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Reason #7 to attend API Summit 2025? Learn more about Kong Konnect’s new approach to API Orchestration.

This is the sixth post in a series about reasons to attend API Summit 2025. Check out the previous post here. APIs empower every enterprise function, starting from seamless customer experiences to efficient internal operations. As a matter of fact, APIs are the foundational technology that fuels the advancements in AI, MCP, agentic, and autonomous systems. They're the critical connective tissue that allows data, intelligence, and actions to flow securely and reliably across ecosystems.

In this post, Kong Champion Sachin Ghumbre shares his journey of transforming a complex GenAI application from a state of operational challenges to streamlined control. Discover how Kong AI Gateway provided the enterprise-grade governance needed to secure, optimize, and scale his GenAI solution, tackling issues from escalating LLM costs to prompt injection risks.

While more and more organizations are seeking to standardize and consolidate their API and AI infrastructure efforts in a unified platform, the reality is that many — especially large — organizations already have disparate API deployments across disparate API gateways. One common API gateway that most enterprises have running at least somewhere is AWS API Gateway, as it is often seen as an easy-to-get-started-with solution for teams that are already running cloud workloads on AWS.

We're very excited to announce Kong Operator 2.0! Kong Operator is an evolution of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) and Kong Gateway Operator into a single Kubernetes offering to simplify deployment, management, configuration, and upgrades of your Kong Gateway instances on Kubernetes.

If you're building distributed applications or working in cloud native development, you know that robust connectivity and API governance are the foundations for speed and scale. However, this also holds true in the realm of event streaming. Many top companies now depend on Apache Kafka and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) for resilience and real-time capabilities.