Kong Inc. announced the agenda for its ninth annual API + AI Summit, taking place Sept. 30-Oct. 1 at the InterContinental in Los Angeles. The conference, themed "Where APIs and AI Meet in Production," will feature speakers from LinkedIn, The Vanguard Group, Southwest Airlines, and Spotify. Tracks include AI Governance, APIs for the AI Era, Agentic Architecture Best Practices, Token Cost Management, Context Engineering, and Agent Stack Labs, which includes five hands-on labs. Sponsors include Amazon Web Services, EPAM, Noma Security, Akamai, Google Cloud, Harness, and Zelar. Kong CEO and Co-Founder Augusto Marietti said the conversation has shifted from what's possible with AI to deploying it securely, governing it effectively, and connecting it to business systems.