the technology portfolio and develops Best Practices and Guidelines. In addition, Sven supports his colleagues in implementing Software solutions for Customers.

Sven regularly speaks at various conferences about technology or architecture topics and shares his thoughts and experiences through articles and blog posts.

See you there!
Kong Community Team

*By registering for this event, I understand that my personal information will be processed in accordance with [Kong's Privacy Policy.](https://konghq.com/legal/privacy-policy)*

Kong/Frankfurt

Hüseyin Öztas

Junaid A

Neel

John Williams

Sven Bernhardt

Jialiang Gao

[In-Person Meetup] The End of Hardcoding AI access

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