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Belgium 9-9-25 Squad Only Physical english
As Belgium navigates the complexities of GDPR and various data sovereignty regulations, organizations across multiple industries face both challenges and opportunities in managing their data across borders. The quest for compliance often intersects with the need for business growth, raising questions about the balance between protection and progress. How can companies effectively own and safeguard their data while ensuring compliance without stifling innovation and expansion in a multi-industry landscape?
Read MorePoland 9-9-25 Invitation Only Virtual Polish
Utrzymanie talentów w organizacji IT ulokowanej na konkurencyjnym rynku pracy to nie lada zadanie. A jeśli do tego mówimy o organizacji z sektora publicznego? O swoich i swojej organizacji doświadczeniach, metodach i programach opowie Anna Wituła z CIRF. Będzie to jak zawsze okazja do dyskusji na temat różnych sposobów na utrzymanie talentów w firmie.
Read MoreBelgium 11-9-25 Squad Only Virtual english
You’ve built the portal. Added the chatbot. Rolled out self-service. But your support lines are still ringing. And your frontline teams are still improvising. If you want digital services to feel seamless, not just look polished, this session brings you back to where value is felt: at the frontline.
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W fabrykach cyberbezpieczeństwo często zależy od podwykonawców – integratorów, dostawców systemów automatyki i firm serwisowych, które mają zaskakująco szeroki dostęp do infrastruktury OT. W tej prezentacji Igor Zbyryt z BZK pokaże, jak z perspektywy końcowego użytkownika i integratora wygląda współpraca z tymi firmami oraz jakie realne ryzyka to niesie – również w kontekście NIS2. Zamiast wyliczać różnice między IT a OT, skupi się na wspólnym mianowniku i tym, co trzeba zmienić w podejściu organizacji, żeby cyber w produkcji zaczęło działać.
Read MoreBelgium 13-9-25 All Members Physical english
Join us for a scenic ride along the route of the Brabantse Pijl!This ride is suitable for all levels of cyclists and doesn’t require advanced technical skills. We’ll start at de Zoete Waters, where parking is available, and head into the charming Brabant region. Along the way, we’ll tackle some of the area’s iconic climbs — including the legendary Moskesstraat, known for its cobbled character and history in pro cycling. Expect a relaxed, friendly atmosphere and beautiful views throughout. Whether you're training, exploring, or just riding for fun, you’re more than welcome to join!
Read MoreBelgium 16-9-25 Squad Only Physical english
The system works. That’s the problem. It’s old, complex, deeply integrated, and still running your most critical operations. Everyone agrees change is needed. But no one wants to be the one who breaks it. The stakes are too high.
Read MoreGermany Sep 9, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Vom ersten Use Case zur strategischen Neuausrichtung CIONET lädt bereits zum vierten Mal zu einem exklusiven Roundtable für CIOs und Digitalverantwortliche aus Logistik und Handel ein. Im Mittelpunkt des Abends steht die Frage, wie Unternehmen ihre KI-Initiativen erfolgreich skalieren und aus ersten Use Cases echten strategischen Mehrwert schaffen. Microsoft 365 für Frontline Worker: Moderne Tools, die Mitarbeitende im Tagesgeschäft entlasten ServiceNow für Prozessintegration: Automatisierte End-to-End-Workflows – vom Schadensfall bis zur Retourenabwicklung KI-gestützte Disposition und Planung: Mit smarten Algorithmen zur optimierten Supply Chain Digitale Lieferketten und letzte Meile: Transparenz, Effizienz und Kundenzentrierung durchgängig gedacht
Read MoreBelgium Sep 13, 2025 All Members Physical english
Join us for a wonderful ride. The ride is accessible to all levels of riders and doesn't require extensive technical skills. More information will follow soon. Looking forward to ride together!
Read MoreGermany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Cybersecurity ist längst kein reines IT-Thema mehr – sie betrifft das gesamte Unternehmen. Doch während die Bedrohungslage zunimmt, geraten viele Security-Verantwortliche an ihre Belastungsgrenzen: zwischen 24/7-Verantwortung, wachsenden Anforderungen und dem ständigen Innovationsdruck.
Read MoreGermany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german
IT-Betrieb und Cybersicherheit stehen heute unter extremem Druck: steigende Komplexität, wachsende regulatorische Anforderungen (NIS2, DORA, KRITIS), chronische Ressourcenknappheit – und gleichzeitig eine Bedrohungslage, die keine Verzögerungen duldet. Trotzdem agieren viele IT- und Security-Teams noch immer in Silos. Die Folge: ineffiziente Abläufe, Tool-Wildwuchs, langsame Reaktion auf Vorfälle und unklare Verantwortlichkeiten.
Read MoreGermany Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Nachhaltigkeit ist für CIOs nicht nur ein „Nice-to-have“, sondern eine strategische Priorität – sie beeinflusst direkt die finanzielle Performance, die operative Effizienz und die langfristige Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.
Read MoreBelgium Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Physical french
La dette technique est comparable à la négligence des réparations d'une maison. Ignorer un toit qui fuit peut faire gagner du temps aujourd'hui, mais cela pourrait conduire à l'effondrement du plafond plus tard. Pour remédier à la dette technique, il faut trouver et réparer ces fuites dès maintenant et mettre en place un plan d'entretien de la maison afin qu'elle soit prête pour les extensions futures. Pour résoudre ces problèmes, il faut définir des priorités stratégiques, communiquer clairement avec les parties prenantes et établir une feuille de route à long terme pour la modernisation. Cet événement se déroulera entièrement en français.
Read MoreGermany Sep 9, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Vom ersten Use Case zur strategischen Neuausrichtung CIONET lädt bereits zum vierten Mal zu einem exklusiven Roundtable für CIOs und Digitalverantwortliche aus Logistik und Handel ein. Im Mittelpunkt des Abends steht die Frage, wie Unternehmen ihre KI-Initiativen erfolgreich skalieren und aus ersten Use Cases echten strategischen Mehrwert schaffen. Microsoft 365 für Frontline Worker: Moderne Tools, die Mitarbeitende im Tagesgeschäft entlasten ServiceNow für Prozessintegration: Automatisierte End-to-End-Workflows – vom Schadensfall bis zur Retourenabwicklung KI-gestützte Disposition und Planung: Mit smarten Algorithmen zur optimierten Supply Chain Digitale Lieferketten und letzte Meile: Transparenz, Effizienz und Kundenzentrierung durchgängig gedacht
Read MoreBelgium Sep 13, 2025 All Members Physical english
Join us for a wonderful ride. The ride is accessible to all levels of riders and doesn't require extensive technical skills. More information will follow soon. Looking forward to ride together!
Read MoreGermany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Cybersecurity ist längst kein reines IT-Thema mehr – sie betrifft das gesamte Unternehmen. Doch während die Bedrohungslage zunimmt, geraten viele Security-Verantwortliche an ihre Belastungsgrenzen: zwischen 24/7-Verantwortung, wachsenden Anforderungen und dem ständigen Innovationsdruck.
Read MoreGermany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german
IT-Betrieb und Cybersicherheit stehen heute unter extremem Druck: steigende Komplexität, wachsende regulatorische Anforderungen (NIS2, DORA, KRITIS), chronische Ressourcenknappheit – und gleichzeitig eine Bedrohungslage, die keine Verzögerungen duldet. Trotzdem agieren viele IT- und Security-Teams noch immer in Silos. Die Folge: ineffiziente Abläufe, Tool-Wildwuchs, langsame Reaktion auf Vorfälle und unklare Verantwortlichkeiten.
Read MoreGermany Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Nachhaltigkeit ist für CIOs nicht nur ein „Nice-to-have“, sondern eine strategische Priorität – sie beeinflusst direkt die finanzielle Performance, die operative Effizienz und die langfristige Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.
Read MoreBelgium Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Physical french
La dette technique est comparable à la négligence des réparations d'une maison. Ignorer un toit qui fuit peut faire gagner du temps aujourd'hui, mais cela pourrait conduire à l'effondrement du plafond plus tard. Pour remédier à la dette technique, il faut trouver et réparer ces fuites dès maintenant et mettre en place un plan d'entretien de la maison afin qu'elle soit prête pour les extensions futures. Pour résoudre ces problèmes, il faut définir des priorités stratégiques, communiquer clairement avec les parties prenantes et établir une feuille de route à long terme pour la modernisation. Cet événement se déroulera entièrement en français.
Read MoreUniversity of Gothenburg adopts application platform for data science
Sweden's University of Gothenburg ditched slow VMs for Red Hat OpenShift, modernizing their website and research. The platform's self-service and containerization capabilities streamline development, while OpenShift Virtualization lets them seamlessly integrate legacy apps. This frees IT for higher-value tasks and accelerates research projects.
Founded in 1891, the University of Gothenburg is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities. Lying in the heart of Sweden’s second-largest city, its strong research and appealing study programs attract scientists and students from around the world. Around 54,000 students and 6,600 staff study and work across its 8 faculties and 38 departments. The university also has a large number of research centers of expertise, which span several academic disciplines. These focus on meeting societal challenges, with their new knowledge and new perspectives contributing to a better future.
The university chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux® as its standard distribution over a decade ago. When deciding to build a new web platform in 2020, it recognized that an application platform would make it faster and easier for developers to test, deploy, and launch new services. However, building an application platform on the university’s legacy VMs would be slow; it could take up to 3 months to deliver the new environment.
“An application platform would give research teams access to the IT environments they need much faster, and our IT unit would be able to manage resources centrally,” said Carl-Johan Schenström, IT Infrastructure Specialist at the University of Gothenburg. “What is more, with the application platform’s built-in networking, we would not need to rely on our networking team to set up ports manually so our research teams’ projects can communicate with other systems.”
Red Hat OpenShift is critical to our future success. It frees up our IT unit, allows projects to progress faster, and we can onboard new developers fast. Johan Kindstrand - Senior Consultant, Atea, University of Gothenburg
We are excited about containerizing our .NET applications and expanding our Red Hat OpenShift use cases to include AI, ML, and HPC projects. Carl-Johan Schenström - IT Infrastructure Specialist, University of Gothenburg
The university began building the website on OKD, the open source community version of OpenShift. Technology partner Atea Sverige (Atea) suggested adopting Red Hat OpenShift. “We are only 2 people, so the enterprise-level support that comes with Red Hat OpenShift is essential; everyone else is supporting our legacy systems,” said Johan Kindstrand, Senior Consultant, Atea, University of Gothenburg. “And Red Hat OpenShift will make it easier for us to find new talent when we need it.”
The university purchased a Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus academic license. “The licensing cost is very attractive, and we are very interested in using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, and Red Hat Quay,” said Kindstrand. “Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management will allow us to manage our Red Hat OpenShift clusters centrally as their numbers grow. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management will quickly become essential.”
Atea and the university’s IT unit deployed Red Hat OpenShift on VMs using user-provisioned infrastructure (UPI) and migrated the university website from OKD. “The Red Hat Knowledge Base was really helpful. There are lots of great resources in there,” said Schenström.
The university plans to deploy more clusters for development and testing in addition to production. “Many departments are looking into using Red Hat OpenShift,” said Schenström. Those projects include building a trusted environment for research projects and a marine biology “research vessel,” which stores the data it collects in Red Hat OpenShift. Internal projects will be deployed on VMs and research projects on bare metal.
A Red Hat Solution Architect keeps the partners informed about upcoming features. “Our developers really like learning about new features,” said Schenström. “They loved the OpenShift Dev Spaces demo, for instance.” Other important features include the Open Data Hub, an open source project providing tools for running large and distributed artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on Red Hat OpenShift. The tools support monitoring and data storage and also include distributed AI and machine learning (ML) workflows and the Jupyter Notebook development environment.
Self-service tools built into Red Hat OpenShift means developers no longer need to wait for the IT unit to manually provision and configure VMs according to each project’s needs. Developers and researchers are a lot less dependent on IT and can get moving with their projects sooner on the application platform, and the IT unit has more time available to support projects in other ways
“We can create a namespace in Red Hat OpenShift in a few minutes. They can then install their collecting application, and they are good to go,” said Schenström, highlighting how the marine biology department can now create research vessels. “Previously, we would set up a VM, configure it according to the project’s needs, talk with the networking people, and set the ports for communicating with all the sensors—and that would have taken a few days, a week, or even more.”
The namespaces integrate with the university’s Active Directory for credentials and roles. Once they are created, developers can deploy whatever applications they need in any environment. Future plans include using Red Hat OpenShift to provide more self-service so developers can create namespaces themselves
The university has also recently started using OpenShift Dev Spaces, a collaborative Kubernetesnative solution for rapid application development. OpenShift Dev Spaces delivers consistent developer environments on Red Hat OpenShift, allowing anyone with a browser to contribute code in under 2 minutes.
“OpenShift Dev Spaces allows us to onboard developers within minutes,” said Schenström. “We like how it provides developers—whether in our IT unit or more widely across individual departments—with a consistent, secure, and zero-configuration development environment.”
The trusted environment Schenström and his team are building for sensitive research projects uses OpenShift Virtualization to allow VMs to run alongside containers on the same platform, simplifying management and improving time to production.
“We use OpenShift Virtualization to run Windows infrastructure—the Active Directory Controllers and remote updates, for instance—on VMs in Red Hat OpenShift,” said Schenström. “We then deploy a virtual Windows server with remote desktop services to create an isolated bubble for each research team.”
The university has a lot of projects using the Jupyter Notebook. The School of Business, Economics, and Law has been using the multiuser version (JupyterHub) to support 3 courses with up to 160 students each since 2021.
“JupyterHub allows a smaller number of teachers to teach and support a greater number of students. We can easily enter students’ servers to help and support,” said Mari Paananen, Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg.
JupyterHub means students do not need to install software on their computers, which can cause installation problems and waste around 20% of the allocated teaching time. “It levels the playing field among students, as they all have access to the same processing power, regardless of the capacity of their own computer, and provides students with instant access to the same data from a shared folder,” said Paananen.
The University of Gothenburg is expanding use cases for the Red Hat application platform, including for data science projects. “We have users who want to use graphics processing units (GPUs) for AI, ML, and, in the future, high-performance computing (HPC) projects,” said Schenström, explaining how projects buying physical servers with dedicated GPUs and then IT managing those servers is not resource effective. “We would like to provide a data science platform based on Red Hat OpenShift with shared access to GPU and CPU resources. We are looking at hybrid cloud for those compute-heavy applications,” said Schenström. “The auto-scaling provided by public cloud environments will help us manage costs.”
The University of Gothenburg uses Open Data Hub, an open source AI platform designed for the hybrid cloud, to provide their data scientists with a Jupyter-as-a-service collaborative environment for use cases like a chatbot for Alzheimer’s research. They are also considering OpenShift AI, Red Hat’s commercial product based on Open Data Hub, which provides a flexible, scalable MLOps platform that gives teams the tools they need to build, deploy, and manage AI-enabled applications.
Plans for the future include containerizing legacy applications, including internally developed Windows applications. “We can now modernize our legacy Windows applications and get rid of some of our legacy physical servers,” said Schenström. OpenShift Virtualization makes containerizing .NET applications straightforward. Windows developers write their applications as they normally would, but instead of deploying onto a Windows server, they deploy to Red Hat OpenShift.
“Red Hat OpenShift is critical to our future success,” said Kindstrand. “It frees up our IT unit, allows projects to progress faster, and we can onboard new developers fast. We are excited about containerizing our .NET applications and expanding our Red Hat OpenShift use cases to include AI, ML, and HPC projects.”
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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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