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Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
Italy Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical italian
Nel percorso verso l’AI e la trasformazione digitale, dati e automazione sono gli elementi centrali di ogni strategia tecnologica. Ma senza una governance chiara, rischiano di diventare non solo fonte di inefficienza, ma anche di rischi e incoerenza. Come garantire che i dati siano completi, accessibili e affidabili? Come automatizzare le operation IT e i processi aziendali mantenendo controllo, compliance e sicurezza? Durante questa roundtable esclusiva, organizzata da CIONET Italia e IBM, affronteremo: La governance come abilitatore di dati affidabili e automazione sicura. Come prepararsi a un’adozione dell’AI realmente scalabile. Il ruolo di controllo, resilienza e gestione del rischio nell’innovazione.
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Belgium Oct 16, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
AI isn’t just another tool. It changes how we work, how we think, how we organise ourselves.Yet most organisations still approach it like a digital upgrade, deploying assistants, automating workflows, testing use cases inisolation.The results are predictable. Short-term wins. Long-term confusion.Effort spent. Value unclear.Many companies can’t connect AI to their actual strategic goals,and the promised ROI never materialises.At the same time, something deeper is shifting.AI can now reason, decide, adapt. Not just mimic processes butcontribute to them.The technology is evolving, but the way we implement it hasn’tcaught up.If your AI still fits inside a single department, you’re likely solvingthe wrong problem.If it works only for individuals, you're missing how your teamsactually deliver value.If it replaces people instead of supporting them, you're buildingfor today, not tomorrow.The next step isn’t more AI. It’s the right AI.Built for your business, your teams, your way of working.Not a tool to add but a structure to build around.Are we ready to treat AI as a shared capability, not a scatteredexperiment?Can we move beyond individual efficiency and build systems thatcollaborate, learn and adapt with us?Those are the questions we’ll explore at the round table.
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Germany Oct 28, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Am 28. Oktober lädt CIONET CIOs und Digital Leaders nach Köln ein: hier stellen wir reale Anwendungsfälle vor, in denen KI-Agenten Aufgaben autonom übernehmen, Prozesse beschleunigen und Entscheidungen vorbereiten – mit messbarem Nutzen für das Business.
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France Nov 4, 2025 Country Members Physical french
À l’ère des mutations géopolitiques et réglementaires, l’établissement d’une souveraineté numérique est devenu un élément stratégique essentiel pour les entreprises. Ce dialogue stratégique mettra en lumière le rôle fondamental du réseau dans la mise en place du contrôle, de la confiance et de la résilience. Nous explorerons comment une infrastructure moderne et résiliente permet d’appliquer des politiques de gestion des données et d’assurer la continuité opérationnelle. Ce dialogue stratégique, réservé à un groupe restreint de pairs, est conçu pour permettre aux leaders du numérique d’échanger sur l’un des enjeux les plus urgents aujourd’hui. Nous discuterons des réseaux « sovereign-ready » et débattrons des préoccupations croissantes autour de la souveraineté des données, qui motivent l’adoption de politiques de confidentialité et de protection des données de plus en plus strictes à l’échelle mondiale.
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Netherlands Nov 10, 2025 Public Physical english
CIONET Nederland vertrekt met een groep Nederlandse CIO's en digital leaders 10 t/m 12 november 2025 voor de geheel verzorgde CIO Innovation Trip naar de Web Summit in Lissabon, Portugal. Reis jij mee of neem je collega(s) mee!
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Cognizant empowers workforce with AI-powered learning platform. Built with Azure Machine Learning, "My Learning Studio" personalizes learning journeys through AI search & recommendations, helping employees upskill & reskill for the digital future.
In the future of work, organizations need to build a culture of continuous learning to enable employees to grow, stay current and adapt to rapidly evolving technology that is quickly altering the work environment and business processes. In this scenario, reskilling and upskilling are critical to unlocking the true potential of the workforce, leading to employee growth and organizational success. It is also a key value proposition in Cognizant’s goal to be the employer of choice in its industry and attract and retain top talent.
Cognizant has a comprehensive learning and development program and wanted to make sure that the requirements of the modern workforce were being fulfilled. So, it undertook a study focused on learning and development needs across the organization. The study gleaned some interesting results, revealing that employees wanted to forge their own learning paths, preferred greater autonomy in the selection of skilling programs, and wanted to be able to decide when and where to learn.
Taking a cue from its own employees, Cognizant decided to create a learning platform that would personalize learning and serve as a marketplace for skilling and reskilling content for all employees. The team realized that Azure Machine Learning’s ability to accelerate time to value would make it the ideal service to build the AI-driven search and recommendation engine of the learning platform.
Once Cognizant conceptualized its new learning experience and platform, naming it My Learning Studio (MLS), the Learning and Development team worked with Microsoft to design and deliver MLS using Azure Machine Learning. MLS, which offers AI-driven search and a recommendation tool, took about six months to be completed.
“With the potential information and content overload that we have today, it is critical that the Learning and Development team is able to help our associates identify the most relevant learning aligned to their roles, skill levels, interests, and other personal attributes,” says Saransh Agrawal, VP – Learning and Development, Cognizant. He adds, “AI-powered search and recommendations provide a rewarding experience for our associates and add more value to our self-guided learning ecosystem.“
With the potential information and content overload that we have today, it is critical that the Learning and Development team is able to help our associates identify the most relevant learning aligned to their roles, skill levels, interests, and other personal attributes AI-powered search and recommendations provide a rewarding experience for our associates and add more value to our self-guided learning ecosystem.Saransh Agrawal: VP – Learning and Development
Cognizant
MLS has been used by more than 170,000 unique users since its relaunch. The following enhancements have helped them enjoy a more productive and satisfying learning experience:
Hyper-personalized search results: MLS considers employee attributes such as role, grade, business unit, skill-proficiency level, and factors like course rating and consumption when producing search results. It delivers flexible content that is categorized by type (formal training courses, videos, articles, quizzes, etc.) to enable learners to discover the right content required to upskill themselves and learn according to their preferred style. The Azure-based search component has helped reduce throughput search time by 30-40 percent. It also delivers the most relevant results that match the search string, helping employees find courses quickly and achieve their L&D goals more effectively. Across more than 700,000 searches that include about 175,000 novel search strings, MLS has achieved an impressive 93 percent accuracy in presenting search results.
Providing associates with an opportunity to grow is a big part of retaining top talent. Our Learning and Development program also is critical to building an empowered workforce capable of keeping up with the latest technologies. The addition of Azure’s AI-powered search and matching capabilities to the platform has improved the associate experience and results.Neal Ramasamy: Chief Information Officer
Cognizant
More intelligent recommendations: To support continuous learning, MLS delivers the most relevant content with recommendations based on how popular the courses are among peers and the employee’s learning history. It also suggests prompts on search text for better search results. Since its launch in April 2022, the proactive recommendation system has seen approximately 83,000 unique users with a clickthrough rate of about 8 percent. Cognizant expects the clickthrough rate to rise to over 15 percent in two months.
Easily searchable content across multiple sources: Employees can search for learning content across MLS, SharePoint sites, content developed within MLS, and other internal and external sources.
Peer learning and knowledge sharing: The intuitive platform allows employees to develop and share formal and informal content. It enhances learning collaboration and greater knowledge sharing, resulting in more accumulated knowledge and expertise within the organization, which leads to better performance and productivity.
“Providing associates with an opportunity to grow is a big part of retaining top talent. Our Learning and Development program also is critical to building an empowered workforce capable of keeping up with the latest technologies,” says Neal Ramasamy, Chief Information Officer, Cognizant. He further remarks, “The addition of Azure’s AI-powered search and matching capabilities to the platform has improved the associate experience and results.”
The innovative learning solution won the gold medal at the 2022 Brandon Hall Group Human Capital Management (HCM) awards, the largest and longest-running awards program in Human Capital Management.
Cognizant is looking forward to getting more value from MLS by implementing more AI use cases. These include leveraging data points such as employees’ skills, current learning trends in the organization, and peer learning behaviors to deliver more-customized search results and recommendations.
Additionally, Cognizant plans to introduce a feature that charts a customized learning path for employees based on their interactions with the tool. It also intends to leverage the tool to upskill employees faster and at scale based on the company’s business requirements.
By adding more layers of intelligence to MLS, Cognizant aims to redefine and enrich the employee experience, empowering the workforce to thrive and be more productive at lower costs.
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CIOFEST 2025 - From Order Taker to Proactive Disruptor
Geopolitical tensions have dominated the headlines for over two years now. In this context, the cyber threat landscape is also evolving rapidly. The protection and security of critical infrastructure – both physical and digital – is becoming increasingly important.
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