Kong API +Summit AI Keynote: One Platform to Govern AI and API Traffic

AI and API traffic are converging into a new connectivity layer where agents, models, MCP tool calls, events, and tokens all need to be secured, governed, observed, and optimized at machine scale. This API Summit keynote is for platform engineering, API, and AI infrastructure leaders who need a practical view of how to move from API management to AI governance without losing control of cost, identity, reliability, or speed.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The agentic enterprise is moving from systems of record to systems of thinking and execution through APIs, MCP, tool calls, models, and agents.
• Kong AI Gateway anonymized metadata shows a 32 trillion token run rate, growing 30x year over year.
• Enterprises need unified governance across APIs, MCP, events, models, and agents because agents do not respect organizational silos.
• AI governance must go beyond dashboards to enforce controls, block unsafe traffic, manage token spikes, route models, and govern machine identities.
• API and platform teams already have the foundation to govern AI because they have spent years securing, accelerating, observing, and monetizing API traffic.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

00:12 - API Summit welcome

00:47 - Age of AI connectivity

01:35 - Agentic infrastructure bets

02:32 - Personal agents accelerate

03:13 - AI risk and spend

04:50 - AI Gateway traffic growth

05:45 - Open-weight model shift

06:57 - Are you ready?

08:21 - API heritage advantage

08:31 - Platform engineering moment

09:32 - Governing intelligence traffic

10:24 - AI movers defined

12:24 - AI Gateway evolution

13:55 - Agents break silos

14:35 - Unified digital railroad

16:38 - Programmable control layer

17:23 - Token cost granularity

18:02 - Observability and identity

18:45 - Registries and control tower

19:41 - Enterprise fragmentation problem

23:06 - Complete AI governance

25:01 - Control beyond dashboards

26:26 - Go move AI

LINKS
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