At the Kong Summit, several new products and features were announced to enhance their service connectivity platform, aiming to make service connectivity as seamless as electricity. These include the general availability of the Kong Istio Gateway, which integrates with Istio service meshes to enhance performance and offers enterprise API management tools. Additionally, Kong Gateway 2.6 promises increased speed and advanced transformation capabilities with support for the jq framework and improved Kafka plugin features. Kong Mesh 1.5 introduces Windows support and Roles-based Access Control to enhance security and governance. Insomnia Projects is launched to promote collaborative API development, and a technology preview of WASMx is introduced, allowing customization using the WebAssembly standard. These developments highlight Kong's commitment to innovation and improving API and service mesh experiences.