Technology Breakouts
An in-depth, technical session delivered by a client, partner, or IBM subject matter expert that demonstrates or explores IBM products, architectures, client case studies and/or best practices (60 minutes)
Tech Talks
Quick, interactive, and to-the-point discussions featuring use cases and special topics regarding IBM technologies shared by peer technology experts, advocates and enthusiasts (20 minutes)
Community Day: Open for all!
Community Day – Monday, October 6 | 1:00 – 6:00 PM
The IBM TechXchange Community is a digital gathering place for 420k+ technologists and
IBM product users. Once a year, we come together to celebrate at our
Community, kicking off the conference with energy, connection, and shared
excitement! Join our open, no-fee event for developers and
technologists.
Kicking off at 1:00 PM Monday, this high-energy
experience is where you can get involved with an open source project, meet
with User Groups, and play with the latest AI technology.
Get hands-on with open source
Build something awesome in our open source workshops
Create an AI agent in minutes with BeeAI, play with the latest open source foundation models, or try IBM Granite LLMs. We will also have workshops featuring Docling, Kubernetes, Presto, Presto C++, and more.
Get involved with 50+ open source projects
Dive deep into projects with leaders and contributors from Apache Superset, Intel Open Platform for Enterprise (OPEA), vLLM, and more. Learn how you can contribute or take advantage of the tech they are building.
Discover your User Group community
This is your day to meet your product experts!
Spend the afternoon with the Florida Maximo User Group (FLMUG), Maximo Utilities Working Group (MUWG), Carolina’s Integration User Group, Open Mainframe Project, and 40+ User Groups to experience a showcase of IBM product innovations, network with industry leaders, and engage with fellow members. Look for Activity Type “Meetup” in the session catalog to view all the different User Group sessions. Interested in having your user group participate? Drop Peter Nightingale a note to learn more.
“We were here last year, and this year is 4x as good as it was last year! We had an amazing Community Day with 105 people in our keynote session, which we were thrilled about.”
Donna Hudi on IBM TechXchange 2024
Open Mainframe Project and IBM Champion
Featured User Groups attending Community Day
- Business Analytics User Community
- Hybrid Integration/API Mgmt/Event Automation User Group
- MFT and B2B Integration Community Day
- Carolina’s Integration User Group
- IBM MQ Global User Group
- Instanauts Global Meetup – Instana User Group Community Session
- Guardium Data Security User Group
- WebSphere & Liberty Customer Advisory Board
- WebSphere & JSphere Customer Advisory Board
- Decision Management (ODM, ADS) Community User Group
- Content Management and Capture Community User Group
- BPM, Workflow, and Case Community User Group
- Assistants & Agents User Group Event
- Cloud Pak for AIOps Customer Advisory Council
- IBM Cloud Community & Client Appreciation Day
- Open Mainframe Project
- IBM Observability Client Advisory Council (OCAC)
- Florida Maximo User Group (FLMUG) & Maximo Utility Working Group (MUWG) Together at Community Day 2025
- IBM Enterprise Records User Group Annual Meeting
- Red Hat User Group
- IBM Storage Scale User Group
- IBM Power Virtual User Group (VUG)
- Engineering Lifecycle Management User Group
- IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z Client Advisory Board at TechXChange 2025
- QRadar Community User Group
- Netezza Advisory Council
- GovEd Solutions Exchange
- Data Integration Customer Advisory Board
- watsonx.data User Group and Technical Advisory Board
- IBM Threat Management & Palo Alto
- Containers on IBM Z User Group
- Data Replication User Group
- IBM Master Data Management and Match 360 User Group Event
- OpenPOWER Foundation
- IBM Software Community Day CAB Kickoff
- Verify TechXchange User Group
- IBM Sterling Order Management System Community Day
- HashiCorp User Groups (HUGs)
Come for the community,
stay for the party
The Opening Night Block Party is back in the Sandbox again this year. Starting at 7:00 PM on Monday night, the party is the unofficial kickoff to the week. Come mingle with peers, enjoy entertainment and games, and start the week in style.
Block party admission is included for Full Conference Pass holders only.