Neo4j Announces Impressive Agenda for GraphConnect New York

Comcast, IBM, eBay, LendingClub, Microsoft Among Key Speakers at Premier Event for the Global Graph Community

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Oct 05, 2017, 09:00 ET

SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Neo4j, the market leader in connected data, today announced the agenda for its annual GraphConnect conference, to be held at Pier 36 in New York City on October 24 with training sessions scheduled for October 23.

Making its second appearance in New York, GraphConnect is the largest-ever gathering of graph database enthusiasts, developers, architects, technical managers, directors and CTOs. For the past six years, GraphConnect has continued to entice a wide variety of speakers from leading global companies around the world, including LendingClub, Microsoft, eBay, Comcast, UBS, Blackstone Federal, the Department of Homeland Security, Oregon Health & Science University and many more.

At GraphConnect New York, speakers from a variety of industry verticals will share their stories on how Neo4j has made an impact in terms of innovation, technology and the bottom line — from the scale of small startups all the way up to global enterprises. These impact stories will detail everything from reduced costs, increased revenue, improved performance, expanded scale and game-changing innovations.

Kicking off the event will be Neo4j's CEO and Founder, Emil Eifrem, who will give an overview of the graph database landscape and the future of graph technology. He will also be unveiling two major announcements about the future of the company and the overall graph database market. Chief Scientist Jim Webber will be closing out the day with his keynote discussion about graph databases and where they're headed in the modern enterprise.

This year's sponsors include IBM, GraphAware, GraphGrid, Structr, Cambridge Intelligence, Tom Sawyer Software, Expero, Linkurious and FactGem.

GraphConnect New York highlights include:

"Attack and Defense with Graphs at Microsoft" Presented by Sacha Faust, principal technical lead under the Cloud + Enterprise (C+E) Red Team at Microsoft
"Graph-Powered Conversational Commerce at eBay" Presented by Ajinkya Kale, MTS applied researcher & data scientist and Anuj Vatsa, senior software engineer, eBay
"Natural Language Processing and Topic Modeling for Social Network Analysis" Presented by Laura Drummer, director of software & engineering at Novetta
"Xfinity xFi and User Personalization" Presented by Mark Hashimoto, director of engineering of the Internet of Things & Jessica Lowing, senior manager of product & engineering, Comcast
"Microservice and Module Management with Neo4j" Presented by John Lavin, software architect at Vanguard
"Intelligent Recommendation Engine for Financial Analysts" Presented by Geoff Horrell, director of product incubation at Thomson Reuters
"Neo4j and Information Sharing for Enterprise Architects" Presented by Jessica Dembe, front-end developer at Blackstone Federal
"Mapping Ontologies in Graphs for Personalization at Gousto" Presented by Irene Iriarte-Carretero, data scientist at Gusto
"Using Neo4j to Design High-Performance Processors for Neo4j" Presented by Chuck Calio, the IBM Power Systems offering manager for modern data platforms and cognitive solutions

View the full GraphConnect New York agenda here: http://graphconnect.com/#agenda

For additional information and registration, visit: www.graphconnect.com

GraphConnect New York Event Venue
Pier 36
299 South Street
New York, NY 10002

About Neo4j, Inc.
Neo4j is an internet-scale, native graph database that leverages connected data to help companies build intelligent applications that meet today's evolving challenges including machine learning and artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations and master data. As the #1 platform for connected data, Neo4j has over three million downloads, the world's largest graph developer community, and thousands of graph-powered applications in production.

The world's most sophisticated organizations worldwide, from enterprises like Walmart, eBay, UBS, Cisco, HP, adidas and Lufthansa to hot startups like Medium, Musimap and Glowbl, use Neo4j to harness the connections in their data.

Neo4j is privately held and funded by Eight Roads Ventures (an investment arm of Fidelity International Limited), Sunstone Capital, Conor Venture Partners, Creandum, Dawn Capital and Greenbridge Investment Partners. With its headquarters in San Mateo, Calif., Neo4j also has regional offices in Sweden, Germany and the UK. For more information, please visit Neo4j.com and @Neo4j.

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