Agenda

In today’s multi-cloud, multi-gateway world, organizations struggle to apply consistent governance across all their APIs—both ingress APIs exposed to consumers and egress APIs calling external services like AI platforms and SaaS applications. This hands-on lab shows you how to solve that with a unified control plane that manages API gateways across environments, including Kubernetes, universal, immutable, and federated gateways (AWS, Solace).

You’ll see how a pluggable agent framework makes it easy to onboard any gateway supporting Kubernetes Gateway API, and how to enforce policies, observability, and analytics consistently across all your traffic—inbound and outbound. The lab will also dive deep into AI egress governance, showcasing features like model routing, prompt templating, semantic caching, and AI guardrails when connecting to OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Mistral.

If you’re looking for a future-proof way to manage all your APIs across diverse platforms, environments, and use cases—this is the session for you.

Cloud-native development often involves setting up infrastructure, managing security, and integrating services—tasks that take time away from coding. An internal developer platform (IDP) streamlines these complexities, enabling developers to focus on building business logic.

This lab demonstrates how an IDP supports a hybrid development approach, where developers run some components locally while consuming cloud services seamlessly. Instead of manually configuring databases, authentication, or API gateways, they leverage platform capabilities for rapid iteration.

We’ll walk through a real-world scenario where a developer:

• Onboards quickly with an architect-defined application structure.
• Develops in a hybrid environment, consuming cloud APIs, databases, and AI services while iterating locally.
• Uses Choreo-managed authentication without dealing with OAuth2 intricacies.
• Discovers and reuses microservices and APIs instead of rebuilding them.
• Debugs efficiently without deploying all dependencies locally.
• Ensures security and compliance automatically, catching vulnerabilities early.

By the end, you’ll see how an IDP accelerates onboarding, enhances security, and simplifies cloud-native development—so developers can focus on building great applications instead of managing infrastructure.

Building modern B2B applications requires addressing complex identity and access management needs, from seamless onboarding to managing organizational hierarchies and user relationships. This session dives into the challenges of developing B2B apps and showcases how WSO2 B2B CIAM solutions can simplify and enhance these aspects.

We’ll explore key concepts such as organizational modeling, hierarchical structures, and organization onboarding strategies. You’ll learn how to design secure user login experiences, implement "Bring Your Own Identity Provider" (BYO IdP) functionality, and connect users seamlessly to their organizations.

The session will also provide a preview of WSO2 IAM roadmap for B2B applications, highlighting upcoming features designed to address evolving business challenges.

Attendees will gain insights on:

• The challenges in building B2B Apps.
• Introduction to WSO2 B2B CIAM capabilities.
• Modeling organization hierarchies.
• Designing organization onboarding experiences.
• Modeling user management for organizations.
• Building B2B apps using Asgardeo SDK.
• Designing user login experiences.
• Bring your own identity provider (BYO IdP).
• Asgardeo roadmap preview.

Enterprise modernization fundamentally changes how businesses operate and interact with their customers and partners. This shift transcends technological advancements to include political environment, social, and regulatory advancements. IAM technology is pivotal for enterprise modernization since it not just sits in your middleware layer but also influences your user experience layer.

The modern consumer landscape is diverse, going beyond employees, customers and partners, to include devices and AI agents - the latest identity constituency, with each constituent having its own IAM needs. Shift to cloud computing, remote workspaces and portable devices, increase the attack surface for cyberattacks, and render traditional security perimeters obsolete, necessitating modern identity-first security approaches to build a zero-trust security architecture.

Modern enterprises are expected to be agile and adapt quickly to changing business needs, which require policy-driven automation and integration capabilities natively built into IAM. Also enterprises wish to keep their IT teams lean, and look for systems with minimum learning curve, self-service capabilities and low-code/visual capabilities making administrator experiences simple and not complicated.

Modern enterprises require a modern IAM solution that is future-fit and can adapt to evolving business, technological, political, environmental, social and regulatory needs without creating technical debt within the enterprise.

Hilton is at the forefront of revolutionizing "Phygital" capabilities, seamlessly blending physical and digital experiences to enhance the entire customer journey. With over 210 million Honors guests and 8,400 properties in more than 140 countries and territories, Hilton aims to foster direct, frictionless relationships through our award-winning Honors mobile apps. Technology has been pivotal in this journey, enabling a complete digital experience that eliminates the need for guests to ever visit the Front Desk during their stay with Hilton. In this session, we will explore how Hilton's technological innovations, such as Digital Check-In, Digital Key, Room Selection, Automatic Elevator Unlock, and Digital Checkout, have redefined the hospitality experience, making it more convenient and personalized for our guests.

In today’s hyper-connected world, businesses face growing pressure to deliver seamless, secure, and personalized experiences—not only for direct consumers but also for business customers (B2B), consumers from partners (B2B2C), as well as suppliers, resellers, distributors, agents and franchises. Traditional IAM and home-grown solutions often struggle to meet the demands of B2B relationships, leading to security pitfalls, operational inefficiencies, and cripple business growth. B2B Identity is becoming a strategic enabler, empowering organizations to drive growth, protect critical data, and ensure compliance.

The session dives into exploring how the B2B IAM empowers organizations to build secure, scalable, and user-friendly business ecosystem and covers:

• Limitations of traditional IAM for B2B use cases and how B2B IAM overcomes them.
• Managing B2B customer relationships with organization-based access models and delegated administration.
• Streamlining B2B customer onboarding and lifecycle management to enhance automation, self-service, and identity federation.
• How to meet security and compliance requirements in a dynamic business ecosystem.

When the basics are in place it is possible to focus on customer experience, growth potentials or automation for efficiency. The basics are a clear direction for exposing functionality and information through managed APIs or alternatively through versioned message contracts. WSO2 API Manager and OpenAPI Specification are excellent to get you started

Healthcare demands innovative, rapidly deployable applications that seamlessly integrate complex data and meet strict compliance requirements. This session reveals how WSO2 empowers you to build, integrate, and secure cloud-native healthcare applications—faster. Using real-world scenarios like Scheduling and Appointment Management, we’ll demonstrate how WSO2’s healthcare accelerators, prebuilt connectors, AI-driven integrations, AI-powered data transformations, and internal developer platform streamline development. Join us to discover how WSO2’s comprehensive suite of products and healthcare accelerators reduce time to market, cut costs, and propel life-saving healthcare innovations.

In today’s complex digital landscape, enterprises manage many disparate systems, including legacy ones. While rigid and expensive to maintain, hindering agility and innovation, these legacy systems are still important for their data and functionality, making it crucial for enterprises to keep leveraging them while modernizing to keep pace with constantly shifting customer demands.

This session covers how modern integration can serve as a cornerstone for application modernization by offering a practical and cost-effective alternative to complete system replacements or cloud migrations by exposing legacy functionalities as APIs. This enables the seamless integration of legacy systems into modern IT infrastructures, fostering a harmonious coexistence of older and modern technologies.

Discover how modern, AI-powered integration technology such as WSO2’s can be used to transform your legacy applications into agile, integrated components of a modern digital ecosystem, unlocking new business capabilities and delivering exceptional customer experiences that keep you ahead of the competition.

In an era of digital-first interactions, customers expect personalized experiences across every touchpoint. Digital experience has become the key differentiator, directly influencing customers' choices between competing services. Yet many organizations struggle to deliver on this promise, hindered by siloed identity systems and fragmented business data.

This session explores how an identity-centric approach transforms customer journeys by unifying identity, behavioral patterns, and business context into personalized, frictionless, and secure experiences, all while ensuring consumer privacy. The session will present a practical framework for assessing your CIAM maturity and share proven strategies to advance your implementation while navigating common pitfalls and challenges.

Whether you're starting your CIAM journey or scaling existing solutions, you will leave with actionable strategies to level up your CIAM program and deliver compelling digital experiences that drive customer preference and loyalty.

Building AI applications for the enterprise requires understanding key architectural patterns that enable powerful, scalable, and intelligent solutions. This session explores the core approaches to building AI-driven applications, including Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI Agents.

We’ll dive into how to build and integrate AI apps, discover and connect them with enterprise tools, and manage authentication and authorization securely. Additionally, we’ll cover best practices for deploying AI-powered applications and how an AI Gateway can help monitor, secure, and optimize interactions between AI models, agents, and enterprise systems.

Attendees will gain insights on:

• Key AI patterns: Generative AI, RAG, and AI Agents.
• Building and discovering AI Agents, including tool integration.
• Exposing your Business APIs as tools for your agents.
• Managing authentication and authorization for tools and agents.
• Deploying AI applications and ensuring enterprise readiness.
• The role of an AI Gateway in securing, monitoring, and optimizing AI interactions.
• Best practices for scaling AI applications efficiently.

Building AI applications for the enterprise requires understanding key architectural patterns that enable powerful, scalable, and intelligent solutions. This session explores the core approaches to building AI-driven applications, including Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI Agents.

We’ll dive into how to build and integrate AI apps, discover and connect them with enterprise tools, and manage authentication and authorization securely. Additionally, we’ll cover best practices for deploying AI-powered applications and how an AI Gateway can help monitor, secure, and optimize interactions between AI models, agents, and enterprise systems.

Attendees will gain insights on:

• Key AI patterns: Generative AI, RAG, and AI Agents.
• Building and discovering AI Agents, including tool integration.
• Exposing your Business APIs as tools for your agents.
• Managing authentication and authorization for tools and agents.
• Deploying AI applications and ensuring enterprise readiness.
• The role of an AI Gateway in securing, monitoring, and optimizing AI interactions.
• Best practices for scaling AI applications efficiently.

"Digital banking" is no longer a differentiator, but a baseline. To truly excel, financial institutions must transcend tech-enabled services and evolve into software enterprises, freeing their technology teams to focus on core banking innovation by offloading the heavy lifting of foundational development infrastructure.

This session, "Beyond Digital Banking," explores this critical transformation, emphasizing the need for comprehensive digital modernization. We'll delve into the strategies and technologies that enable BFSI organizations to build agile, innovative software ecosystems. Discover how to shift from managing IT as a cost center to leveraging it as a strategic asset, ultimately driving rapid innovation and delivering exceptional customer experiences in the era of open finance.

AI is revolutionizing the way we build integrations! In this talk, we’ll explore how AI empowers developers in two key ways: by supercharging productivity and enabling entirely new kinds of integrations.

From streamlining onboarding and upskilling to automating development and maintenance, AI acts as a co-pilot for integration developers, allowing them to achieve more with less effort. But that’s not all—AI also opens doors to the fuzzy, unstructured world, making integrations possible where they once seemed out of reach.

Join us as we dive into how WSO2 Integrator leverages AI to reshape integration, making it smarter, faster, and more accessible than ever. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, this session will leave you inspired about the future of AI-powered connectivity.

Let’s explore the next frontier of integration together!

Integration technology is evolving to meet the demands of modern, AI-powered digital experiences. Developers need flexibility to build solutions with both intuitive, click-to-configure simplicity and advanced programming capabilities in a single, cohesive environment.

This session introduces WSO2 Ballerina Integrator (BI)—a 100% open-source integration solution built on the powerful Ballerina programming language. BI delivers a unified low-code and pro-code developer experience, bridging the gap between visual design and full programming control. Attendees will discover how BI’s AI-assisted features simplify creating and managing integrations, from APIs to event-driven workflows, enabling faster development and deployment.

Join us to learn how BI’s unique blend of low-code convenience and pro-code power, enriched by Ballerina’s evolving ecosystem, reshapes integration development—empowering teams of all skill levels to collaborate and innovate in one unified platform.

As technology rapidly advances, organisations face increasing challenges in complying with evolving EU regulatory frameworks. From GDPR to emerging regulations like NIS2, DORA, and eIDAS 2.0 businesses must ensure that their Identity and access management (IAM) strategies align with these mandates to safeguard security, privacy, and compliance.

In this session, we will explore how modern IAM platforms can help organisations meet EU regulatory requirements by implementing strong authentication, access controls, consent management, and risk-based security measures. We’ll break down key compliance challenges and discuss practical IAM strategies to navigate them effectively.

Join us to gain insights on ensuring your IAM infrastructure is secure, compliant, and future-ready in an increasingly regulated digital landscape.

Choreo has redefined the internal developer platform (IDP) by bringing software delivery, operations, and enterprise software engineering together, making it easier to build, deploy, run, and manage AI and cloud-native applications. Now, with open source Choreo, platform engineers can build and run their own full-fledged IDP with an integrated control plane and data plane—providing first-class ownership and flexibility over their platform.

Open source Choreo features a Kubernetes-native architecture, embracing GitOps workflows, modular extensibility, and scalable system design. While it includes a built-in control plane, platform teams also have the option to connect to the Choreo SaaS control plane as a secondary alternative if they prefer to offload certain responsibilities.

Join us to explore the technical foundation, roadmap, CNCF incubation plans, and real-world deployment strategies—and see how Open Source Choreo empowers platform engineers to define, build, and operate their own IDP with complete control.

Integration complexity stifles innovation, but WSO2 Micro Integrator 4.4.0 redefines the landscape with AI-native intelligence, low-code agility, and a reimagined expression language—all while introducing a groundbreaking AI Agent Module for intelligent application development.

Key Highlights of the release:

• A New Expression Language: Replace XPath/JSONPath complexities with intuitive syntax and an integrated editor.
• AI Agent Module: Build intelligent apps using AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Leverage existing connectors and mediators as tools for AI workflows, seamlessly blending traditional integration with AI-driven logic—all within the same development experience.
• Low-Code Tools: Auto-generate connectors via OpenAPI and deploy new mediators (Scatter-Gather, ForEach) to accelerate workflows.
• Zero-Friction Setup: One-click installation in VS Code auto-configures Java, Maven, and runtime environments—no manual setup.
• Instant Mediator Testing: Simulate live payloads and debug on-the-fly without deployment delays.
• Future-Ready Runtime: JDK 21 compatibility, and seamless upgrades ensure long-term agility.

Whether modernizing legacy systems or building AI-augmented integrations, this release bridges the gap between traditional and intelligent workflows.

In this session, learn how to:

• Accelerate development with simplified syntax and AI-powered tools.
• Design AI agents that leverage existing mediators and connectors for dynamic use cases.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital transformation, legacy modernization remains a critical yet challenging endeavour for organizations striving to stay competitive. Join us for this insightful session where we unveil a groundbreaking approach to making legacy modernization easier, faster, and more cost-effective than ever before. Discover how the exclusive WSO2-backed NO2PAY offering empowers businesses to break free from the constraints of traditional platforms, enabling seamless integration without the burden of hefty upfront costs. This talk will explore practical strategies and the transformative potential of platformless modernization leveraging industrialized LTIMindtree delivery and best in class WSO2 platform, helping future proof your systems in optimized budget.

Businesses leveraging AI for insights face challenges like data security, privacy, and accessibility. Yenlo’s Smart Business Insights (SBI), an AI and LLM-powered extension of the Connext Platform, helps organizations securely unlock their ERP, CRM, and other systems' potential. Built on WSO2 technology, Connext is a 24/7 managed iPaaS offering API management, integration, and identity management. SBI combines Connext’s governance with advanced AI to deliver secure, real-time insights. This session will show how SBI enables data extraction, SOC2/GDPR compliance, IAM-controlled access, and AI-driven visualizations. Attendees will learn to make data-driven decisions while maintaining control. Ideal for those exploring managed WSO2 environments or safe AI implementation, this session highlights how SBI and Connext drive innovation.

As the identity landscape evolves, developers face a critical decision: should they build custom authentication and authorization solutions or leverage new standards? OAuth has become the foundation of modern authorization, but its ecosystem continues to grow with new extensions and refinements. This session provides a high-level exploration of OAuth’s evolving ecosystem, covering newly published and upcoming specifications. The focus is on how these standards interconnect to solve real-world challenges, enabling standardized and interoperable solutions. The discussion will highlight how OAuth’s latest developments fit into the broader identity landscape and the problems they aim to solve.

In today’s cloud and AI-driven world, businesses must seamlessly integrate systems to stay agile and innovative. However, traditional integration platforms as a service (iPaaS) often struggle to meet the evolving demands of AI agents and GenAI applications.

This session introduces Devant, a next-generation iPaaS designed to overcome these limitations. With advanced AI agent-building capabilities, end-to-end observability, and multi-environment support, Devant redefines enterprise integration. It serves as the home for your AI agents—an AI-native iPaaS that streamlines systems, automates processes, and drives the businesses with smarter decision-making.

Key benefits of Devant include:

• Rapid integration and automation to accelerate innovation
• Support to seamlessly build and deploy AI agents for intelligent integrations and automations.
• End-to-end observability for proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Hybrid and multi-cloud support for maximum flexibility.

By harnessing the power of AI and cloud computing, Devant empowers businesses to unlock new opportunities, enhance operational efficiency, and drive the next wave of digital transformation.

The shift to API-first architectures is reshaping how organizations modernize, integrate, and scale their digital ecosystems. APIs are no longer just an interface—they are the foundation of streamline development, enhance agility, and enable seamless interoperability across platforms and services.

This session explores the key principles of API-first modernization, including governance, security, and AI-driven optimization of API ecosystems. It highlights strategies to eliminate legacy bottlenecks, enhance developer experience, and future-proof technology stacks.

Join us for best practices, industry insights, and actionable strategies to build scalable, API-driven solutions with WSO2 API management.

As organizations navigate the complexities of enterprise application modernization, traditional approaches to infrastructure management slows down innovation. Choreo redefines modernization with a Platformless approach—empowering developers to build, deploy, and manage applications without the friction of infrastructure complexities. By leveraging AI-native automation, self-service workflows, and best-in-class developer experience, Choreo eliminates bottlenecks in software delivery while maintaining security, compliance, and scalability.

This talk will explore how Platformless modernization accelerates cloud-native adoption, simplifies DevOps, and enhances engineering productivity. We’ll discuss how Choreo's internal developer platform (IDP) abstracts infrastructure, enforces best practices, and enables rapid iteration—allowing enterprises to focus on business value rather than operational overhead.

Whether you're a CTO, platform engineer, or enterprise architect, this session will provide insights into how Platformless modernization with Choreo can drive agility, reduce complexity, and future-proof your applications.

APIs are the backbone of modern digital ecosystems enabling seamless integration driving innovation. As such, implementing a successful API program requires more than just technical expertise. It demands a strategic approach aligned with business goals. This session explores the crucial elements of building a successful API Program, from strategic planning, robust design to effective management. It will also address best practices, common challenges and potential pitfalls, providing actionable insights for organizations looking to leverage the power of APIs through API Programs to deliver tangible business values.

Open source originated in the 1980s to support academic and hobbyist communities. By the 2000s (when WSO2 was launched) there was an explosion of open source products for commercial use. Today open source underpins the digital economy, but its role continues to evolve. For many of us, we’ve only seen a small part of this evolution during our careers and perhaps don’t realize the extent of change occurring in the open source ecosystem. In this session we’ll look back at the historical arc of open source in order to gain a better appreciation of how the current geopolitical and social environments might push open source in new directions.

As organizations rapidly adopt AI services and SaaS platforms, managing egress APIs (outbound calls to external services) has become essential. Traditional API management focuses on inbound traffic, but modern architectures must also govern, secure, and optimize outbound traffic to providers like OpenAI, and Salesforce.

This session will cover best practices for rate limiting, cost control, authentication management, and observability in egress APIs. Learn how to apply API management policies to outbound calls, ensuring resilience, cost efficiency, and compliance in your AI and SaaS integrations.

Whether you're building AI-powered applications or integrating with multiple SaaS platforms, this talk will provide practical insights into building a unified management layer for outbound traffic, ensuring your systems are both flexible and future-proof in a rapidly evolving technology landscape.

In the era of digital transformation, enterprises are increasingly adopting microservices and domain-driven design (DDD) to build scalable, maintainable, and agile systems. However, the granularity of microservices often leads to complexity in governance, deployment, and scalability. Enter cell-based architecture, a paradigm that bridges the gap between monolithic systems and fine-grained microservices by organizing components into self-contained, independently deployable units called cells.

This talk explores how Choreo, a modern internal developer platform (IDP), leverages cell-based architecture to enable modularity and domain-driven design in modern application development. We will delve into how Choreo’s cell-based approach aligns with DDD principles, allowing teams to define bounded contexts and organize microservices into cohesive, domain-aligned units. Attendees will learn how Choreo simplifies the deployment, scaling, and governance of these cells, while ensuring high availability, observability, and security.

The transition from traditional data centers to hyperscale cloud environments represents a pivotal shift in IT infrastructure, driven by demands for scalability, efficiency, and cost optimization. However, maintaining certain infrastructure in on-premises data centers remains essential for various reasons, including service co-location, enhanced security and compliance requirements.This requirement to function across diverse environments has led applications to seamlessly operate within a hybrid framework, spanning both on-premises/traditional data centers and hyperscale cloud platforms. In this session, Nadeesha will explore how WSO2 products can be deployed in a hybrid deployment model. Nadeesha will talk about how WSO2 products are designed from the ground up to support such flexible deployment models, the challenges organizations face when transitioning to hybrid deployments, and how these obstacles can be overcome.

Enterprises today operate APIs across multiple gateway providers, including cloud-native, on-premise, and hybrid environments. Managing these gateways separately leads to governance challenges, inconsistent security policies, and operational inefficiencies. A federated API management model enables organizations to unify diverse API gateways—whether from cloud providers, open-source projects, or enterprise solutions—under a single control plane for centralized policy enforcement, traffic management, observability, and security.

This session explores best practices for implementing federated API management across various gateway technologies. We will discuss how a unified control plane enhances agility, simplifies compliance, and provides greater flexibility for managing APIs across distributed environments.

Join us to learn how federated API management can streamline multi-gateway operations, improve API security and governance, and help organizations scale API ecosystems with greater efficiency. WSO2 API Manager will be referenced as an implementation example.

Developers today are stretched thin. Between managing complex architectures, integrating security and compliance requirements, keeping up with evolving technologies, and meeting business demands, their workflow is often riddled with friction. The result? Stress, inefficiencies, and a struggle to focus on what they do best: building great software.

In this keynote, we’ll explore the key blockers that hinder developer productivity, from tool sprawl and cognitive overload to inefficient processes and lack of autonomy. More importantly, we’ll discuss how enterprises can show empathy, not just in words but through meaningful action—by simplifying development workflows, automating repetitive tasks, and enabling seamless collaboration.

At WSO2, we are committed to reducing this friction. Our solutions are designed to help developers move faster without compromising security or compliance. By providing developer-friendly tools as well as a platform that eliminates unnecessary complexity, we enable teams to focus on innovation instead of fighting through bottlenecks.

A developer-first approach—backed by the right technology—can help organizations unlock efficiency, improve retention, and empower their teams to do their best work.

Modernization is synonymous with innovation, and Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the critical framework for enabling both. This keynote explores how EA drives modernization through innovation. We’ll take a step down from birds eye view theory, and get down into the trenches with practical scenarios where EA plays a critical role in the shape of modernizations. We'll show how EA enables agile, adaptable architectures, fostering rapid experimentation and faster time-to-market.Discover practical strategies to leverage EA as a catalyst for innovation and competitive advantage in the digital age.

Modernization isn’t just about technology—it’s about how you think. The right tools enable transformation, but true modernization starts with a mindset shift. Balancing technology and strategy is key to avoiding outdated playbooks and unlocking continuous evolution. It’s time to rethink, adapt, and evolve.

As organizations increasingly rely on APIs to drive innovation and scale, effective API governance has become a cornerstone of successful digital strategies. This talk explores the evolution of API governance frameworks to meet the demands of modern scalable systems. We’ll examine the challenges posed by growing API ecosystems, such as ensuring consistency, security, and compliance while enabling agility and developer autonomy.

We explore how to design governance models that balance centralized oversight with decentralized development, leveraging automation and AI-driven insights to enforce policies and adopting best practices for lifecycle management in microservices and cloud-native architectures. Real-world examples will illustrate how to enhance collaboration between stakeholders, improve API quality, and future-proof governance strategies.

Whether you're building APIs for startups or managing complex enterprise ecosystems, this session will provide actionable insights to advance API governance and enable seamless scalability for your systems.

In today’s digital-first world, enterprises are defined by the digital experiences they deliver. At the core of this transformation are enterprise software developers—the architects of these digital experiences. However, they often face challenges such as fragmented tooling, complex dependencies, and inefficient information that hinder productivity.

This session explores how Choreo streamlines enterprise software development by offering a rich, distraction-free, and cohesive platform that enhances developer efficiency. We will delve into key capabilities such as dependency discovery, configuration management, documentation and hotfixing, demonstrating how Choreo simplifies software engineering, reduces cognitive load, and enables developers to focus on what they do best—writing great code.

Join us to discover how Choreo eliminates the hassles of enterprise development, empowering developers to build faster, ship reliably, and drive innovation with ease.

Beside showing a lot of benefits, quantum computing imposes a significant threat: it has the potential to break today’s security infrastructure midterm. The talk sketches the origin of this thread, and the reactions of the cryptography community. To counter this threat, organizations must take measures that are briefly touched on.

With the emergence of generative AI, LLMs, and Copilots, software development is increasingly evolving into a process of co-creation with computers. In contrast to the traditional view of code being for machines and natural language being for humans, this evolution allows humans and computers to express intent and actions in both natural language and programming languages.

This session explores this coalescence of natural language and programming languages– natural programming–across the software development cycle. We will discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by this increased integration of natural language and how we can leverage this change in approach to make code easier to understand and evolve, while staying in-line with the requirements. We will also explore the integration of natural language into the code itself, including how we can better facilitate the incorporation of LLM calls into the business logic.

As cloud-native architectures and AI-powered applications reshape digital ecosystems, API management must evolve to keep pace. Bijira is a next-generation platform designed to streamline API operations, enhance governance, and optimize developer productivity with built-in AI capabilities.

This session explores Bijira and its transformative approach to API management across diverse environments. We will dive into how its Unified Control Plane, AI-powered governance, ingress and egress API management, LLM API controls for secure AI API consumption, and hybrid cloud support enable seamless API creation, lifecycle management, and policy enforcement. Additionally, we will highlight upcoming advancements and the evolving role of APIs in AI agent development.

Join us to gain insights into how Bijira is redefining API management, delivering a scalable, AI-native, and developer-friendly solution for the modern enterprise.

Kubernetes provides a robust foundation for cloud-native applications, but enterprise adoption requires more than just Kubernetes itself. To fully meet enterprise demands, organizations must build a platform on top of Kubernetes, integrating multiple CNCF projects for CI/CD, security, observability, scaling, automation, and traffic control. However, this approach introduces significant complexity, shifting focus away from core business objectives and burdening development teams with infrastructure challenges.

This talk will explore how Choreo, an internal developer platform (IDP) built on Kubernetes, simplifies enterprise development by abstracting complexity and seamlessly integrating essential CNCF projects. With built-in scalability, resiliency, Zero-Trust security, deep observability, and automation, Choreo eliminates the need for enterprises to manually piece together Kubernetes and its ecosystem. By reducing infrastructure burden and optimizing developer workflows, Choreo accelerates software delivery, enhances security, and empowers teams to innovate faster—making cloud-native application development seamless, secure, and efficient.

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, staying relevant demands more than incremental improvements—it requires modernization at the core. This talk explores key strategies for enabling businesses to embrace transformation effectively while minimizing disruption. From adopting cloud-native architectures and API-first approaches to leveraging microservices and DevOps practices, we’ll uncover the technologies and methodologies that drive agility and scalability.

Furthermore, we'll delve into the importance of cybersecurity integration throughout the modernization process, ensuring resilience against emerging threats. We’ll discuss the importance of aligning IT modernization with business objectives and how data-driven insights can guide decision-making. We present practical insights into balancing legacy system challenges with innovation opportunities, fostering collaboration between teams, and staying ahead in an ever-evolving market.

Whether you are a technology leader, solution architect, or strategist, this session equips you with actionable guidance to reimagine your organization’s digital capabilities, ensuring it thrives in the age of constant change.

Organizations have traditionally spent much time collecting data, training models, and testing them, making AI application development a slow and resource-intensive process. The rise of pre-trained models has significantly accelerated this. AI applications can be prototyped much faster by leveraging pre-trained models, augmenting them with external knowledge, and building AI agents that connect to tools capable of reasoning, decision-making, and execution. Despite these advancements, developers still face challenges in building AI apps and moving them from prototype to production. As a result, only a small percentage of AI applications reach production. Overcoming these challenges is key to building scalable AI applications that deliver lasting value. This talk will explore how to take AI applications from prototype to production.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has evolved from a research focus to a field with growing industrial applications, yet the boundary between hype and practical implementation remains uncertain. The common perception is that AI works like magic, but it relies on high-quality, domain-specific data and continuous refinement to be effective. Many AI solutions claim full autonomy but often require significant human oversight. Additionally, discussions around AI hype frequently overlook critical aspects such as privacy, security, and fairness, which are essential for responsible AI development. This Birds of a Feather (BoF) session provides an open forum to explore these challenges, share practical experiences, and discuss strategies for moving beyond the hype to build effective AI solutions.

Over the last decades, two major developments have shaped the world of software: the rise of platforms and the rise of open source.

Platforms have evolved from the thinnest of layers to virtualization, containers, and cloud native computing — all while expanding beyond just infrastructure. At the same time, open source has progressed from a low-cost alternative to a fierce competitor and now an innovation driver. Neither of these trends is accidental. Ultimately, what matters is the ability to develop and securely run applications, create and maintain differentiation, and continuously modernize. That requires reliable infrastructure and rich and robust platforms, built with openness and collaboration.

Prominent examples include Linux, OpenStack, and Kubernetes, and the journey continues up the stack — to internal developer platforms and beyond.

Modernization is complex, balancing innovation with real-world constraints. This fireside chat cuts through the noise, focusing on what works, what doesn’t, and how organizations adapt. Practitioners will share hard lessons, common pitfalls, and key decisions that drive real progress.

"Modernization Journeys Realized," brings together seasoned CXOs and EAs to explore the practical realities of navigating complex organizational modernization. Beyond the theoretical benefits, panelists will delve into the tangible experiences of driving transformative change, encompassing technological upgrades, process re-engineering, and cultural shifts.

Attendees will gain valuable perspectives on how to effectively lead their own modernization journeys, turning ambitious visions into tangible results and ensuring long-term organizational resilience and growth in a rapidly evolving landscape.

This panel discussion centers around the successful modern integration strategies that our panelists have successfully implemented within their organizations, enabling their businesses to become more dynamic, responsive, and scalable in today's complex digital landscape.

The panelists will delve into how the adoption of API-first approaches, microservices architectures, cloud-native technologies, and AI-powered tools has empowered their organizations to achieve business agility, data-driven decision-making, and operational efficiency, ultimately leading to enhanced customer experiences.

Furthermore, the panelists will offer valuable insights and best practices based on their experiences to assist other organizations in adopting modern integration strategies that can drive similar levels of business success.

Navigating modernization within the financial sector presents a formidable challenge. Banks grapple with intricate legacy systems, vast customer bases, and complex financial products, all while adhering to stringent regulatory demands. The competitive landscape, including agile fintechs and big tech entrants, intensifies the need for digital modernization. This panel, "Modernization Within Regulatory Boundaries," will delve into these critical issues.

Our panelists bring a wealth of experience in managing this delicate balance, successfully innovating within regulatory confines and overcoming the myriad limitations inherent in the banking industry. We will draw upon their practical insights and lessons learned, exploring real-world strategies for modernizing technology landscapes, ensuring compliance, and delivering exceptional customer experiences in a highly competitive market.

In the era of rapid digital transformation, enterprises must balance legacy systems with modern technologies while navigating AI integration and compliance demands. This panel will explore key strategies for success. Our partner experts will debate the future of middleware, comparing open source and proprietary software, and address common hurdles in modernization. The discussion will also focus on preparing businesses for AI-driven integration and overcoming regulatory and compliance challenges across industries. Attendees will gain actionable insights to bridge the gap between legacy infrastructure and cutting-edge innovation, ensuring a seamless, secure, and future-ready digital journey.

AI isn’t just changing software development—it’s rewriting the playbook. From coding assistants to autonomous agents, AI is becoming a core part of how we build, integrate, and evolve software. But what does that mean for developers, and how does the software stack need to adapt? In this panel, we’ll dive into real-world lessons from building AI-powered dev tools, agent frameworks, and enterprise AI systems—unpacking what works, what doesn’t, and what’s next in AI-native development.

This panel discussion focuses on the modern IAM strategies that our panelists have successfully implemented within their organizations to enable their organizations to improve security and user experience in today’s complex digital landscape.

The panelists will delve into how the adoption of passwordless sign-on, multi-factor authentication, adaptive authentication and more have led to improved security and enhanced customer experiences.

The panelists will offer valuable insights and best practices based on their experiences to assist other organizations in adopting modern IAM strategies that can drive similar levels of business success.

APIs are no longer just technical enablers—they’re the foundation of security, compliance, and innovation. Managing these strategic assets effectively is critical, especially in industries where trust, regulation, and scale matter.

In this panel, industry leaders from finance, insurance, public services, and security will share their experiences in enterprise modernization through API management. From securing APIs in highly regulated industries to designing scalable solutions, our panelists will discuss real-world challenges, best practices, and how they’re preparing for what’s next.

This panel discussion explores the practical applications of Choreo, an AI-native internal developer platform-as-a-service, in driving enterprise modernization. Panelists, representing diverse industries, will share their firsthand experiences, challenges, and successes in utilizing Choreo to accelerate software deployment, streamline workflows, and enhance operational agility.

As organizations continue to evolve in response to rapid technological advancements, digital transformation, and changing market demands, enterprise architecture plays a crucial role in ensuring alignment between business objectives and IT infrastructure. In this panel discussion, we will discuss strategies for optimizing legacy systems, integrating new technologies, and creating a future-proof architecture that supports scalability, flexibility, and innovation.

Modernization is a continuous journey. From digitization and automation to cloud adoption, digital transformation, and now AI, organizations constantly evolve to leverage new technologies and enhance user experiences. But how can we modernize effectively—minimizing disruptions, reducing costs, and accelerating the process—without breaking things?

What strategies truly work? How can we mitigate risks? What architectural insights can guide us?

In this talk, we explore real-world modernization stories by engaging with industry experts. We uncover practical strategies, lessons learned, and the architectural principles that can help organizations navigate their modernization journey with confidence.

In the rapidly evolving tech landscape, building and maintaining robust platforms is both a necessity and a challenge. This Birds of a Feather (BOF) session is an open discussion on the complexities of developing an internal developer platform (IDP), the key hurdles organizations face, and strategies to overcome them.

We’ll explore:

• The technical challenges of platform development, including scalability, security, and integration.
• How cell-based architecture and technologies like Kubernetes, Argo, API Gateway, Prometheus, Envoy, OpenSearch, KEDA, eBPF, and Cilium were leveraged to build a scalable and efficient system.
• Lessons learned from navigating these challenges, key problem-solving approaches, and critical decision-making processes.
• The skills and resources required to implement and maintain an IDP.
• The practicality of a platformless approach for organizations without in-house expertise, and how it can streamline operations and reduce costs.

Join this interactive session to share experiences, exchange ideas, and discuss best practices for building and adopting internal developer platforms!

Technology and humans are inseparable. Even in cases where technology replaces human workers, it is human architects who design these technological solutions to address challenges they seek to resolve. As systems grow increasingly complex, effectively communicating fine details and complexities in a simplified format is essential. Thankfully, since the ancient civilisation times, human architects have been visual-thinkers leveraging diagrams as a fundamental tool to convey and refine ideas.

Even today, diagrams serve as the most effective communication medium, when connecting individuals from different professional and social backgrounds. Diagrams help to bridge gaps in communication by visually simplifying complex systems, facilitating idea exchange, and enabling collaboration. Beyond communication, diagrams also serve as structured documentation—acting as a contractual reference and instruction manuals with clear illustrations of details in a human-readable format.

This Birds of a Feather (BOF) session is an open discussion on this topic for exploring the critical role of diagrams in solutions architecture, their impact in real-world application. We will focus on exchanging ideas to bring diagramming best practices across different abstraction levels, helping solution architects enhance clarity, alignment, and execution in complex technology landscapes.

Java has been a trusted foundation for our products, but as the software landscape evolved—with the rise of microservices and SaaS—we felt the need to explore better options. Performance, resource consumption, and language capabilities became key considerations, leading us to evaluate newer programming languages, each with its own strengths.

In this discussion, we want to hear from you! What challenges have you faced in your application development journey? How have language choices impacted your architecture and scaling efforts? We'll also share our experiences and the initiatives we've taken in adopting Go and other languages to enhance our technology stack. Join us for an open, interactive conversation about the changes we are making in our technology stack and share your experiences as well.

As technology evolves, cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, leveraging AI and the promise of quantum computing. To safeguard their digital assets, organizations must bolster their security posture. One critical aspect is ensuring the integrity of identity and access management (IAM) systems. This presentation explores various identity proofing methods and their potential automation within identity governance and administration (IGA) solutions.

This session explores how Kuehne + Nagel transformed its unstructured "flea market" of APIs into a well-organized ecosystem. By adopting a context tree based on business capabilities, the company restructured its API landscape to enhance discoverability, governance, and strategic alignment. The discussion will also highlight the implementation of APIOps using the WSO2 CLI, demonstrating how automation and efficiency improvements have streamlined API management. This transformation has enabled teams to innovate more effectively and respond swiftly to evolving business needs.

As businesses grow, their needs often outpace existing solutions, requiring a shift to more scalable and modern API infrastructures. This session will explore the challenges and successes of transitioning from systems and integrations that no longer meet business demands to robust solutions using WSO2 API Manager. Kenneth Andersen, a seasoned expert in API management, will share insights on the importance of making the right decisions from the outset to avoid creating new legacy issues. Join to hear one person’s experience in navigating this complex journey and maybe draw some inspiration from his story.

La Poste has embraced an API-first architecture for the past six years, significantly improving the time-to-market for new postal services. Now, we are leveraging our API management assets to enhance the security and observability of our IS. In this session, Jean-Marc Dagorne and Ian Swindley will share real-world examples of how log data generated by the platform is utilized by administrators and IT users to drive improvements in quality, security, and performance.