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Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
Italy Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical italian
Nel percorso verso l’AI e la trasformazione digitale, dati e automazione sono gli elementi centrali di ogni strategia tecnologica. Ma senza una governance chiara, rischiano di diventare non solo fonte di inefficienza, ma anche di rischi e incoerenza. Come garantire che i dati siano completi, accessibili e affidabili? Come automatizzare le operation IT e i processi aziendali mantenendo controllo, compliance e sicurezza? Durante questa roundtable esclusiva, organizzata da CIONET Italia e IBM, affronteremo: La governance come abilitatore di dati affidabili e automazione sicura. Come prepararsi a un’adozione dell’AI realmente scalabile. Il ruolo di controllo, resilienza e gestione del rischio nell’innovazione.
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Belgium Oct 16, 2025 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.
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Germany Oct 28, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Am 28. Oktober lädt CIONET CIOs und Digital Leaders nach Köln ein: hier stellen wir reale Anwendungsfälle vor, in denen KI-Agenten Aufgaben autonom übernehmen, Prozesse beschleunigen und Entscheidungen vorbereiten – mit messbarem Nutzen für das Business.
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France Nov 4, 2025 Country Members Physical french
À l’ère des mutations géopolitiques et réglementaires, l’établissement d’une souveraineté numérique est devenu un élément stratégique essentiel pour les entreprises. Ce dialogue stratégique mettra en lumière le rôle fondamental du réseau dans la mise en place du contrôle, de la confiance et de la résilience. Nous explorerons comment une infrastructure moderne et résiliente permet d’appliquer des politiques de gestion des données et d’assurer la continuité opérationnelle. Ce dialogue stratégique, réservé à un groupe restreint de pairs, est conçu pour permettre aux leaders du numérique d’échanger sur l’un des enjeux les plus urgents aujourd’hui. Nous discuterons des réseaux « sovereign-ready » et débattrons des préoccupations croissantes autour de la souveraineté des données, qui motivent l’adoption de politiques de confidentialité et de protection des données de plus en plus strictes à l’échelle mondiale.
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Netherlands Nov 10, 2025 Public Physical english
CIONET Nederland vertrekt met een groep Nederlandse CIO's en digital leaders 10 t/m 12 november 2025 voor de geheel verzorgde CIO Innovation Trip naar de Web Summit in Lissabon, Portugal. Reis jij mee of neem je collega(s) mee!
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Leverages Trend Micro Cloud One to boost cloud security and compliance
Silicon Overdrive chose Trend Micro as their security and compliance partner to help deliver on their security-first approach when helping customers leverage the power of cloud providers.
Silicon Overdrive, established in 1995, helps customers to understand and uphold their portion of the shared responsibility model to ensure data and workloads are not at risk of being compromised. Based in South Africa, Silicon Overdrive provides IT managed services, support, and solutions. Their teams have significant experience and expertise in AWS, Microsoft® Azure™, Microsoft 365®, Microsoft® Intune®, Microsoft® Teams® collaboration, ICT security, compliance and auditing, SEO services, and software development. Further, Silicon Overdrive assists customers in migrating, securing, optimizing, and managing their IT infrastructures, as well as achieve and maintain security compliance.
Ensuring that their customers secure their workloads and adhere to their specific industry compliance requirements, such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, POPIA, GDPR, and HIPAA, Silicon Overdrive designed a series of assessments and refined them over the years. “The assessments were performed manually and were thus time-consuming,” says Warwick Levey, Sales and Marketing Manager at Silicon Overdrive.
As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Silicon Overdrive also leverages the AWS Well-Architected Review (WAR) framework. This framework is designed to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient workloads. Silicon Overdrive needed a cost-effective solution that would allow them to speed up and automate Well-Architected Review assessments.
“With Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity, we can decrease the time it takes to identify security risks and work towards remediating those risks before the customer has any business impact,” says Levey.
"The fact that Trend Micro products seamlessly integrate into the AWS environment without hindering system performance was another selling point."
Warwick Levey
Sales and Marketing Manager, Silicon Overdrive
Silicon Overdrive chose Trend Micro as their preferred security and compliance solution. “We selected Trend Micro based on the comprehensive security and compliance checks, automated self-healing, remediation recommendations, and reporting across a customer’s various environments. We were not able to find another solution as comprehensive,” says Levey
“The fact that Trend Micro products seamlessly integrate into the AWS environment without hindering system performance was another selling point. Our customers don’t want to add something into their environment that’s going to impact performance. With Trend Micro, our customers get automated scans and critical alerts while maintaining the same performance,” says Levey.
Trend Micro also helps Silicon Overdrive customers ensure compliance with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR, and other compliance standards.
Silicon Overdrive began using Trend Micro Cloud One – Workload Security to secure customer IT environments without compromising performance. “Trend Micro Cloud One – Workload Security is our solution of choice to ensure our customer’s cloud environments are secure and meet compliance requirements,” says Ross Davie, Business Development Director at Silicon Overdrive.
Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity was added to help them assess customer environments faster. “As our journey into cloud evolved, Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity was a natural progression for us, specifically for compliance customers, because it automates the security and compliance checks we were doing manually,” says Levey.
Conformity also automates many of the WAR technical assessments, freeing up Silicon Overdrive team members to focus on remediation efforts. “Our goal is to remediate any risks immediately. Conformity allows us to do just that,” says Levey.
"As our journey into cloud evolved, Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity was a natural progression for us, specifically for compliance customers, because it automates the security and compliance checks we were doing manually."
Warwick Levey
Sales and Marketing Manager, Silicon Overdrive
Silicon Overdrive’s partnership with Trend Micro helps secure customer environments so they can get the most from their cloud investments. For example, Silicon Overdrive currently works with an e-commerce company that must maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability of its customers’ records while meeting security, GDPR, and POPI compliance requirements. Working with Silicon Overdrive, the company uses Conformity to ensure that all those requirements are met. Conformity scans the company’s environment every hour and sends relevant alerts to the team. “If a notification comes in, an engineer can log into the customer environment and remediate the issue,” says Levey.
These alerts are ranked as the top Conformity feature by Levey’s team. “My favorite element is the real-time monitoring and alerting,” says Charlton Daniels, Silicon Overdrive’s Senior AWS Technical Lead. “The automated security alerts offer our customers protection in real-time,” adds Christopher Voges, a Silicon Overdrive AWS Engineer.
Conformity reporting options include AWS Well-Architected Review, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, and NIST which result in significant time and cost savings for the customer. “Trend Micro Cloud One - Conformity is a welcome addition to our Well-Architected Review process. This is due to the extensive security checks and compliance reporting we get access to, coupled with the automated self-healing functionality,” says Levey.
Silicon Overdrive has a clearly defined goal of helping customers solve business challenges using the best suited technology in the market. This focus has led to various engagements across Africa and beyond. “We are excited about the possibilities the partnership with Trend Micro has brought forward. We believe this partnership will continue to strengthen and grow”, says Levey
“As companies embrace the new business challenges and work from home, Conformity can help companies secure and adhere to compliance standards effortlessly and at a much lower price point,” concludes Davie.
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CIOFEST 2025 - From Order Taker to Proactive Disruptor
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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