Makers, 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 Berlin, Cologne, 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.
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.
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-re