Agenda
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8:00am-9:00am
The Next Decade of Graphs
Emil EifremFounder and CEO of Neo4j -
9:05am-9:50am
A Humane Presentation about Graph Database Internals
Databases are everywhere, but did you ever wonder what goes on inside the box? In this talk we’ll dive into the internals of Neo4j - a popular graph database - and see how its designers deal with common functional and non-functional requirements. In particu... View more
Jim WebberChief Scientist, Neo4j
Dr. Jim Webber is Neo4j’s Chief Scientist and Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. At Neo4j, Jim works on fault-tolerant... View more -
9:05am-9:50am
Stopping Money Laundering with Graph Analytics
Why is graph technology a perfect match to defeat the criminals responsible for money laundering? In this session, you will discover how Neo4j and Linkurious can help detect complex schemes such as round-trip flows, smurfing or synthetic identities to enhan... View moreJean VilledieuHead of Sales, Linkurious
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9:05am-9:50am
Knowledge Graphs Powered by NLP and Network Science
How do you turn textual data (such as Covid-19 medical research) into a structured knowledge graph? This session covers the path from a corpus of research papers through Natural Language Processing, entity (relation) extraction and graph algorithms from Neo... View more
Vlasta KůsLead Data Scientist, GraphAware | Dr. Who Fan
Vlasta Kůs is a machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing enthusiast, with a... View more -
9:05am-9:50am
Malt Aware: Discovering What to Drink with Neo4j
The ability to build simple but effective recommendations is underrated. This talk focuses on how to produce good starting-point recommendations for whisky using Cypher that are of higher quality than those we see at our favourite online stores.
Luanne MisquittaVice President of Engineering, GraphAware
Luanne Misquitta is VP of Engineering at GraphAware, the World's #1 Neo4j solutions and consultancy and has been... View more -
9:05am-9:50am
Project Hades | Event Management to the Masses
Project Hades, built by Developer Student Clubs VIT is a free and open source software aimed at bringing on site event management to the masses. This is about how we used Neo4j and graph technologies to build and scale and application for the smooth operati... View more
Angad SharmaBackend Developer | Technical Blogger | DevOps Enthusiast
Angad Sharma is a server side developer, solutions architect, DevOps SysAdmin, Course Instructor... View more -
9:05am-9:50am
Unlock Cyber Security with Knowledge Graphs
Graphs, Nodes, Relationships and Security - Graphs make it easy to explore hidden relationships. In this talk, I will showcase a threat modeling tool I have created with GrandStack. The tools aims to help model complex software security threats to usable gr... View more
Uday KorlimarlaFounder, inspektre
I live in Melbourne, Australia, I love React, Javascript, Graphql and Neo4j. With my love for application security, I am on full-sail... View more -
9:55am-10:15am
Scalable, Reactive Product Development Framework for the Automotive Industry
We developed a Business Plan Gaming tool for the automotive development process that e.g. incorporates:
a) scalable task durations,
b) succeeding tasks that start once their predecessors have progressed to a certain maturity,
c) optional paths
Our knowl... View more
Elena KohlweySpecialist Digital Engineering, RLE INTERNATIONAL
With completed studies in European Business and in Mathematics, Elena Kohlwey strives to make... View more
Uwe KlossHead of Digital Engineering, RLE INTERNATIONAL
Uwe Kloss has had various engineering and management positions in the last 30 years in the automotive... View more -
9:55am-10:40am
Build a Knowledge Graph Using NLP and Ontologies
In this session, Mark and Jesús will show how to build a Knowledge Graph based on public resources, using techniques like:
- Entity extraction from unstructured data (articles) using NLP
- Knowledge representation using Ontologies
Once built, they will... View more
Mark NeedhamDeveloper Relations Engineer, Neo4j
Mark Needham is a graph advocate and developer relations engineer at Neo4j. He helps users embrace graphs and Neo4j,... View more
Jesús BarrasaEMEA Sales Engineering Director, Neo4j
Jesús Barrasa is a Neo4j field engineer based in London. He combines over 15 years of professional experience in... View more -
9:55am-10:40am
Site Reliability Engineering at Neo4j Aura
The Neo4j-as-a-service offering Aura makes it very easy for customers to get access to a production grade Neo4j database without worrying about all the operational bits and pieces.
However, we really care about those things and want to take you on a jour... View moreJohannes UntersteinGraphs, Containers and Fun, Neo4j
Johannes (@unterstein) organizes the java user group in his home town Kassel, teaches java at the DHBW Stuttgart and... View more
Julien GrobbelaarSite Reliability Engineer, Neo4j Aura
Julien studied engineering at Stellenbosch in the Western Cape in South Africa, where he also managed to inspect... View more -
9:55am-10:15am
Low Latency Kafka to Neo4j Data Streaming on Google Cloud
This will demo a project Hop pipeline streaming data from Kafka into Neo4j on Google Cloud DataFlow (using Apache Beam). We'll show the running pipeline and explain what's going on.
Matt CastersChief Solutions Architect, Neo4j and Kettle Project Founder
Matt is the founder of the Kettle Project since 2001. He's working as a chief architect of... View more -
9:55am-10:40am
Bespoke Visualization Tools for Complex Data
In this session, Sebastian shows how the Covidgraph.org project was able to help researchers across the globe to intuitively navigate the contents of a large Neo4j database. Using a custom made visualization app proved to result in a much improved user expe... View more
Sebastian MüllerChief Technology Officer, yWorks
Sebastian has been working in the field of graph and diagram visualization for more than 20 years. He joined yWorks 2002... View more -
9:55am-10:40am
Transforming a REST Service to a Graph Service
Discover how you can transform a REST API to a graph API with Neo4j and GraphQL.
Lennert Van SeverFull Stack Developer, Borealis Digital Studio
Lennert Van is working as a full-stack developer for the Borealis Digital Studio and is experienced with... View more -
10:20am-10:40am
Using Neo4j for Contact Tracing in the Philippines
Using QR code-based data, we helped a large multinational company track the progression of the COVID infection in the Philippines. Neo4j is particularly suited for this task as we can map interaction among people, places and time periods.
Additionally, ... View more
Wilson ChuaManaging Director and Founder, Future Gen International Pte Ltd
Wilson Chua has a master's degree in ITPM and certifications in Neo4j, Tableau and... View more -
10:20am-10:40am
Halal Detection Using Graph Algorithms
Halal food is the main concern for a Moslem in daily life. The number of halal-certified products is small. Therefore, We will present how to detect the halal status of a product based on its similarity ingredients. We will exploit the Neo4j similarity algo... View more
Nur Aini RakhmawatiVice Head of Halal Centre Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya
Nur Aini Rakhmawati is the founder of Linked Open Data Halal... View more -
10:45am-11:30am
Using Cypher to Extend a Graph-Based Documentation
At first, TheBrain (thebrain.com) can be thought of as a digital document management tool, that allows for a graph structure organization of documents, urls and notes. No more wondering "which directory does it make more sense to put this doc in". You can p... View more
Véronique GendnerInformation Design | Data Processing
Currently on a one year mission at the French National Institute of Geographical Information (IGN), to consolidate... View more -
10:45am-11:30am
Artificial Intelligence: To Trust or Not To Trust?
When we use AI to predict the risk of an investment, take lending decisions or provide explanations for high-scoring cases of suspected fraudulent activities, black-boxed AI is not suited: human experts must be able to validate the truth of AI produced resu... View moreLorenzo SperanzoniFounder and CEO, LARUS
Lorenzo has been a pragmatic and passionate IT-expert in software architectures and Agile methodologies since 1997.
After some... View more
Surya JosyulaDirector, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc.
Surya Josyula is Director of Marketing at Fujitsu Laboratories of America where he works on outbound... View more -
10:45am-11:05am
Building a WebGL Graph Visualization with PIXI.js
Choosing a graph visualization library for a web app is usually thought to be a choice between existing open-source and commercial libraries. There is another option though: Build your own custom graph visualization!Jan ZakFreelance Data Visualization Engineer | Consultant
Jan is a Freelance Data Visualization Engineer / Consultant, specializing in high-performance... View more -
10:45am-11:30am
Cypher Deep Dive: From Query String to Result
This session aims to provide a general overview of the internal workings of Neo4j Cypher. We will go into detail about the different processing steps, starting from a string representation of a query and ending up at the iterators, that can be used to fetch... View more
Sascha PeukertSoftware Engineer, Neo4j
Sascha joined Neo4j as a software developer in 2017. Previously he studied computer science at TU Dresden and wrote his master... View more -
10:45am-11:05am
From (:RDBMS)-[:TO]->(:Neo4j) Tips and Tricks
All journeys start somewhere! When getting acquainted with Neo4j one of the very first tasks is to migrate your existing data from a traditional relational DBs such as Postgres or MySQL to Neo4j. Very few companies start out on Neo4j from day one, and we we... View more
Mike BlumSoftware Engineer, LogicGate
Mike Blum does operations and development on Neo4j at LogicGate – a platform for building compliance and ERM workflows for... View more -
11:10am-11:30am
Post-Union Processing with Cypher
Continuing the processing of a Cypher query on the results of a UNION was a heavily requested feature. This session shows how it's used.
Luanne MisquittaVice President of Engineering, GraphAware
Luanne Misquitta is VP of Engineering at GraphAware, the World's #1 Neo4j solutions and consultancy and has been... View more -
11:10am-11:30am
Scrape from Multiple Sources Easily for Better Visualizations
Data that requires you to scrape from multiple URLs requires more attention in terms of validation. We will show a process to scrape from multiple URLs and to create cypher queries directly using Beautiful Soup, resulting in better visualization without any... View more
Rajesh GaddipatiSenior Application Developer, Fujitsu Consulting India pvt Ltd.,
Rajesh Gaddipati began his career as a Business Intelligence Analyst in 2010 and then... View more -
11:35am-12:20pm
Automating the Neo4j Pipeline for Data Shaping and Visualization with Power BI
According to the AI firm Appen, data scientists spend 80% of their time shaping data; yet data shaping is one of the least impactful aspects of the data-to-decision process. Conversely, both data visualization, which enables decision makers to aggregate ... View more
Bryant AveyChief Geek, internuntius, inc.
Bryant Avey is the Chief Geek for internuntius. Bryant has over twenty years of technical and management experience in a... View more -
11:35am-12:20pm
Molecules are Graphs! Graph Data Science for Drug Discovery
Matthew Sellwood, currently a Product Manager for IQVIA, will share an open source project that makes use of the graph data science library for lead optimisation of molecules in drug discovery. The project makes use of open source databases alongside the gr... View more
Matthew SellwoodProduct Manager, IQVIA
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11:35am-12:20pm
Neo4j Security in Action
This session will be dedicated to security features available in Neo4j such as Role Based Access Control (RBAC), intra-cluster encryption and logging. We will also cover some gotchas and lessons learned that we discovered when deploying Enterprise Neo4j clu... View more
Christophe WillemsenChief Technical Officer, GraphAware
Christophe is CTO at GraphAware, the World's #1 Neo4j solutions and consultancy. Christophe implemented Enterprise... View more -
11:35am-12:20pm
Tips and Tricks for Running Neo4j Clusters with Large Stores
Operating distributed systems with large amounts of data can often be challenging; especially if you care about performance and stability.
Neo4j Causal Clusters are no exception. Historically, once a user's store gets above a certain size, careful tuni... View more
Hugo FirthCluster Wrangler, Neo4j
Hugo Firth is a distributed systems enthusiast, clustering engineer at Neo4j and erstwhile graph data researcher, and was likely... View more
Tom GeudensField Team Member (not engineer, I don't build bridges), Neo4j
At the age of 15, Tom Geudens' parents gave him a choice. Either become a baker or go into... View more -
11:35am-12:20pm
QKnows Knowledge Graph
This session explores Knowledge Graphs at Scale, using the world's patent and journal data, 5 bio nodes, 50 bio relationships and counting, and fast global and local traversals with Java-embedded Neo4j enterprise.
Janez AlesData & Algorithms Research Scientist, BASF
Janez Ales made a first graph back-end in 1987 :). All of Janez's degrees are in Algorithmic Graph Theory, and... View more -
12:25pm-12:45pm
10+ Entity States in Graph Visualisation And How To Make The Best Of Them
Entities in graph visualisations change appearance based on data and user interaction. We will explore 10 of the most useful entity states, including selected, highlighted, located, hidden, and grouped. We will use Cypher to enrich entities with contextual ... View more
Dr. Miro MarchiGraph Specialised Anthropologist, GraphAware
Dr. Miro Marchi is a Senior Consultant at GraphAware. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from... View more
Michal TrnkaSenior Consultant, GraphAware
Michal Trnka is a Senior Consultant at GraphAware. He has almost 10 years of experience with software engineering and... View more -
12:25pm-12:45pm
Graph Database as Catalyzer from Machine Learning in Pharma
Graph databases are a great catalyzer for development applications and models based on machine learning. This session is about how can we take advantage of graphs and use them for apply in the pharma sector. Today, in light of COVID-19, the capacity on well... View more
Benito Gerónimo MarcosChief Technology Officer, Hadox Human Networks
Benito Gerónimo Marcos is a Master in Computer Science. For about 20+ years, Benito has been working as a... View more -
12:25pm-1:10pm
Building Spatial Search Algorithms for Neo4j
Graphs and Geospatial are natural partners. And yet, Neo4j has native support for only the simplest spatial type, the Point. Is this a problem? What if you want to perform more complex spatial searches, spatial modelling or spatial algorithms using complex ... View more
Craig TavernerSenior Software Engineer, Neo4j
Craig is a Senior Software Engineer at Neo4j. He has been using Neo4j since 2009, first as a customer building mobile... View more -
11:35am-12:20pm
IOT Data Compression in Neo4j
Imagine you have a week to put together a POC, or perhaps a weekend hack-a-thon. Your project requires that you capture streaming IOT data from multiple devices. The streams must be combined meaningfully real-time before being stored. Of course the event d... View more
Joe ChesakSenior Managing Consultant, Capgemini Norway
Chief Data Officer, Bolder AS
CEO, FabLabs AS
Joe Chesak is an American living in Norway. He discovered... View more -
12:25pm-12:45pm
Representing and Managing Consent for Data Sharing with Knowledge Graphs
The expansion of the Internet of Things has allowed connecting everyday devices to a network that could be accessed at any time and has defined data as a new currency. Data sharing has been a research topic for many years but a unified solution that could b... View more
Anelia KurtevaPh.D. Researcher at STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck
Anelia is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science (2019-ongoing), has a Master of Science in... View more -
12:25pm-1:10pm
Which Comes First - The Data Model or the Algorithm?
Cybersecurity may be the ideal domain for graph analysis as the relationships between technical attributes are often more critical than the discrete values. For example, an attribute’s maliciousness often depends on the surrounding context. This can include... View more
Liz MaidaFounder and Chief Executive Officer, Uplevel
Liz Maida is the Founder and CEO of Uplevel Security (recently acquired by McAfee). She was previously a... View more -
12:25pm-12:45pm
Best Practices and Fundamentals of Innovation when Prototyping using Graph Databases and Neo4j
Alessandro SvenssonAlessandro Svensson is the Head of the Innovation Lab at Neo4j, based in San Francisco, CA, and has over 10 years of experience of working in the... View more -
12:50pm-1:10pm
A Survey as a Graph
Hundreds of surveys and censuses are conducted worldwide every year on a CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) platform using tablets for data collection. At the end you have the data in dozens of cryptic files cross-referencing each other. Making sen... View more
Klaus BlassSurvey and IT Consultant, The World Bank
Consultant at the Development Data Group at the World Bank, assisting National Statistical Offices worldwide to... View more -
12:50pm-1:10pm
Visualising All Drupal.org Data in Neo4j
Drupal.org, the main platform for the Drupal Community, stores large amount of data related to users, companies, modules and themes, apart of forums, issues and other information related to projects. Recently we consumed all this data using their public API... View more
Ruben TeijeiroCo-Founder, Youpal
Ruben is co-founder of Youpal, an ICT company from Sweden, where they create innovative products based on Open Source software. He is... View more -
12:50pm-1:10pm
Beyond the (Wine) Blend: Using Graph Structures to Fill the Blanks
In this session, Lju will show an approach she used to do just that, based on a wine data set she's been working on from Kaggle. Her approach is based on generating reference data based on existing information, and then using that to cross-reference and inf... View more -
12:50pm-1:10pm
The Graph Database Workshop That Changed An Industry
In 2019, a group of eager engineers gathered in a room to learn about Neo4j, GraphQL and Apollo. Little did they know, this workshop not only changed their lives, but shook an entire industry. This is the true story of how graph connected people around the ... View morePolley WongCEO of VIUSPACE, Co-founder of We Create Group, Life-Long Advocate of Workspace Equality
Polley Wong is a serial entrepreneur. She’s the CEO of design... View more -
1:15pm-2:00pm
RDBMS & SQL to Neo4j & Cypher: Transitioning to the Right Technology for Your Data
Building scalable, competitive and reliable applications means understanding and taming the complexity and dependencies found across the spectrum in today’s IT landscape. Crosscode equips developers with the most comprehensive and automated application depe... View more
Jonathan GentschSenior Software Engineer, Crosscode
Jon is a technology industry veteran with over 13 years’ experience in complex software development. As a Crosscode... View more
Robert VroomanSenior Software Engineer, Crosscode
Rob has 7 years’ experience as a full-stack engineer with a specialization in Spring Boot development. As a Senior... View more -
1:15pm-2:00pm
Extending a Knowledge Graph from Wikidata
Starting from a business oriented knowledge graph, we will see how to build SPARQL queries to query Wikidata and enrich our knowledge. From this enriched graph, we will build Cypher queries to enhance graph-based search.
Estelle ScifoData Scientist
Estelle Scifo is a data scientist entered into the field from physics, hobbyist Python and React developer, graph & Neo4j lover. Estelle... View more -
1:15pm-2:00pm
Getting Graph Questions Answered through Neo4j Bloom
When working with graphs, many graph questions require visual and interactive methods to explore connections in order to discover answers in the graph. Neo4j Bloom helps developers, data scientists and analysts search their graph and explore results visuall... View more
Anurag TandonDirector, Product Management, Visualization, Neo4j
Anurag’s mission is to help Neo4j customers become successful with our portfolio of end-user products.... View more -
1:15pm-2:00pm
Low Code GraphQL APIs With Neo4j
Learn how to build efficient GraphQL APIs without writing boilerplate code and duplicating schemas in your API and database.
William LyonDeveloper Relations Engineer, Neo4j
William Lyon is a software developer at Neo4j and author of the book "Fullstack GraphQL Applications With GRANDstack"... View more -
1:15pm-2:00pm
Low-Code Development with Graphs - Taking Application Development to a New Level
To define the components of a software application, we use graphs as abstract models for the data scheme, program and process flows, web component trees, HTML and CSS, as well as file system and organization hierarchies. Why not put them into a graph databa... View more
Axel MorgnerFounder and CEO, Structr
Axel is a physicist, co-founder and managing director of Structr GmbH in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As the initiator of the... View more -
1:15pm-2:00pm
Write Your Own Algorithms Using the Pregel API
Ever wanted an algorithm that wasn’t available in the GDS library? Now we make it super easy for you to write your own algorithms to leverage our super efficient analytics infrastructure, without needing to learn our low level, internal APIs. We’ll cover th... View more
Sören ReichardtSoftware Engineer, Neo4j Team Graph Analytics
Sören is a software engineer in the Neo4j Graph Analytics team concentrating on high performance java... View more
Martin JunghannsSoftware Engineer, Neo4j Team Graph Analytics
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2:05pm-2:50pm
Anomalies, Inconsistencies and Fraudulent Behaviour – Data Mining with Neo4j and GRANDstack
Join Christian’s deep dive into building a graph visualization application with GRANDstack. With interactive examples, he’ll detect and visualize Wikipedia article fraud, using Neo4j to model real-world examples. He’ll also demonstrate techniques for uncove... View more
Christian MilesGraph Technology & Visualisation Specialist, Cambridge Intelligence
Christian has worked at the intersection of data analytics and visualisation since... View more -
2:05pm-2:50pm
Create a Graph Data Pipeline with Apache Spark and Neo4j
Regardless of the fact you're a Data Scientist or a Data Engineer, at 99%, you have met in some way with Apache Spark. In this session, we’ll show you the capabilities we’ve been working on discovering how you can combine Spark and Neo4j for reading and ing... View more
Andrea SanturbanoCTO, LARUS Business Automation
Andrea Santurbano is CTO at LARUS Business Automation (the integrator leader for Neo4j) with seven years of experience... View more
M. David AllenTechnology Partner Architect, Neo4j
David is a deeply technical generalist with experience in managing teams and driving towards complex goals. The most... View more -
2:05pm-2:50pm
Graph Native Learning: Introducing GraphSAGE and Model Catalogs in Neo4j
We’ll present on how to build an end to end machine learning pipeline using graph embeddings from Neo4j’s graph data science library to build predictive models. We’ll cover everything from loading your data, calculating your embeddings, extracting data into... View more
Alicia FrameLead Product Manager, Neo4j Team Graph Analytics
Alicia is the lead product manager for data science at Neo4j (and still a data scientist at... View more
Amy HodlerGraph Analytics Program Manager, Neo4j
Amy is a network science fan, AI and Graph Analytics Program Manager at Neo4j, and a co-author of the O'Reilly... View more -
2:05pm-2:25pm
Modeling Healthy Communication in Neo4j
Human communication gets messy. But what if we could model communication using graphs to understand prevailing emotions and unmet needs in a population? In this quick talk, we'll analyze public sentiment within a hypothetical scenario: public comments on a ... View more
Matt CloydCreator of Aspen | Civic Technologist
Matt is a civic technologist, helping support democracy by improving the relationship between constituents and... View more -
2:05pm-2:25pm
Using Software Agents for Querying Knowledge Graphs
In this talk, I'll introduce question-answering chatbots over the command line to query. Querying will be rule-based as proof of concept. Neo4j will be used for dealing with knowledge graphs.
Siraj MunirData Scientist | AI Researcher | Student
Siraj Munir has been using graphs for last two years to solve real-world problems semantically and graphically.... View more -
2:05pm-2:50pm
Quarkus on Neo4J: Real-World Experiences & Live-Coding
If you're in the enterprise Java world, you've probably heard “supersonic subatomic Java” with Quarkus, a new runtime for modern Java applications. With Quarkus, cloud-native Java has arrived in year 2020, with excellent support for containerized environmen... View more
Sebastian DaschnerJava Champion | IBMer | Author
Sebastian Daschner is a Java Developer Advocate at IBM, a consultant, author, and trainer. He is the author of the book... View more -
2:30pm-2:50pm
Finding Brazilian Company Groups in a Large Graph
This session will show how we created a graph using Brazilian government open company database and applied graph algorithms such as LPA and Louvain for finding non-explicit company groups.
Vitor AvanciniChief Technology Officer, Indicium Tech
Vitor Avancini graduated at Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil and worked 5 years as a big data engineer... View more
Daniel AvanciniChief Data Scientist, Indicium Tech
Daniel Avancini is the Chief Data Scientist at Indicium Tech, a Brazilian data science and big data consulting firm.
Fernanda DoriaData Scientist, Indicium Tech
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2:30pm-2:50pm
Project Domino: Fighting COVID Misinformation at Scale with Citizen Data Science
With most adults getting news from social media or from colleagues who do, misinformation has grown into an infodemic. Project Domino is an open data science effort to tackle COVID public health awareness by detecting social media manipulation and powering ... View more
Sean GriffinChief Executive Officer, Disaster Tech
Sean Griffin is founder and CEO of Disaster Tech. Sean served as Director for Incident Management Integration... View more
Leo MeyerovichFounder, Graphistry, Inc.
Leo Meyerovich founded Graphistry to supercharge visual investigations with GPUs, graphs, and automation. That has led to... View more -
2:55pm-3:40pm
Network Like an Egghead: Analytics and Visualization on LinkedIn
LinkedIn offers a great tool to grow and study your professional network. It even offers ways to directly download your data. This talk demonstrates advanced ways to visualize and analyze your network, given your own network data.
This session will cover:
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Keita BroadwaterMachine Learning Engineer and Founder, Peerce.ai
Dr. Broadwater is a machine learning engineer and technology executive with interest in the application... View more -
2:55pm-3:40pm
Leveraging Dimensionality for Graph-Based Recommendations with Sparse Data
Similarity metrics between products or customers forms the foundation of many recommendation engines, by compressing data onto a low-dimensional space by comparing vector similarity using Cosine or Jaccard distances to find similar products or customers. Ho... View more
Will EvansVice President, Strategy and Innovation, Graphable
As the VP of Strategy and Innovation at Graphable, Will works with companies large and small to help... View more -
2:55pm-3:15pm
Relate Framework - How Neo4j Builds Neo4j Developer Tools
Neo4j Desktop is written in TypeScript and built on Nest.js. That's the foundation of our Relate Framework for building a growing collection of Developer Tools. And you can use it, too.
Andreas KolleggerDirector of PM for Developer Tools, Neo4j
Andreas Kollegger has been working to bring graph thinking into the world for 10 years at Neo4j. -
2:55pm-3:40pm
We Save Lives! Using Neo4j to Find a Bone Marrow Donor
Be The Match is part of a global network of donor registries that provide access to 40 million volunteer donors who might be the only match for a patient in need of a transplant. The matching is complex due to genetic diversity of the HLA genes which result... View more
Martin MaiersVice President of Innovation, Be The Match
Martin Maiers is Vice President of Innovation at Be The Match where he has worked for 24 years. He leads an R&D... View more -
2:55pm-3:40pm
Lightning Fast Zero to Production with Spring, Neo4j and jHipster
JHipster is a development platform to generate and deploy Spring Boot applications with different modules and configurations. Neo4j support has been recently added to the JHipster ecosystem and in this talk we'll introduce you to this amazing platform and i... View more
Giuseppe VillaniSW Developer, LARUS Business Automation
Giuseppe Villani started his journey into the world of computer science 5 years ago with a 3-year course in Web... View more
Davide FantuzziData Engineer, LARUS Business Automation
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2:55pm-3:40pm
NLP and Graphs Go Hand in Hand
How can we leverage the power of Knowledge Graphs in NLP? This session shows how to give structure to unstructured data.
Tomaz BratanicGraph Data Analyst
Tomaz Bratanic loves to work with graphs and write about various graph analytics approaches in his blog. Tomaz is very excited about... View more -
3:20pm-3:40pm
Sharding Graphs with Neo4j
Graphs and sharding, do they really work together? In this talk, we will present the latest additions to Cypher and how we can execute queries spanning in parallel on multiple graphs, in a sharding and federation scenario. We will also look at modelling tec... View more
Ivan ZorattiDirector of Product Management, Neo4j
Ivan leads the Product Management team for the Neo4j Database. He started his career at Digital Equipment... View more -
3:45pm-4:30pm
Cypher Workbench: Development Tool Suite for Cypher
The path from inception to deployment of your Neo4j solution involves many steps: documenting key questions, modeling your data, importing data, building queries, and verifying the data works for your needs. Additionally, running systems have a different se... View more
Eric MonkPrincipal Solutions Engineer, Neo4j
Eric Monk is a Neo4j Principal Solutions Engineer and has been using Neo4j for nearly six years, helping customers... View more -
3:45pm-4:30pm
Developing a Knowledge Graph of Your Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Tasks and Training (KSATT)
Understanding occupation elements and employee skillsets is essential to properly align your workforce, identify skill gaps, emerging skills and career/training paths. In this presentation we will develop an occupation knowledge graph from open data, augmen... View moreDavid MezaSr. Data Scientist, NASA
David Meza currently serves as a Sr. Data Scientist for the NASA’s Office of Human Capital in D.C. He previously served as Chief... View more -
3:45pm-4:30pm
Neo4j: A Taxonomy-based Approach on Compliance Risk Management
This session will explore how Neo4j can give insight in connected (compliance) risk management.
Arthur Namias de CrastoCompliance Officer -
3:45pm-4:30pm
Developing Applications with Neo4j Aura on Google Cloud
Developers and Data Engineers are turning to the power, agility, reliability, and security of Google Cloud to build applications that meet the challenges faced by today’s businesses. In this session, Google Cloud Developer Advocate Robert Kubis, will demons... View more
Robert KubisCloud Developer Advocate, Google
Robert Kubis is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud based in Colorado, US. He specialises in container, storage and... View more
M. David AllenTechnology Partner Architect, Neo4j
David is a deeply technical generalist with experience in managing teams and driving towards complex goals. The most... View more -
3:45pm-4:30pm
Not All Visualizations are Created Equal
Studies at MIT show that the human brain can process images that the eye sees for as little as 13 milliseconds. Not only does the brain need a very short time to take in an image, but half of the human brain is devoted directly or indirectly to vision. This... View more
Julie FisherRisk Modeling Scientist, Asurion
Julie is the subject matter expert on graph at Asurion for the fraud machine learning team, conducts Knowledge Sharing... View more -
3:45pm-4:30pm
Doom, Kafka, and Neo4j - Building a (Near) Real-time Telemetry Graph
Video games like Doom, in addition to being nostalgic fun, let us experiment with ways to tackle real world challenges faced by developers trying to harness the power of connected data including common challenges encountered by developers of IoT systems.
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Dave VoutilaSales Engineer, Neo4j
A flatlander now living in Vermont (USA), Dave's been a part of Neo4j's field team since 2019. He's proudly never seen "Jerry... View more -
4:35pm-5:20pm
Graph Provisioning and Data Enrichment on Election 2020 Twitter Data
Follow along as Alex walks through an end-to-end workflow to gather, enrich, and analyze tweets on the upcoming 2020 election. In a comprehensive demo, she will illustrate how data collection can be automated leveraging serverless cloud services for automat... View more
Alex LawCommunication Coordinator, Kineviz
Alex Law speaks on the intersection of art and technology with a background in biology, dance, and start-up... View more -
4:35pm-5:20pm
From Local Strategies to Global Patterns
Interesting global patterns like scale-free networks, small world phenomena, and viral transmission of innovations turn up in graphs all the time. How do they get there? Independent, rational actions of network members at local scale can lead to these globa... View more
Nathan SmithSenior Data Scientist, Lovevery
Nathan Smith is a senior data scientist at Lovevery. He uses Neo4j to help provide Lovevery subscribers developmentally... View more -
4:35pm-5:20pm
Power & Emergent Org Structures
Agency Management is built on a simple concept: Experts share knowledge. Most of us are solving common problems, problems we share with colleagues if not industry wide, yet sharing and collaboration depends on the org structure and org culture. In "Accelera... View more
Sean GonzalezDataman, General Influence
Sean is on a mission to change how experts retain agency over their work, and influence their organizations in general. General... View more -
4:35pm-5:20pm
Mastering Enterprise Metadata with Neo4j
Modern enterprises not only have a myriad of data sources, from real-time events, transactional, Big Data, and many other systems, but they also boast a rich ecosystem of thousands of APIs & treasure of deep technical metadata. How do you organize and gain ... View more
Dr. Vladimir BacvanskiPrincipal Architect, PayPal
Dr. Vladimir Bacvanski is a Principal Architect with Strategic Architecture at PayPal. He is the lead architect for Privacy... View more
Deepak ChandramouliSoftware Engineering | Enterprise Data Platforms, PayPal
Deepak Chandramouli is an Engineering Lead in PayPal’s Enterprise Data Platforms Organization.... View more -
4:35pm-4:55pm
Enterprise 360 - Graphs at the Center of the Data Fabric
Providing multi-dimensional views across the enterprise requires weaving a complex network of connected data and metadata together to deliver context, insight and strategic focus. Industry analysts are increasingly finding that graph databases are a key ena... View more
Aaron WallaceProduct Manager, Precisely Context Graph
Aaron Wallace is a Global Product Manager for Data Context at Precisely. He is based in Austin, Texas and has... View more -
4:35pm-5:20pm
Parallel Data Import Into a Running Database
Importing relationships into a running graph database using multiple threads running concurrently is a difficult task, as multiple threads cannot write information to the same node at the same time. Here we present an algorithm in which relationships are so... View more
Aleks OntmanManager, Deloitte
Aleks Y. M. Ontman received his B.S. in electrical engineering from SUNY Binghamton in 2005 and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and... View moreJoshua R. PorterSenior Consultant, Mission Analytics, Deloitte
Joshua R. Porter received his B.S. in electrical and
computer engineering from Lafayette College in
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