Live from NODES 2025 | Keynote: Fireside Chat with Andrew Ng and Emil Eifrém

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Welcome to NODES 2025, the biggest online conference dedicated to graph-powered apps, knowledge graphs, and AI. Join thousands of developers, data scientists, architects, and data pros as they learn the best techniques for graph-powered applications, AI Agents, and more.

Keynote: Fireside Chat with Andrew Ng and Emil Eifrém
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we build applications—and we’re only at the beginning. In this fireside chat, Dr. Andrew Ng, a global leader in AI innovation and education, joins Emil Eifrem, CEO and Co-Founder of Neo4j, to share their vision for what comes next. Together, they’ll dive into the technical frontiers shaping the future of AI.

00:00:00 – Welcome.
00:00:26 – Agentic AI – What is it?
00:02:09 – 4 Design Patterns of Agentic AI
00:04:12 – Framework or no framework?
00:06:05 – Where is it going (with frameworks)?
00:06:42 – Shape of memory?
00:09:04 – Interplay of memory with “RAG corpus”?
00:10:29 – Future of agentic AI?
00:12:41 – Multi-agent and SLMs?
00:14:13 – AI adoption in the Enterprise?
00:17:25 – Transformation playbook?
00:19:15 – Getting data AI-ready?
00:23:38 – What is it about a KG that improves accuracy?
00:25:49 – How do you learn?
00:27:27 – On a normal day, how much time learning?
00:28:23 – Personal AI tool stack?
00:29:13 – Thank you!

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