Knowledge Graphs and Chatbots with Neo4j and IBM Watson

What's new in Neo4j 3.3 & GraphConnect NY 2017 Recap

Neo4j 3.3 is the latest GA release, announced at GraphConnect NY 2017. We will walk through new and improved features and how this makes your experience with Neo4j even better
We will also recap our experience at GraphConnect, held in New York in October this year and talk about exciting trends in the graph space.

About the Speaker - Luanne Misquitta

Luanne Misquitta is a Neo4j-Certified Professional and Principal Consultant at GraphAware, a solution partner of Neo4j. She discovered Neo4j about 9 years ago and has since been a proud Neo4j community member. She has been the Neo4j Training instructor in India for the last 4 years and now lives in Abu Dhabi.Luanne is also a core committed to Spring Data Neo4j 4.1 and the Neo4j OGM.

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How long do you spend searching a large corpus to find specific pieces of information within your business domain?

Chatbots can assist humans in this expensive and time-consuming task. "Knowledge search" has a proven return on investment in applications like conversational commerce, customer support and education. However, a suitable storage model is required to represent your business domain knowledge, and handle vast amounts of insights and relationships inside this data.

Knowledge Graphs are becoming the de-facto solution for managing complex aggregated knowledge and Neo4j is the leading platform for storing and querying connected data.

In this talk, Christophe will describe a graph-centric cognitive computing pipeline and detail the process from the ingestion of unstructured text up to the generation of a knowledge graph, queryable using natural language through chatbots built with IBM Watson Conversation.

About the Speaker - Christophe Willemsen

Christophe is a Principal Consultant at GraphAware, the world's number one Neo4j consultancy.
He is an expert on the Neo4j graph database and the Cypher query language, and a skilled software engineer who has been involved in many Neo4j projects optimizing complex Cypher queries, building enterprise-grade, graph-based recommendation engines, and developing search tools combining Neo4j and the Elastic Stack.
Christophe also co-authored and maintains Java extensions for Neo4j (some of them used in big enterprises like Airbnb) that are available on the GraphAware Github.He has a deep passion for everything Computer Science and recently focuses on NLP, Chatbots, and Knowledge Graphs. He leads the development of the GraphAware Knowledge and Cognitive Computing Platform.

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Meetup Agenda
17:30 - 18:00 Introduction
18:00 - 18:45 Luanne Misquitta - What's new in Neo4j 3.3 & GraphConnect NY 2017 Recap
18:45 - 19:15 Coffee break
19:15 - 20:00 Christophe Willemsen - Knowledge Graphs and Chatbots with Neo4j and IBM Watson

We are also organizing Graph Data Modelling with Neo4j (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/graph-data-modelling-with-neo4j-abu-dhabi-tickets-39514011472) earlier that day. Follow the link for more details and registration.

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For any further requests or support contact the event organizer Jitka Svedova on tel. +971 54 443 7334.