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A practical, builder-first meetup focused on MCP integrations with Neo4j to enable context-aware AI. Live demos are welcome and content should be concise and technically grounded.

Date & Time: December 9, 2025 from 7:00pm - 10:00pm

• Technical Session: Neo4j
• Lightning Talks: Breakthrough Use Cases of MCP in Action

Propose a Talk: Submit Your Talk Proposal via the form. The form requests a concise 5 minute talk or demo illustrating MCP integrations with context-aware AI, and/ or graph-powered workflows.

Sponsors

Neo4j - Neo4j is a leading graph database platform that empowers AI developers to harness the power of connected data. Their technology enables efficient storage\, analysis\, and visualization of complex data relationships\, integrating seamlessly with popular AI and machine learning tools. Neo4j’s features\, including native graph storage and advanced algorithms\, make it ideal for powering AI applications like knowledge graphs and recommendation systems\, helping developers extract deeper insights from their data.

• Testimonials:

“I thought that having participants tell us about their project during last week's hackathon was really great. A super ice breaker, allowed the shy ones to express themselves. Also was a discussion opener to approach them with interest. Really great idea.”

— MLOps lead

We're excited to invite you to our next Meetup, co-hosted with the London Java Community!

Join fellow graph enthusiasts, Neo4j developers, and members of the Java community as we explore how graphs, knowledge graphs, and context engineering can unlock smarter applications and better answers. We’ll also uncover how AI-generated code can be weaponized, exposing hidden vulnerabilities in the software we trust. Whether you’re curious about building with graph-powered AI or safeguarding your projects from new threats, this meetup will give you insights you can put into practice.

Session 1: Black Friday Brilliance: Managing a Billion Transactions with Tech, Tactics, and Teamwork by Jamie Colmans

The Black Friday and Cyber Monday period is one of the busiest times in the retail calendar, both in stores and online, and here at Loqate our customers rely on our infrastructure to support their businesses at this crucial time. Over the four-day BFCM period in 2023 we processed over 1 billion requests to our APIs, and we managed this with greater than 99.99% availability! We've seen our request volume increase over 100x in the last 10 years, and managing this requires the right technologies, careful planning, and a great team of people.

With insightful commentary from a cross-section of our brilliant Dev team, I’ll talk you through how we scale our infrastructure to support these increases in traffic, and some of the technologies and processes we use. I’ll also give some insights into how the team works together over this busy period to keep everything running smoothly.

Session 2: WhatsThat? Using graphs and AI to make sense of your friends WhatsApp group by Martin O'Hanlon

Communication, messaging, and memory are complicated. How are you supposed to keep up with it all? It's difficult for you to keep up with the constant stream of messages you get. How can we expect an LLM to do the same? Let's look at how we can use graphs and AI to summarise the complex streams of messages you get in that oddly titled WhatsApp group.

We look forward to connecting with the community to exchange ideas on graphs, tech, and AI - join the discussion!

Important: Register on the event website to receive joining link. (rsvp on meetup will NOT receive joining link).

Description: Welcome to the weekly AI virtual seminars, in collaboration with Oracle. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, hands-on experiences on code labs, workshops, and networking with speakers & fellow developers from all over the world.

Tech Talk: Reap the benefits of RAG without the hassle Speaker: Mark Hornick (Oracle) Abstract: Generative AI-enhanced applications are becoming essential for today's businesses. The ability to ask natural language questions and get back relevant, helpful responses – based on documents you trust - is increasingly simply expected. For example, customer service chatbots aid customers and operators alike in searching resolution logs and product documentation to draft targeted responses to customer issues. But achieving this can seem like a daunting task. Select AI on Oracle Autonomous Database provides a streamlined interface that automates enabling retrieval augmented generation (RAG) – from building the vector index to the overall RAG workflow. It even automates the addition of new content to your vector index. Select AI RAG combines large language models (LLMs) and semantic similarity search (aka AI vector search) from convenient SQL and PL/SQL interfaces so you can quickly develop generative AI-enhanced applications. Join us for this step-by-step demonstration of going from raw documents to RAG-enabled responses to natural language questions and take your applications to the next level.

More upcoming sessions:

• Aug 26th: AI Webinar with Oracle (Ep 4) - Oracle Database 23ai brings AI to the database
• Aug 27th: NVIDIA FLARE Webinar 3 - Advancing Federated Learning
• Sep 3rd: AI Webinar with Docker - Local AI Development
• Sep 4th: AI Webinar with Oracle (Ep 5) - Use Knowledge graphs to transparently apply AI
• Sep 23rd: AI Webinar with Oracle (Ep 6) - MongoDB to Oracle – Switch and Use AI on Your Data and App *

Local and Global AI Community on Discord Join us on discord for local and global AI tech community:

• Events chat: chat and connect with speakers and global and local attendees;
• Learning AI: events, learning materials, study groups;
• Startups: innovation, projects collaborations, founders/co-founders;
• Jobs and Careers: job openings, post resumes, hiring managers *

Important: Register on the event website to receive joining link. (rsvp on meetup will NOT receive joining link).

Description: Welcome to the weekly AI virtual seminars, in collaboration with Oracle. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, hands-on experiences on code labs, workshops, and networking with speakers & fellow developers from all over the world.

Tech Talk: Reap the benefits of RAG without the hassle Speaker: Mark Hornick (Oracle) Abstract: Generative AI-enhanced applications are becoming essential for today's businesses. The ability to ask natural language questions and get back relevant, helpful responses – based on documents you trust - is increasingly simply expected. For example, customer service chatbots aid customers and operators alike in searching resolution logs and product documentation to draft targeted responses to customer issues. But achieving this can seem like a daunting task. Select AI on Oracle Autonomous Database provides a streamlined interface that automates enabling retrieval augmented generation (RAG) – from building the vector index to the overall RAG workflow. It even automates the addition of new content to your vector index. Select AI RAG combines large language models (LLMs) and semantic similarity search (aka AI vector search) from convenient SQL and PL/SQL interfaces so you can quickly develop generative AI-enhanced applications. Join us for this step-by-step demonstration of going from raw documents to RAG-enabled responses to natural language questions and take your applications to the next level.

More upcoming sessions:

• Aug 26th: AI Webinar with Oracle (Ep 4) - Oracle Database 23ai brings AI to the database
• Aug 27th: NVIDIA FLARE Webinar 3 - Advancing Federated Learning
• Sep 3rd: AI Webinar with Docker - Local AI Development
• Sep 4th: AI Webinar with Oracle (Ep 5) - Use Knowledge graphs to transparently apply AI
• Sep 23rd: AI Webinar with Oracle (Ep 6) - MongoDB to Oracle – Switch and Use AI on Your Data and App *

Local and Global AI Community on Discord Join us on discord for local and global AI tech community:

• Events chat: chat and connect with speakers and global and local attendees;
• Learning AI: events, learning materials, study groups;
• Startups: innovation, projects collaborations, founders/co-founders;
• Jobs and Careers: job openings, post resumes, hiring managers *

Important: Register on the event website to receive joining link. (rsvp on meetup will NOT receive joining link).

Description: Welcome to the weekly AI virtual seminars, in collaboration with Oracle. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, hands-on experiences on code labs, workshops, and networking with speakers & fellow developers from all over the world.

Tech Talk: Reap the benefits of RAG without the hassle Speaker: Mark Hornick (Oracle) Abstract: Generative AI-enhanced applications are becoming essential for today's businesses. The ability to ask natural language questions and get back relevant, helpful responses – based on documents you trust - is increasingly simply expected. For example, customer service chatbots aid customers and operators alike in searching resolution logs and product documentation to draft targeted responses to customer issues. But achieving this can seem like a daunting task. Select AI on Oracle Autonomous Database provides a streamlined interface that automates enabling retrieval augmented generation (RAG) – from building the vector index to the overall RAG workflow. It even automates the addition of new content to your vector index. Select AI RAG combines large language models (LLMs) and semantic similarity search (aka AI vector search) from convenient SQL and PL/SQL interfaces so you can quickly develop generative AI-enhanced applications. Join us for this step-by-step demonstration of going from raw documents to RAG-enabled responses to natural language questions and take your applications to the next level.

More upcoming sessions:

• Aug 26th: AI Webinar with Oracle (Ep 4) - Oracle Database 23ai brings AI to the database
• Aug 27th: NVIDIA FLARE Webinar 3 - Advancing Federated Learning
• Sep 3rd: AI Webinar with Docker - Local AI Development
• Sep 4th: AI Webinar with Oracle (Ep 5) - Use Knowledge graphs to transparently apply AI
• Sep 23rd: AI Webinar with Oracle (Ep 6) - MongoDB to Oracle – Switch and Use AI on Your Data and App *

Local and Global AI Community on Discord Join us on discord for local and global AI tech community:

• Events chat: chat and connect with speakers and global and local attendees;
• Learning AI: events, learning materials, study groups;
• Startups: innovation, projects collaborations, founders/co-founders;
• Jobs and Careers: job openings, post resumes, hiring managers *

Important: Register on the event website to receive joining link. (rsvp on meetup will NOT receive joining link).

Description: Welcome to the weekly AI virtual seminars, in collaboration with Oracle. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, hands-on experiences on code labs, workshops, and networking with speakers & fellow developers from all over the world.

Tech Talk: Reap the benefits of RAG without the hassle Speaker: Mark Hornick (Oracle) Abstract: Generative AI-enhanced applications are becoming essential for today's businesses. The ability to ask natural language questions and get back relevant, helpful responses – based on documents you trust - is increasingly simply expected. For example, customer service chatbots aid customers and operators alike in searching resolution logs and product documentation to draft targeted responses to customer issues. But achieving this can seem like a daunting task. Select AI on Oracle Autonomous Database provides a streamlined interface that automates enabling retrieval augmented generation (RAG) – from building the vector index to the overall RAG workflow. It even automates the addition of new content to your vector index. Select AI RAG combines large language models (LLMs) and semantic similarity search (aka AI vector search) from convenient SQL and PL/SQL interfaces so you can quickly develop generative AI-enhanced applications. Join us for this step-by-step demonstration of going from raw documents to RAG-enabled responses to natural language questions and take your applications to the next level.

More upcoming sessions:

• Aug 26th: AI Webinar with Oracle (Ep 4) - Oracle Database 23ai brings AI to the database
• Aug 27th: NVIDIA FLARE Webinar 3 - Advancing Federated Learning
• Sep 3rd: AI Webinar with Docker - Local AI Development
• Sep 4th: AI Webinar with Oracle (Ep 5) - Use Knowledge graphs to transparently apply AI
• Sep 23rd: AI Webinar with Oracle (Ep 6) - MongoDB to Oracle – Switch and Use AI on Your Data and App *

Local and Global AI Community on Discord Join us on discord for local and global AI tech community:

• Events chat: chat and connect with speakers and global and local attendees;
• Learning AI: events, learning materials, study groups;
• Startups: innovation, projects collaborations, founders/co-founders;
• Jobs and Careers: job openings, post resumes, hiring managers *