SAN MATEO,CA--(Marketwire - Sep 24, 2012) - Neo Technology, creators of Neo4j, the world's leading graph database, today announced it is hosting a series of Neo4j meetups, workshops, and hackathons in lead-up to GraphConnect 2012, the first conference to focus on the rapidly growing world of graph databases and their applications making sense of connected data. The Neo4j events, scheduled from September 24 - 29, in several venues across San Francisco, CA, will host over 800 attendees with many more expected to join.
While the Trulia event is now sold out at 300 attendees, with 40 holding on the wait list, Heroku Hack Night has 13 available spots available for a four hour hack shop in SOMA. All events will be open to engineers and graphistas from every skill level and will include refreshments and a few hours of coding led by experienced Neo4j developers. Prizes will include tickets to this year's GraphConnect 2012 to be held in San Francisco from November 5 - 6. Neo4j event partners include Trulia, Heroku, Github, and the Google community.
Neo4j Event Dates and Details
Graph Database Workshop at Trulia
- Monday, September 24th, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. PT
- To be held at Trulia, 116 New Montgomery Street, 9th Floor, San Francisco, CA
- Register at: http://www.meetup.com/Data-Mining/events/80275492/
Hack Night at Heroku: Follow the Data
- Tuesday, September 25th, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. PT
- To be held at Heroku Headquarters, 321 11th Street, San Francisco, CA
- Register at: http://info.neotechnology.com/gc-heroku-hack.html
Virtual Event: Cypher Query Language and Neo4j
- Thursday, September 27th, at 10:00 a.m. PT
- Register at: http://info.neotechnology.com/0927-register.html
Neo4j + Google Apps Script Code Lab
- Saturday, September 29th, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PT
- Register at: http://www.gtugsf.com/events/52972282/?eventId=52972282&action=detail
Graphhub - West in San Francisco, CA
Join graph database expert Max de Marzi for an East vs. West hacker 'throw down.' As a giant developer playground for collaborative coding, github represents a few fascinating data sets: a social graph of people and their skills, a project graph of branches and forks, and a dependency graph of projects. We'll explore this coding landscape by diving into these graphs with different technologies, approaches, frontends and approaches.
- Tuesday, October 16th, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. PT
- To be held at General Assembly, 20 Rausch Street, San Francisco, CA
- Register at: http://bit.ly/PEeiR9
Graphhub - East in New York, NY
Join a member of the Neo team to represent the East Coast in our East vs. West hacker 'throw down.' As in the Graphhub - West event, Github will offer ten random NYC attendees a year of its Micro plan! Promo codes can be redeemed up to ten times each, and will expire Jan 31st, 2013.
- Tuesday, October 16h, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET
- To be held at General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY
- Register at: http://bit.ly/PEeiR9
Neo Technology Presents Graph Connect 2012
GraphConnect 2012 San Francisco is the first conference ever to bring together the rapidly growing community and ecosystem around graph databases. Held from November 5-6, 2012, the event is set to bring together graph thought leaders, researchers and developers from around the globe. For more information and to receive updates on topics, tracks and session availability or submit a proposal, please visit http://www.graphconnect.com.
About Neo Technology
Graphs are everywhere. From websites adding social capabilities to Telco's providing personalized customer services to innovative bioinformatics research, organizations are adopting graph databases as the best way to model and query connected data. Neo Technology researchers have pioneered graph databases since 2000 and have been instrumental in bringing the power of the social graph to customers such as Adobe, Cisco, and Deutsche Telekom. Now in production for nine years, Neo4j is the world's leading graph database with the largest ecosystem of partners and tens of thousands of successful deployments worldwide.
Neo Technology is a privately held company funded by Fidelity Growth Partners Europe, Sunstone Capital and Conor Venture Partners, and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, with offices in Sweden, UK, Germany, and Malaysia. For more information, please visit www.neotechnology.com
Contact Information:
Contact:
Julie Tangen
Kulesa Faul for Neo Technology
831 251 3450