June 29 – July 2, 2026 · San Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed

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Track 2Sponsor Session

AI on Your Lakehouse: Context Comes in Shapes, Not Queries

Zach Blumenfeld

When
Monday, June 299:00 AM – 11:00 AM · 120 min
Where
Track 2San Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed
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About this session

Your agent can reach your data but still can't use it reliably: vector search and Text2SQL each hand it a slice, but not the view to know what's truly relevant and how to connect the right info. Without that, answers come back confident but wrong, and agent decisions cannot be trusted. The problem isn't caused by a bad model or bad query, but rather a lack of context, and thinking in terms of shapes is what cracks it.

In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to build three reusable graph shapes from your lakehouse data using Neo4j, so your agent can navigate and view the right context to answer and act accurately:

  • Table of Contents (Trees) — navigate what's there
  • Themes (Communities) — surface patterns nobody named
  • Connections (Paths & Cycles) — trace how entities, documents, and records relate

Portable to BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, or anywhere. You'll leave with real, practical techniques and the code to run with your own data and agents.

Speaker

Zach Blumenfeld
Zach Blumenfeld

AI Research Engineer, Neo4j

Zach Blumenfeld is an AI/ML graph specialist at Neo4j who helps engineers, data scientists, and business leaders use graph technology for analytics and intelligent applications, including GraphRAG, agentic systems, fraud detection, entity resolution, and recommendation engines.

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