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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iPaaS breathes new life into Portugal-based insurer Gamalife
With EUR 9.4bn in assets, Gamalife is one of the top three life insurance companies in Portugal. It recently entered the Italian market with the acquisition of a large portfolio of almost 200,000 new customers.
Gamalife is a leading life insurance company in Portugal. Its decades-old integration infrastructure—inherited from the traditional bank which originally owned it—was no longer fit for purpose. Data was held in silos across the organization, core data was locked into a legacy platform and there were security issues with exposing data securely to third parties.
“Our core legacy platform as programmed on RPG and wasn’t up to the sort of modern integration we needed,” says Rui Pinto, Head of IT at Gamalife. “My team and I were getting more and more worried about vulnerabilities, not to mention the need to future-proof access to data in an ecosystem economy. It was time to act.”
The company needed a flexible integration platform as a service (iPaaS) combined with a Managed File Transfer capability and API management so they could securely expose data to partners and distributors. This would help them offer new solutions in the digital distribution of insurance as a service.
Furthermore, the solution had to be compliant with the demanding requirements of a heavily regulated financial sector. It was vital the company could maintain a complete overview of every communication and call made and received, as well as a record of all requests, both internal and external.
After talking to competitors, Gamalife chose a solution from Software AG’s local partner Findmore Digital, who recommended a solution based on webMethods.
“We selected Software AG and Findmore Digital because they had recently completed a similar project with a carve-out from the same bank we did—a non-life insurance company here in Portugal,” says Rui, “and we knew the results had been spectacular.”
The partner, supplier and customer got down to work. All the integrations between internal applications and between the company and our partners were transformed, without the need to touch the applications. This allowed us to make this evolution faster, safer and with less impact. As Rui explains, this offers his security team a significant advantage: “The architecture of the webMethods platform helps isolate specific areas to prevent breaches, and all communication is from inside to outside. That gives security a better view of traffic and makes it easier for us to expose our data securely.”
Gamalife's new webMethods.io Integration Platform is now up and running, providing services for all types of use, internal and external, streamlining the business and increasing the possibilities for the future evolution of the other platforms. And, as Rui says, the investment is proving to be even more valuable than the company considered at the start of the project. See what the company is doing with its new MFT solution:
“We anticipated three or four use cases for webMethods ActiveTransfer, but we soon saw it had so much more potential than we realized to increase the flow of data within our company, and with it the quality of services we offer. For example, we used to use a third-party service provider for customer statements and other documents, which involved generating and sending them thousands of .xml files every month. But now that whole process is automated.“
And while Gamalife is already reaping the rewards of its investment, things are set to really take off in the next phase.
"webMethods is based on open standards and has a thriving Developer Portal, so we're excited about what's to come," says Rui. "We're looking to develop new services so that our partners, in this case distributors, can serve our customers with more features and offer a better experience. The aim is to be ever closer to the customer."
Gamalife’s data is comprehensively protected by webMethods API management, a robust solution for managing their API portfolio. As well as offering rate limiting and gateway access policies to protect API resources, it gives the company advanced analytics to enforce authorization and security by using OAuth and other authentication methods, together with modern encryption standards. Traffic monitoring optimizes run-time performance conditions, enforces limits for service invocations, and sends alerts whenever conditions are violated. In addition, it makes it easy to conduct penetration tests to check for vulnerabilities.
“The whole process has been very smooth so far, and there have been no delays,” says Rui. “Believe me, that’s very rare. We worked together as a single team, and I’m confident Software AG and Findmore will be able to deliver this important next phase.”
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