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

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!
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