In the previous lesson, you learned what workshops are and how they differ from online courses. One structured application of the workshop format is the practitioner training program — a paid, multi-day series delivered by accredited third-party trainers for partners and systems integrators.
In this lesson, you will learn:
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What the practitioner program is
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How the series is structured
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Where to find resources for instructors
What the practitioner program is
Practitioner training is a paid, instructor-led program targeting partners and systems integrators — organisations that build Neo4j-based solutions for clients. The training is delivered by an accredited third-party trainer, not by the GraphAcademy team directly.
The format is a four-day virtual series, with each day running as a four-hour live session. Participants are typically developers, data engineers, and database administrators who are actively building with Neo4j on a project.
Stay informed
Join #neo4j-datacouch-practitioner-training on Slack for updates on upcoming sessions, schedule changes, and trainer coordination.
Participants who want to inquire about or book a cohort can contact graphacademy@neo4j.com.
How the series is structured
Each day of the practitioner series maps to one or two GraphAcademy workshop courses. The courses are tagged with practitioner:N in their :categories: attribute, where N is the day number. This tag controls the order in which courses appear in the practitioner category listing.
The standard series covers the following workshops:
| Day | Course | Focus |
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1 |
Introduction to Graph Databases + Modeling and Importing Data |
Foundations, graph thinking, data modeling, CSV import |
2 |
Aura management, query profiling, graph refactoring |
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3 |
LLMs, vector search, GraphRAG |
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4 |
GDS algorithms, projections, link prediction |
Each course uses a dedicated sandbox use case (defined by :usecase: in course.adoc). Sandboxes are provisioned in bulk before each session using the participant count and session window.
Opening presentation slides
Instructors can create a copy of the opening presentation slides that introduce the program. This is available at:
Instructor notes and course resources
Each workshop course contains an instructor.adoc file alongside the learner-facing content. This file provides the facilitator with guidance that is not shown to participants: timing recommendations, common pitfalls, suggested talking points, and notes on where learners typically need extra support.
Instructor notes are accessible at:
/courses/{course-slug}/instructor/When authoring or updating a workshop course, maintain the instructor.adoc file alongside the lesson content. If the course does not have one yet, create it in the course root directory.
Summary
In this lesson, you learned about the practitioner workshop program:
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Third-party delivered — practitioner training is run by an accredited external trainer for partners and systems integrators; join #neo4j-datacouch-practitioner-training on Slack for updates
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Four-day series — each day maps to one or two workshop courses tagged
practitioner:Nin their categories -
Instructor notes — every workshop course has an
instructor.adocfile available at/courses/{slug}/instructor/with facilitator guidance not shown to learners
In the next lesson, you will learn how to:
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Request sandbox capacity for the session
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Create a Linear issue to track the event
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Notify the sandbox team through Slack