Outstanding performance with world leading CDN & Graph Databases, Akamai & Neo4j

Let us introduce our first event co-hosted with both Akamai - the world leader of CDN services, and Neo Technologies - the world leader of Graph Databases.

Watch what's going on at Akamai in 60 seconds:http://wwwns.akamai.com/akamai_60_seconds/akamai-sixty-seconds.html

This evening meetup will be technically oriented. We also have the pleasure of having Hästens show their use case combining both Neo4j and Akamai, and the architects behind the solution will be here to answer any question.
Beer and pizza is served!

No prior knowledge about CDN/Akamai or Graph Databases required!

AGENDA
17:30 - 18:10 Food, drinks & networking
Pizzas and beer is served. Our locally brewed Graph Ale II is introduced.

18:10 - 18:20 Case study: Digitalization and Optimizing Business Performance at Hästens with Neo4j & Akamai - Kent Lovestjärna (Digital Media Manager at Hästens Sängar AB) / Anders Ekström (CEO at NetConsult Sweden AB)

The short story on how Hästens started to use Neo4j to leverage current silos of data (SAP, Salesforce, etc) and provision their custom CMS with content from a graph database distributed across the globe with Akamai.

18:25 - 18:55 Neo4j, Akamai & full stack applications - Patrik Jensen, (CTO at NetConsult Sweden AB)

Overview of the technical aspects and key insights working with Hästens Sängar, Billes Tryckeri and Gymgrossisten.

19:00 - 19:25 How to maximize your performance and availability by using the Akamai services - Stefan Krantz (Senior Solutions Engineer at Akamai Technologies)
Stefan will talk about how you can maximize your performance and availability by using the Akamai services. It does not matter if it is an E-commerce site, an API or a web application.

19:30 - 20:00 Hacking open data - Rik Van Bruggen (Regional VP of Sales at Neo Technology)

During this session, we will

• introduce new people to the fundamentals of graph databases
• take some time to explore some interesting publicly available datasets, and import them into Neo4j and ask some interesting questions of the datasets.

We have some ideas to play around with: - the PANAMA PAPERS, of course!

20:00 - 21:00 Technical discussions & QA

This is the same event that is listed in the group "Akamai Göteborg (https://www.meetup.com/Akamai-Goteborg/)". You only need to RSVP in one of the groups.