# Simplifying Production-Scale API Management With Kong Konnect

Kong Konnect provides developers and API owners a powerful way to secure and manage their API products powered by Kong Gateway (the world's fastest API gateway).

Leverage Konnect to manage Kong Gateway data planes operating on-prem and in the public cloud - either as a centralized APIOps platform or federated experience across business units.

In this talk, join Smriti Jaggi (Sr. PM, Konnect Platform) and Samantha Hepler (Group Product Manager - SaaS Apps Kong Konnect) as they show you how Konnect can reduce operational costs by using a hosted runtime manager, service catalog, developer portal and analytics platform.

[*Kong User Calls*](/user-calls)*Kong User Calls** are a place to learn about technologies within the Kong open source ecosystem with an interactive forum that gives you the chance to ask our engineers questions and get ramped up on information relevant to your Kong journey.*