Meet and Think with IBM

Developers, Ops, domain experts - let's get your hands dirty! We are rolling out a hybrid series of hands-on practitioner events around IBM Bob, the new AI-powered development partner designed to help you ideate, build, modernize and ship better code, faster.

👉 Agenda for 15th October:
16:00 Open Doors & Local Networking (for onsite attendees)
17.00 Official Welcome & Agenda of the Evening / Online livestream starts*, Sebastian Grodzietzki (in Berlin)*
17:10 Big on Brains - An introduction to IBM Bob*, Francis Powesland (in München)*
17:30 **Guided **Bob Feature Update - “How to get hooked on IBM Bob”, Francis Powlesland (in München)
18:10 Break + time for installation of Bob on individual machines if still needed (ideally you have Bob installed before the event 👍), find your teammates
18:30 From RPG to AI: Modernizing IBM i Applications with Bob, Marvin Giessing (in Düsseldorf)
18:45 Guided: Building an Agentic Development Team with IBM Bob, Liza Kaladjian (in Köln) & Dennis Treder-Tschechlov (in Ehningen)
19:10 Self-paced hands-on - try out Bob yourselves with finger food & drinks, individually or in local teams / Online livestream ends
20:00 Closing Doors

​What makes these events stand out?
👩‍💻👨‍💻🧑‍💻🪩 Coding Watch Parties in Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Ehningen, Vienna, Zurich and online/remote at the same time.

Join live sessions together with other creators — not just watching, but discussing, reacting, and learning in real time.
Think of it as turning a webinar into a shared experience.

The final 2 AI Coding Watch Parties with Bob, each with tracks for beginners, intermediate and experts, will take place on
- 15th October and
- 1st December
The Coding Watch Parties are free of charge. Onsite tickets are limited.

​🥷🧙‍♀️🧝🪄 Hands-on + Community-first
From hackathons to deep dives, these events are built to help you explore modern AI-driven development workflows and connect with peers.
​
Bob is built to support domain users without coding experience as well as R&D + Ops folks from the ideation stage up to modernization of legacy apps, to secure, fullstack enterprise-ready development. IBM Bob supports the entire SDLC — and these sessions show and guide you how it actually works in best practice.

​If you’re curious about where AI is taking software engineering next, this is a great place to plug in.

Hybrid Tech Conference | Online + Onsite in Berlin & Cologne
How the SDLC is changing, and impacts the life of developers.

​Developer Impact Days 2026 (Event 3 of 3)
​Developers, SREs, Architects, Practitioners - join the last event of our hybrid series in 2026 covering different R&D + xOps topics & trends that keep us up night, with each afternoon full of tech keynotes without annoying sales pitches!

​What makes the events stand out?
🥷🧙‍♀️🧝🪄 Tech + Community-first: Join bloody honest tech insights from like minded techies together with other practitioners — not just watching, but discussing, reacting, and learning in real time.

​All the 3 events bring different topics and speakers...this last event will take place in Berlin, in Cologne & Online simultaneously on:
- 22nd October
The event is free of charge. Tickets are limited.

If you’re curious about where the SDLC, software engineering and DevOps is going next - and how it impacts your life as a developer, this is a great place to plug in.

Let's make this an amazing shared community experience with tech in its center.

Join a variety of senior practitioners and run into like minded techies and discuss your thoughts with the community in a relaxed setting, with fingerfood and drinks...

👉 Agenda for the 22nd October:
13:00 Open Doors & Networking
​14:00 Official Welcome - Sebastian Grodzietzki
​14:15 The Serverless Experience, Jacob Schwarz
​14:40 Taking Quarkus to Cloud, Martin Stefanko
​15:20 API Management - Managing your API zoo, Rhett Widurski
​15:40 Coffee break & snacks
​16:00 Stepping up your productivity with Quarkus: Running your application in Dev Mode, Martin Stefanko
​16:40 Cloud-Native Observability (Beyond Just Logs): Total visibility. No more "it works on my machine.", Marcus Rüsch & Basak Vogt
​17:20 Deployment & Automation with Bob, Thomas Südbröcker
​17:50 Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms (IDP): Less friction, more coding, Nikolaus Lemberski
​18:30 Wrap-up, Dinner & Drinks, Networking

​We are looking forward to an inspiring event full of valuable content and discussions. If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch at anytime... 🙂

Practitioners - let's get our hands dirty! Join the final event of our hybrid series of hands-on AI dev events in 2026 around IBM Bob, the new AI-powered development partner designed to help you ideate, build, modernize and ship better code, faster.

​What makes these events stand out?
👩‍💻👨‍💻🧑‍💻🪩 Coding Watch Parties in Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Ehningen, Vienna, Zurich and online/remote at the same time.

Join live sessions together with other creators — not just watching, but discussing, reacting, and learning in real time.
Think of it as turning a webinar into a shared experience.

The final AI Coding Watch Party with Bob, with tracks for beginners, intermediate and experts, will take place on 1st December.

The Coding Watch Party is free of charge. Onsite tickets are limited.

​🥷🧙‍♀️🧝🪄 Hands-on + Community-first
From hackathons to deep dives, these events are built to help you explore modern AI-driven development workflows and connect with peers.
​
Bob is built to support domain users without coding experience as well as R&D + Ops folks from the ideation stage up to modernization of legacy apps, to secure, fullstack enterprise-ready development. IBM Bob supports the entire SDLC — and these sessions show and guide you how it actually works in best practice.

​If you’re curious about where AI is taking software engineering next, this is a great place to plug in.

Detailed agenda will follow... 🙂