Thursday, August 21st, 2025 10:45 AM – 5:00 PM (Meetup: 5:45-8 PM)
This workshop and meetup, hosted in collaboration with IBM, IDEaS, and TechAI, focused on sharing recent development efforts and best practices around open source AI tools developed by IBM and via supported Linux Foundation projects. Students also presented their work as part of the OSPO’s Virtual Summer Internship Program where they worked with IBM mentors.
Note: This page is an archival page 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 |