From APIs to MCP: Enterprise Governance, Registry, and Controls

APIs remain the foundation of enterprise integration, but AI agents are changing how capabilities are discovered and consumed. MCP standardizes tool discovery and invocation, enabling agents to interact with enterprise systems through reusable tools. The challenge is not enabling MCP. The challenge is governing it at scale. In this talk, we will discuss how to operationalize MCP in an enterprise by leveraging existing API Management capabilities instead of creating a parallel governance stack. We will cover how to build a shared registry for APIs and MCP servers that acts as the discovery layer for modern agents, and we will walk through the governance controls that matter in practice. Attendees will leave with a practical blueprint for implementing MCP safely and repeatably at enterprise scale, making MCP adoption scalable, observable, and compliant.