Meet and Think with IBM

​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.

Agenda:
16:00 Open Doors & local Networking
17.00 Official Welcome & Agenda of the Evening, Online livestream starts, Sebastian Grodzietzki
17:10 Coding Agents & Habitat Engineering with Bob, Jacob Schwarz
17:40 DevSecOps & Security Engineering with Bob, Jan Wardenga
18:00 Look what I've built with Bob, diverse speakers from our community
18:15 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 Bob v2 - Guided Overview of the New Release Features, Eric Sease
19:00 Guided Spec-Driven Development, Jacob Schwarz
19:15 Free Flow - try out Bob yourselves with finger food & drinks, individually or in local teams, Online livestream ends
20:30 Closing Doors

​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.
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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_bob

Download and try Bob 1 month for free, get the trial here:
👉 ibm.biz/try_bob_for_free

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