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Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
Belgium Oct 21, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
In today's competitive landscape, customer expectations have never been higher. They demand a personalised, seamless experience at every touchpoint, from initial marketing contact to post-sale service. Unified data is at the heart of creating engaging customer experiences and is meant to fuel the 360 profile. However, for many organizations, a complete picture of the customer is fragmented, with critical data scattered in disconnected systems and departments. This exclusive roundtable will bring together Digital Leaders active in multiple industries to discuss a critical challenge: breaking down data silos to build a true 360° view of the customer. We will explore how to solve the complex integration challenges that prevent a unified view, and how to transform disparate data into a single source of truth. Join us to: Discover how to overcome the technical hurdles of integrating critical business systems, such as ERP and CRM platforms, to unify customer data. Explore real-world case studies on how organisations have successfully created unified customer insights to enhance personalisation and boost commercial and operational efficiency. Discuss best practices for turning fragmented data into actionable insights that can anticipate customer needs, drive revenue growth, and foster long-term loyalty. This is a unique opportunity for Digital Leaders who are ready to transform their customer engagement strategy and unlock the full potential of their data.
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Spain Oct 22, 2025 Country Members Physical spanish
Descubre cómo las organizaciones están utilizando la tecnología para impactar en el negocio a través de casos reales de uso y aprendizajes clave en áreas como ciberseguridad, automatización o data, contados por los protagonistas. Un espacio diseñado para inspirarte, conectar con expertos y potenciar la innovación en tu organización.
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Belgium Oct 22, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
Enterprises are questioning whether private networks and stacked firewalls are still worthwhile investments. A newer approach operates on the open internet with Zero Trust, eliminates perimeter complexity, and reframes cybersecurity as a business performance metric for boards and audit committees. This is a closed-door, peer discussion, not a lecture. We’ll examine the promise and its pitfalls: Are the promised savings significant, or are they too good to be true? What risks do you introduce? How does this collide with your installed base, legacy OT, entrenched processes and team competencies, and how do you overcome that without breaking operations or credibility with the board? Two senior leaders from global companies will spark the dialogue with lived experience: Kurt De Ruwe, CIO AkzoNobel Frank Bolata, CIO Syensqo
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Poland Oct 23, 2025 Invitation Only Physical Polish
Cloud UP! ’25 to miejsce spotkań managerów, którzy chcą świadomie i skutecznie rozwijać swoje organizacje, wykorzystując najnowsze technologie. Nieformalnym hasłem tegorocznej edycji jest “Chmura gotowa na AI” - będziemy rozmawiać o tym, co sztuczna inteligencja naprawdę potrafi oraz pokazywać, jak wdrażać ją w praktyce. Wspólnie z ekspertami przeanalizujemy, jakie warunki muszą zostać spełnione, aby wdrożenia AI były zarówno skuteczne, jak i bezpieczne. Zerkniemy za kulisy najnowszych rodzimych produktów AI-owych, by zobaczyć ich możliwości, a także poznamy najciekawsze wdrożenia z wykorzystaniem Agentspace. Po raz kolejny spotkamy się w formule Share.Explore.Execute. Stawiamy na wymianę wiedzy i doświadczeń zdobytych podczas realizacji projektów. To one stanowią punkt wyjścia do odkrywania, testowania i skutecznej implementacji najlepszych rozwiązań w organizacjach. Cloud UP! ’25 to cztery ścieżki tematyczne, na które złożą się prezentacje, rozmowy, sesje live-demo oraz pogłębione dyskusje w formule roundtables: AI: Beyond the Hype Data Mastery Resilience & Regulatory Advanced Practitioners Dołącz do liderów chmurowych innowacji w Polsce i spotkaj się z nami już 23 października w Event Hall w Fabryce Norblina.
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Belgium Oct 23, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
How to lead responsibly when technology can deceive better than a human? AI’s ability to shape our perceptions and create new realities is becoming increasingly sophisticated. While it opens significant opportunities, it also carries risks. What happens when AI goes beyond data and algorithms to influence - or even deceive - our senses? How does this change not only our understanding of reality but also the foundations of trust, creativity, and truth in business? AI isn’t just transforming business, it is altering how we experience and interpret everything around us. From AI-generated deepfakes to personalised experiences designed to influence behaviour, the line between truth and illusion is increasingly blurred. This event combines a roundtable discussion among peers with a hands-on sensory workshop, where you will experience illusions through sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch. Through these experiments, we will confront the ethical dilemmas that arise when AI has the power to fabricate realities and influence decisions.
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Germany Oct 23, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Längst ist klar: Die KI-Transformation im Unternehmen beginnt mit der richtigen Dateninfrastruktur. Auf dem Weg zu einer “Enterprise AI-Engine”, in der Unternehmen KI für die eigenen Daten effizient nutzbar machen, müssen bewährte Fundamentals jedoch nicht gleich über Bord geworfen werden. Der CIO im Zentrum eines strategischen Transformationsprozesses sollte vor allem die richtige Balance zwischen Bestand und Innovation finden. Die zentrale Frage lautet daher: Wie lassen sich modernste KI-Technologien in hybriden Umgebungen nutzen, wenn viele Daten noch in gewachsener Infrastruktur liegen? Genau diese Fragestellung – und die nachfolgenden Diskussionspunkte – greifen wir am 23. Oktober im Rahmen eines exklusiven CIDO Roundtables auf.
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Shell launched a civic development initiative called DIY, short for “Do IT Yourself.” DIY, leaning heavily on the Microsoft Power Platform and the Power Platform Power Apps and Power Automate products, invites and empowers workers with no coding experience to build low-code applications and automate.
Over the course of nearly 200 years, Shell has evolved from a one-man business importing seashells from the Far East to an international energy company with 93,000 employees in more than 70 countries. Today the company explores, produces, refines, and markets oil and natural gas while leading the global transition to a low-carbon energy system.
Shell’s enduring spirit of innovation — anchored by its long-standing commitment to sustainable development — led the company to launch a citizen-development initiative called DIY, an acronym for “Do IT Yourself.” Relying heavily on Microsoft Power Platform, and Power Platform products Power Apps and Power Automate, DIY invites and empowers employees with no coding experience to develop low-code applications, and automation, providing innovative solutions to business problems. The result? Shell estimates that DIY has generated a significant return on investment, enabling efficiencies and cost savings.
In just a few short years, DIY has revolutionized application development at Shell and positioned the company as an early adopter of low-code technologies. “It’s really a movement within Shell nowadays,” says Anna Sosievici, a Transformational Change Consultant at Shell. “Creating these solutions is not part of most people's day jobs. It's driven by a passion for finding creative ways to solve their business problems.”
Fostering and supporting a culture of low-code self-reliance among non-technical employees at Shell called for a deliberate approach. “It requires employees to upskill, and evolve their capabilities and data sources,” says Paul Kobylanski, who leads citizen development at Shell. “To enable and drive widespread adoption, we first had to win the hearts and minds of our community.”
Once the company leadership bought into the vision, Shell identified champions and advocates throughout the organization — most notably within lines of business. Inspiring success stories were promoted and shared through a central portal that engages and educates the community. “We used bootcamps, persona-based learning paths, and hackathons for ideation,” says Kobylanski. “The process of development was gamified, while showing the art of the possible.”
"We have coaches embedded in every community within our ecosystem,” adds Sosievici. “They provide valuable support to our developers and help launch new capabilities. They are a key part of our DIY initiative."
The emphasis on inspiration and celebration helped to make the program succeed well beyond its initial aspirations. "The original goal was to train five hundred DIY developers," says Kobylanski, "but this has now grown beyond our expectations to over 4,000 active DIY Developers across the business." As awareness of DIY and some high-value applications grew, engagement spread, and communities of practice began to form. “We embraced the philosophy that everyone — wherever they sit in the organization — can improve our operations by developing software applications,” Kobylanski explains.
With 4,000 citizen developers (and growing) Shell’s DIY community is making material contributions in a variety of areas. A few examples:
“A few years ago, if you were in a business role you knew your process very well, including where they were failing or not as optimized as possible,” says Sosievici. “But you didn’t have the power to make a change unless you could make a strong business case for IT to solve the problem. Nowadays, you can solve it yourself, and that is extremely liberating for people.”
This sense of empowerment is extremely important to Shell, not only in terms of business results, but redefining the traditional roles of business and IT. “People are solving and improving things that are meaningful to them in their daily work,” Kobylanski explains, “and some of them are emerging as great developers on the platform.”.
“We now recognize DIY as a mode of delivery,” Kobylanski continues. “As we look to prioritize and focus our IT resources on the biggest strategic programs, DIY empowers our businesses to deliver value that IT cannot always get to… which is extremely powerful.”
Looking forward, Kobylanski aims to accelerate adoption even further. “I’d like to see DIY even more widely adopted, like enterprise desktop tools of the past. In addition, I think the future of developing solutions is about to change - from writing lines of code to something more creative where machines build through the power of voice alone. With innovations like Copilot for Power Platform, the possibilities for creative and efficient solution development seem boundless. These are the moments that change the way we look at technology, right?”
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