Kong has a new look — and Karl even upgraded his wardrobe to match. 🦍
See it in person (and snag your own Karl plushie) at API + AI Summit, September 30 – October 1.
Grab your ticket: bit.ly/4rk4hQa
Token usage compounds fast in agentic workflows. And most teams have zero visibility into where that spend is going, let alone how to control it.
Dan Temkin broke this down at @gartner's Applications & Business Solutions Summit in London last week — and the room didn't want him
The best part of API + AI Summit might not be in a session room.
Step outside the breakouts for:
✋ Hands-on demos + conversations with Kong engineers
🤖 Robotic portraits, mechanical keyboards + interactive AI experiences
🔦 A blacklight QR code hunt with a pretty great
Kong is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: API Management Software, Q3 2026. 🎉
Forrester's own words: Kong "well suits modern cloud-native use cases with an emphasis on AI governance."
The report also found Kong's gateway has "more policies for LLM governance than any
AI moves fast. Your infrastructure needs to keep up.
Kong AI Gateway 2.0 is now GA, bringing a new generation of AI governance to production.
❇️ Govern MCP tools through one endpoint
❇️ Track multimodal AI costs
❇️ Apply identity-aware policies
❇️ Connect to more models