AI on Your Lakehouse: Context Comes in Shapes, Not Queries
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 9:00am-11:00am
- Track/room: Track 2 · Track 2
- Speaker(s): Zach Blumenfeld
- Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed
Official Description
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.
Related YouTube Video
Why your agents need decision traces, not just documents — Zach Blumenfeld, Neo4j (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
Transcript Status
Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Cached at raw/sources/youtube-transcripts/B9h9ovW5H9U.txt (2,859 words).
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Notes
- Pending transcript synthesis when an official recording or confirmed matching video is available.
Supporting Slides
- youtube B9h9ovW5H9U slides — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.
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