API Summit Live 2025
API Summit 2025 was a blast — and a launchpad for the agentic era. Want to relive the magic or catch up on what you missed? Check out the API Summit 2025 recap or see the highlights below.
API Summit 2025
Event Highlights
Kong announcements and updates
There were plenty of product updates and innovations unveiled at API Summit. Here are a few highlights:
AI Gateway + MCP Gateway to manage and secure tokens traffic
KAi, the first AI agent for API platform engineering
MCP Composer and Runner for AI-powered integrations
Volcano AI SDK, the easiest way to build MCP-powered AI agents
Visual API orchestrations to design and manage complex flows
Kong Event Gateway, to bring the full power of Kafka data streams to APIs
Konnect Identity: machine-to-machine (M2M) API credentials and management
Metering & Billing: Monetize API calls and tokens in a few clicks. AI will be sold via APIs — and metering becomes the new source of data
What's next? API and AI traffic are converging
A dramatic shift is coming: API traffic (calls) and AI traffic (tokens) are converging. To power this new world, Kong has built the only API and AI platform to unify and govern it all — Kong Konnect.
How organizations are excelling in the agentic era
From BMW to United Airlines to Prudential, many innovative organizations had a presence at API Summit 2025 to share their API and AI success stories and lessons learned.
We also got AI insights from AI luminary Cassie Kozyrkov and renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil. Plus, we chatted reinvention with actor-turned-White House staff member Kal Penn.
Join us in San Francisco for API Summit 2026
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2025 Sponsors
2025 Featured Speakers
Augusto Marietti
Kong
Oliver Heinze
BMW
Liz Brand
Prudential
Marco Palladino
Kong
Prema Namasivayam
Verifone
Reza Shafii
Kong
Edward Keymakh
NYSE
Satyajit Sial
Verifone