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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.
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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 MoreABB has improved production through efficient data analysis by leveraging Azure Kubernetes Service to unify edge and cloud solutions to simplify application development and management.
AKS Edge Essentials is deployment agnostic, so we need to deploy only one application regardless of where it runs, whether on a minimally configured Windows IoT device, a large machine with Linux, or in the cloud. AKS Edge Essentials removes that complexity. - Viswanathan Ramakrishnan: Vice President, Release Engineering & SaaS Operations - ABB
ABB is a leader in using electrification and automation technology to create more sustainable and resource-efficient processes and operations for its diverse group of customers. ABB solutions optimize the way things are manufactured, moved, powered, and operated. For more than 140 years, ABB has led the way in driving innovations that accelerate industrial transformation.
Massive amounts of industrial data are collected every day through the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). One major source of that data is condition monitoring data that reflects asset health and environmental safety in manufacturing equipment and facilities. A wide range of measurements, including gas emissions, electrical performance, vibration analytics, fluid and air pressure, and many others, are collected through hundreds of sensors and edge devices.
ABB offers multiple edge deployments through its Genix Industrial Analytics and AI suite that are used within its own operations and are offered to customers. As a gateway offering, Genix Edge AI collects thousands of points of data per second through edge devices and sends them to the Genix cloud, where they are stored and analyzed. As an operations technology (OT) analytics package, Genix Edge AI is used in highly regulated environments, or those without reliable internet connectivity, to collect and store the data on the edge device and perform processing or visualization on the machine. Finally, the Genix Edge AI OT Analytics and AI package with AI tools for machine learning is used to identify and analyze anomalies in the condition data and then either automatically adjust the system or alert an engineer that a problem is brewing.
Hundreds of edge devices are distributed globally across ABB operations and customer factories. Until 2019, many were typically Windows-based micro-PCs running in a simple client server environment. In the years since, ABB has migrated many of those edge workloads to Docker containers managed by Docker-based orchestration systems.
As the number of applications and devices increased, ABB found these solutions couldn’t scale to meet the growing and changing enterprise-level needs. Its developers also often had to build different versions of an application for the cloud, and for Windows and Linux.
When ABB started developing Genix Datalyzer in 2021, it realized the need for a Kubernetes orchestration system that would allow it to run its edge workloads on Linux or Windows on hundreds of existing Windows-based devices. Genix Datalyzer is an enterprise-grade, cloud-based analyzer fleet monitoring solution. It combines industrial analytics and AI into an enterprise-level AI of things (AIoT) solution that unlocks the value of data collected from large-scale, disbursed industrial environments.
“Genix Datalyzer needs to be deployed in a Kubernetes environment, sometimes on a small-scale PC and sometimes in the cloud. We wanted the orchestration to be consistent and require minimal development so we didn’t have to build it twice,“ says Vinod Ninan, Vice President of Product Management at ABB.
When ABB learned that AKS Edge Essentials meets those requirements and runs on smaller Windows-based devices that have lower compute and memory capacity, it contacted Microsoft to learn more. “We met with the Microsoft Edge product managers in late 2022 and articulated our need for an offering that we can use across edge and cloud in the same fashion,” recalls Ninan.
ABB was invited to participate in an early-access preview program evaluating AKS Edge Essentials with Genix Datalyzer.
Genix Datalyzer needs to be deployed in a Kubernetes environment, sometimes on a small-scale PC and sometimes in the cloud. We wanted the orchestration to be consistent and require minimal development so we didn’t have to build it twice. - Viswanathan Ramakrishnan: Vice President, Release Engineering & SaaS Operations - ABB
AKS Edge Essentials provides ABB with a highly scalable and reliable platform for managing containerized applications on the edge. “With AKS Edge Essentials, we can easily deploy, manage, and scale our AIoT analytics application on a compact and low-power device, which gives us more flexibility,” explains Viswanathan Ramakrishnan, Vice President of Release Engineering & SaaS Operations at ABB. “That means we can install it on most of our customers’ existing hardware and in remote locations where access to the cloud may be limited or unreliable.”
Robust load balancing and networking capabilities ensure that Genix Datalyzer is highly available and can handle traffic spikes without any downtime. Service discovery and automatic DNS management in AKS Edge Essentials make it easy to securely connect the application to other services and devices.
“Enhanced security and control features in AKS Edge Essentials help us to secure our AIoT analytics application on the edge and grant or restrict access based on user roles,” says Ramakrishnan.
By using AKS Edge Essentials to unify its edge and cloud data collection and processing, ABB will be able to create a single version of an application that provides consistent, repeatable, and scalable results whether on-premises or in the cloud.
“AKS Edge Essentials is deployment agnostic, so we need to deploy only one application regardless of where it runs, whether on a minimally configured Windows-based micro-PC, a large machine with Linux, or in the cloud. AKS Edge Essentials removes that complexity,” explains Ramakrishnan. This streamlined approach is already reducing development and deployment time by almost half.
ABB will also use Azure Arc in combination with AKS Edge Essentials as a single control plane to remotely manage and monitor the entire lifecycle of its Kubernetes deployments. “Using Azure Arc to manage our deployments gives us an ecosystem that integrates the entire fleet of applications into a single window,” says Ramakrishnan.
Using Azure Arc, customers can manage both Azure and non-Azure resources—such as virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and on-premises databases—as though they were native Azure resources, whether they reside on-premises, at the edge, or in other public clouds.
ABB is committed to helping optimize operations and meeting sustainability goals for both its own organization and for its customers. With the help of AKS Edge Essentials and Azure Arc, ABB will be able to quickly develop and deploy new apps that help further those goals.
“We have a whole GreenOps methodology in place,” says Ramakrishnan. “We are optimizing our code with green coding mechanisms by which we can proactively identify places where we don’t need to always operate at the highest level of efficiency. We can then taper down operations at certain times to consume less power.”
ABB is also exploring opportunities to deploy datacenters in areas where they can be powered by renewable energy.
By reducing development and deployment complexity for such applications with the help of AKS Edge Essentials, ABB will make predictive maintenance more practical. The ability to affordably monitor assets 24/7 will allow ABB and its customers to identify anomalies much quicker than if relying on periodic condition monitoring. More timely data will drive more timely adjustments to help avoid costly downtime or fines from failing to meet emissions requirements.
The initial pilots of AKS Edge Essentials showed that ABB will be able to help customers to accelerate the deployment time of such solutions.
“I want to underscore the forward-looking significance of AKS Edge Essentials in elevating the customer experience in the condition monitoring space. By integrating modern technologies and advanced analytics into our devices, we are poised to provide customers with a forward-looking and seamless user experience in edge and cloud,” says Anshul Arora, Lead Product Manager for Genix Datalyzer and NextGen Condition Monitoring at ABB.
ABB will start expanding the use of Genix Datalyzer running on AKS Edge Essentials and Azure Arc to its customers starting in 2024. “Our rollout plan is to migrate hundreds of edge devices to this new AKS Edge Essentials environment in the next few years,” says Ramakrishnan.
I want to underscore the forward-looking significance of AKS Edge Essentials in elevating the customer experience in the condition monitoring space. By integrating modern technologies and advanced analytics into our devices, we are poised to provide customers with a forward-looking and seamless user experience in edge and cloud. - Anshul Arora: Lead Product Manager for Genix Datalyzer and NextGen Condition Monitoring - ABB
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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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