Graph 2026! (Graph Weekend)

It's been a decade since we hosted the first Graph Day conference in Austin as part of Data Day Texas 2016. For the 10th anniversary, we are hosting Graph 2026 - co-located with Data Day Texas 2026. This time, however, it will be a graph weekend. We'll have presentations all day Saturday, and on Sunday, we'll have a day of open discussions with the speakers. Follow Data Day Texas on Linkedin for the latest news.

What's in store for 2026?

The biggest change for Graph 2026 is the optional 2nd day of conversations. We tried this most recently with Data Day Texas 2025, and everyone loved it. Here's what people said before the event, and after the event. The second day (Graph Discussions) is a unique opportunity to spend the day getting to go beyond the presentations in conversations with speakers and attendees from around the world.

Matthias Broecheler, creator of Titan, the original TinkerPop graph database, speaking at Graph Day in 2016. This first edition of Graph Day drew 240 attendees from around the world for a two track event.

Data Day Texas and Graph 2026 - together

From the beginning, our primary goal has been to expose the greater data community to graph thinking. In 2017, roughly 700 people attended Emil Efrim's Graph Day session at Data Day Texas. Had Graph Day been a standalone event, hundreds of data professionals would not have been exposed to Emil's excellent history of Neo4j. Since then, Graph Day has always been a part of Data Day Texas, That trend continues with Graph 2026.

Emil Efrim, founder of Neo4j, gave the keynote to a much larger audience at the combined edition Graph Day 2017 / Data Day Texas. We declared 2017 to be the Year of the Graph. We called it first.

The Future of Graph : revisited

We first hosted a Future of Graph panel at Graph Day 2020 (YouTube). Much has happened in the last five years. Attendees have been telling us that it's time for an update. Who should be on the panel this time? Proposals open up soon. Follow Data Day Texas on Linkedin for the latest news.

For 2020, we held a special edition of Graph Day - the Global Graph Summit. The highlight of the event was the Future of Graph featuring Josh Shinavier, Juan Sequeda, Denise Gosnell, and Amy Hodler.

Not Just Graph

Data Day Texas welcomes all data/graph-related topics : Metadata, Semantics, Taxonomy, Ontology, Linked Data, Analytics, Data Modeling, Thesauri, Neurosymbolic AI, Graph Neural Networks, Knowledge Engineering, GraphRAG... Proposals open up soon. Follow Data Day Texas on Linkedin for the latest news.

Juan Sequeda presented his vision of a semantic future at Graph Day 2017 - to a packed room. A long time friend of the conference, we threw the launch party for Juan's Semantic Web Austin group back in 2008.

At Graph Day 2018, we hosted two knowledge graph sessions. The first session, led by Dan Bennett packed a 100 person room - despite there being nine other sessions at the same time

The second knowledge graph session at Graph Day 2018 was led by Jans Aasman, creator of the semantic graph database, AllegroGraph. Once again, standing room only despite nine other sessions being held at the same time.