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Session Track: Graph Memory & Agents

Session Time: 07:05 am - 07:30 am April 15

Session description

AI models are getting smarter—but production systems still fail for a simple reason: they lack context. In this panel, Jaya Gupta, Animesh Koratana, Lasse Andresen, and Emil Eifrem explore the idea of context graphs as a new foundation for AI systems that can reason, adapt, and improve over time. Rather than focusing on models alone, this conversation looks at the missing layer between data and decisions—how systems capture the “why” behind actions, learn from experience, and evolve with every interaction. Join us for a forward-looking discussion on where AI infrastructure is heading and what it will take to build systems that truly understand the world they operate in.

Speakers

Emil Eifrem

Co-Founder and CEO, Neo4j

Emil Eifrém sketched what today is known as the property graph model on a flight to Mumbai way back when dinosaurs ruled the earth and has devoted his professional life to building, innovating, and evangelizing graph databases and graph analytics. He is also co-author of the O'Reilly book Graph Databases. Neo4j today helps more than 75 of the Fortune 100, and a community of over hundreds of thousands of practitioners find hidden relationships and patterns across billions of connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Emil plans to change the world with graphs and own Larry's yacht by the end of the decade.

Animesh Koratana

Founder and CEO of PlayerZero

Animesh Koratana is the Founder and CEO of PlayerZero, the leading AI production engineering platform. During his time at Stanford's DAWN lab, Animesh had an insider view into the early development of ChatGPT's coding capabilities. PlayerZero's AI production engineers autonomously operate enterprise software, resolve production incidents, and catch defects before release—delivering up to 80% reduction in escaped defects and 65% faster resolution times for Global 2000 companies, including Zuora and Georgia-Pacific. The company is backed by Foundation Capital and the founders of Databricks, Figma, Vercel, and Dropbox.

Lasse Andresen

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, IndyKite

Lasse Andresen is a serial entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of IndyKite. Lasse previously co-founded leading IAM company, ForgeRock, which became publicly traded in 2021. As CEO, Lasse led the company through the startup phase to become an industry leader, with a $2.8 billion valuation at IPO. Recognizing that enterprise AI would require a new approach for how agents and data are governed and enabled, Lasse began building a new project to create the control and context layer AI needs to operate with precision at scale. In 2021, after assembling a talented team of experts, IndyKite was born.

Jaya Gupta

Partner, Foundation Capital

Jaya’s first affinity for technology began at age 19 when she built a startup called CardioBuddy (which failed!) but she joined a startup (which eventually got acquired!) while studying at Georgia Tech. Today at Foundation, Jaya leads early-stage investments across the enterprise software stack. She’s particularly excited about the “picks and shovels” that are powering the next wave of machine learning. At the application layer, she’s currently exploring generative AI’s ability to transform all aspects of enterprise software, from its capabilities to the way it’s coded. Jaya originally joined Foundation as a chief of staff focused on portfolio operations and strategy. She soon developed a love for working with exceptional founders, together with a knack for building communities around university networks like IIT, Berkeley, and Georgia Tech. Prior to Foundation, she worked for McKinsey’s technology practice, where she ran software diligences and helped startups develop strategic GTM plans. She has worked at 2 startups in the past of which both have been acquired. She also started a non-profit called Give a Birthday with the goal of empowering students and young children in tough situations with birthday parties. Jaya is passionate about South Asian culture, from Bollywood movies to the best new Indian restaurant. In her free time, you can find her trying out new exercise classes (Barry’s is her current obsession), playing poker at a friend’s apartment, or volunteering abroad. She also dabbles in hiking and is working on her surfing skills.

Philip Rathle

Chief Technology Officer

Philip Rathle is Neo4j’s Chief Technology Officer, focused on vision, evangelism, and cultivating executive relationships across the tech ecosystem. He was the company’s first product leader for more than a decade, establishing Neo4j as a leading player in the modern database landscape and growing its offering from a single database product to a rich portfolio that includes the Neo4j graph database, data science & analytics, visualization, and tools & connectors. Philip is an early pioneer in customer data integration, and previously led Product Management for Embarcadero Technologies overseeing a portfolio of 10 database and developer products. As a consultant earlier in his career, Philip spent nearly a decade solving large-scale information processing problems for the Fortune 500, working at Tanning Technology and Accenture, with a focus on database, architecture, and data modeling. He is based in Silicon Valley.

Exploring Context Graphs: From Data to Decisions