Kong London In-Person Meetup (June)

We are thrilled to invite you to our second in-person meetup in London for 2023 in collaboration with Wipro!

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
June 28, 18:00 - 21:00 BST

Where
Wipro Limited, Victoria House, Level 6, Bloomsbury Square London, WC1B 4DA

Agenda
18:00 - 18:30 Everyone gathers, drinks & snacks, networking
18:30 - 19:15 Talk 1 Govern the Sprawl of Your Microservices with Ease Using Kong Service Mesh by Andrew Klitovchenko (Senior Solutions Engineer at Kong)
19:15 - 20:00 Talk 2 Impact of Generative AI in the Integration Landscape by Pramod Nair (Global Head of AECS-Integration and Europe Head of Enterprise Architecture at Wipro)
20:00 - 21:00 Networking, food & drinks

Talks
Talk 1 Govern the Sprawl of Your Microservices with Ease Using Kong Service Mesh
On the journey of splitting monolith, organisations often face the challenge of governing their newly built microservices. How can they ensure their microservices are secure, observed etc., at scale? In this meetup, we will speak about the following:

• What service mesh is and why we need it
• How Kong is different to other service meshes

We will demonstrate how Kong Service Mesh can help you easily observe, secure, and traffic-control your microservices.At the end of the session, we will look into the future of API and Service connectivity with Kong.

Talk 2 Impact of Generative AI in the Integration Landscape
Generative AI came into reckoning rapidly over the last two quarters. This is a technology that has immense potential and Enterprises all over are trying to grapple with the exponential growth of this technology. It is assumed that in a short while there will be a proliferation of models in the market leading challenges in manging the models, connecting to the models (API based Connectivity) and training models with adequate data without compromising security. The talk aims at looking at emergence of Large Language model based Generative AI’s and what kind of connectivity and management platforms enterprise needs to think about to manage influx of such models. This presentation also explores how Wipro and Kong can work together to create a Large Language Model Gateway proposition for our customers.

Speakers
Andrew Klitovchenko (Senior Solutions Engineer at Kong)
Andrew Klitovchenko is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Kong, the cloud connectivity company. Andrew helps organisations modernise their API and Service Connectivity governance journeys and make their API and Service Connectivity strategies a competitive advantage. Before his current role, in similar positions, he helped large enterprises with their data streaming and analytics, data privacy and application performance monitoring use cases. Outside of work, Andrew likes playing football, hiking, 3D printing, travelling and exploring new countries and cultures.

Pramod Nair (Global Head of AECS-Integration and Europe Head of Enterprise Architecture at Wipro)
Pramod Nair leads Wipro’s Intelligent Business Integration Practice Globally, and he also heads the European arm of Wipro’s Enterprise Architecture Practice. Pramod has more than 20 years of industry experience in various business and technology domains. In the past he played the roles of CTO, Chief Architect and Practice Head for Wipro. Pramod is a Graduate from London Business School and currently pursuing his Masters in Artificial Intelligence.