The text introduces the concept of event API productization, emphasizing its growing importance in distributed applications and cloud-native development. It highlights the gap in security, governance, and productization tools in the Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) world, particularly for Apache Kafka. The Kong Event Gateway is presented as a solution to extend governance and lifecycle management from synchronous APIs to Kafka event streams, enabling organizations to treat streams as valuable data products. This involves defining a clear lifecycle, ownership, discoverability, and measurable usage for event data products. The Kong Event Gateway facilitates this transformation by providing centralized control over Kafka clusters, offering capabilities like authentication mediation, access control, schema validation, and message encryption. The text encourages attending the API Summit 2025 for further insights into using the Kong Event Gateway to enhance API and event streaming strategies.