Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

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.

Go inside the incredible origin story of Kong with CEO and Co-founder Augusto Marietti. In this recent interview with Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Augusto shares the pivotal moments and challenges that defined Kong's early days.

This hands-on Developer Day builds on the first two workshops (Platform setup and APIOps automation) to deliver a complete developer experience. You’ll stand up a Kong Konnect Developer Portal with self-registration and application onboarding, wire the portal to an OIDC identity provider for SSO and token issuance, and publish APIs and docs from your APIOps pipeline. In parallel, you’ll configure Konnect Analytics to capture metrics and usage data from your Kong gateways and services.

APIs are the nervous system of AI. In this API Summit 2025 keynote, Kong outlines the AI connectivity layer: unifying API and LLM traffic, adopting agent protocols like MCP, introducing an AI gateway pattern, and enabling usage-based monetization with realtime metering and billing in Konnect. Key takeaways: Learn more: Subscribe for more on API and AI connectivity. Explore Kong Konnect to standardize governance, scale LLM/agent traffic, and monetize usage.