API Summit Live 2025

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.

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

For a more detailed rundown of the Kong news out of API Summit, visit the Kong blog.

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. 

Recordings of select keynotes and sessions will be available on-demand shortly. Stay tuned!

Thanks to the Kong team, customers, partners, and sponsors who made this API Summit such a success. Onwards! We'll see you at API Summit 2026.