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Kong

Product category: Cloud infrastructure 71% confident
Org type: Software vendor 94% confident
Also listed as 1 other name

Kong Inc

Conferences sponsored8
Events sponsored21
Speaker slots1811 distinct people
Conferences present at11sponsor or speaker
Years active2019–2026
Talks, past 12 months9#187 on the communication index · many voices

Circuit mix

Where Kong shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.

The year around now

Conferences where Kong sponsored or had speakers in the past 12 months, and the announced events it is already listed for. One row per conference, January to December; hover a mark for the event and the company's role.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecCDAO (Chief Data & Analyti…CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) SummitsMCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon +…MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPConGoogle Cloud NextGoogle Cloud NextCurrentCurrent (formerly Kafka Summit)QConQConThe AI SummitThe AI SummitBig Data & AI ParisBig Data & AI ParisAWS re:InventAWS re:Invent
Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 9, 2026

Presence by conference and year

Each cell is one conference in one year. Fill shows the company sponsored, shaded by its best tier that year; a dot means it had speakers there. Hover for details; click to open the event.

  • Title
  • Platinum
  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Bronze
  • Other / unlabeled tier
  • Had speakers
Conference20192020202120222023202420252026
AWS re:Invent
Current (formerly Kafka Summit)
CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits
MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon
QCon
Big Data & AI Paris
Google Cloud Next
The AI Summit
AI By the Bay
AICon 全球人工智能开发与应用大会 (AICon Global AI Development and Application Conference)
Distributed SQL Summit

Activity by year

Three measures on one year axis; each panel has its own scale.

Conferences present at

Distinct conferences each year, split by whether the company sponsored or only had speakers there.

  • Sponsored
  • Speakers only

Distinct speakers

People from this company on a program that year, each counted once.

Sponsorships by tier

Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.

  • Platinum
  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Bronze

Where they've grown or pulled back

UpSponsored 6 conferences in 2026, up from 1 in 2023.

Counted per conference. 2026 is the latest year whose conferences have mostly happened. Tiers use the best tier each year; swatches show the path, oldest first. A conference counts as pulled out only when a later event published a complete sponsor list, since most events don’t say whether their list is complete.

New 6

First sponsored in 2025 or later.

Moved up 1

Best tier rose between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.

Moved down 1

Best tier fell between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.

Lookalikes

Companies with the most similar conference footprint: they sponsor and speak at the same conferences. Bars are cosine similarity, from 0 (nothing shared) to 1 (identical).

  1. McDonald's0.80
  2. Eon0.75
  3. Solace0.72
  4. Grab0.66
  5. groundcover0.66
  6. Kellanova0.65
  7. Couchbase0.65
  8. SingleStore0.64

15 Cluster: CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits · The AI Summit circuit →

Often sponsors alongside

Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 21 this company sponsored).

CompanyShared eventsShare
IBM1362%
Datadog1257%
Informatica1257%
Red Hat1257%
Confluent1152%
MongoDB1152%
Snowflake1152%
Amazon Web Services1048%
Databricks1048%
Elastic1048%
Accenture943%
Boomi943%
Cloudera943%
Infosys943%
Neo4j943%

Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints

Kong (ringed) and the 30 companies closest to it on the company map. Close together means they sponsor and speak at many of the same conferences. Distances are only meaningful locally; the axes have no meaning. Dot size: conferences present at. Color: cluster.

KongMcDonald'sSolaceInfluxDataAzulCamundaAntithesisHazelcastRiskifiedRobinhoodDBOSGraviteePingCAPJohn DeereNordstromScyllaDBDiscordHidden DoorGetInDataRestateRedditSwiggyStreamNativeRisingWave LabsStarTreeTrendyolCube DevSVA
KongMcDonald'sSolaceInfluxDataAzulCamundaAntithesisTacnodeRiskifiedRobinhoodDBOSGraviteePingCAPJohn DeereNordstromScyllaDBDiscordHidden DoorGetInDataRestateRedditSwiggyStarTreeSVA

Sponsorships 21

EventDatePlaceTier as listedNormalized tier
AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026Oct 22–23, 2026San Jose, United StatesPlatinum Platinum
CDAIO New Zealand 2026Oct 19–20, 2026Auckland, New ZealandGold Partners Gold
Big Data & AI Paris 2026Sep 15–16, 2026Paris, FranceBronze Bronze
CDAO Melbourne 2026Sep 1–2, 2026Melbourne, AustraliaGold Partners Gold
The AI Summit London 2026Jun 10–11, 2026London, United KingdomBronze Sponsors Bronze
QCon AI Boston 2026Jun 1–2, 2026Boston, United StatesPlatinum Platinum
CDAO Singapore 2026Apr 22–23, 2026Singapore, SingaporePlatinum Partners Platinum
Google Cloud Next '26Apr 22–24, 2026Las Vegas, United StatesSignature Silver
MCP Dev Summit North America 2026Apr 2–3, 2026New York, United StatesGold Gold
CDAO Brisbane 2026Mar 30, 2026Brisbane, AustraliaSilver Partners Silver
CDAO Sydney 2026Mar 3–4, 2026Sydney, AustraliaPlatinum Partners Platinum
AWS re:Invent 2025Dec 1–5, 2025Las Vegas, United StatesPlatinum Platinum
Current New Orleans 2025Oct 29–30, 2025New Orleans, United StatesSilver Silver
Current London 2025May 20–21, 2025London, United KingdomSilver Silver
AWS re:Invent 2024Dec 2–6, 2024Las Vegas, United StatesGold Gold
AWS re:Invent 2023Nov 27, 2023 – Dec 1, 2023Las Vegas, United StatesGold Gold
AWS re:Invent 2022Nov 28, 2022 – Dec 2, 2022Las Vegas, United StatesPlatinum Platinum
AWS re:Invent 2021Nov 29, 2021 – Dec 3, 2021Las Vegas, United StatesGold Gold
Kafka Summit Americas 2021Sep 14–15, 2021—Gold Gold
Kafka Summit Europe 2021May 11–12, 2021—Gold Gold
AWS re:Invent 2019Dec 2–6, 2019Las Vegas, United StatesGold Gold

Speakers 18

SpeakerEventRoleTalkLinks
Amit ShahAWS re:Invent 2026breakoutSecuring the Bedrock: A Strong API Foundation for AI Innovation (sponsored by Kong)—
Warren VellaCDAIO New Zealand 2026speakerFrom API to AI: It Was Never Just About APIs—
Juhi SinghAGNTCon + MCPCon Japan 2026speakerThe Production Gap: Why Governing Agent Traffic Is the Key To Shipping Multi-Agent Systems—
Hugo GuerreroQCon AI Boston 2026speakerSolving Context Bloat: Semantic Tool Routing in Multi-Server MCP Environments—
Hugo GuerreroQCon AI Boston 2026speakerFrom Prompt Hacking to Architectural Determinism: Engineering Reliable GenAI Systems—
Hugo GuerreroCurrent London 2026speakerDefending the Perimeter: Patterns for Secure External Event Exchange—
Ned ShawaCDAO Singapore 2026speakerThe Three Pillars of a Scalable, Secure, and Monetised AI Strategy—
Hugo GuerreroMCP Dev Summit North America 2026speakerSolving Context Bloat: Semantic Tool Routing in Multi-Server MCP Environments—
Ned ShawaCDAO Sydney 2026speakerThe Three Pillars of a Scalable, Secure and Monetised AI Strategy—
Alex DragAWS re:Invent 2025breakoutBuilding a State of the Art Agentic Infrastructure (sponsored by Kong)Video
Michael FieldAWS re:Invent 2025breakoutBuilding a State of the Art Agentic Infrastructure (sponsored by Kong)Video
戴冠兰AICon 全球人工智能开发与应用大会 | 上海speaker开源基础设施软件如何实现全球化：从零到一亿美元 ARR 的增长之路—
Hugo GuerreroCurrent London 2025speakerCLI tools you need to know for your everyday Kafka—
Alex DragAWS re:Invent 2024lightning talkBecome the API hero of your organization's AI story (sponsored by Kong)Video
Marco PalladinoAWS re:Invent 2023lightning talkFully managed Kong Gateway SaaS on Konnect and AWS, with live demo (sponsored by Kong)Video
Viktor GamovScale By the Bay 2023speakerGateway to the Future: A Brief History of Kubernetes IngressVideo
Marco PalladinoAWS re:Invent 2022breakoutCrawl/walk/run: Migrating to the cloud with Kong and AWS (sponsored by Kong)Slides · Video
Degui XuDistributed SQL Summit Asia 2022speakerKong + Yugabyte: Simplifying App Development in a Distributed World—