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NODES 26 — November 12, 2026

Neo4j Kafka Connector 6: A Major Step Forward

Session track: Modern Applications

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Neo4j Kafka Connector 6 is a major new release focused on modernizing the connector’s foundation while improving the developer experience for streaming data into/out of Neo4j. V6 brings significant under-the-hood renovations, including support for the latest Neo4j driver. This session will introduce the key changes in the release, including a unified schema model for nodes and relationships, improved database constraint management, exactly-once semantics, and quality-of-life enhancements such as support for Kafka metrics plugins. Attendees will learn what has changed in version 6, why these changes matter, and how the new release makes it easier to build, operate, and observe Kafka-based data pipelines with Neo4j.

Speaker

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Ali Ince

Software Engineer, Neo4j

Has been a software engineer for over two decades now and designed, worked and led several large scale e-government projects spanning multiple development platforms. Currently working within Connectors Team as a Team Lead, exploring and enabling connectivity of Neo4j with other data platforms.