IBM at All Things Open 2026

IBM is proud to be sponsoring this year's All Things Open, ATO 2026, the largest open source / tech / web conference on the U.S. East Coast. All Things Open is a technology conference focusing on the tools, processes, and people making open source possible.

At All Things Open 2026, IBM will host a booth and the IBM Generative Computing lounge, where we'll feature daily conversations with technical experts on open source and AI during conference breaks!

We will have coffee from 2-4pm each day of the conference. We will have giveaways of insulated tumblers and crumbee desktop vacuums for attendees of our hosted conversations. The more you attend, the better your chances of winning!

IBM Generative Computing Lounge hosted conversations schedule:
Monday - October 19
10:45 AM - Nathan Fulton (IBM) - Mellea and Granite
1:00 PM - Gabe Goodhart (IBM) - Granite
2:00 PM - Brad Topol (IBM) - IBM Bob
4:30 PM - JJ Asghar (IBM) - Open Source AI

Tuesday - October 20
10:15 AM - Gabe Goodhart (IBM) - Granite
11:00 AM - Nathan Fulton (IBM) - Mellea and Granite
11:45 AM - Sandon Jacobs (Confluent) - Apache Kafka
12:30 PM - Naina Singh (Red Hat) - llm-d
1:15 PM - Bryan Kearney (Red Hat) - Project Lightwell
2:15 PM - Nathan Fulton (IBM) - Mellea and Granite
3:00 PM - Brad Topol (IBM) - Open Source AI Tooling
3:45 PM - Gabe Goodhart (IBM) - Granite
4:30 PM - JJ Asghar (IBM) - Open Source AI

Find out about open source AI at IBM including projects and offerings:

• IBM Granite - A family of open, trusted AI models for business, offering efficient language, vision, speech and guardrail models you can customize and deploy.
• Mellea -Open-source Python library for structured, validated LLM output to build predictable AI without guesswork. Type-annotated outputs, token-level constrained decoding, requirements-driven validation. Works with any LLM provider.
• Lightwell - IBM and Red Hat's new initiative to secure open source software across the full lifecycle, from upstream code to enterprise deployment.
• IBM Bob - An AI SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) partner that works right alongside you in your codebase, and helps you build quality software faster.