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Conferences & Talks
Andrew speaks at conferences and meetups worldwide on Kong AI Gateway, API platform engineering, AI observability, and developer experience.
Create, Explore, Manage: Improving Developer Experience with Konnect Developer Portal
Developer experience is often the difference between an API platform engineers love and one they route around. In this talk, Andrew explores how Kong's Konnect Developer Portal changes the dynamic — giving API consumers a self-serve hub to discover, explore, and subscribe to APIs without hunting down documentation or chasing approvals.
The session covers the end-to-end flow from publishing APIs to the portal through to consumer onboarding, credential management, and access control — all within Konnect's managed control plane. Practical, demo-driven, and grounded in real-world API platform challenges that any team running Kong at scale will recognise.
Watch on YouTube →Federated Data Authorization using Semantic Policies
Authorization at the data layer is one of the harder problems in platform engineering — especially when data lives across multiple services, teams, and domains. This talk digs into federated data authorization: how to enforce fine-grained, context-aware access control across a distributed system without creating a centralized bottleneck or duplicating policy logic everywhere.
Andrew introduces semantic policies as a way to express authorization rules in human-readable, intent-driven terms — and shows how these can be evaluated at the API gateway layer using Kong, keeping enforcement consistent across services without coupling it to application code. The result: authorization that scales with your platform, not against it.
Watch on YouTube →Next Generation Observability: Kong + AI
Traditional observability — metrics, logs, traces — tells you what happened. AI-powered observability starts to tell you why, and what to do about it. In this session, Andrew explores how Kong Gateway's deep visibility into API traffic can be combined with AI to move from reactive dashboards to proactive intelligence.
Topics include using LLMs to summarise and interpret traffic anomalies, correlating Kong's request/response logs with model performance in AI gateway deployments, and how the Kong AI Gateway's native observability features give platform teams the signal they need to operate AI infrastructure confidently in production. A practical look at the next generation of platform operations.
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