Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
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Belgium 9-10-25 Country Members Physical english
Today’s IT world moves faster than ever. New tools, new ways of working, constant updates! The real challenge? Making sure your people stay in the loop, up to speed, and ready to move. That’s why this year’s edition of Belgium’s Got Digital Talent is all about mastering knowledge flow, how to share the right know-how with the right people, at the right time. No more teams working in silos. No more vital info getting lost.We’re diving into practical ways to keep your teams smart, agile, and aligned. Whether you're leading an IT team, shaping digital strategy, or hiring tech talent, this event will give you the ideas, tools, and energy to turn fast change into a competitive edge.
Read MorePoland 9-10-25 Invitation Only Virtual Polish
Rohlig suus logistics weryfikuje w systemach kontrahentów (czy jest czynnym podatnikiem vat) oraz czy konta kontrahenta jest na białej liście. Przez ministerstwo jest udostępnione API, z którego można korzystać. Ale ma ono swoje limity (dosyć małe). Chcieliby się zorientować jak inne firmy (w szczególności większe) radzą sobie z tym zagadnieniem. Czy wykorzystują API ministerstwa, a może inne pośrednie rozwiązanie? Czy weryfikują wszystkich kontrahentów np. w nocy, czy pojedynczych adhoc.( Synchronicznie, czy asynchronicznie)."
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Złożoność współczesnych środowisk IT wymaga narzędzi, które pozwalają nie tylko szybko reagować na incydenty, ale także proaktywnie przewidywać problemy i optymalizować wykorzystanie zasobów. Podczas spotkania nasz gość – [...] – podzieli się doświadczeniami z wieloletniego wykorzystania IBM Instana do monitorowania aplikacji BSS oraz opowie o rozszerzeniu tych działań o IBM Turbonomic, który wspiera automatyzację i inteligentne zarządzanie zasobami. W trakcie dyskusji poszukamy odpowiedzi na pytania: Jakie praktyczne wnioski płyną z wieloletniego korzystania z IBM Instana? Jak pełna obserwowalność wpływa na szybkość reakcji i jakość usług? W jaki sposób rozszerzenie działań o IBM Turbonomic przekłada się na stabilność i koszty systemów? Jak połączyć monitorowanie w czasie rzeczywistym z ciągłą optymalizacją środowiska IT?
Read MoreBelgium 14-10-25 Squad Only Virtual english
Agile delivery often collides with inflexible infrastructures. One team wants to release weekly. Another is waiting six months for a new test environment. Sounds familiar? If your infra team is tired of being the bottleneck, and your devs are tired of waiting, this session opens a path forward.
Read MoreBelgium 14-10-25 Invitation Only Physical english
For financial institutions, a strategic approach to cloud adoption is needed, but not simple to achieve. The challenge lies in leveraging the benefits of modern cloud infrastructure while simultaneously preparing to meet strict sovereignty requirements. This necessitates a careful consideration of cloud architecture, including hybrid and multi-cloud models, and a thorough understanding of data residency and governance.
Read MoreBelgium 16-10-25 Invitation Only Physical english
AI isn’t just another tool. It changes how we work, how we think, how we organise ourselves.Yet most organisations still approach it like a digital upgrade, deploying assistants, automating workflows, testing use cases inisolation.The results are predictable. Short-term wins. Long-term confusion.Effort spent. Value unclear.Many companies can’t connect AI to their actual strategic goals,and the promised ROI never materialises.At the same time, something deeper is shifting.AI can now reason, decide, adapt. Not just mimic processes butcontribute to them.The technology is evolving, but the way we implement it hasn’tcaught up.If your AI still fits inside a single department, you’re likely solvingthe wrong problem.If it works only for individuals, you're missing how your teamsactually deliver value.If it replaces people instead of supporting them, you're buildingfor today, not tomorrow.The next step isn’t more AI. It’s the right AI.Built for your business, your teams, your way of working.Not a tool to add but a structure to build around.Are we ready to treat AI as a shared capability, not a scatteredexperiment?Can we move beyond individual efficiency and build systems thatcollaborate, learn and adapt with us?Those are the questions we’ll explore at the round table.
Read MoreBelgium Oct 9, 2025 Country Members Physical english
Today’s IT world moves faster than ever. New tools, new ways of working, constant updates! The real challenge? Making sure your people stay in the loop, up to speed, and ready to move. That’s why this year’s edition of Belgium’s Got Digital Talent is all about mastering knowledge flow, how to share the right know-how with the right people, at the right time. No more teams working in silos. No more vital info getting lost.We’re diving into practical ways to keep your teams smart, agile, and aligned. Whether you're leading an IT team, shaping digital strategy, or hiring tech talent, this event will give you the ideas, tools, and energy to turn fast change into a competitive edge.
Read MoreNetherlands Oct 9, 2025 Invitation Only Physical dutch
CIO Vision Dinner: GenAI & Smart Industry – Van Predictive naar Proactief
Read MoreUK Oct 9, 2025 Country Members Physical english
Join us on the evening of 9th October for dinner and discussion in the company of experts from BT and Cisco. Hosted at an exclusive venue, this is the perfect opportunity to network, exchange ideas with your peers and leave with actionable insights.
Read MoreItaly Oct 10, 2025 Invitation Only Physical italian
Giunto alla sua quinta edizione, il CXOsummit rappresenta un evento unico ed esclusivo, un punto di riferimento per i leader italiani dell'IT, del Digitale e dell'Innovazione. Immersi nella bellezza senza tempo della Toscana, esploreremo le frontiere dell'innovazione, con un focus sul "What's Next for Italy".
Read MoreInternational Oct 10, 2025 Country Members Physical english
Join us on the evening of 10th October for dinner and discussion in the company of experts from BT and Cisco. Hosted at an exclusive venue, this is the perfect opportunity to network, exchange ideas with your peers and leave with actionable insights.
Read MoreSpain Oct 14, 2025 Country Members Physical & Virtual spanish
Una iniciativa impulsada por CIONET y Moeve que reúne a líderes digitales comprometidos con un mismo desafío: acelerar la descarbonización y la sostenibilidad en las organizaciones a través de la tecnología.
Read MoreBelgium Oct 9, 2025 Country Members Physical english
Today’s IT world moves faster than ever. New tools, new ways of working, constant updates! The real challenge? Making sure your people stay in the loop, up to speed, and ready to move. That’s why this year’s edition of Belgium’s Got Digital Talent is all about mastering knowledge flow, how to share the right know-how with the right people, at the right time. No more teams working in silos. No more vital info getting lost.We’re diving into practical ways to keep your teams smart, agile, and aligned. Whether you're leading an IT team, shaping digital strategy, or hiring tech talent, this event will give you the ideas, tools, and energy to turn fast change into a competitive edge.
Read MoreNetherlands Oct 9, 2025 Invitation Only Physical dutch
CIO Vision Dinner: GenAI & Smart Industry – Van Predictive naar Proactief
Read MoreUK Oct 9, 2025 Country Members Physical english
Join us on the evening of 9th October for dinner and discussion in the company of experts from BT and Cisco. Hosted at an exclusive venue, this is the perfect opportunity to network, exchange ideas with your peers and leave with actionable insights.
Read MoreItaly Oct 10, 2025 Invitation Only Physical italian
Giunto alla sua quinta edizione, il CXOsummit rappresenta un evento unico ed esclusivo, un punto di riferimento per i leader italiani dell'IT, del Digitale e dell'Innovazione. Immersi nella bellezza senza tempo della Toscana, esploreremo le frontiere dell'innovazione, con un focus sul "What's Next for Italy".
Read MoreInternational Oct 10, 2025 Country Members Physical english
Join us on the evening of 10th October for dinner and discussion in the company of experts from BT and Cisco. Hosted at an exclusive venue, this is the perfect opportunity to network, exchange ideas with your peers and leave with actionable insights.
Read MoreSpain Oct 14, 2025 Country Members Physical & Virtual spanish
Una iniciativa impulsada por CIONET y Moeve que reúne a líderes digitales comprometidos con un mismo desafío: acelerar la descarbonización y la sostenibilidad en las organizaciones a través de la tecnología.
Read MoreHelping EE keep on top of their costs
With Hybrid Cloud Cost Optimisation and CloudHealth.
Overview
EE (formerly Everything Everywhere) runs the biggest and fastest mobile network. They became a part of the BT Group in 2015. And in April 2018 they joined our consumer division, operating three brands: BT, EE, and Plusnet.
EE has been awarded the UK's best network for 4G and 5G. They've got 4G that covers 99% of the UK population and 5G in more places than any other network.
But being the best comes with its challenges, especially when it comes to keeping costs under control.
The challenge
EE is growing, and it’s growing fast. That’s why as part of their digital strategy, they embraced the cloud with open arms early on, to help manage their ever-increasing hybrid estate. With a whopping £600,000 monthly spend on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, they needed an optimisation strategy to help keep on top of their costs. And that’s why they chose CloudHealth, a solution that gives EE greater visibility and insights of cloud costs across their entire estate, while staying secure. CloudHealth’s role-based dashboards showed them that they could make significant savings through simple actions, including:
Rightsizing resources
EE’s ever-evolving needs and demands for performance meant many resources were overdesigned.
Deleting unused resources
Unattached and underutilised resources were leading to unnecessary spending.
Finding an appropriate price structure
High agility DevOps-focused projects need flexible resourcing. And by subscribing for longer periods, these can be considerably cheaper. Using Reserved Instances (discount billing), can save up to 40% compared to on-demand prices, or spot pricing can be used at a much cheaper rate when suitable. The challenge is optimising costs by using the most appropriate pricing blend between upfront and on-demand payment methods.
Cloud Cost Optimisation has given EE greater control and streamlined decision-making.”
The solution
CloudHealth’s Cost Optimisation portal gave EE actionable, quick savings, through its live reports and dashboards. It also streamlined and improved decision-making, thanks to custom reports and dashboards tailored to other roles within the organisation, like finance, IT and management. While our expert Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team constantly monitored EE’s estate to keep on top of new costs.
The result
Today, the SRE team continue to monitor and optimise more than £5 million of BT’s assets. Not only controlling EE, but other parts of our estate, like BT Retail’s online storefront and main portal. All for the same amount of money they were spending from the start. Giving them more for less.
Continuously monitoring and applying rightsizing and other appropriate purchasing methods for resources, is saving EE £40,000 a month. And last year, CloudHealth’s optimisation tools, plus insights from the SRE team, saved them a staggering £400,000. All because of better optimal housekeeping and greater visibility offered by CloudHealth’s automated optimisation tools including: identifying underutilised resources, removing unused IP’s, reducing the database footprint and removing unneeded load balancers. Showing EE how simple actions can result in huge savings.
But the benefits to EE go beyond cost savings. They’re also seeing improved performance as a result of adopting a more suitable virtual server instance type. Today, automated remediation of policies avoids zombie assets. For example, whenever disks are spotted that haven’t been used for a week, they’ll automatically be deleted.
Daily reports (called ‘Health Checks’) are sent to all stakeholders for quick assessment, including any security issues. They can see ports that are open to the public or passwords that aren’t set up according to company policy. The SRE team has set up scripting against these reports, so users are sent an automated request if they need to update their machine.
They’ve also set up tagging policies to enforce actions across EE’s estate (supported by custom reports on un-tagged resources), creating useful centralised visibility on spend. These are also enabling internal chargeback (or show back), enabling internal cost charges to specific departments or projects – driving better accountability within the DevOps teams.
Conclusion
Cloud Cost Optimisation has given EE greater control and streamlined decision-making. While automation, governance and policies have changed user behaviour – putting costs first. More time can now be spent on value-added products, or in the case of EE, taking on new operational entities. All while keeping costs at the same level as before. It’s a win-win.
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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.
The role of the CIO has evolved from managing systems to shaping outcomes: growth, resilience, and competitive edge are now won or lost in the technology arena. Today ’ s CIOs must balance stability with innovation, control costs while attracting scarce talent, and modernise legacy infrastructure while adopting emerging technologies.
As AI transitions from a specialised tool to an all-pervasive force, understanding its profound implications for our human lives is no longer merely academic but an urgent imperative for social well-being and strategic preparedness.
Geopolitical tensions have dominated the headlines for over two years now. In this context, the cyber threat landscape is also evolving rapidly. The protection and security of critical infrastructure – both physical and digital – is becoming increasingly important.
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