We are excited to announce our opening keynote speaker this year: Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, a social scientist and physician who conducts research in biosocial science, network science, and behavior genetics, will discuss the effects of social networks on population behavior and how they can be used to create an artificial tipping point.``The NODES key speakers have knowledge to share about graph technology, including deploying modern applications, creating innovative knowledge graphs, and data manipulations, with topics such as Spring Cloud Function, Graph Machine Learning, and Neo4j technologies.``A training series will be hosted in October and November, covering a wide range of topics related to Neo4j, including intro to Neo4j, healthcare analytics using Neo4j, handling Neo4j data with Apache Hop, and graph EDA using the Neo4j GDS Client.