Here's what you missed at TechXchange

Last week in Orlando, FL, thousands of AI leaders, developers and technologists from across the globe gathered at IBM TechXchange 2025, our annual learning event.

In addition to hundreds of events and skill-building opportunities throughout the week, attendees were the first to hear new announcements across our software and infrastructure portfolio. We are tackling the biggest barriers to adoption: fragmented systems, data solos, and pilots that never reach production.

Find out what you missed at this year's TechXchange. ⤵

This year’s big reveals

🔗 New watsonx Orchestrate features

With 5 new features, watsonx Orchestrate is empowering businesses to move faster, with confidence, by orchestrating agents that are adaptable and accountable.

• Agentic workflows enables developers to build scaleable flows that sequence multiple agents and tools consistently and reliably.
• Langflow integration with watsonx Orchestrate enables developers to build agents and flows with a drag-and-drop visual builder.
• Agent governance and observability transforms agent evaluation into a full observability experience, from pre-deployment through production.
• New prebuilt agents for finance, supply chain, and customer service, adding to our existing catalog in HR, Procurement and Sales.

👉 Get the latest on watsonx Orchestrate

🌐 Project infragraph

A unified, intelligent control plane that gives organizations one view of the entire hybrid infrastructure and security posture. 

👉 Access the Project infragraph beta

🔒 watsonx Assistant for Z (coming soon)

Purpose-built IBM Z agents that bring conversational automation and proactive system management to the mainframe.

👉 Check it out here

🖥️ Project Bob + Granite 4.0

An AI-first integrated development environment (IDE) and IBM’s newest large language model, designed to help developers modernize codebases, orchestrate tasks, and build securely at scale.

👉 Learn more about Project Bob

👉 Download our Granite 4.0 models

👉 Find a summary of this year's announcements here

See AI in Action

This year's watsonx Challenge, our hands-on competition inviting IBMers to solve real world problems with IBM watsonx , set new records.

Over 167,000 IBMers came together to explore how agentic AI can transform work, forming 23,000 teams and submitting more than 15,000 proposals. Now, the 12 winning solutions are being implemented across the enterprise.

Our two winning teams took center stage at TechXchange, showcasing their proposed demos. ⤵

🏆 watsonXpense: created AI-driven expense management to save 22K hours across IBM.

🥈The Galactic Musketeers: created an AI tool that prepares IBMers before client meetings.

These projects represent the innovation, creativity, and collaboration that define IBMers everywhere.