# New Video Podcast Series - The Connected Startup **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Content & Blogs\ **Tags:** startup, podcast\ **Created:** [June 13, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/new-video-podcast-series-the-connected-startup/79363 "2026-06-13T15:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brian.okeefe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/brian.okeefe/32/34611_2.png) [@brian.okeefe](https://community.neo4j.com/u/brian.okeefe)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/new-video-podcast-series-the-connected-startup/79363/1 "2026-06-13T15:33:16Z")
Every startup is born to solve a problem. The hard part is everything that breaks on the way there. The Connected Startup is our new monthly podcast about those roadblocks, and the founders who discovered a graph was the way through. Each episode traces one company's path from the wall they hit to what they could finally build once their data matched the shape of the problem. We ask every guest the same question: describe the moment you realized a graph was the right tool. Our first guest is [Shawkat Kabbara](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawkat-kabbara-43a4/), founder and CEO of [Papr.ai](http://Papr.ai), a context intelligence platform that gives AI agents long-term memory through a graph-native architecture built on [Neo4j](https://www.linkedin.com/company/neo4j/). Papr powers memory and retrieval for customers in fintech, commerce, healthcare, and insurance, turning unstructured data into queryable knowledge graphs via developer-friendly memory policies and a GraphQL API. Shawkat walks through a before-and-after: 164 daily sales reports stuck as flat text, then the same data as a commerce graph an operator can query in real time. If your stack is straining against the questions you actually want to ask, this one's for you. Join us live Thursday, June 18 at 12pm ET. We go live the third Thursday of every month, same time. YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/live/GunEhdCKDF8?si=4x8snuEDVDMzw2fX](https://www.youtube.com/live/GunEhdCKDF8?si=4x8snuEDVDMzw2fX) LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:7471580693626707969/](https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:7471580693626707969/) ---
**Author:** ![Ari\_Neo4j](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/ari_neo4j/32/34352_2.png) [@Ari\_Neo4j](https://community.neo4j.com/u/Ari_Neo4j)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/new-video-podcast-series-the-connected-startup/79363/2 "2026-06-13T17:38:06Z")
This sounds like a great podcast for many of us. Is there a schedule so I can add the events here in the community @brian.okeefe ---
**Author:** ![brian.okeefe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/brian.okeefe/32/34611_2.png) [@brian.okeefe](https://community.neo4j.com/u/brian.okeefe)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2026, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/new-video-podcast-series-the-connected-startup/79363/3 "2026-06-13T20:28:42Z")
Every 3rd Thursday of the month at 12pm ET. ---
**Author:** ![brian.okeefe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/brian.okeefe/32/34611_2.png) [@brian.okeefe](https://community.neo4j.com/u/brian.okeefe)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/new-video-podcast-series-the-connected-startup/79363/4 "2026-06-26T17:45:25Z")
There is now a GitHub repository for the show and it will contain a catalog of all of the past episodes. [GitHub - neo4j-field/connected-startup-podcast: Links to prior and upcoming episodes, and resources shared in each episode. ยท GitHub](https://github.com/neo4j-field/connected-startup-podcast) ---
**Author:** ![Ari\_Neo4j](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/ari_neo4j/32/34352_2.png) [@Ari\_Neo4j](https://community.neo4j.com/u/Ari_Neo4j)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/new-video-podcast-series-the-connected-startup/79363/5 "2026-06-26T18:16:01Z")
This is awesome @brian.okeefe