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Belgium 9-9-25 Squad Only Physical english
As Belgium navigates the complexities of GDPR and various data sovereignty regulations, organizations across multiple industries face both challenges and opportunities in managing their data across borders. The quest for compliance often intersects with the need for business growth, raising questions about the balance between protection and progress. How can companies effectively own and safeguard their data while ensuring compliance without stifling innovation and expansion in a multi-industry landscape?
Read MorePoland 9-9-25 Invitation Only Virtual Polish
Utrzymanie talentów w organizacji IT ulokowanej na konkurencyjnym rynku pracy to nie lada zadanie. A jeśli do tego mówimy o organizacji z sektora publicznego? O swoich i swojej organizacji doświadczeniach, metodach i programach opowie Anna Wituła z CIRF. Będzie to jak zawsze okazja do dyskusji na temat różnych sposobów na utrzymanie talentów w firmie.
Read MoreBelgium 11-9-25 Squad Only Virtual english
You’ve built the portal. Added the chatbot. Rolled out self-service. But your support lines are still ringing. And your frontline teams are still improvising. If you want digital services to feel seamless, not just look polished, this session brings you back to where value is felt: at the frontline.
Read MorePoland 11-9-25 Invitation Only Virtual Polish
W fabrykach cyberbezpieczeństwo często zależy od podwykonawców – integratorów, dostawców systemów automatyki i firm serwisowych, które mają zaskakująco szeroki dostęp do infrastruktury OT. W tej prezentacji Igor Zbyryt z BZK pokaże, jak z perspektywy końcowego użytkownika i integratora wygląda współpraca z tymi firmami oraz jakie realne ryzyka to niesie – również w kontekście NIS2. Zamiast wyliczać różnice między IT a OT, skupi się na wspólnym mianowniku i tym, co trzeba zmienić w podejściu organizacji, żeby cyber w produkcji zaczęło działać.
Read MoreBelgium 13-9-25 All Members Physical english
Join us for a scenic ride along the route of the Brabantse Pijl!This ride is suitable for all levels of cyclists and doesn’t require advanced technical skills. We’ll start at de Zoete Waters, where parking is available, and head into the charming Brabant region. Along the way, we’ll tackle some of the area’s iconic climbs — including the legendary Moskesstraat, known for its cobbled character and history in pro cycling. Expect a relaxed, friendly atmosphere and beautiful views throughout. Whether you're training, exploring, or just riding for fun, you’re more than welcome to join!
Read MoreBelgium 16-9-25 Squad Only Physical english
The system works. That’s the problem. It’s old, complex, deeply integrated, and still running your most critical operations. Everyone agrees change is needed. But no one wants to be the one who breaks it. The stakes are too high.
Read MoreGermany Sep 9, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Vom ersten Use Case zur strategischen Neuausrichtung CIONET lädt bereits zum vierten Mal zu einem exklusiven Roundtable für CIOs und Digitalverantwortliche aus Logistik und Handel ein. Im Mittelpunkt des Abends steht die Frage, wie Unternehmen ihre KI-Initiativen erfolgreich skalieren und aus ersten Use Cases echten strategischen Mehrwert schaffen. Microsoft 365 für Frontline Worker: Moderne Tools, die Mitarbeitende im Tagesgeschäft entlasten ServiceNow für Prozessintegration: Automatisierte End-to-End-Workflows – vom Schadensfall bis zur Retourenabwicklung KI-gestützte Disposition und Planung: Mit smarten Algorithmen zur optimierten Supply Chain Digitale Lieferketten und letzte Meile: Transparenz, Effizienz und Kundenzentrierung durchgängig gedacht
Read MoreBelgium Sep 13, 2025 All Members Physical english
Join us for a wonderful ride. The ride is accessible to all levels of riders and doesn't require extensive technical skills. More information will follow soon. Looking forward to ride together!
Read MoreGermany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Cybersecurity ist längst kein reines IT-Thema mehr – sie betrifft das gesamte Unternehmen. Doch während die Bedrohungslage zunimmt, geraten viele Security-Verantwortliche an ihre Belastungsgrenzen: zwischen 24/7-Verantwortung, wachsenden Anforderungen und dem ständigen Innovationsdruck.
Read MoreGermany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german
IT-Betrieb und Cybersicherheit stehen heute unter extremem Druck: steigende Komplexität, wachsende regulatorische Anforderungen (NIS2, DORA, KRITIS), chronische Ressourcenknappheit – und gleichzeitig eine Bedrohungslage, die keine Verzögerungen duldet. Trotzdem agieren viele IT- und Security-Teams noch immer in Silos. Die Folge: ineffiziente Abläufe, Tool-Wildwuchs, langsame Reaktion auf Vorfälle und unklare Verantwortlichkeiten.
Read MoreGermany Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Nachhaltigkeit ist für CIOs nicht nur ein „Nice-to-have“, sondern eine strategische Priorität – sie beeinflusst direkt die finanzielle Performance, die operative Effizienz und die langfristige Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.
Read MoreBelgium Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Physical french
La dette technique est comparable à la négligence des réparations d'une maison. Ignorer un toit qui fuit peut faire gagner du temps aujourd'hui, mais cela pourrait conduire à l'effondrement du plafond plus tard. Pour remédier à la dette technique, il faut trouver et réparer ces fuites dès maintenant et mettre en place un plan d'entretien de la maison afin qu'elle soit prête pour les extensions futures. Pour résoudre ces problèmes, il faut définir des priorités stratégiques, communiquer clairement avec les parties prenantes et établir une feuille de route à long terme pour la modernisation. Cet événement se déroulera entièrement en français.
Read MoreGermany Sep 9, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Vom ersten Use Case zur strategischen Neuausrichtung CIONET lädt bereits zum vierten Mal zu einem exklusiven Roundtable für CIOs und Digitalverantwortliche aus Logistik und Handel ein. Im Mittelpunkt des Abends steht die Frage, wie Unternehmen ihre KI-Initiativen erfolgreich skalieren und aus ersten Use Cases echten strategischen Mehrwert schaffen. Microsoft 365 für Frontline Worker: Moderne Tools, die Mitarbeitende im Tagesgeschäft entlasten ServiceNow für Prozessintegration: Automatisierte End-to-End-Workflows – vom Schadensfall bis zur Retourenabwicklung KI-gestützte Disposition und Planung: Mit smarten Algorithmen zur optimierten Supply Chain Digitale Lieferketten und letzte Meile: Transparenz, Effizienz und Kundenzentrierung durchgängig gedacht
Read MoreBelgium Sep 13, 2025 All Members Physical english
Join us for a wonderful ride. The ride is accessible to all levels of riders and doesn't require extensive technical skills. More information will follow soon. Looking forward to ride together!
Read MoreGermany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Cybersecurity ist längst kein reines IT-Thema mehr – sie betrifft das gesamte Unternehmen. Doch während die Bedrohungslage zunimmt, geraten viele Security-Verantwortliche an ihre Belastungsgrenzen: zwischen 24/7-Verantwortung, wachsenden Anforderungen und dem ständigen Innovationsdruck.
Read MoreGermany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german
IT-Betrieb und Cybersicherheit stehen heute unter extremem Druck: steigende Komplexität, wachsende regulatorische Anforderungen (NIS2, DORA, KRITIS), chronische Ressourcenknappheit – und gleichzeitig eine Bedrohungslage, die keine Verzögerungen duldet. Trotzdem agieren viele IT- und Security-Teams noch immer in Silos. Die Folge: ineffiziente Abläufe, Tool-Wildwuchs, langsame Reaktion auf Vorfälle und unklare Verantwortlichkeiten.
Read MoreGermany Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Nachhaltigkeit ist für CIOs nicht nur ein „Nice-to-have“, sondern eine strategische Priorität – sie beeinflusst direkt die finanzielle Performance, die operative Effizienz und die langfristige Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.
Read MoreBelgium Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Physical french
La dette technique est comparable à la négligence des réparations d'une maison. Ignorer un toit qui fuit peut faire gagner du temps aujourd'hui, mais cela pourrait conduire à l'effondrement du plafond plus tard. Pour remédier à la dette technique, il faut trouver et réparer ces fuites dès maintenant et mettre en place un plan d'entretien de la maison afin qu'elle soit prête pour les extensions futures. Pour résoudre ces problèmes, il faut définir des priorités stratégiques, communiquer clairement avec les parties prenantes et établir une feuille de route à long terme pour la modernisation. Cet événement se déroulera entièrement en français.
Read MoreHPE transforms to cloud-native endpoint management with a rapid Intune migration
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), a global IT services and equipment manufacturer, has implemented an enterprise-wide solution using Microsoft Intune for Mobile Application Management without enrollment and Windows mobile device management. This cloud-based solution has streamlined IT operations, improved cybersecurity, and enhanced user satisfaction.
Cloud-native endpoint management with Intune was definitely the right choice for us. All the savings we see from comprehensively securing and patching our endpoints, along with all the options and agility we get, and freeing up our IT time for other activities—it all more than pays for itself.Kregg Nelson: End User Compute Manager
HPE
“We have at least 15 internal device SKUs that constantly need patches, updates, and new drivers, so the burden of doing this all with an on-premises system posed many challenges,” says Kregg Nelson, End User Compute Manager at HPE. “We realized that a cloud-based solution would not only make us more efficient but also open up new ways of integrating with other HPE workstreams, like security operations and human resources.”
In the case of HR, for example, the onboarding process for new devices was past due for modernization. Whenever a new employee or contractor joined the company, setting up their devices typically entailed multiple phone calls between IT, the user, and often the user’s manager. With the right collaboration between IT and HR, Nelson’s team knew cloud-based device management could help increase the speed and efficiency of making workers productive.
HPE knew it needed a cloud-based digital transformation to keep pace with business needs and security risks. The company chose Microsoft based on the capabilities of Microsoft Intune and accompanying technologies to simplify endpoint management and empower better user experiences. It also factored in the strength of the two companies’ past working relationship. “We got buy-in by showing our executives how deploying Intune would help reduce costs and make our employees more productive, and by presenting a Microsoft Defender for Endpoint P1 licensing plan that projected a positive ROI,” says Nelson. “Ultimately, our relationship with Microsoft sold the deal—we knew we’d benefit from their input and experience if we chose Intune to manage our thousands and thousands of endpoints.”
Side by side with the device management effort was the identity and access management journey Nelson’s team had been pursuing since 2018. HPE invested in Windows Autopilot and other Microsoft technologies at that time, including buying licenses for Intune in anticipation of implementing access management features. More recently, as part of its modernization, HPE simplified user authentication by using Windows Hello, streamlined deployment with help from Windows Autopilot, and used Windows Update to help ensure up-to-date devices during its ongoing Windows 11 migration.
“We learned that you can’t have modern fleet management without modern endpoint management, so we made it our focus to do both of these in the cloud,” says Nelson. “Migrating and consolidating our identity and access and device management systems put us onto a three-stage journey, going from on-premises to hybrid to fully cloud native.”
From there, Nelson’s team met with stakeholders across business groups and across the company to evaluate use cases and determine the best path forward for implementing the Intune solution. In April 2023, they rolled out full-scale device management capabilities to all Windows devices at HPE. Then, over the next five months, they did the same for implementing Intune with employees’ personal, unenrolled mobile devices using Mobile Application Management, enabling a centralized, highly secure way for supporting bring-your-own-device culture. By September 2023, only some mobile edge cases remained, which Nelson expects to fully resolve and complete the migration by early 2024.
You really want to help new employees feel productive right away, and getting them through first-time setup in 35 minutes or less is a great way to achieve that—it used to take two hours or more. Windows Autopilot has been critical for achieving this. We’ve had 4,500-plus people try it the new way since April, and customer satisfaction scores are at 98 percent—an all-time high.Kregg Nelson: End User Compute Manager
HPE
The Intune rollout has led to improved collaboration between IT and HPE cybersecurity teams. The rollout has also enabled other security improvements, such as remote wipe—detecting a lost or stolen device as soon as it touches the internet and shutting down user access to sensitive apps and data.
Security postures and policies with the new system are also producing positive results. “We have new levels of granularity that let us operate more effectively and also sectionalize the business in helpful ways,” says Nelson. “A huge example is that by proving we can create profiles that have extremely granular policies and privileges, we’re now able to comply with government requirements that help us win contracts we couldn’t have qualified for before.”
Other benefits of moving to the cloud include running leaner, smarter IT operations and improving new employees’ experience with their HPE equipment. Nelson reports that he has been able to refocus the time and talents of his operations team on more innovative and revenue-driven activities. System patches that formerly took five to seven days to get installed on a user’s device now take only 24 to 48 hours at most, and many update processes are now automated. And by working with HR, Nelson’s team also reinvented the way first-day employees start using their devices to do work, helping them start contributing in their roles more quickly than in the past.
“You really want to help new employees feel productive right away, and getting them through first-time setup in 35 minutes or less is a great way to achieve that—it used to take two hours or more,” says Nelson. “Windows Autopilot has been critical for achieving this. We’ve had 4,500-plus people try it the new way since April, and customer satisfaction scores are at 98 percent—an all-time high.”
Simplifying and modernizing with cloud-native endpoint management
By dismantling its on-premises endpoint management infrastructure, HPE transformed its operations for a new era of efficient and agile cloud-based management for all devices. The key change, Nelson notes, has been simplicity. “Where it used to be time-consuming and costly to manage all the complexities of our on-premises environment, we can now perceive everything through a cloud-connected ecosystem with Intune and proactively manage the day-to-day,” he explains. “And with Microsoft, we achieved speed, not only by rolling it out steadily, but also by becoming more agile and responsive to users because we’re in the cloud.”
This success demonstrates that big companies can move device management to the cloud at a fast pace—even ones with hundreds of thousands of devices in use, and whose systems were fully on-premises less than two years ago. Nelson says his company’s return on investment has already proven beneficial. “Cloud-native endpoint management with Intune was the right choice for us,” he says. “All the savings we see from comprehensively securing and patching our endpoints, along with all the options and agility we get, and freeing up our IT time for other activities—it all more than pays for itself.”
Future plans include adopting Microsoft Intune Suite solutions, such as enabling endpoint privilege management in ways that further help secure new customer contracts by enabling device management without requiring administrative access. The company is also interested in trying Remote Help as a way of providing very secure, enterprise-level user support. Meanwhile, Nelson offers the following advice to other companies thinking about their own digital transformations:
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Embark on a culinary journey through the ever-evolving world of digital leadership with our third edition of the CIONET Cookbook: Recipes for Digital Success. Unveiling the intricate trilemma faced by today’s Master Chefs, our trailblazing European CIOs address a challenge at the nexus of customer interests, digital transformation strategies, and IT modernisation. Their secret? Synchronising the gearing between customer, business, and technology to create a frictionless movement through the digital landscape.
The CIONET Cookbook uses the analogy of a five-star restaurant to explain the importance of optimally integrated technology, with the CIO as Master Chef. In order to provide the best service to its customers, a top restaurant must have the right atmosphere, an inviting menu, a well-equipped kitchen, talented and committed front-of-house and kitchen staff and smooth-running processes that ensure an enjoyable experience for diners.
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