
Afternoon Virtual Tech Talk: The Future of AI is Open
Are you looking to up your game and add skills for deploying enterprise-grade AI?
Are you worried about proprietary AI vendors locking you in?
Concerned about costs that scale unpredictably?
Unsure about who really owns your data?
It’s time to take control with Granite, an open source frontier model developed by pioneers in enterprise AI, IBM.
And it’s free and open source.
What You’ll Learn in This Exclusive Tech Talk:
✅ How to Deploy & Run Your Own LLM – Break free from costly, pay-per-use APIs and run AI models on your own terms.
✅ Granite in Action – See how the Granite family of models powers language, code, time series, and vision applications.
✅ Practical AI Use Cases – Learn how real teams are using self-hosted models to save costs, enhance security, and customize performance.
✅ Live Q&A with AI Experts – Get your toughest questions answered and walk away with the confidence to start deploying AI.
This tech talk is produced in conjunction with your favorite AI and open-source communities: All Things Open, All Things Open AI, and The Artificially Intelligent Network, in partnership with IBM.
Don’t miss this chance to elevate your AI knowledge and take control of your development stack.
🚀 AI is evolving—don’t just use it. Own it.
This event is co-produced by All Things Open, All Things Open AI, The Artificially Intelligent Enterprise and IBM.
BJ Hargrave is a Senior Technical Staff Member and open source developer at IBM Research. He has 25+ years of experience as a software architect and developer working in open source and open technology. He has multiple patents covering JVM performance improvements and OSGi technology.