IBM TechXchange Dev Day - Open Source in Data and AI

​​Join us at 13:15 on 6 November 2025 for a series of talks and demos along with a panel around AI Sovereignty, use cases in academia and industry, security aspects of open source & AI, and AI Standards. The sessions will be of interest to researchers, professors, students, developers, industry experts and will include topics like:

• ​Mellea Generative Programming

• ​Configurable Agents Approach with CUGA and ALTK

• ​Spyre AI Accelerator

• ​AI Governance

• ​Dataset Nutrition

• ​AI Sovereignty, Standards,Security and more

​There will be time for networking. The event is expected to end around 6:30pm. The speakers and panelists will include Prof. Antoine Bosselut (EPFL), Hendrik Strobelt, Panos Vagenas, Henrik Mader, Avi Yaeli, Lindsey DeWitt Prat, Prof. Eduardo Solana (UNIGE), Ajla Karajko.

​AGENDA
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

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In addition, in the morning of 6 November, there will be hands-on workshops on topics like Granite 4.0, Docling, and Langflow. You can enroll for the morning sessions here at TechXChange Dev Days. The morning sessions are capped at 35 participants.

​AGENDA Morning Session:
08:30 - Welcome breakfast
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