ibm-dev-day-workshop-2025

Archival repository for slides for the IBM TechXchange Dev Day Workshop, Atlanta, 2025

Note: This page is a part of an archival set of pages for a previously held event. The original IBM TechXChange Dev Day agenda can be found here, and the meetup agenda can be found at this URL.

Workshop Agenda

Time (EDT)	Speaker	Title
10:00		Breakfast and Registration
10:45	Jeffrey Young, Fang Liu Directors, Open Source Program Office	Georgia Tech OSPO Introduction [Slides]
10:45	David Sherrill Professor; Interim Executive Director of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS)	IDEaS Introduction [Slides]
11:00	Brad Topol IBM Distinguished Engineer and Director of AI and Cloud Open Technologies	Kick-off Open Source AI - TechXchange Dev Day [Slides]
11:45	-	Lunch
12:30	BJ Hargrave	Tutorial: IBM Granite [Tutorial Repo] [Slides]
2:00	Ming Zhao	Tutorial: Introducing Docling, the "Pandas" for Document AI [Tutorial Repo] [Slides]
3:30	Nathan Fulton	Tutorial: The Mellea Project Hands-on Tutorial [Tutorial Notebook] [Slides]
4:30	Lightning Talks
	Kenneth (Alex) Jenkins	BeeAI and Docling Root Cause Analysis [ Slides ]
	Dobromir Iliev	Data Prep Kit UI [ Slides ]
	Niraj Kamal	PyTorch Foundation Models [Slides]
	Rakshit (Rocket) Naidu	Generics with Granite [Slides]
	Benjamin Hoover	A New Era for Associative Memories [ Slides ]

Meetup Agenda - Open Source AI in Practice

Time (EDT)	Speaker	Title
5:50	Jeffrey Young Director, Open Source Program Office David Sherrill Professor, Interim Director, Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS)	GT Open Source AI Activities [OSPO Slides] [IDEaS Slides]
6:00	BJ Hargrave	Granite open source AI model [Slides]
6:10	Ming Zhao	Docling for document processing and parsing diverse formats [Slides]
6:20	Nathan Fulton	Generative programming with the Mellea Project [Slides]
6:30	Neera Mathur	Responsible Technology by Design [Slides]
6:40	Ajethaa Pandian, Madeline Lutwyche	Agentic AI with BeeAI [Slides]
6:50		Speaker Panel for Q&A
7:20 - 8:00		Networking