Developer Day [Kong & Mercedes-Benz] In-Person

We are thrilled to invite you to our Developer Day in collaboration with Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart!

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
March 19, 13:30 - 17:00

Where
Mercedes-Benz Office Campus Vaihingen
Industriestraße 19, 70565 Stuttgart, Germany

Agenda
13:30 Welcome and Introduction
13:45 [Talk 1] API Management Day 2 by Martin Kölbel (Principal Solutions Architect, Mercedes-Benz)
14:30 Break
14:45 [Talk 2] Bringing Developer Experience to the Next Level with Insomnia by Ankitaa Bhowmick (Senior Solutions Engineer, Kong)
15:30 Break
15:45 [Talk 3] Securing and Managing AI in a Federated Approach (AI Gateway) by Ankitaa Bhowmick (Senior Solutions Engineer, Kong)
16:30 Closing Remarks, Q&A

Talks
1) API Management Day 2
Join us for a talk on the next steps in Mercedes-Benz's API management journey. After recapping on how to establish a successful central API management solution, we'll dive into the next phase of our journey. We'll explore how to shift focus from quantity to quality and how to manage changing responsibilities. Additionally, we'll discuss the effect of an API management solution on enterprise architecture management. Discover how we continue to advance API management beyond the basics!

2) Bringing Developer Experience to the Next Level with Insomnia
When starting to create a new API from scratch you want to agree with all stakeholders on the desired functionality. Using Insomnia you can start a design first approach in a collaborative way syncing with all involved parties within the company. But it does not stop there. You also want to test and try out your current coding progress, automate those tests in your pipeline and finally push the system to production in fully automated way.

3) Securing and Managing AI in a Federated Approach
With AI / LLMs becoming production ready for a growing number of projects organisations start to see the need to centralize mission critical security, monitoring and routing across different models, providers and cloud as well as self-hosted. How can the Kong AI Gateway help to solve all of those while also providing benefits for the individual developers.

Speakers
Ankitaa Bhowmick (Senior Solutions Engineer, Kong)
Ankitaa represents Kong Inc. as a Senior Solutions Engineer responsible for all Enterprise customers in the DACH region. She has more than 12 years of experience in IT ranging from Software Engineering and Testing to Solution Engineering and Architecture, working primarily with customer in the DACH and Eastern European region. She is currently focussed on supporting customers to build scalable and future-ready API and AI Gateway solutions with the Kong platform.

Martin Kölbel (Principal Solutions Architect, Mercedes-Benz)
Martin brings over 25 years of experience as a Solution Architect in international projects. For the past 8 years, he has played a pivotal role in ramping up the Mercedes-Benz API management platform and establishing an API community, gaining in-depth insights into the needs of API consumers and providers. He is the product owner of the API gateways and analytics, a contributor to gateway plugins and Kong Gateway development.

See you there!
Kong Community Team