WSO2Con Opening Keynote: The Agentic Enterprise | Day 1
AI agents that never sleep are changing how businesses make decisions.
Here's the full WSO2Con keynote on what that shift means for your organization.
In this opening keynote from WSO2Con, the CEO walks through the transition from the digital era to what he calls the "agentic era" — where autonomous agents handle judgment calls across sales, marketing, and support. He's direct about the risks too: agents lack empathy, can make costly errors, and still need guardrails to operate safely at scale.
He also announces his retirement as CEO at the end of May 2026, and introduces new leadership across AI, API, integration, identity, and platform.
From the new Chief Product Officer, you'll hear WSO2's product direction: a move from Java to Go for leaner cloud-native runtimes, and a push toward open source with OpenChoreo now donated to the CNCF.
Product announcements covered in this session:
- WSO2 Agent Manager (now in beta) to govern and monitor AI agents and prevent runaway token costs
- WSO2 AI Gateway to secure and track ROI on third-party AI services
- WSO2 Integrator 5 with agent mode for building integrations through natural language
- WSO2 Agent ID to treat agents as first-class authenticated entities
- OpenChoreo as an internal developer platform that abstracts Kubernetes complexity
- Timestamps:*
- 📌 00:00 - 31:49 : Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana – Founder & CEO, WSO2
- 📌 00:31:49 - 00:48:09 Selvaratnam Uthaiyashankar – Senior Vice President & GM - Integration, WSO2
- 📌 00:48:09 - 00:55:40 Rania Khalaf – Chief AI Officer, WSO2
- 📌 00:55:40 - 01:02:08 Derric Gilling - Vice President & GM - APIM BU
- 📌 01:02:08 - 01:08:03 Sharya Unamboowe - Vice President & GM - Integration BU
- 📌 01:08:03 - 01:15:17 Geethika Cooray – Vice President & GM - IAM, WSO2
- 📌 01:15:17 - 01:15:17 Lakmal Warusawithana - Vice President, Distinguished Engineer & GM - Choreo BU
- 📌 01:22:44 - 01:34:42 Mifan Careem - Senior Vice President & GM - Solutions BU
- 📌 01:34:42 - 01:43:22 End
The session closes with a look back at WSO2's 20-year history, from eBay as its first customer to government deployments reaching 2.5 billion people.