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Belgium Sep 24, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

Bridging the Unbridgeable: IT Meets M(i)OT ; Converged infrastructures demand converged security

As smart devices proliferate across operational environments — from sensors on factory lines and GPS trackers in logistics fleets to wearables in healthcare and connected systems in smart cities — the integration of Managed IoT (MiOT) is accelerating. But with it comes a surge in cybersecurity risks. No longer isolated or air-gapped, OT systems are becoming fully networked, remotely accessible, and deeply entwined with IT. This creates a vulnerable, highly complex digital mesh, one where a single compromised device can trigger physical, financial, and reputational consequences.

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UK Sep 24, 2025 Country Members Physical english

CIONET UK Business Community Program: Creating agile partnerships – making the right choice between in and out-sourcing

Join us for our community event on 24th September in London. Join us for our community event on 21st May in London. Sponsored by Business Partners Cognizant, Orange Business, Entelect, Strategy, Stefanini & Thoughtworks.

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Belgium Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

The power of Hybrid - Cloud-Native Application Modernisation as a No-Regret Move

On 25th September, during the Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 in Brussels, CIONET is hosting an exclusive, invitation-only round table for leading CIOs, CTOs, and digital leaders. While the Summit offers a broad programme, this CIONET session is a separate, distinct event, conducted in its own dedicated room with private catering, ensuring a focused and confidential peer-to-peer discussion. This round table will delve into why certain cloud-native techniques offer undeniable benefits, irrespective of where your applications are deployed, be it on-premise, in a hyperscale cloud, or a hybrid environment. Even outside public clouds, these modern, modular architectures consistently deliver increased agility, enhanced scalability, and quicker time-to-market. The real power behind these advantages lies in automation. When done properly, automation significantly boosts team efficiency, improves system quality, and drastically cuts risks from slow systems or downtime. However, achieving truly effective automation comes with its own set of challenges, which we'll address head-on. Key Discussion Points Include: "No-Regret" Cloud-Native Pillars: We'll try to pinpoint essential techniques every organisation should adopt, such as microservices architecture, containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), API-first design, stateless application design, and immutable infrastructure. Why are these crucial for modern applications, no matter the deployment location? Strategic Vendor Lock-in: How to judiciously manage vendor lock-in. For new innovations and applications with a relatively short life expectancy, leveraging the latest unique features of a hyperscale cloud might be beneficial. For long-lived applications (expected to be live for decades), the focus might shift to limiting exposure by utilising generally available technologies. Automation Anywhere: How can organisations effectively implement automation strategies to unlock the full potential of cloud-native initiatives across diverse infrastructures? What are the biggest hurdles, and how are leaders overcoming them? This CIONET round table offers a unique and intimate setting for digital leaders to gain critical insights, exchange perspectives, and shape the strategic path towards application modernisation that truly offers no regrets.

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Belgium Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

Women of CIONET - Female Leadership Circle 2

As AI shapes our future, the time is now to address and correct its inherent biases. Join leading female voices in tech as we explore how to undo past mistakes, champion neutrality, and feed AI systems with inclusive, unbiased data. This conference is a call to action for female leaders in AI and tech to ensure the next generation of intelligent systems reflects fairness, diversity, and equity. Together, let’s set things right and redefine the future of AI.

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Poland Sep 25, 2025 All Members Physical Polish

COMMUNITY EVENT #7: HUMAN MACHINE

Agenci AI to przyszłość, która wyniesie organizacje na inny poziom dostarczania wartości biznesowej. Już teraz wiadomo, że nowa generacja inteligentnych agentów zmienia sposób, w jaki firmy działają, podejmują decyzje i się rozwijają. Podczas siódmego Community Eventu wraz z ekspertami AI sprawdzimy: możliwości, które dają agenci; jak wprowadzić governance i umiejscowić w organizacji tysiące sztucznych pracowników; jak zapewnić bezpieczeństwo, gdy każdy z agentów może wykonywać inne operacje; jaki jest wpływ wykorzystania agentów na koszty i środowisko; jak zmienia się pozycja firmy na rynku. Omówimy, jak liderzy IT i cyfrowi mogą i muszą strategicznie dostosować się do tej nowej rzeczywistości. Zarejestruj się już teraz i zapewnij sobie miejsce!

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Italy Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical italian

Innovation in Balance: governing the power of data and automation

Nel percorso verso l’AI e la trasformazione digitale, dati e automazione sono gli elementi centrali di ogni strategia tecnologica. Ma senza una governance chiara, rischiano di diventare non solo fonte di inefficienza, ma anche di rischi e incoerenza.   Come garantire che i dati siano completi, accessibili e affidabili? Come automatizzare le operation IT e i processi aziendali mantenendo controllo, compliance e sicurezza?   Durante questa roundtable esclusiva, organizzata da CIONET Italia e IBM, affronteremo:   La governance come abilitatore di dati affidabili e automazione sicura. Come prepararsi a un’adozione dell’AI realmente scalabile. Il ruolo di controllo, resilienza e gestione del rischio nell’innovazione.

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Automating PDF conversion.

Epson supports distributed workforces with fast and highly secure printing powered by Adobe.

Objectives

  • Support secure printing needs for remote and distributed workforces in Japan
  • Increase security and speed of printing in shared workspaces
  • Reduce time and hassle printing Microsoft Office documents in a driverless printing system

 

Results

  • Halves the time needed to print Microsoft Office documents by automatically converting to PDF
  • Supports thousands of printed pages per month by workers at satellite offices by adding PDF conversion to Epson Print Admin with easy-to-use APIs
  • Helps secure printed documents with facial recognition technology

For more than 80 years, Seiko Epson Corporation (Epson) has set the bar on innovation. The company began as a small precision manufacturer of watch parts, but has since grown into one of the top names in robotics, projectors, semiconductors, and sensors. For many consumers and office workers, Epson is best known as a reliable name in printers and copiers in the commercial and industrial printing business. The EP-101 was the world’s first mini-printer, and Epson equipment is found in homes and offices around the world.

Recently, Epson began expanding support for workers in satellite offices as well. Workers can rent office space for a few minutes or hours to take a conference call, hop onto wifi, or hold a quick meeting.

 

 

Some of these satellite offices now include Epson printers featuring Epson Print Admin, allowing workers to more securely print documents on the way to a meeting. And with Adobe PDF Services API within Adobe Acrobat Services, Epson is helping workers print Microsoft Office files quickly, easily, and accurately.

“As we enter the age where remote work and distributed office spaces become more common, workers have a need for reliable and safe workspaces anywhere,” says Mr. Tatsuya Mine, Technical Representative at Epson. “The Adobe PDF Services API has helped us improve printing services to make the shared satellite offices as secure and functional as any office building.”

 

“When we talked to Microsoft about our need to convert documents to PDF quickly and accurately, Microsoft recommended Adobe PDF Services API.”

Mr. Koki Togashi - Manager, Seiko Epson Corporation

More secure, easy printing

Epson Print Admin takes a highly secure new approach to business printing. Only registered users can print, copy, or scan documents, and print jobs are only released from the print queue when a user signs in at the printer. Sign-in may involve entering a username and password or hovering an ID card over the card reader. Satellite offices wanted something even more universal, which would allow any registered user to access printing without needing to remember passwords or carry cards.

Epson incorporated a facial recognition system developed for some satellite office across Japan by Panasonic System Solutions Japan into the Epson Print Admin. Registered users simply stand in front of a tablet and let facial recognition sign them in with no effort.

 

 

“Security is critical, especially when workers from different companies use a shared office space,” says Mr. Hiroshi Matsumoto, Team Leader at Epson. “Facial recognition keeps printed documents private, with greater ease and security than a password or ID card. We’re still in the trial phase, but we could soon see facial recognition at more satellite offices across Japan.”

Satellite offices also requested a driverless version of Epson Print Admin, as it reduces updates and security risks from installed drivers and software. However, this driverless version could only print PDF documents, not the Microsoft Office documents popular with business users. Users would need to convert Microsoft Office documents on their personal devices before uploading the PDF to the cloud for printing. Epson wanted to improve the efficiency and convenience for people by automatically converting Microsoft Office documents for them before printing.

“When we talked to Microsoft about our need to convert documents to PDF quickly and accurately, Microsoft recommended Adobe PDF Services API,” says Mr. Koki Togashi, Manager at Epson.

Using the Create PDF function, users now just select any Microsoft Office document on the Epson Print Admin interface. The document is automatically converted into a high-fidelity PDF file, eliminating many of the conversion errors that users might experience on other types of PDF conversion tools. Users simply need to select print settings and click the print button.

“By incorporating the PDF Services API, printing is much easier for users, as they no longer need to manually convert documents,” says Mr. Togashi. “Removing the manual steps also makes printing twice as fast. Workers spend less time waiting for paper, so they can spend more time in the satellite office catching up on their work.”

“With support from Adobe, we’re developing new ways to handle print and digital business needs for distributed workforces.”

Mr. Takeshi Yamada - Chief Engineer, Seiko Epson Corporation

 

Innovating print services for modern offices

Since incorporating PDF Services API, Epson Print Admin stations have seen a growing number of transactions come from repeat users, indicating that the service is finding a home with a mobile workforce. While Epson is only creating PDF documents at the moment, the Adobe APIs could provide more ways for the company to incorporate other services in the future, from PDF editing to optical character recognition (OCR).

“Working with the PDF Services API was very easy, with clear documentation and references that allowed us to quickly incorporate Create PDF into our workflow,” says Mr. Takeshi Yamada, Chief Engineer at Seiko Epson Corporation. “With support from Adobe, we’re developing new ways to handle print and digital business needs for distributed workforces.”

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Adobe PDF Services API

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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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CIONET’s mission is to help IT executives become more at ease and above all more successful in their jobs. So they can do more than just keep up with change but ultimately define it. CIONET opens up a whole new universe of opportunities in IT management.

With the largest membership of corporate digital leaders across Europe, Latin America, US and Australia, CIONET has the expertise and pioneering vision to solve or address any IT management challenge.

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