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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 MoreDomino'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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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.
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