About us
Rheinthinking is an IBM-managed Meetup community and event series that is facilitating future thinking key notes, workshops and networking events for half a decade now.
We are based in the Rhineland and are always happy to welcome visitors from all industries and areas of expertise. We are a community that grows together and faces the challenges of tomorrow's technological developments.
What can you expect from our events?
- Exciting keynotes from our IBM experts
- You can get your hands dirty yourself - we are not fans of full sound reinforcement, but prefer to work together in small workshops at our events
- Interaction is our top priority - we want to learn together with you
- Networking is an essential part of our events. Get to know our colleagues from IBM better and network with many other great visitors from all industries
Featured event
Developer Impact Days 2026 (Hybrid Event 2 of 3) | Cologne
Hybrid Tech Conference | Online worldwide + Onsite in Berlin & Cologne
How the SDLC is changing, and impacts the life of developers.
This here is the registration for Cologne or online. 🙂
Click here to grab a seat for Berlin.
Developers, DevOps, Architects, hands-on Techies - join a series of 3 tech events covering different R&D issues & trends that keep us up at night, starting on 21 July, with afternoons full of tech talks 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.
The upcoming 2 events with different topics and speakers will take place hybrid (online worldwide + onsite in Berlin & Cologne) on:
- 2nd September,
- 22nd October
The events are free of charge. Tickets to attend onsite, in person are limited.
If you’re curious about where the SDLC, software engineering, platform engineering and DevOps is going next - and how it impacts your life, 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 2nd September:
13:00 Open Doors & local Networking in person in Berlin + Cologne
14:00 Official Welcome & online Livestream starts, Sebastian Grodzietzki
14:15 Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) & Event Sourcing: Stop asking for data. Announce what happened, and let the ecosystem react., Oliver Rebmann
14:45 Java modernization without getting paged at 2 a.m., Lars Besselmann
15:15 Quarkus vs Spring Boot in 2026, Martin Stefanko
16:00 Coffee break & snacks
16:20 AI-Infused Quarkus; how to integrate LangChain4j in your Java application, Martin Stefanko
17:00 LLM Integration & AI-Assisted Workflows: Augmenting our code and our applications with intelligence, Manfred Buchmann
17:30 Spec-Driven Development, Niklas Heidloff
18:15 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... 🙂
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Looking for more free practitioner events? Follow the BuildersHub event calendar: https://luma.com/BuildersHub
Upcoming events
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IBM Bob Coding Watch Party in Berlin & Online
·HybridIBM Berlin, Ella-Trebe-Straße 3, Berlin, DEMakers, innovators, developers - this one’s for you! We are rolling out a series of hybrid (online & onsite) hands-on practitioner events around IBM Bob — the new AI-powered development partner designed to help you ideate, create and ship better code, faster.
What makes these events stand out?
👩💻👨💻🧑💻🪩 Coding Watch Parties in Cologne, Berlin, Frankfurt, Ehningen, Vienna, Zurich and online at the same time...Join live sessions together with other creators — not just watching, but discussing, reacting, and learning hands-on in real time. Think of it as turning a webinar into a shared, active experience.
The next Coding Watch Parties, each with tracks for beginners, intermediate and experts, will take place on
- 20th August,
- 15th October and
- 1st December
The Coding Watch Parties are free of charge. Tickets for in person, onsite attendance 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.
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We will add more developer events to the calendar soon. Follow our Luma calendar to stay uptodate for all upcoming events early on and get registered for the events you like to join either here or on our central Luma calendar: 👉 https://luma.com/ibm_bobDownload and try Bob 1 month for free, get the trial here:
👉 ibm.biz/try_bob_for_free1 attendeeIBM Bob Coding Watch Party in Frankfurt & Online
·HybridIBM Niederlassung Frankfurt, Tower-One Brüsseler Str. 1-3, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, DEMakers, innovators, developers - this one’s for you! We are rolling out a series of hybrid (online & onsite) hands-on practitioner events around IBM Bob — the new AI-powered development partner designed to help you ideate, create and ship better code, faster.
What makes these events stand out?
👩💻👨💻🧑💻🪩 Coding Watch Parties in Frankfurt, Berlin, Cologne, Ehningen, Vienna, Zurich and online at the same time...Join live sessions together with other creators — not just watching, but discussing, reacting, and learning hands-on in real time. Think of it as turning a webinar into a shared, active experience.
The next Coding Watch Parties, each with tracks for beginners, intermediate and experts, will take place on
- 20th August,
- 15th October and
- 1st December
The Coding Watch Parties are free of charge. Tickets for in person, onsite attendance 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.
***
We will add more developer events to the calendar soon. Follow our Luma calendar to stay uptodate for all upcoming events early on and get registered for the events you like to join either here or on our central Luma calendar: 👉 https://luma.com/ibm_bobDownload and try Bob 1 month for free, get the trial here:
👉 ibm.biz/try_bob_for_free1 attendeeDeveloper Impact Days 2026 (Hybrid Event 2 of 3) | Cologne
·HybridIBM Germany GmbH, Im Klapperhof 3-5, Köln, DEHybrid Tech Conference | Online worldwide + Onsite in Berlin & Cologne
How the SDLC is changing, and impacts the life of developers.This here is the registration for Cologne or online. 🙂
Click here to grab a seat for Berlin.Developers, DevOps, Architects, hands-on Techies - join a series of 3 tech events covering different R&D issues & trends that keep us up at night, starting on 21 July, with afternoons full of tech talks 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.The upcoming 2 events with different topics and speakers will take place hybrid (online worldwide + onsite in Berlin & Cologne) on:
- 2nd September,
- 22nd October
The events are free of charge. Tickets to attend onsite, in person are limited.If you’re curious about where the SDLC, software engineering, platform engineering and DevOps is going next - and how it impacts your life, 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 2nd September:
13:00 Open Doors & local Networking in person in Berlin + Cologne
14:00 Official Welcome & online Livestream starts, Sebastian Grodzietzki
14:15 Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) & Event Sourcing: Stop asking for data. Announce what happened, and let the ecosystem react., Oliver Rebmann
14:45 Java modernization without getting paged at 2 a.m., Lars Besselmann
15:15 Quarkus vs Spring Boot in 2026, Martin Stefanko
16:00 Coffee break & snacks
16:20 AI-Infused Quarkus; how to integrate LangChain4j in your Java application, Martin Stefanko
17:00 LLM Integration & AI-Assisted Workflows: Augmenting our code and our applications with intelligence, Manfred Buchmann
17:30 Spec-Driven Development, Niklas Heidloff
18:15 Wrap-up, Dinner & Drinks, NetworkingWe 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... 🙂
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Looking for more free practitioner events? Follow the BuildersHub event calendar: https://luma.com/BuildersHub5 attendees
Past events
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