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Agents are just applications with an intelligence layer. This session shows why secure, reliable, discoverable APIs—and a developer platform—are the foundation for AI-native workflows. See live demos of Kong Konnect, AI Gateway, Event Gateway, MCP-enabled dev portals, AI Composer/Runner, and Kai. What you’ll learn: Learn more: Subscribe for more on API platforms, service connectivity, and AI-native architecture.

Kong AI Gateway 3.12 brings native MCP governance, security, and observability to agentic AI—plus on-the-fly REST-to-MCP autogeneration and the open-source Volcano SDK for building MCP-powered agents. What you’ll learn.

How are you managing your teams in the age of AI? Some are moving fast...but not always efficiently. Others are finding balance between automation and human insight. At Perforce, we call this mindset “Shift Up.” Because it’s not about replacing people —it’s about elevating them.

In this must-listen episode of The Data Chief, Ilan Twig, co-founder and CTO of Navan, shares why large language models (LLMs) will revolutionize our relationship with technology, comparing the shift to the mouse replacing the keyboard. Ilan provides insight into the critical "Build vs. Buy" decision every company must face and reveals the intense process Navan undertook to launch Navan Cognition, built to ensure zero critical hallucination through supervisor agents.

See how SmartBear engineers used the SmartBear MCP Server to build API Drift—an MCP-powered automation that detects and resolves discrepancies between APIs, Swagger documentation, and PactFlow contracts.

In this video, Tun Shwe (@DataSurfer), Head of AI at Lenses.io, takes you on a journey through the Lenses MCP Server - the bridge between AI models and Apache Kafka. Discover how engineers, analysts, and compliance teams can now interact with Kafka using natural language.

The AI era is redefining what it takes to stay on top. Success won’t come from protecting the status quo, but from embracing the “always day one” mindset—where reinvention, adaptability, and bold experimentation drive progress. Drawing on Big Tech’s playbook, Alex Kantrowitz, former journalist and now founder of Big Technology, joins host Paul Muller on The AI Forecast to discuss why continuous reinvention is the key to thriving in this new landscape, and how leaders can navigate AI’s impact on business, culture, and society.

AI promises answers. Your board demands proof. Simba Intelligence is an AI-native query engine that returns verifiable, governed answers with full audit trails from your live enterprise data. Trust every answer. Every time.

Witness the transformative impact of AI in healthcare with Acclaim Autism and Appian. See how Appian AI streamlines patient intake, drastically cutting wait times for autism services from 6 months to less than a week and connecting children with life-changing intervention faster.