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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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Domino's, renowned for its commitment to exceptional customer experiences, optimized its forecasting by tapping into Microsoft Dynamics 365 with demand planning capabilities and the game-changing capabilities of AI, automation, and analytics.
The demand planning capabilities in Dynamics 365 are helping us make the right decisions to lower wastage, avoid unnecessary deliveries, and be cybersafe. It’s a game-changer for us because it uses AI for predictive analysis ... to predict our future.Neha Batra: Head of Business Solutions
Domino’s Pizza UK & Ireland Ltd.
One of the United Kingdom’s and Ireland’s favorite pizza brands anticipates your cravings before you do. “Demand planning is knowing what our consumers want before they do. If we are doing our job, we know they’re going to have a pizza next Thursday before they do,” quips Darren O’Keefe, Head of Inventory at Domino’s Pizza UK & Ireland Ltd. In 2022, Domino’s Pizza sold more than 106 million pizzas from over 1,300 locations throughout the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Domino’s Pizza UK & Ireland and its franchise partners employ 35,000 people. Working closely with its franchise partners, the company focuses on quality, value, and bringing people together over their love of pizza.
Managing the quantity of pizza orders and resources required to meet customer demand requires robust supply orchestration while also predicting unanticipated factors, such as a football game or a big storm blowing through Scotland. These external events can impact how and when customers order, and individual stores weren’t always prepared. This means Domino’s virtuoso inventory planners, who have been juggling hundreds of spreadsheets, need to understand and execute at the highest levels of forecasting, essentially manually planning for those 1,300-plus locations.
“We get our data from a lot of different sources, and a lot of it is done in spreadsheets, which can lead to human error and missing things. It’s difficult to work with that level of complication,” says Neil Runchman, Inventory Systems Development Manager at Domino’s Pizza UK & Ireland Ltd.
Although inventory planners had a very high rate of accuracy in their demand planning, the company wanted to enable an integrated, automated, and single source of truth across a simplified ecosystem. As a self-described digital company, Domino’s knew it needed a strategy to predict demand; make faster, data-driven decisions; and simplify its operations to ensure customers receive a hot, fresh pizza when and where they want it. “We want to work with partners who are seeing what’s changing in the economy and how technology can help businesses like ours cope with the change,” says Neha Batra, Head of Business Solutions at Domino’s Pizza UK & Ireland Ltd. “It’s a no-brainer that we looked to Microsoft.”
At Domino’s, creating great customer experiences is the goal, and getting the right product to the right store at the right time is the highest priority. Central to this mission is demand planning, in which the company uses AI to predict customer needs. There are a lot of variables involved, from historical sales and economic indicators to market trends and weather events. “We don’t fall victim to fashionable tech, but rather listen to our customers and internal stakeholders to understand their objectives and visions,” explains Sody Kahlon, Chief Information & Technology Officer at Domino’s Pizza UK & Ireland Ltd. “This then allows us to adopt the most relevant solution to meet their needs. The realm of AI has opened our choices to further increase our personalization, enhance internal efficiencies, derive rapid conclusions from data insights, improve our forecasting, strengthen our cybersecurity, and experiment with novel innovation.”
The planning and forecasting tasks for stores in the United Kingdom and Ireland are the responsibility of a small team of experienced, highly skilled demand planners. Historically, demand planning for the four distribution centers has largely relied on manual processes—a plan for each supplier and a plan for each product, all on different spreadsheet tabs. Stuck in a system with spotty, unreliable processes, the company aimed to improve accuracy and streamline daily operations. It turned to Microsoft for a solution that brings together Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management with demand planning capabilities.
Already making the most of the built-in analytics, smart integrations, and scalability in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, Domino’s wanted to harness the same advantages for demand planning. “The more data we’ve got, the more accurate our forecast is, and the more we use it, the more efficient our decision making will be, and we’ll be in a much better place for our customers,” says O’Keefe.
With demand planning intelligence enhanced by Microsoft AI capabilities, planners can run what-if scenarios and make changes within the forecasting solution to make it more flexible. They can also quickly aggregate and break down data to include human insights, such as scaling demand figures up or down depending on the weather or a big sporting event. With this personalized demand planning solution, Domino’s speeds up the planning process. The company can develop and approve plans in hours, instead of days, and has the tools now to anticipate demand, minimize food wastage, and efficiently run its facilities. Using machine learning, Dynamics 365 with demand planning capabilities predicts demand with intelligence, identifying trends Domino’s doesn’t spot. The company has already experienced a 72 percent improvement in accuracy using the demand planning capabilities.
“Our tech strategy is to become a ‘cloud-native, composable ecosystem,” says Kahlon. “At Domino’s Pizza UK&I, we move at pace to address the high standards demanded by both our franchisees and our customers. Our ecosystem provides us with options to build differentiating components in-house or partner with leading enterprises such as Microsoft to adopt best-in-breed solutions. Remaining flexible is essential, and we strive to ensure we are always aligned to the business and our customers.”
Dynamics 365 with demand planning capabilities empowers Domino’s planners to make smart predictions from the data and insights. Forecasting and predicting demand is key to making sure fresh ingredients get to where they’re needed quickly and accurately. Automated forecasting models help planners make sure distribution centers get valuable info and franchise store owners can provide pizza lovers with fast, friendly service and delicious products.
“The demand planning capabilities in Dynamics 365 are helping us make the right decisions to lower wastage, avoid unnecessary deliveries, and be cybersafe. It’s a game-changer for us because it uses AI for predictive analysis ... to predict our future,” says Batra.
Domino’s is not just delivering pizzas; it’s delivering a vision of a better future through food people love. With a laser focus on creating a positive impact both for its colleagues and for the communities it serves, Domino’s is on a mission to revolutionize the way it anticipates customer desires.
The company doesn’t miss the time-consuming, error-prone manual process of using spreadsheets to make forecasts and anticipate demand. With AI, automation, and analytics, planners can make their no-code and low-code demand and forecast models quickly and efficiently using Dynamics 365 with demand planning capabilities. Plus, they now have a better understanding of how change models work and how to manage delivery and inventory more efficiently and accurately. Having the ability to plan ahead and ensure all the ingredients are fresh in Domino’s kitchens doesn’t just save money and resources; it instills confidence in franchisees, the people responsible for delivering on Domino’s promise of an exceptional customer experience.
“Our AI landscape is expanding and with the support of leading organizations like Microsoft, we are able to filter the noise of AI-hype to focus on evaluating and adopting AI solutions that drive tangible business outcomes,” says Kahlon.
Using the demand planning capabilities in Dynamics 365, Domino’s can deliver products more consistently and punctually, leading to improved customer satisfaction and repeat business. The company can also make more informed decisions about when to reorder inventory, how to distribute products, and when to ramp up or scale back production based on market fluctuations. Managing inventory more efficiently reduces the risk of overstocking and minimizes waste while increasing profitability.
“We can future-proof our business with Microsoft. It’s helping us push the boundaries of what we currently do as an industry, providing us with the tools to tell us what we need to do to make the team’s life simpler and improve the service we give to our franchisees, stores, and consumers,” says O’Keefe.
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