NODES AI Agenda - Virtual Conference Dedicated to Graph + AI

Welcome to NODES AI

Dedicated to the future of AI with graphs, NODES AI is an online conference with three tracks focused on Knowledge Graphs & GraphRAG, Graph Memory & Agents, and Graph + AI in Production.

Join us on April 15, 2026 at 7am PT | 15:00 BST for seven hours of live technical sessions and hands-on learning from leading experts and practitioners who are shaping what’s next.

NODES AI

07:00 am - 07:30 am April 15

Keynote: Announcement Coming Soon

By Yolande Poirier Community Leader

07:30 am - 08:00 am April 15

How to Build the Next Wave of Graph-Based Agentic AI

By Charles Borderie CEO, Lettria

08:00 am - 08:30 am April 15

Tracing Agent Decisions with Graph Evals and Neo4j

08:30 am - 09:00 am April 15

Agentic AI with Knowledge Graphs on the JVM: A Music Graph in Practice

By Luanne Misquitta Principal Industry Solutions Specialist, Neo4j

09:00 am - 09:30 am April 15

Beyond Recall: Creating Agentic Personas with Persistent, Evolving Memory

By Mohamed Fazil AI Engineer, Office of CTO, Unisys

09:30 am - 10:00 am April 15

Agent Interaction Graphs: Evaluating Multi-Agent Systems with Graph-Based Reasoning

By Vincent Koc Futurist | Lecturer | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data

10:30 am - 11:00 am April 15

MemMachine: Agents That Learn, Memory That Lasts

By Christian Kniep Principal Architect, MemVerge

11:00 am - 11:30 am April 15

Multi-Agent Shared Graph Memory: Building Collective Knowledge for Agents

By Vaibhava lakshmi Ravideshik AI Engineer, Vy Labs

11:30 am - 12:00 pm April 15

Temporal Substrate Architecture: Building Persistent Identity for Autonomous AI Agents

By Conor O'Shea AI Systems Design & Integration, Daimler Truck North America

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm April 15

Fusing NLP and Graph: Building a Conversational Agent for Enriched Financial Data

By Alix de Cremoux Machine Learning Engineer, Banque de France, Gabriel Laffitte Machine Learning Engineer, Banque de France

12:30 pm - 01:00 pm April 15

Agent Reasoning with Graph World Models

By Lucas Godfrey Founder and CEO, Mindsynth

01:00 pm - 01:30 pm April 15

Neurosymbolic Architecture in Production with Neo4j, GDS, Node2Vec & LLM Grounding

By João Cunha Founder and AI Lead, Kipon

01:30 pm - 02:00 pm April 15

The AI Agent Memory Landscape

By William Lyon Senior Product Manager, Neo4j

07:00 am - 07:30 am April 15

Keynote: Announcement Coming Soon

By Yolande Poirier Community Leader

07:30 am - 08:00 am April 15

Ghost-busting with Neo4j Graph Analytics in Snowflake

By Stu Moore Product Manager for Neo4j Database, Neo4j, Timothy Spann Senior Solution Engineer, Snowflake

08:00 am - 08:30 am April 15

Graph AI for Visual, Actionable Enterprise Role Mining

By Michael Tai Identity Access Management Senior Manager|Graph AI Innovator

08:30 am - 09:00 am April 15

Complex Querying of Cyber Knowledge Graph for Robust Cyber Defense

By Mahantesh Halappanavar Chief Scientist and Group Leader, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joseph Aguayo Deputy CISO, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Siddhartha Shankar Das Postdoctoral Researcher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Moqsadur Rahman University of Texas at El Paso, Samantha Silva Data Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

09:30 am - 10:00 am April 15

Agentic AI Governance: Data Foundations & Real-Time Policy Enforcement

By Murthy Chandrapaty Software Architect, Adobe, William Liang Principal Engineer and Architect, Adobe

10:30 am - 11:00 am April 15

Building a Customer-Intelligence Brain: How GraphRAG Turns Qualitative Data into Decisions

By Eckhart Boehme Managing Director, unipro solutions GmbH & Co. KG

11:00 am - 11:30 am April 15

Graph Theory and Games: A Case Study on New York Times Connections

By Shafik Quoraishee New York Times Game Engineer and A.I. Enthusiast

11:30 am - 12:00 pm April 15

Intelligent Neo4j Observability

By Christophe Willemsen Chief Technical Officer, GraphAware

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm April 15

Infinigraph: Vector Data at Scale

By Hannah Tse Debenham Senior Software Engineer, Neo4j

12:30 pm - 01:00 pm April 15

Building Secure Services with AI Agents: Practical Patterns From Real-World Engineering

By Marat Kenzhebulatov Senior Software Engineer, Booking.com — Secure Services & AI Tooling

01:00 pm - 01:30 pm April 15

Graph-Powered Storyworlds: Using Neo4j To Keep 1M+ Word LitRPG Epics Coherent With AI

By Prem Chandrasekaran Author, Coding Architect, Technology Leader, DDD Enthusiast

01:30 pm - 02:00 pm April 15

From Holmes to House: Visualizing Patient Complexity Through Evolving Clinical Pathways

By Paweł Gołąb Bielik Consulting | Million Monkeys Software

07:00 am - 07:30 am April 15

Keynote: Announcement Coming Soon

By Yolande Poirier Community Leader

07:30 am - 08:00 am April 15

The GraphRAG System That Asks Back: Intelligent Probing with Better Contextual Answers

By Vivek Singh Senior Technical Leader Customer Experience, Cisco Systems, Rajarshee Dhar Technical Leader - AI/ML, Cisco Systems

08:00 am - 08:30 am April 15

The Searchable Grid: Building a GraphRAG-Powered Digital Twin for Real-Time Insights

By Lijimol George Data Scientist and Researcher, Tata Consultancy Services

08:30 am - 09:00 am April 15

Building Smarter Mobile Apps with On-device AI Agents & GraphRAG

By Ashita Prasad SDE / Dev Advocate, AWS

09:00 am - 09:30 am April 15

Adaptive GraphRAG: A Framework for Knowledge Graph Quality, Consistency, and Evolution

By Joshua Yu Founder, GraphWay AI

09:30 am - 10:00 am April 15

Graph-Powered Compliance: Building Intelligent Regulatory Mapping with AI and Neo4j

By Chandana Mulpuri Sr. Security Specialist, IBM

10:30 am - 11:00 am April 15

EventKernel: Multi-Hop Reasoning and GraphRAG for AI-Powered Event Intelligence

By Divakar Kumar Technical Architect, FlyersSoft | Microsoft MVP | MCT

11:00 am - 11:30 am April 15

From Static to Living: Building an AI-Ready Temporal Graph with Spiintel

By Manuel Maguga Darbinian Founder, Spiintel | AI & Product Specialist, Boundless Digital

11:30 am - 12:00 pm April 15

Lakehouse + Graph: Delta Lake, Unity Catalog and Neo4j for Governed AI Pipelines

By Shaurya Agrawal Start-up CTO & Board Advisor

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm April 15

Building a Cross-Border Knowledge Graph: AI Powered Entity Resolution & Risk Detection

By Artem Sentsov Chief Technical Officer, ClearPic | Head of Technology, Urus Advisory

12:30 pm - 01:00 pm April 15

Agentic GraphRAG: Autonomous Knowledge Graph Construction and Adaptive Retrieval

By Athulya Anil Graduate Student & Researcher, UMass Amherst | Open Source Developer

01:00 pm - 01:30 pm April 15

Semiont: A Graph-Based, AI-Native Wiki and Annotator

By Adam Pingel Open Applications & Tools with the AI Alliance, IBM

01:30 pm - 02:00 pm April 15

From AI Workflows to Graph-Native Reasoning: A Dify Plugin for Querying Neo4j

By Nikola Milosevic Science Fellow, Bayer A.G.