Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
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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.
Read MorePoland 30-9-25 Physical
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 MoreSearching for life on Jupiter’s icy moon.
NASA brings the public onboard the Europa Clipper mission.
From sending rovers to Mars to designing instruments for space telescopes, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), managed by the California Institute of Technology, has been on the forefront of space science since 1936.
As all missions are taxpayer funded, JPL aims to disseminate information about its missions and the science behind them as widely as possible — across the United States and to partners worldwide. When engaging with the public, JPL’s Public Engagement team focuses on what makes each mission unique, from what scientific lessons may be learned to what new innovations are required to accomplish those goals.
Adobe Substance 3D Stager scene depicting Clipper spacecraft on a flyby over Europa's surface with Jupiter rising in the background.
One of NASA’s most exciting upcoming missions is Europa Clipper, when NASA will send its largest ever planetary mission spacecraft to explore one of Jupiter’s 80 plus moons, Europa. Slightly smaller than Earth’s moon but one of Jupiter’s largest, what makes Europa so special is its icy shell. And where there is ice, there is potential for liquid water — and where there is liquid water, there is potential for life. Europa has all of the ingredients for life: water, chemistry, and energy. In October 2024, NASA plans to launch the Europa Clipper spacecraft to conduct detailed investigations of Europa and possibly answer the intriguing question of whether there is life, or the potential for life, under the ice.
JPL planned a multi-layered campaign to engage the public on this mission: an engaging website, in-person events such as a touring road show and pop-up events at aquariums, and the Message in a Bottle campaign that invites individuals to send their name into space alongside a poem from U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón. But the organization was also interested in creating an immersive 3D experience with augmented reality (AR) to encourage interaction and help the public — from die-hard space fans to people who have never heard of Jupiter’s moons — understand the scale of the Europa Clipper and its mission.
JPL oversaw the development of ClipperAR: an immersive augmented reality experience built on Adobe Aero that allows the public to explore Europa and the Europa Clipper spacecraft. The Substance 3D team at Adobe created the groundbreaking experience using the Adobe Substance 3D Collection and Adobe Creative Cloud apps, turning actual NASA assets and data into photorealistic 3D models still light enough to run on a mobile device for a seamless AR experience.
“For NASA, scientific accuracy is a priority. The ability to plug in existing NASA satellite images to Substance Sampler and produce 3D material which precisely matches Europa's surface in real life, was huge.”
Vladimir Petkovic - Creative Director, Substance 3D team, Adobe
The Adobe Substance 3D team started with source materials from NASA — including 3D models of the Clipper and its instruments — and upleveled the models with Substance tools to create even more realistic, AR-friendly lightweight assets. 3D artists first cleaned up geometry and then retextured assets using Substance 3D Painter. Some of the textures came from the Substance 3D Assets library, while others were custom materials created using the node-based workflows in Substance 3D Designer. By layering materials together with Substance Painter, artists captured the slight bumps and imperfections that create complex light patterns to make the Clipper feel real.
The updated 3D models can be reused across multiple contexts, from the JPL website to marketing imagery. The Adobe 3D team used the updated Clipper model to create a hero image that JPL’s Public Engagement team use when marketing the ClipperAR experience. The image shows the Clipper flying in front of Jupiter, with the icy surface of Europa beneath it. By feeding Sampler with satellite images of Europa's surface, the Adobe team used Sampler to extract elevation data and produce a material which illustrates how this terrain looks in real life.
NASA satellite data was used to extract the elevation map using Adobe Substance Sampler and then a 3D model of the surface was made in Adobe Substance Painter.
“For NASA, scientific accuracy is a priority,” says Vladimir Petkovic, Creative Director, Substance 3D team at Adobe. “The ability to plug in existing NASA satellite images to Substance Sampler and produce 3D material which precisely matches Europa's surface in real life, was huge. While we could have done this manually, working with NASA's source data allowed us to improve accuracy and speed up our creative workflow. I used Substance 3D Stager to set up a 3D scene where I could adjust the lighting, camera angle, and composition very quickly to achieve just the right image to visualize the magnitude of the Europa Clipper mission.”
When people open ClipperAR, they are greeted by the solar system spinning amongst a field of stars with the title, “Journey to an Ocean World.” The planets then fade away to highlight Jupiter, followed by Europa. Users are invited to click on three buttons — Water, Chemistry, and Energy — to hear narration and watch infographics that explain how these elements can combine to form life. Finally, they are introduced to the Europa Clipper itself. People can walk around the Clipper, view it from different angles, and click on points of interest to get a closer look at individual instruments, such as the magnetometer used to measure magnetic fields or the imaging system that will capture both color and stereoscopic images.
The Adobe 3D team started designing the experience by creating storyboards and a compelling script. This was followed by an animatic designed in Premiere Pro to visualize the important interactivity and narrative flow of the AR experience. Once approved, the team got to work creating nearly 146 assets, including 2D and 3D visuals, text, audio, and animated sequences, using Adobe Creative Cloud apps.
AR 3D assets showcasing Europa in three states: 1) as a whole 2) cross-section revealing a giant ocean under its icy crust, and 3) cross-section revealing its heated iron core and suspected geo-thermal activities.
Artists used Photoshop to clean up and create new images, such as images of the planets and the field of stars. The 2D interfaces and text displays were created in Illustrator, while After Effects turned some of those elements into animated infographics and titles. While Adobe Stock contributed some of the music and sounds, users are drawn into the experience through narration done by JPL MediaLab and edited using Audition. Media Encoder then takes all of these assets and optimizes formats for the mobile AR experience.
The Adobe 3D team brought the experience to life within Aero using 30 interactive triggers, 585 actions, and more than 50 animations. The triggers and actions power the interactivity and movement that makes the AR experience so compelling, such as the ability to click on a pop-up button and see the image of Europa fade away to reveal an explanation of energy.
Since 75% of the visitors to the JPL website come from a mobile device, mobile accessibility was a must. “One of the biggest benefits of using Aero is how accessible it is,” says James Zachary, Animation and Interaction Director at Adobe. “What is exciting about Aero is that people can experience AR without needing to download an app. They can just scan a QR code on their mobile device and launch the experience. This lowers the barrier of entry and makes it much easier to distribute the experience anywhere.”
3D Model image of Europa Clipper spacecraft from NASA with surface reworked in Adobe Substance Painter.
JPL plans to use both the full "Journey to the Ocean World" experience and a shorter, Clipper spacecraft-only AR experience at live events leading up to the October 2024 launch date. Built with the textured and scientifically accurate assets of the Europa moon and spacecraft, the interactive ClipperAR experience helps JPL engage, educate, and connect the public to the mission.
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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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