That’s a wrap on [API Summit 2025](https://konghq.com/events/conferences/api-summit)API Summit 2025! At our eighth annual event, the brightest minds in the worlds of APIs and AI gathered in New York City to define the next chapter of digital innovation. We're entering an era where APIs are not just connecting services but connecting intelligence. APIs are the neural pathways of this new AI world, where agents will reason, act, and collaborate through endpoints.
At this year's API Summit, we saw how quickly this vision is becoming reality. We explored the critical role APIs play in enabling AI connectivity. And as always, we shipped, unveiling a wave of new product innovations designed to help every organization thrive in this new age of intelligent infrastructure.
Couldn’t attend this year’s API Summit? Here's a rundown of the top sessions, announcements, and product news defining the agentic era.
*Augusto Marietti, CEO and Co-Founder of Kong*
**Topics**
Augusto Marietti
CEO & Co-Founder of Kong
# Announcing the Kong Agentic AI Hackathon
Kong-quer the Agentic AI Hackathon 🚀 Calling all builders, tinkerers, and API innovators. The Kong Hackathon is back for API Summit 2025 ! This year, we’re challenging developers worldwide to create projects that don’t just react, they think , a
Juhi Singh
# KAi Just Got a Major Upgrade, Powered by the New Kong Konnect MCP Server
If you've used KAi before, you'll notice the difference immediately. The enhanced version has deeper access to your Konnect environment and new tools for debugging, analytics, and configuration management: Active tracing and debugging: KAi can now
Alex Drag
# New Year, New Unit Economics: Konnect Metering & Billing Is Here
Every January, the same resolutions show up: eat better, exercise more, finally learn that language, finally figure out that production use case for AI agents (OK, this one isn’t so typical unless you operate in our universe). But if you're respons
Alex Drag
# Kong Introduces the Portal MCP Server for Developer Portal
Your developer portal was built for a developer scanning docs in a browser: reading a page, copying a curl command, moving on. Increasingly, the thing reading those docs isn't a person. It's an agent, working through an API integration on someone's
Nathanael Shermett
# Join Kong's 4th Annual API Summit Hackathon
With API Summit 2024 coming up, we're thrilled to announce the 4th annual API Summit Hackathon ! This year’s Hackathon will focus on API innovation that emphasizes the use of artificial intelligence. AI has taken the world by storm, and it doesn’
Peter Barnard
# Stop Patching. Start Building: The Kong Context Mesh Stack
Your infrastructure already has the raw materials: compute (VMs, containers, serverless), event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ), data stores (warehouses, databases, object storage), and AI endpoints (any hosted or self-hosted LLM). Tho
Hugo Guerrero
# Why Your AI Agents Keep Failing (Hint: It's Not the Model)
Over the last few years, enterprises have made a genuinely impressive leap. They moved from rule-based automation to large language models capable of reasoning, planning, and acting. The intelligence layer is dramatically better. But the integration
Hugo Guerrero
