Kong/BENGALURU

📅 Date: 11th October, 2025
📍 Location: Smarsh Inc, Second Floor, Salarpuria Cambridge, 9, Cambridge Rd, Halasuru, Udani Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560008
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/t59NTCtEHHVEGAbi6

🕒 Schedule:
11:00 AM - Check In and Kick off the event
come, check in the venue, settle in and kick off the event.
11:30 - 12:00: [Talk] When APIs Misbehave: Modern Detective Work with Smart Debugging
When APIs misbehave, the real cause often hides in the shadows DNS, upstreams, gateways, or something deeper.
In this talk, a smarter way of debugging will be revealed: how deep, targeted visibility into API traffic can be unlocked without the burden of always-on monitoring. The question is—are you ready to see what your APIs are really doing?
Speaker: Akash Thomas
Software engineer specializing in Go, SaaS control planes and observability with a passion for building scalable backend systems.
As an early engineer at multiple startups, I'm passionate about building products from the ground up and delivering impact.

12:00 - 12:30: [Talk] Observability at Petabyte scale.
Suresha from Smarsh show how they do Observability at scale, and show their Observability architecture
Speaker: Suresha Posavalike
Suresha is an SRE Manager focused on observability and reliability. He started out as a developer, moved through application engineering, and now leads efforts to keep systems resilient and running smoothly.
Talk to him about SRE practices, observability, and reliability engineering — and on the personal side, about his journey from development to operations.

12:30-12:45: Short Break
12:45 - 13:15: [Talk] Monitoring the Monitors? Meta Monitoring in Practice
what happens when the monitoring systems themselves fail? This talk goes in details of the principles and practices of meta monitoring, where you have out of band monitoring for the monitoring systems itself.
Speaker: Suraj Sidh
Suraj is Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, working on Grafana Tempo, he also maintains Prometheus Blackbox Exporter.
Talk to him about Distributed Tracing, and on the personal side 3D priting, Coffee and Tea.

13:15 - 13:30: Close Off
Close off the event with thanks to host, speakers and attenddes. grab something to eat, ask your questions to speakers, network with the folks and close off the event.
13:30 - 14:00: Networking

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When & Where
Virtual

Tuesday, October 14 | 9:30 - 11:45am EST

Wednesday, October 15 | 9:00 - 10:45am EST

Pricing & Registration
Your virtual keynote pass (FREE) includes access to keynote sessions of API Summit, networking, and Kong Demos.

All breakout sessions will be made available 1-2 weeks following the conclusion of the conference.

Who Should Attend
Developers, product managers, platform owners/engineers, architects, IT professionals, and anyone working with or learning about Kong.

Day 1 October 14
9:30am - 10:45am
Welcome and Keynotes by Augusto Marietti (CEO and Co-Founder) and Reza Shafii (SVP, Product)

Day 2 October 15
9:00am - 10:45am
Keynotes by Marco Palladino (CTO and Co-Founder) and special guest keynote

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[Developer Day] Developer Experience in Practice: Developer Portal, Observability & Identity with Kong Konnect

In preparation for this Developer Day, check out the recordings from our Workshops leading up to it:

1. Kong Konnect Automations 101: Introduction to API Platform-as-a-Service Concepts and Delivery Methods

2. [Workshop] Kong Konnect Automations 201: APIOps in Action - Automating the API Lifecycle with Kong Konnect

This hands-on Developer Day builds on the first two workshops (Platform setup and APIOps automation) to deliver a complete developer experience. You’ll stand up a Kong Konnect Developer Portal with self-registration and application onboarding, wire the portal to an OIDC identity provider for SSO and token issuance, and publish APIs and docs from your APIOps pipeline.

In parallel, you’ll configure Konnect Analytics to capture metrics and usage data from your Kong gateways and services. By the end, platform teams will have clear guardrails and automation, while API and app teams get a governed, self-service path from discovery to secure consumption—backed by actionable analytics.

Key Takeaways

• Configure the Konnect Developer Portal with self-registration, app credentials, and approval workflows.
• Integrate an OIDC IdP for SSO, role mapping, and token issuance for portal users and applications.
• Automate API and documentation publishing to the portal from your APIOps (GitOps/CI) pipeline.
• Set up Konnect Analytics to collect and visualize API consumption and performance metrics.
• Split responsibilities: platform teams provide guardrails and automation; API teams manage products and docs; app teams self-serve access.
• Produce a reusable reference implementation you can adapt to your organization’s environment.