IBM TechXchange Dev Day

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, CUGA) 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 - From Tools to Reliable Agents: A Configurable Approach with CUGA and ALTK

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 - Apertus - The Swiss LLM

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!