Jim Webber explores breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
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T he A rt of the
P ossib le W ith G ra p h
Dr. Jim Webber, Chief Scientist
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The World
Is Changing
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THE WORLD IS CHANGING
Massive Technology
Trends Are Transforming
Industries
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For your organisation to
thrive in the new world,
your data must yield
insights to create
knowledge
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Graph creates a
more intuitive, connected
view of data, unlocking
deeper insights and
context
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Data Insights Knowledge
Uncovering patterns in data
enables insights and knowledge
Meaning derived from
analyzing data in context
Deeper understanding
built by connecting many
insights together
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Raw facts and figures
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Uncovering patterns in data
enables insights and knowledge
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Relationships
+
Domain
Terminology
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Data Graph Knowledge Graph
Dynamic context
Raw facts and figures Deep dynamic context
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So you can answer the most critical questions
What’s important? What’s unusual? What’s next?
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Real-time fraud
detection
Supply chain
resilience
Customer
experience
Digital Twins
Drug
discovery
Digital twin
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Uncovering knowledge from data drives innovation
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An Unfair Advantage
Tech giants have long used graphs
for breakthroughs. But graphs are no longer
exclusively theirs.
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Helping solve the world’s most challenging
problems across every industry
Financial
Services
Telco Retail Manufacturing Life
Sciences
Technology Logistics Government
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13. We found Neo4j to be literally thousands of times
faster than our prior MySQL solution, with queries
that require 10-100 times less code.
- Dr. Volker Pacher, Senior Staff Architect at eBay
14. Deployed a Neo4j-powered
digital twin of London's
intricate transport network,
enabling real-time incident
response to cut congestion
and drive significant
economic savings.
£600M
Annual economic
savings
Projected reduction
in congestion
10%
Time savings
value per driver
£1200
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Autonomous Clustering
Easy, automated horizontal scale-out
Composite Databases
Federated queries and sharded graphs
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Graph Data at Scale
16. ● Automated upgrades
● Zero maintenance
● Scalable and elastic, on-demand
● Enterprise-grade security
● High availability
● Simple pricing, consumption-based
● Procure through Aura Console or via
Cloud Marketplace
Cloud Scale
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GenAI is predicted to boost global
GDP by 7% while doubling productivity improvements
over the next decade
TheNext Growth Engine
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LLMs for Language Generation
RAG-based GenAI Applications
GenAI Maturity Model
Knowledge Graph Construction and GraphRAG
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1 LLMs for Language Generation
GenAI Maturity Model
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RAG-based GenAI Applications
Knowledge Graph Construction and GraphRAG
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The best thing,
The best thing about,
The best thing about AI,
The best thing about AI is,
The best thing about AI is its,
The best things about AI is its ability,
The best thing about AI is its ability to,
The best thing about AI is its ability to learn,
The best thing about AI is its ability to learn from,
The best things about AI is its ability to learn from experience.
The best thing,
The best thing about,
The best thing about AI,
The best thing about AI is,
The best thing about AI is its,
The best things about AI is its ability,
The best thing about AI is its ability to,
The best thing about AI is its ability to learn,
The best thing about AI is its ability to learn from,
The best things about AI is its ability to learn from experience.
The best thing,
The best thing about,
The best thing about AI,
The best thing about AI is,
The best thing about AI is its,
The best things about AI is its ability,
The best thing about AI is its ability to,
The best thing about AI is its ability to learn,
The best thing about AI is its ability to learn from,
The best things about AI is its ability to learn from experience.
The best thing,
The best thing about,
The best thing about AI,
The best thing about AI is,
The best thing about AI is its,
The best things about AI is its ability,
The best thing about AI is its ability to,
The best thing about AI is its ability to learn,
The best thing about AI is its ability to learn from,
The best things about AI is its ability to learn from experience.
The best thing,
The best thing about,
The best thing about AI,
The best thing about AI is,
The best thing about AI is its,
The best things about AI is its ability,
The best thing about AI is its ability to,
The best thing about AI is its ability to learn,
The best thing about AI is its ability to learn from,
The best things about AI is its ability to learn from experience.
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The Limitations of GenAI
● Lack of real-time domain knowledge
● Inability to verify answers
● Hallucination
● Ethical and data bias concerns
Dr. Jim Webber Chief Scientist
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RAG-based GenAI Applications
GenAI Maturity Model
1 LLMs for Language Generation
3 Knowledge Graph Construction and GraphRAG
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Vector embeddings
turn content into
numbers
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GenAI Needs Knowledge Graphs
KGs
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LLMs +
Better Together
Knowledge
Facts
Context
Language
Statistics
Creativity
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Vectors act as an
integration point
between geometric
and topological
worlds
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29. Knowledge graphs enable search with
explicit and implicit (vectors) relationships
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GenAI Maturity Model
Knowledge Graph Construction and GraphRAG
2 RAG-based GenAI Applications
1 LLMs for Language Generation
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32. GraphRAG: Unlocking
superior reasoning with
data relationships
1. Ingest Text Data
2. Generate Knowledge Graph
3. Import Into Graph Database
4. Create Semantic Hierarchies
5. Augment Retrieval
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33. GraphRAG: Unlocking
superior reasoning with
data relationships
1. Ingest Text Data
2. Generate Knowledge Graph
3. Import Into Graph Database
4. Create Semantic Hierarchies
5. Augment Retrieval
6. Deeper Understanding
"Initial results show that GraphRAG
consistently outperforms baseline RAG”
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LLMs for Language Generation
RAG-based GenAI Applications
GenAI Maturity Model
Knowledge Graph Construction and GraphRAG
4 The Future Is Unwritten
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LLMs hallucinate in
interesting and potentially
troubling ways
- Yejin Choi et al, U Washington
36. LLMs hallucinate in
interesting and potentially
troubling ways
- Yejin Choi et al, U Washington
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37. New techniques promise
a revolution in creating
better and smaller LLMs
- Yejin Choi et al, U Washington
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