Building Governed Integrations and AI Agents for the Enterprise
Enterprises have spent years getting integration right. APIs, events, automations and workflows, each with clear ownership, access control and monitoring around it. AI agents are now showing up in the same space, but they don't behave the same way. An integration does what you designed it to do. An agent decides for itself what to call and when, and that changes what governance has to look like.
The talk takes the view that an agent is not a separate world. It is another consumer of the integration layer, sitting next to the APIs and events already running there. What makes it different is the handful of controls that have to be added around it: an identity of its own, boundaries on the tools it can reach, a limit on what it spends, and a record clear enough to explain a decision after it happened.
Speakers
Tharik has spent over twelve years at WSO2, starting out on the analytics team before moving to integration. Much of his development career went into Ballerina, WSO2's open-source language built for integration, and into everything around it: connecting services and APIs, securing, deploying to cloud and container platforms, and operating the result under observability and governance. He now leads the engineering team behind WSO2's integration platform.