Dr. Jim Webber

• Chief Scientist at Neo4J Neo4j
• Email: jim@jimwebber.org

Topic: TBA

Bio: Dr. Jim Webber is Neo4j’s Chief Scientist and Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. At Neo4j, Jim leads the Systems Research Group, working on a variety of database systems research topics, including query languages and runtimes, scale, and fault tolerance. He also co-authored several books on graph technology, including Graph Databases - 1st and 2nd Editions (O’Reilly), Graph Databases for Dummies (Wiley), and Building Knowledge Graphs (O’Reilly).

Before Neo4j, Jim worked on fault-tolerant distributed systems, first at Newcastle University startup Arjuna and then for a variety of clients for the global consulting firm ThoughtWorks. Along the way, Jim co-authored the distributed systems books REST in Practice (O’Reilly) and Developing Enterprise Web Services—An Architect’s Guide (Prentice-Hall).

Jim’s blog is located at https://jimwebber.org and he tweets sometimes at @jimwebber.