How Do Graph Databases and the Context Layer Fit Together?

HOST

Austin Kronz

Director of Data Strategy, Atlan

Former Gartner Director who spent years advising Fortune 500 data leaders on analytics strategy — now Director of Data Strategy at Atlan. He's the person large enterprises call when they can't figure out why their AI keeps getting context wrong.

GUEST

Emil Eifrem

CEO & Co-founder, Neo4j

CEO and Co-founder of Neo4j, the graph database company he started in 2007. He coined the term "property graph" and has spent two decades building the infrastructure that maps how enterprise data connects. He argues graph databases aren't just useful for AI — they're the foundation layer that makes relationships navigable at scale.

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Prukalpa Sankar

Co-founder, Atlan

Co-founder of Atlan, the active metadata platform. She has been building context infrastructure since before "context layer" was a phrase anyone used. Her argument: a graph database stores structure, but structure alone isn't context — meaning, governance, and lineage are what make data trustworthy for AI agents.