Kick-off your new year with a no-cost event featuring dozens of AI experts focused on next generation resources for AI builders. IBM Dev Day: AI Demystified programming is designed to help you navigate the complex AI landscape of developer tools, infrastructure automation projects and products, and AI agent building and governance best practices – all intended to advance and scale your AI impact quickly!
AI developer tools:Explore tools designed to migrate code faster, infuse AI, and automate higher levelapplication work. Sign up for an hour-long IBM Bob hand-on workshop using a free30-day IDE trial. Hear from open source experts from the Agent Lifecycle Toolkit(ALTK), ConfigUrable Generalist Agent (CUGA), IBM Granite, Langflow, and Mellea projects.
AI automation:Join us to learn everything you need to know to build a platform to enable your developers to deploy AI Agents. From data consolidation, to securing agent communications, and everything in between. Learn how to build the infrastructure to support your AI initiatives in such a way that you can sleep at night.
AI agents:Learn how to build multi-agent solutions using agents and agentic workflows; agentsthat collaborate, orchestrate complex tasks, and integrate securely and predicably withtools like Langflow, OpenAPI services, Python scripts and MCP. Agent governance,agent ops, and agent knowledge (aka RAG) will also be covered in this track along withresponsible AI and compliance.

Bruno is a transformative leader in data, AI, automation, and business innovation, currently serving as Group Vice President at IBM. With a track record of accelerating growth at Google Cloud and Oracle, Bruno has led high-impact teams and strategies that have reshaped data and analytics at global scale.

He is passionate about empowering businesses to leverage AI and data for meaningful, customer-driven transformation. Bruno is also a member of IBM Ventures’ Investment Committee, where he helps drive cutting-edge innovation.

From idea to deployment

Every great idea deserves a faster path to reality. Use AI to simplify the steps that slow teams down — organizing work, connecting tools, or turning insights into action. Show how approachable, practical AI can make building and launching new solutions easier for everyone.

Why hack at a hackathon

Get hands-on experience: Test your imagination and expand your technical skills and problem-solving abilities.
Access industry-leading AI tools and resources, including IBM Cloud and watsonx services.
Team up and work closely with colleagues to share knowledge, or connect with your new expanded professional network.
This is your chance to win up to $5,000 for First Place!

AI DemystifiedIBM Dev Day

/ /Virtual Event + Hackathon

/ /January 29 - February 1, 2026

IBM TechXchange Virtual Event

06 December 2023

A virtual event

January 29, 11 AM - 5 PM ET

Dive deep with AI experts at the Free Virtual Event

Meet our keynote

Bruno AzizaGroup Vice President, IBM Software (Data, AI, Automation & Security)

Featured experts

Bill Higgins

Rosemary Wang

Developer Advocate

Suzanne Livingston

Vice President, watsonx Orchestrate, IBM Software

Jim Laredo

Sowmya Kameswaran

STSM & Chief Architect, IBM watsonx Assistant for Z | UX - Db2z and tools

Derek Leist

Principal Technical Program Manager, AI Security, Safety, and Governance

Dennis Parrott

Chetan Hireholi

Gabriel Goodhart

Abraham Daniels

David Paul

David Jones-Gilardi

Richard Boyd

Allen Chan

Kelly To

Ming Zhao

Gretchen Tietge

Patrick McFadin

Gil Isaacs

Aaron Ploetz

Patrick McFadin

Want to earn knowledge that can help you go farther in the hackathon? Join the Hackathon Enablement Session on January 29th!Two options to watch LIVE: 10am ET | 4pm ET

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