Bob DACH Community Gathering & Coding Watch Party Wien

Makers, innovators, developers - this one’s for you! We are rolling out a hybrid series of hands-on practitioner events around IBM Bob, the new AI-powered development partner designed to help you ideate, create, modernize and ship better code, faster.

What makes these events stand out?

👩‍💻👨‍💻🧑‍💻🪩 Coding Watch Parties in Berlin, Cologne, Ehningen, Frankfurt, Vienna, Zürich and online/remote at the same time.

Join live sessions together with other like minded makers — not just watching, but discussing, reacting, and learning in real time. Think of it as turning a webinar into a shared experience.

This is our link for remote, online attendance:

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/210233669733057?p=d6iQ93t27BojBYrbd9

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 Watch Parties are free of charge. Tickets are limited.

🥷🧙‍♀️🧝🪄 Hands-on + Community-first

Explore what others do with AI, get inspired, try out your own ideas and deep dive into new ways of working.

These events are built to help you explore modern AI-driven development workflows and connect with peers.

Bob is built to support you from ideation, designing & planning, creating from scratch, modernizing the software you have, to secure, enterprise-ready development. IBM Bob supports the entire SDLC — and these sessions show and guide you how it actually works in best practice.

If you’re curious about where AI is taking software engineering next, this is a great place to plug in.