IBM TechXchange Dev Day is an event that will bring experts from the industry and Academia to share their knowledge about topics in AI, focusing on open source technologies and how they are shaping the industry today. It will be held on November 6, at the EPFL Innovation Park, Building D, Room Uranus.
This is a full day event, but you can attend the morning session, the one in the afternoon, or both. In the morning, we will have hands-on workshops more oriented towards developers for tools such as Docling, IBM Granite, LangFlow. After lunch, we will go into demos (Mellea, BeeAI) and shorter sessions focusing on "thought leadership". In this part we will talk about new types of LLMs that are changing the game, AI initiatives in Switzerland and more.
The final part of the event is the panel, where we will talk about AI sovereignty, Open Source in Industry and AI, Enterprise AI adoption and interesting use cases.
If you are a researcher, professor, student or an industry expert, we are sure that you will find something interesting in our programme!
Agenda:
08:30 - Welcome breakfast
Hands on workshops
09:00 - SLMs vs LLMs: IBM Granite 4
09:50 - Break
10:00 - Document Intelligence with Docling
11:00 - Break
11:10 - Agents and MCP with Langflow
12:15 Lunch
Demos and Talks
13:15 - Generative Programs with Mellea (Demo)
13:55 - Break
14:00 - Discover, Run, and Compose AI agents with BeeAI (Demo)
14:40 - Break
14:45 - Mixture of Experts Models & IBM Spyre Card
15:10 - AI without Borders vs. Nations without AI
15:35 - Dataset Nutrition & Cultural Implications of AI
16:00 - TBA
16:30 - Panel: AI Sovereignty, Use Cases in Academia and Industry, Security Aspects of Open Source & AI, AI Standards
17:40 - Apero
Can't wait to see you there!
