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Kong Announces Agenda for "Destination: Scale" Digital Event on April 21
Sessions Will Explore Strategies for Platform Teams to Standardize Management Technology, Optimize Processes and Drive Reusability Across Microservices, Mesh and Kubernetes

SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Kong Inc., the cloud connectivity company, today announced the agenda for Destination: Scale, a free, one-day digital conference that will take place on Wednesday, April 21. The event will explore ways organizations can empower their global platforms teams to drive operational efficiencies and scale their processes. Partner sponsors include AWS, Datadog, Epsagon, Honeycomb, Lightstep, Mirantis, StackRox and Sumo Logic.

"As applications and networks become more decentralized, it's crucial to understand how to scale developer workflows and operations across an organization to maximize efficiency and productivity, while also offering the best developer experience," said Marco Palladino, CTO and co-founder of Kong Inc. "Destination: Scale dives into the prevailing challenges platform teams face as they enter more advanced stages of digital transformation, and our expert speakers will share practical advice and use cases about how to overcome these problems and more."

Destination: Scale will feature more than 19 virtual sessions across two tracks, with speakers including:

  • Melissa Jurkoic, chief customer experience officer, addapptation
  • Waldo G, sys/ops engineer, Datadog
  • Nicolas Fränkel, developer advocate, Hazelcast
  • Melissa Van der Hecht, field CTO, Kong
  • Marcelo Bezerra, API specialist, LuizaLabs
  • Sachi Shah, group product manager, Lightstep
  • Isaac Dominguez, Aurelien Lajoie and Bastien Lacombe, ManoMano
  • Miska Kaipiainen, senior director of engineering, Mirantis
  • Jelena Duma, senior director of enterprise architecture, NexJ Systems
  • Michael Foster, cloud native advocate, Red Hat

To register for the event, please visit https://konghq.com/events/destination-scale/#register.
Follow the conversation on Twitter at #DestinationScale for live updates.

About Kong Inc.
Kong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using intelligent automation. Built on an open source core, Kong's cloud connectivity platform enables digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs and services for modern architectures, including microservices, serverless and service mesh. By providing developer teams with unprecedented architectural freedom, Kong accelerates innovation cycles, increases productivity, and seamlessly bridges legacy and modern systems and applications. For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.

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SOURCE Kong Inc.