This Week in Neo4j: Certification, Developer Tools, GraphRAG, Knowledge Graphs and more

Senior Developer Marketing Manager

June 21, 2025

3 min read

Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your fix for news from the world of graph databases!

We are continuing our Certification Month with Community Activities to help you get certified and show off your Neo4j Skills to the world. Additionally, we explore the powerful new tools Neo4j Desktop 2.0 & AI-powered Dashboards on Aura, catch up on advanced GraphRAG sessions from the AI Engineer World’s Fair and discover how knowledge graphs can shape deeply personal AI experiences.

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Happy Graphing,

Alexander Erdl

COMING UP!

Livestream: Neo4j Live: CyVer – Verifying Cypher Queries on June 24 & GraphTalk Pharma & Life Sciences on July 2
Conferences: Find us at WeAreDevelopers, Berlin on July 9-11
Meetup: Meet us in Singapore, SG on June 26, Bengaluru, IN on June 28 & Berlin, DE on July 8
All Neo4j Events: Webinars and More
GraphSummit Series: Transform Your Enterprise with Graph and GenAI – Next Stop: Silicon Valley on July 15

FEATURED COMMUNITY MEMBER: Christophe Willemsen

Christophe is CTO at GraphAware, focused on helping democratic governments getting mission-critical insights from connected data.

Connect with him on LinkedIn.

Christophe is a Featured NODES 2025 Speaker. His session is titled “Anonymization in the LLM Era: No Room for Compromise”. In this talk, he will walk through real-world challenges when dealing with anonymisation in the LLM era while examining the limits of traditional techniques and discussing the trade-offs between privacy, utility and cost.

CERTIFICATION: Start Your Free Neo4j Certified Journey

In his blog post, Marijn Scholtens outlines effective study strategies, including taking comprehensive notes and utilising Neo4j’s GraphAcademy courses. His insights provide a practical roadmap for anyone validating their Neo4j expertise.
Our Community Activities in June are continuing:

AMA on Graph-Powered GenAI with Siddhant Aggarwal on June 23
Pass the Neo4j Certification Exam Like a Pro with Jennifer Reif on June 26

DEVELOPER TOOLS: AI-Powered Dashboard Creation in Aura & Neo4j Desktop 2.0

Niels de Jong gives us an overview of the new AI-powered dashboard builder within the Aura Console. This feature enables developers to create interactive, low-code visualisations directly from Cypher queries. This feature simplifies the process of building and sharing dashboards, making it easier to explore and present graph data insights without extensive front-end development.

Nissanka Fernando shares the latest on Neo4j Desktop 2.0, which reimagines the local development experience with a unified interface, integrated tools and support for unlimited local databases. It introduces a modernised Cypher editor, scalable graph visualisations and seamless connections to both local and remote Neo4j instances, including AuraDB.

GRAPHRAG: AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025 — GraphRAG

Did you miss the AI Engineer World’s Fair? You can now (re)watch the full GraphRAG Track on YouTube. It covers key topics such as building knowledge graphs from unstructured data with LLMs, multi-hop information retrieval strategies, performance evaluation using tools like Ragas, optimisation methods like data cleaning and LLM fine-tuning as well as using temporal graph frameworks like Graffiti to enhance AI agent memory.

KNOWLEDGE GRAPH: When Napolean met Melanie, the AI engineer

In her imaginative narrative, Saswati Rao envisions a dialogue between Napoleon Bonaparte and a modern AI engineer, Melanie. The story explores how personal experiences and untold stories can be transformed into a private knowledge graph using Neo4j’s MCP server and Claude Desktop. This approach creates a structured, introspective memory palace, enabling AI to understand and reflect on deeply personal narratives without exposing them to the broader internet.

CONTINUOUS LEARNING

GraphAcademy: Get ready for that Neo4j Certification with “Using Neo4j with Python“
Get to Know Graph: Level up your graph skills with webinars packed with practical insights to help you build powerful apps
Learn on Your Schedule: Go deeper into graph technology on Neo4j’s On-Demand webinar library
New Webinar: Get Your Data AI-Ready with Knowledge Graphs & GraphRAG – AMER, EMEA, Asia Pacific