The Sydney Global Azure event was held on Saturday, May 10th, at Microsoft Reactor. As usual, it was a vibrant event with many thoughtful discussions.

The topic of my presentation was “Effective API Governance in the Era of AI with Azure Integration Services“

Synopsis: API integrations continue to offer higher business performance and enable innovative automation. Building an integrated governance model to manage APIs effectively became crucial, especially when handling the complexity of AI-driven workloads.
In the session, I showcased how to use Azure’s powerful suite of integration services, including Azure GenAI Gateway, Azure API Center, Azure API Management, and Azure Policy, to boost reliability, security, and compliance while accelerating API development and innovation rather than creating organisational obstacles and bottlenecks.

In the session, we had a deeper dive into the following two very important Azure services:

• GenAI Gateway: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/integrationsonazureblog/introducing-genai-gateway-capabilities-in-azure-api-management/4146525
• API Centre: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/overview

I have made the slide available here

It was great to see some familiar faces

Below, I have listed some of the useful reference links on this topic:

• https://github.com/Azure/api-center
• https://github.com/Azure-Samples/AI-Gateway
• https://github.com/Azure-Samples/apim-genai-gateway-toolkit
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/playbook/solutions/generative-ai/genai-gateway/reference-architectures/apim-based
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/azure-openai-api-from-specification