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Belgium 30-9-25 Squad Only Virtual english
Everyone has technical debt. The question is what to do with it. Refactor now? Wait for the next feature? Build on it and hope it holds? If you’re tired of debating whether to clean up or move on, this session helps you frame the debt conversation in a way that supports both speed and stability.
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Zespoły i ludzie w dobie zmiany w sposobie dostarczania usług. Jak przechodzimy przez złożone zmiany technologiczne i organizacyjne? Czy transformacje w obszarach infrastruktury zmieniają wymagania na przywództwo i kompetencje zespołów.
Read MoreUK 30-9-25 Invitation Only Physical english
This exclusive Jefferson dinner, hosted by Mendix and CIONET, brings together a hand-picked group of senior executives and digital leaders from across the UK financial sector.
Read MoreBelgium 1-10-25 Invitation Only Physical english
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, organisations face a critical challenge: how to modernise their legacy systems while managing costs, maintaining security, and ensuring operational continuity. This exclusive round table discussion brings together CIOs, CTOs, and Digital Leaders to explore best practices for legacy and lifecycle management. Key topics include extending the lifespan of existing systems, mitigating cyber security risks, optimising costs, and integrating legacy platforms with modern technologies. We’ll also delve into sustainability, workforce challenges, and future-proofing IT infrastructures to navigate technological obsolescence.
Read MoreBelgium 2-10-25 Squad Only Virtual english
Architecture doesn’t happen in diagrams. It happens in minds, seasoned, curious, sharp minds that understand how the pieces fit. But who’s shaping these minds? Who’s growing the next generation of digital architects? If you’re responsible for complex systems, and for the people designing them, this session is for you.
Read MoreGermany Sep 29, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Unsere Wissensaustausch-Briefings "AI & Data Knowledge Transfer" zielen darauf ab, CIDOs und Senior Digital Leaders mit praktischen Anwendungen und umsetzbaren Erkenntnissen von Fachexperten zu vermitteln, die den Weg für transformative digitale Reisen ebnen.
Read MoreGermany Sep 30, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Von der Theorie in die Praxis: Erst Business, dann Bier.Unstrukturierte Daten sind das verborgene Kapital vieler Unternehmen – und zugleich eine der größten Herausforderungen moderner IT. Gemeinsam mit CIOs, CDOs und CTOs der CIONET-Community sprechen wir zuerst bei WeWork München über Strategien, Technologien und echte Use Cases, um dieses Potenzial zu heben. Danach geht's weiter auf die Wiesn – für den offenen Austausch in bayerischer Atmosphäre.
Read MoreUK Sep 30, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
This exclusive Jefferson dinner, hosted by Mendix and CIONET, brings together a hand-picked group of senior executives and digital leaders from across the UK financial sector.
Read MoreNetherlands Sep 30, 2025 Invitation Only Physical dutch
Alleen op uitnodiging. Mastering Digital Sovereignty Control, trust and resilience in an era of geopolitical and regulatory shifts. From the Network to the Data.
Read MoreBelgium Oct 1, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, organisations face a critical challenge: how to modernise their legacy systems while managing costs, maintaining security, and ensuring operational continuity. This exclusive round table discussion brings together CIOs, CTOs, and Digital Leaders to explore best practices for legacy and lifecycle management. Key topics include extending the lifespan of existing systems, mitigating cyber security risks, optimising costs, and integrating legacy platforms with modern technologies. We’ll also delve into sustainability, workforce challenges, and future-proofing IT infrastructures to navigate technological obsolescence.
Read MoreGermany Oct 7, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Alle nutzen KI, aber keiner weiß wie effektiv! Im Jahr 2025 sind wir als IT-EntscheiderInnen gefordert die Wünsche der Fachbereiche an Künstliche Intelligenz zu managen. Welche KI dient als Copilot für unsere Mitarbeitenden, inwieweit hat diese Zugang zu Firmenwissen und könnten wir heute bereits sinnvoll einen KI Agenten in die IT Systemlandschaft einbinden? Unser Business Partner Scheer PAS spricht als Anbieter einer Process iPaaS Plattform mit hunderten Unternehmen jedes Jahr über IT-Integration. In dieser Online-Session besprechen wir erste Reifegradmodelle zu KI, wo der deutsche Mittelstand sich befindet und wie wir die nächste Innovationsstufe erreichen. Wir teilen praktische Erfahrungen aus dem Marktumfeld und planen unsere nächsten Schritte in der Adaption von KI.
Read MoreGermany Sep 29, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Unsere Wissensaustausch-Briefings "AI & Data Knowledge Transfer" zielen darauf ab, CIDOs und Senior Digital Leaders mit praktischen Anwendungen und umsetzbaren Erkenntnissen von Fachexperten zu vermitteln, die den Weg für transformative digitale Reisen ebnen.
Read MoreGermany Sep 30, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Von der Theorie in die Praxis: Erst Business, dann Bier.Unstrukturierte Daten sind das verborgene Kapital vieler Unternehmen – und zugleich eine der größten Herausforderungen moderner IT. Gemeinsam mit CIOs, CDOs und CTOs der CIONET-Community sprechen wir zuerst bei WeWork München über Strategien, Technologien und echte Use Cases, um dieses Potenzial zu heben. Danach geht's weiter auf die Wiesn – für den offenen Austausch in bayerischer Atmosphäre.
Read MoreUK Sep 30, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
This exclusive Jefferson dinner, hosted by Mendix and CIONET, brings together a hand-picked group of senior executives and digital leaders from across the UK financial sector.
Read MoreNetherlands Sep 30, 2025 Invitation Only Physical dutch
Alleen op uitnodiging. Mastering Digital Sovereignty Control, trust and resilience in an era of geopolitical and regulatory shifts. From the Network to the Data.
Read MoreBelgium Oct 1, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, organisations face a critical challenge: how to modernise their legacy systems while managing costs, maintaining security, and ensuring operational continuity. This exclusive round table discussion brings together CIOs, CTOs, and Digital Leaders to explore best practices for legacy and lifecycle management. Key topics include extending the lifespan of existing systems, mitigating cyber security risks, optimising costs, and integrating legacy platforms with modern technologies. We’ll also delve into sustainability, workforce challenges, and future-proofing IT infrastructures to navigate technological obsolescence.
Read MoreGermany Oct 7, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Alle nutzen KI, aber keiner weiß wie effektiv! Im Jahr 2025 sind wir als IT-EntscheiderInnen gefordert die Wünsche der Fachbereiche an Künstliche Intelligenz zu managen. Welche KI dient als Copilot für unsere Mitarbeitenden, inwieweit hat diese Zugang zu Firmenwissen und könnten wir heute bereits sinnvoll einen KI Agenten in die IT Systemlandschaft einbinden? Unser Business Partner Scheer PAS spricht als Anbieter einer Process iPaaS Plattform mit hunderten Unternehmen jedes Jahr über IT-Integration. In dieser Online-Session besprechen wir erste Reifegradmodelle zu KI, wo der deutsche Mittelstand sich befindet und wie wir die nächste Innovationsstufe erreichen. Wir teilen praktische Erfahrungen aus dem Marktumfeld und planen unsere nächsten Schritte in der Adaption von KI.
Read MoreCognizant 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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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.
As AI transitions from a specialised tool to an all-pervasive force, understanding its profound implications for our human lives is no longer merely academic but an urgent imperative for social well-being and strategic preparedness.
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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