Name: [In-Person Meetup] Mumbai : Kong User Group
Start: 2025-07-19T05:30:00.000Z
Location: ITM Institute of Design and Media

APIs power modern digital experiences—but as their footprint expands, so do the challenges around performance, security, and manageability. Kong Konnect helps enterprises meet these demands by bringing API gateway and service mesh together in a single, unified platform.

In this session, you’ll see how Konnect simplifies operations, strengthens your security posture, and accelerates innovation across your API landscape.

Key Takeaways:

* Strengthened Security: See how Konnect embeds policy-driven protections to secure APIs and ensure compliance.
* Seamless Scalability: Explore how to streamline API management, automate workflows, and scale services effortlessly.
* Faster Innovation: Unlock tools that improve API reuse, speed up development, and enhance the developer experience.

Kong/AMSTERDAM

Unifying Service Mesh and API Gateway with Kong Konnect

Online event

We are thrilled to welcome you to our in-person Meetup in Amsterdam in collaboration with Picnic Technologies!

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**
July 10, 17:30 - 20:30

**Where**
Van Marwijk Kooystraat 15, 1114 AG Amsterdam, Netherlands

**Agenda**
17:30 Doors Open
18:00 Food & Drinks
18:30 Talk 1 Evolution of Event-based APIs at Picnic by (Valeri Filimonova
Staff Engineer, Picnic Technologies)
18:55 Talk 2 From API first to Agentic AI by Ash Osborne (Field CTO, Kong)
19:20 short refreshment break
19:35 Talk 3 Building Agentic AI Applications with Spring AI and Model Context Protocol by Christian Tzolov (Spring team @ Broadcom)
20:00 Networking & Drinks

**Talks**
*1) Evolution of Event-based APIs at Picnic*
This session examines the evolution of event-driven APIs in Picnic's Warehouse Systems domain, highlighting the organizational and technical challenges that emerged as the system grew from one monolith to dozen of microservices. We'll discuss the signals that drove architectural decisions, the solutions implemented at each phase, current challenges and next steps.

*2) From API first to Agentic AI*
How API First is laying the foundations for agentic AI. Learn best practises tools and techniques to ensure your organisation is ready for the adoption of agentic AI.

In this session Kong will share its opinion on how a structured approach to APIs is the foundational bedrock for agentic AI adoption and success in an organisation.

*3) Building Agentic AI Applications with Spring AI and Model Context Protocol*

Modern AI applications require more than simple API calls—they need agents that interact meaningfully with real-world systems. This talk demonstrates the evolution from basic LLM integration to agentic applications using Spring AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), creating systems that seamlessly interact with web services, file systems, and business tools. Through live coding examples, you'll learn how Spring AI simplifies building and integrating MCP-enabled agents.

**Speakers**
*Valeri Filimonova (Staff Engineer, Picnic Technologies)*
Valeri Filimonova is a Staff Engineer at Picnic, passionate about software architecture, clean code, and distributed systems. She has deep experience in designing maintainable systems with a focus on event-driven architectures. As the company’s RabbitMQ expert, she leads messaging-related improvements and teaches an internal course on the topic.

Ash Osborne *(Field CTO, Kong)*
Ash Osborne brings more than 10 years of experience working in enterprise technology to his role as field CTO for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Kong. He is responsible for helping customers adopt and scale APIs and accelerate AI adoption. Ash is based in London and earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Kent.

*Christian Tzolov, R&D Software Engineer (Spring team, Broadcom)*

Christian Tzolov, R&D Software Engineer at Broadcom's Spring team, leads the Spring AI and MCP Java SDK projects. He specializes in connecting enterprise systems with AI capabilities, helping Java developers build intelligent applications. Christian brings hands-on experience and a pragmatic approach to making advanced AI concepts accessible and useful for real-world applications.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!
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[IN-PERSON] Picnic x Kong Meetup

Picnic

We are thrilled to invite you to our in person meetup in Bangalore!

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.

For this meetup with be partnering with Bangalore SRE Groups this session, We’ll go over the basics of designing and testing APIs using Insomnia by Kong.

Let’s come together to share knowledge, forge connections, and toast to a more reliable future!

**When:** July 12th, 2025
**Time:** 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
**Location**: Smarsh Inc. (Halasuru, Bangalore)

**AGENDA:**
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM -
**Introductions and Kick -off**

11:30 - 12 PM
**Talk 1 -** **Introduction to Insomnia – Simplifying API Testing and CI/CD Integration by Harsha Software Engineer II - API Operations, Kong**

* Create a simple API, and an OpenAPI spec for it.
* Generate collection from OpenAPI spec for testing, use it on local
* Automating API tests using Insomnia CLI (`inso`)
* Running tests in CI tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)

12:05 - 12:35 PM -
**Talk 2 - TBD**

12:45 - 1:15 PM -
**Talk 3 - TBD**

1:15 onwards -
**Networking over Coffee/Refreshments**

This event is in collaboration with: [Bangalore SRE Group](https://www.meetup.com/sre-bangalore/events/308536288/?isFirstPublish=true)
Venue and refreshments sponsor for the meetup: [Smarsh Inc.](https://www.smarsh.com/)

Kong/BENGALURU

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Kong Bengaluru x Bangalore SRE  July month meetup

Smarsh Inc

We are thrilled to invite you to our in person meetup in Mumbai!
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 session, we’ll cover the Build and Runtime stages of the Kong platform. We’ll also talk about microservices, Kong Gateways, Kong plugins, and how authentication works with the Gateway.

**When**
July 19 , 11:00AM - 2:00 PM

**Where**
ITM Institute of Design and Media
Suvidha Square, SV Road
Andheri West

**Agenda**
**11:00 - 11:15 Networking, everyone gathers**
**11:15 - 11:30** - **Introduction to Kong Konnect By Juhi Singh (Joining Virtually)**
**11:30 - 12:15** **Microservice : basic to implementation**
**Description** **by Amandeep Singh**

* How can we write a microservice
* Running a microservice
* Maintaining ports and API reference is hectic : Introduction to gateway
* Kong API gateway
* Plugin with Kong

**12:15 - 1:00 :** **Auth with Gateway by Susmit Vengurlekar**

* Dissecting Kong API Gateway: Routes, Services, Upstreams, Plugins
* A simple architecture showcasing authentication, authorization, application of DRY (don’t repeat yourself)
* principle Understandin the architecture with code
* Live Demo

**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/MUMBAI

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[In-Person Meetup] Mumbai : Kong User Group

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