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See all- Network event192 attendees from 81 groups hostingThe Kong Agentic AI Hackathon at API Summit 2025Link visible for attendees
We’re excited to invite you and your team to the Kong-quer Agentic AI Hackathon, part of API Summit 2025. This global hackathon is happening virtually, so you can join from anywhere.
Theme: Agentic AI, systems that think, adapt, and act on their own. We’re challenging you to build projects that go beyond simple responses, taking initiative to solve real problems with minimal guidance.
What you can win:
- $10,000 in total prizes for 7 winners
- Digital contributor badges for all valid entries
- A chance to be featured during API Summit, on the Kong blog, and across our social media
Key details:
- Who: Join solo or in teams (up to 5 people)
- When: Submit between September 15–30, 2025
- Judging: Based on creativity, technical depth, impact, and how well you integrate with Kong
📌 Full details, rules, and registration are here: Hackathon Landing Page
We’d love to see what you create, something that doesn’t just respond, but truly acts.
Cheers,
- Network event42 attendees from 81 groups hostingInsomnia Unleashed: Next-Level API Collaboration, Testing & Debugging for ModernLink visible for attendees
APIs are at the heart of modern software, but they don’t exist in isolation—and neither should your tools. Join us for an in-depth demonstration of Kong Insomnia, the developer-first platform designed for seamless API collaboration, confident testing, and limitless debugging. Whether you’re looking to streamline teamwork, migrate over, or gain flexibility in how and where your data is stored, Insomnia is built to put developers in control.
We’ve been hard at work making Insomnia even better, and this session will showcase the latest improvements in v11.6—a fresh wave of updates that reflect our ongoing investment in developer experience. Insomnia can be the API client for teams of one, ten or ten thousand.
During this session, you’ll discover how Insomnia’s powerful features—like Git Sync, effortless migration, and adaptable storage options—help teams move faster, work better together, and fully own their API development process. See firsthand how Insomnia removes bottlenecks and empowers your entire team to innovate without limits.
Key Takeaways:
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Seamless Collaboration with Git Sync
Learn how Insomnia’s built-in Git Sync keeps your API projects version-controlled and effortlessly synchronized across your team, eliminating friction and ensuring everyone’s always up to date. -
Easy Migration
Discover how simple it is to import your collections into Insomnia, enabling your team to make the switch in just a few clicks—without losing any of your valuable work. -
Flexible Storage for Every Workflow
Explore Insomnia’s flexible storage options, whether you prefer local, your own cloud, or Kong’s cloud. Gain full control over your data and adapt your workflow to meet your security and compliance needs.
Join us to see why Insomnia is the go-to alternative for modern API development, and get a first look at the latest innovations in v11.6—helping you build, test, and debug APIs faster, with full confidence and total team alignment.
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- [Agentic AI] Kong x LangWatch In Person MeetupVirtual Meetup: Amsterdam, Amsterdam
We are thrilled to welcome you to our in-person Meetup in Amsterdam in collaboration with LangWatch!
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.
When: September 18, 18:00 - 21:00
Where: Herengracht 551, 1017 BW Amsterdam, Netherlands
Agenda
18:00 Doors Open, Food & Drinks
18:30 Talk 1: Beyond unit tests: How Agent Simulations are redefining AI Agent testing (Rogerio Chaves CTO, LangWatch)
19:00 Refreshment Break
19:15 Talk 2: Agentic AI & APIs – Building for the Next Wave of Intelligence
(Deepak Grewal, Staff Solutions Engineer, Kong)
19:45 Networking & DrinksSynopsis
Talk 1: Beyond unit tests: How Agent Simulations are redefining AI Agent testing
AI agents are growing more capable but also more complex reasoning through multiple steps, using external tools, and acting with autonomy. Traditional testing methods and static evaluations often miss failures that emerge in real-world, dynamic environments. But what if we could model realistic agent‑user and tool‑interactions, stress test behavior over time, and catch defects before deployment?
In this session, Rogerio (CTO, LangWatch) demonstrates how agent simulations expose hidden failure modes, validate behavioral robustness, and support continuous regression detection. Attendees will learn hands‑on techniques to:
- Simulate end‑to‑end user‑agent workflows and tool integrations
- Measure performance across diverse scenarios and over time
- Detect regressions early and benchmark agent improvements
- Integrate simulation‑based testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Avoid common pitfalls in designing realistic test / evaluations environments for AI apps.
By the end, participants will understand how simulation‑driven evaluation elevates confidence in AI agent reliability, enabling safer and more scalable development and deployment.
Talk 2: Agentic AI & APIs – Building for the Next Wave of Intelligence
We’re entering the Agentic AI era—where intelligent agents don’t just respond, but plan, reason, take action, and interact with the world via APIs.In this talk, Deepak Grewal (Staff Solutions Engineer at Kong) explores how the API landscape is evolving to support this new generation of autonomous AI agents. You’ll learn:
- What Agentic AI is and why 2025 could be its breakout year
- The 3 core requirements for autonomous agents
- How APIs are becoming the new “power outlets” for cognitive capabilities
- What makes an API “Agent Ready”
- How to prepare your API platform to enable intelligent agents
Whether you’re building APIs, working with LLMs, or just curious about the intersection of AI and infrastructure—this session will give you a clear, actionable view of what’s coming next.
Speakers
Rogerio Chaves CTO, LangWatch
Rogério is the co-founder and CTO of LangWatch, a leading platform for LLM observability and AI agent testing. With over 15 years of experience in software engineering and machine learning, including his time at Booking.com, he experienced firsthand the challenges of not knowing what comes out of your models in production. That pain became the motivation for founding LangWatch: to help teams ship GenAI features confidently.Deepak Grewal, Staff Solutions Engineer, Kong
Deepak Grewal is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Kong, specializing in Service Mesh & API Management and working with Kong’s customers in the Benelux region. Deepak comes from a technical background with past experience working in Australia in the areas of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability, Leasing & Loan Originations as well as in the Financial Trading industry.Hope to see you there!
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