Bob the robot building with IBM Technology Building Blocks

Build with Bob.

Build a working enterprise solution faster with IBM Technology Building Blocks and Bob — your dedicated build partner.

Biweekly Webinar Series
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Hands-on sessions every two weeks — building real solutions with Bob.

Live sessions are open to IBMers and IBM Business Partners. Public viewers can watch recordings on our YouTube channel.

Webinar Session details
2× / mo
Cadence
20–30 min
Per session
Live
+ recorded
Sessions
Mar
20
2026
Intro to Building Blocks with Bob
Discover IBM Technology Building Blocks and explore how they can accelerate innovation across your organization. We'll break down the core components, discuss how they fit together, and introduce Bob — your dedicated build partner who will guide you from strategy to execution, helping you design, prototype, and scale solutions with confidence.
Apr
03
2026
Build a Custom Agent in Minutes with Bob: Smart Pet Grooming Manager
Learn how to quickly build and deploy a custom AI agent using IBM Technology Building Blocks. We'll create a Smart Pet Grooming Manager agent — showing how even niche ideas become real, working solutions in minutes — and see how the agent automatically generates business use case documentation to clearly articulate value from the start.
Apr
17
2026
Automate Observability and Application Resiliency with Bob
Learn how to generate insights for Application Observability and Resilience using IBM Technology Building Blocks. We'll build a real-time observability dashboard for a retail application, extend it with resilience automation to detect failures, and show how the solution generates actionable insights, operational documentation, and resilience reports — enabling teams to proactively manage incidents from day one.
May
15
2026
Build Scalable Dynamic RAG Pipelines with Bob for Next-Generation Retail Product Insights
Leverage Bob to create product knowledge, an MCP server built from existing building blocks to load it into a vector database, and a dynamic RAG pipeline that generates actionable retail product insights — powered by the RAG Accelerator and MCP server building blocks.
May
29
2026
From Idea to Production with Bob: Building Agentic Solutions End-to-End
Join us for an end-to-end walkthrough of how to leverage Bob and building blocks to take an agentic solution from idea to production across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). You'll see how to move from explore and design, to architect the solution, and then build and deploy intelligent agents, with testing, production readiness, and continuous monitoring built in throughout. We'll show how Bob streamlines this journey, enabling faster experimentation, scalable development, reliable deployment, and full operational visibility for modern agentic applications.
Jun
12
2026
AI-Powered Modernization of Maximo Automation Scripts Using Bob
Join us to explore how Bob helps modernize and optimize automation scripts in IBM Maximo Application Suite. In this session, we'll demonstrate how Bob can analyze existing Maximo automation scripts, identify issues and warnings, simplify complex logic, improve maintainability, and accelerate modernization using AI-assisted development approaches. You'll see how Bob helps reduce manual effort, enhance script quality, optimize performance, and rapidly implement enhancements while following modern development best practices. The session will also highlight how Bob streamlines script transformation, accelerates delivery timelines, and improves developer productivity across Maximo customization projects.
Jun
26
2026
Build AI-Powered Budgeting and Forecasting Using Bob and Planning Analytics
Join us to explore how Bob brings Planning Analytics intelligence into budgeting, forecasting, and enterprise planning workflows. We'll demonstrate how Bob uses natural language to discover, ingest, and analyze data — letting users create custom analytical views, perform variance and impact analysis, identify outliers, and generate executive-ready reports without deep technical expertise. You'll see how Bob simplifies TM1 modeling and multidimensional analysis through a unified conversational experience, reducing manual effort and accelerating insight generation.
Jul
10
2026
Build a Real-Time Supply Chain Risk Control Tower with Bob and Confluent
Join us to explore how Bob brings real-time supply chain risk intelligence into operations, procurement, and executive decision-making workflows. In this session, we'll demonstrate how Bob leverages a Confluent Cloud streaming architecture to intelligently detect, score, and act on supply chain disruptions as they happen — no deep data engineering expertise required.
Jul
24
2026
Session 09 — Title Coming Soon
Details for this session will be announced shortly. Register to be notified.