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Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
Germany Oct 20, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Die Realisierung des Potenzials von KI und datengesteuerten Strategien stellt nicht länger nur einen Wettbewerbsvorteil dar, sondern ist Heute auch entscheidend für den langfristigen Erfolg eines jeden Unternehmens. Unsere Wissensaustausch-Briefings "AI & Data Knowledge Transfer" zielen darauf ab, CIDOs und Senior Digital Leaders praktische Anwendungen aufzuzeigen und umsetzbaren Erkenntnissen von Fachexperten zu vermitteln, die den Weg für die transformative digitale Reise ebnen und beschleunigen.
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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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Medical Industrie Streamlining B2B sales—with seamless integration
Medical Industrie is a family-owned business that specializes in the wholesaling of medical devices, first aid equipment, and other life-saving products. Founded in 1990, it is headquartered near Düsseldorf, Germany, and supplies some of Germany’s largest companies and government institutions.
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Medical Industrie GmBH & Co. KG is a small firm with a big mandate: supplying the medical products that help keep German workers safe. Its customers are some of the biggest names in German industry and government. And its sales team literally saves lives: among the 20,000 orders the company processes each year are AEDs (automated external defibrillators) to treat sudden cardiac arrests, masks to stop the spread of viruses, and hundreds of items to treat serious injuries, burns, and lacerations.
With so many products changing hands—and so much at stake—the company’s bottom line is highly dependent on efficiency. Today, that means the ability to quickly process orders, from the point of sale through delivery and payment. For years, as its customers abandoned paper and turned to e-procurement platforms, management sought a way to do this in an automated fashion: the manual entering of product, sales, and invoice data into portals was eating up valuable time and money and preventing staff from focusing on growing the business. When the coronavirus hit in 2020—and gloves, masks, and disinfectants began flying off the warehouse shelves—they realized it was time to act.
“The pandemic soaked up every resource available,” says Tobias Epstein, a member of the management team who handles IT matters for the company. “It made automation a top priority—and helped us realize that we needed an integration tool to connect data from our ERP directly with our customers’ platforms.”
The company’s choice, webMethods.io from Software AG, stood out for several reasons. To start, it offered one of the best hybrid integration solutions in the business. While Medical Industrie’s own digital sales platform, Shopware, and most of its customers’ purchasing portals were cloud-based, its long-trusted ERP remained housed on a server at its Düsseldorf-area headquarters. webMethods’ ability to connect this blend of on-premises and cloud-based systems with its hybrid Integration Platform-as-a-Service, or iPaaS, was thus indispensable.
webMethods’ Microservices Runtime, a lightweight container that can deliver integrations as microservices, helped make the platform fast and easy to use: its agile connectors can be developed once and re-used for multiple integrations, with little to no coding required. For a small company without a lot of in-house IT expertise, these out-of-the-box capabilities were essential. So, too, was Software AG’s flexible pricing model, which unlike many competitors’ is based on actual transactions.
“Paying for only what we use will allow us to easily scale as we continue on our automation journey,” Epstein says. “That was a major selling point.”
Medical Industrie would discover more value in Software AG when the time arrived to launch its new solution into action. The company entrusted Software AG’s Professional Services to get things started: the two-person team began by designing, developing, testing, and deploying an on-premises connector for the ERP. They next turned their attention to the e-procurement system of a large government customer, completing cloud-based integrations that will automate the processing of its 2,000 annual orders. Finally, they developed workflows to integrate Medical Industrie’s ERP with Shopware, thereby enabling the instant sharing of order information. Not only did this team do top-notch work; according to Epstein, its members also passed on expertise that will enable the company to complete such tasks itself moving forward.
“They recognized we weren’t integration experts, and they made sure we came away with a deeper understanding of how it all works,” he says.
With these initial integrations set to go live in early 2023, Epstein and his team are already thinking ahead: once all integrations are in place, Medical Industrie expects it will be able to automate 80% of order processing. The subsequent impact on productivity, says Epstein, will be “massive:” staff currently bogged down with filling out order information by hand will see that drudgery reduced by up to 95%—freeing them to focus on more productive tasks. Being connected to its customers’ portals, moreover, will also help cement those essential B2B relationships: companies and public sector institutions alike, after all, are less likely to switch to a competitor if their existing supplier is already plugged into their procurement system.
Ultimately, Medical Industrie’s Software AG partnership is part of a broader shift in strategy. Throughout its 33-year history, Epstein says, the company has been defined by “conservative, organic growth.” In the coming years, management is looking for that growth to accelerate—thanks in no small part to the efficiencies that come with digitalization. The connectivity offered by webMethods has already given the company a critical boost. And the best is still to co
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