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NODES 26 — November 12, 2026

Live Q&A with Emil Eifrém and Andreas Kollegger

Session track: General Sessions

Session times: (Asia Pacific) (Europe) (Americas)

Session description:

Emil Eifrém, CEO and founder of Neo4j, will join Andreas Kollegger to answer audience questions.

Fireside Chat with Andrew Ng and Emil Eifrém

Session track: General Sessions

Session times: (Asia Pacific) (Europe) (Americas)

Session description:

Building complex agentic systems requires more than connecting AI models—it takes new approaches to engineering, context, and data. In this fireside chat, Dr. Andrew Ng, a global leader in AI innovation and education, joins Emil Eifrem, CEO and Co-Founder of Neo4j, to explore what’s next for AI engineering. They’ll discuss the skills, techniques, and approaches AI engineers need to build smarter, more capable AI applications.

Speaker

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Emil Eifrem

Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j

Emil Eifrem 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.