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Germany Sep 9, 2025 Country Members Physical german

Frankfurt: AI Driven Logistics

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

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Belgium Sep 13, 2025 All Members Physical english

CIONET Cycling Event

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!

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Germany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german

München: Cyber Security Fatigue

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.

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Germany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german

Köln: CIO & CISO, das Rezilienz-Power-Duo

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.

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Germany Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Virtual german

Online: Nachhaltige IT - CIDO Priorität

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.

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Belgium Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Physical french

Les Rencontres: La dette technique : Un défi stratégique pour les entreprises

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.

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Getting David Lloyd Leisure’s IT in shape

Driving digital transformation for the premium health clubs.

Overview
David Lloyd Leisure Ltd (DLL) is Europe’s leading health, sport and leisure group.
They serve more than 620,000 members through 122 premium clubs across the UK, Republic of Ireland and mainland Europe. More than 8,000 people work for the group, including experts in fitness, racquet sports and swimming.

David Lloyd Leisure is passionate about creating comfortable and welcoming clubs. They’re committed to building relationships, not only with their members but also their suppliers. As they progressed on their digital transformation journey, they wanted to make the move from multiple IT suppliers to a single trusted managed cloud service provider. We’d been working with the group since 2007. We’d built up a level of trust and had proven our capabilities by managing a dedicated hosting platform for some years. We were in a good place to take on a new role and help the group through its next steps.

The challenge
Simplifying the IT estate
DLL’s digital platform is becoming increasingly important to interact with their members on a 24x7 basis. They were looking for a partner that could provide the availability and performance expected by their members. Another requirement was to be able to leverage cloud services to roll out new functionality quickly. Agility and flexibility were a key priority for their IT department to support application development and marketing activities.

For David Lloyd Leisure, using multiple IT suppliers had become a challenge. It was hard to manage the overall infrastructure, keep track of interdependencies and ensure the overall security and data protection. 

The group was looking for an innovative and agile partner able to build new platforms in hours not weeks. There is a strong demand for easy-to-use digital applications for booking classes or courts. And DLL needs access to public and private cloud solutions with reliable end-to-end security that’s globally consistent.

We consolidated our hosting environments into BT's Private Compute data centres as fully managed services. This is thanks to the strategic partnership and the great service offered by BT's team.

Sanjeeva WimalasenaHead of IT, David Lloyd Leisure


The solution
The benefits of a strong partnership
Our long-standing relationship with DLL meant that we already had a team in place that knew the business and its core applications. We used our expertise to build an agile and reliable public cloud platform tailored to their needs. David Lloyd Leisure can now quickly roll out new functionality to continuously improve the digital experience for their members. And we deliver security solutions to make sure their data stays in the right hands and protects their reputation.

We created a new Azure platform to support DLL’s DevOps projects, like expanding on the Business Intelligence to encompass the PowerBI’s advanced heuristics – a key driver that allows DLL to truly understand their user base.

They can now quickly roll out new functionality to continuously improve their members’ digital experience. Our hybrid portfolio helps DLL to simplify their billing, invoicing and support arrangements all under one contract, with one global provider.

Our team works with DLL as consultants, helping with the day-to-day technical support as well as network security. By directly interacting with DLL’s application suppliers in the development and operational phases, we ensure the optimal performance and availability of those applications.

Having worked with Microsoft for nearly two decades, we were able to combine Microsoft Azure, Office 365, VDI and our Private Compute solution for the headquarters’ IT and health clubs. DLL’s employees have secure access to essential information and applications with a consistent strong performance across all applications no matter where they are.

The result 
Game, set and match
We’re now the trusted cloud service provider for David Lloyd Leisure, and fully responsible for their infrastructure. We host and manage their cloud services. We take care of their corporate back-office systems like the club’s desktops, disaster recovery and remote access and we host member-facing applications, including the corporate website and booking systems. 

This is handled by a team of professionals who are well aligned with the group’s leadership team and its strategy. We work as partners, providing the technical insight and innovation to help shape DLL’s strategic journey. We make sure the hybrid environment – including Private Compute and the new Public Cloud services through Azure – stays fit for purpose. We’re working with DLL to improve their customer experience further by delivering our new Hybrid Cloud Cost Optimisation service as well. This gives DLL insight into their cloud spend through tailored dashboards and monthly reporting, while keeping a check on efficiencies and governance. They can track any overspend, plan efficiently and allocate costs to the right business owners.

The group can now develop a roadmap for their ongoing digital transformation, as they look to continue their investment in the cloud. And we will keep supporting them with the right technology to make sure that they’re ready, whatever the future may hold.

Public and private cloud services come with their own specific benefits. We believe that hybrid cloud services can offer the best of both worlds. David Lloyd Leisure was one of BT’s early hybrid cloud customers to embrace and integrate a private cloud hosting platform with Azure and AWS. It gives us greater flexibility, more capabilities and it reinforces our technology partnership with BT.”

Sanjeeva WimalasenaHead of IT, David Lloyd Leisure

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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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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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CIONET’s mission is to help IT executives become more at ease and above all more successful in their jobs. So they can do more than just keep up with change but ultimately define it. CIONET opens up a whole new universe of opportunities in IT management.

With the largest membership of corporate digital leaders across Europe, Latin America, US and Australia, CIONET has the expertise and pioneering vision to solve or address any IT management challenge.

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