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Gunter Van Craen - CDIO at Bekaert - Embracing Digital Transformation
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Belgium Dec 11, 2025 Country Members Physical english
Imagine being able to monitor, simulate, and optimise an entire city, factory, or supply chain in real time. Next-generation digital twins are making this vision a reality, transforming how we manage and understand complex systems. By creating dynamic virtual replicas of physical assets and processes, digital twins allow organisations to predict issues, optimize performance, and make data-driven decisions with unprecedented accuracy.This event will explore how digital twins are being used across industries to revolutionize the way we operate and maintain large-scale, intricate systems—whether it’s the infrastructure of a smart city, the efficiency of a factory floor, or the resilience of global supply chains.Examples of Digital Twins in Action:Smart Cities: Urban planners can use digital twins to simulate traffic flow, monitor energy usage, or predict the impact of weather events on infrastructure. This enables cities to optimize resources and improve the quality of life for their citizens.Factories of the Future: Manufacturing plants are leveraging digital twins to monitor equipment in real time, prevent downtime, and optimize production lines. With predictive analytics, factories can avoid costly breakdowns and improve overall efficiency.Supply Chain Management: Complex supply chains, spanning continents and industries, can be modeled as digital twins to track shipments, simulate disruptions, and optimize logistics. Businesses can reduce inefficiencies and respond faster to market demands.Key Themes:Real-Time Monitoring and Simulation: How digital twins provide real-time insights into complex systems, allowing for dynamic response and optimization.Predictive Power: Leveraging AI and data analytics, digital twins help organisations predict and mitigate issues before they happen, from equipment failures to supply chain bottlenecks.Scalability Across Ecosystems: Digital twins aren’t limited to individual assets—learn how they can be scaled across entire ecosystems like smart cities or global supply chains for maximum impact.Building Trust and Security: With digital twins handling critical infrastructure and sensitive data, what are the security and governance frameworks needed to ensure trust in these virtual systems?Why You Should Attend:Next-generation digital twins are no longer just a concept—they are revolutionizing industries by offering a new way to manage complexity. Whether you’re looking to optimize a city, factory, or supply chain, this event will provide practical insights into how digital twins can transform your organisation’s operations and drive future innovation.
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Germany Dec 15, 2025 Public Virtual german
Angesichts wachsender Cyberbedrohungen und der zunehmenden Automatisierung von Geschäftsprozessen blicken CIOs auf eine ereignisreiche Zeit zurück. Umso spannender ist die Frage, welche Herausforderungen und Chancen die IT-Welt künftig erwarten. ngesichts wachsender Cyberbedrohungen und der zunehmenden Automatisierung von Geschäftsprozessen blicken CIOs auf ein ereignisreiches Jahr 2024 zurück. Umso spannender ist die Frage, welche neuen Herausforderungen und Chancen die IT-Welt im Jahr 2025 erwarten.AA
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Belgium Dec 16, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
This CIONET Round Table will focus on how the IT department can be the enabler that unlocks organisational efficiencies and helps to improve the employee experience. We will explore how CIOs and Digital Leaders can fundamentally transform the internal service experience by breaking down organizational silos, orchestrating complex cross-functional workflows, and leveraging a unified platform to deliver a truly frictionless experience for every employee.
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UK Dec 16, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
At this CIONET executive roundtable – brought to you in association with UiPath – we’ll explore this question and more. Bringing together senior IT professionals from across multiple vertical markets, we will focus on the benefits of agentic AI as applied to end-to-end processes. And we’ll seek to understand how organisations might overcome automation barriers to drive greater value creation.
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Belgium Dec 18, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
We look forward to brainstorming with you on how we can strengthen meaningful engagement among our participants, create valuable opportunities for visibility, foster peer-to-peer networking, and deliver impactful content. Your expertise and guidance will help shape our strategy for the coming year and ensure that we continue to provide the best possible value to our entire community. Together, we can build a stronger, more connected community that benefits us all.
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Germany Jan 19, 2026 Country Members Virtual german
Bei diesem „Spotlight“-Online-Event wird diskutiert, wie moderne Identity Security im Zeitalter autonomer KI-Agenten gestaltet werden kann. Teilnehmende erfahren, wie KI-Agenten als eigene Identitäten verwaltet werden, wie korrekte Zugriffsrechte für Mensch und Maschine sichergestellt werden und wie Zero-Standing-Risk-Ansätze vor modernen Bedrohungen schützen. Praxisnahe Einblicke unterstützen Unternehmen dabei, ihre Identity-Programme zukunftssicher auszurichten.
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Pivvot secures cloud-native applications with Trend Micro Cloud One
Pivvot, a leading provider of asset management solutions for infrastructure organizations, relies on Trend Micro Cloud One to ensure the security of its cloud-native applications. Company is able to deliver innovative solutions that meet the stringent requirements of its clients in the energy and utility sectors.
OVERVIEW
Pivvot is a software company that delivers intelligent asset management systems to infrastructure organizations, such as utility and energy companies. Pivvot develops and deploys unique, customized solutions to a diverse customer base. Its clients need to protect highly-sensitive data, such as the location of oil and gas pipelines.
To be agile and maintain constant release cycles, Pivvot relies on a cloud-based microservices architecture. It has moved to Docker and ECS in AWS for scalability and high-performance container orchestration
By embedding security into the development process, rather than implementing it as a standalone activity, Trend Micro Cloud One enables Pivvot to develop new cloud native applications that meet compliance requirements.
Given the accelerated proliferation of security issues and cyber threats, Pivvot was in search of a solution that could help ensure security for its customers’ data assets, while at the same time empowering the company to engage in ongoing and rapid innovation to deliver the solutions its customers need. Security is paramount— particularly within Pivvot’s fast-paced and customer-centric DevOps environment. To meet ever-changing customer requirements, Pivvot must be able to go from build to deploy very quickly, with the confidence that its solutions will be secure when released to production.
Because software in Pivvot’s DevOps environment is delivered continuously, security cannot be left to a standalone effort—it must be built in from the start—and automation is key. Pivvot needed a flexible, scalable, integrated security solution that could ensure that data assets remained secure throughout the product development life cycle while enabling fast and simple development processes.
Trend Micro has a long-standing history of developing security solutions for infrastructure engineering software providers like Pivvot, and an ongoing relationship with Pivvot’s Senior Director of Technology, Jason Cradit. “Our work with Trend Micro is about protecting what’s right here right now, while we build,” says Cradit. “There’s never been something we’ve taken to Trend Micro that they couldn’t do.”
Not only that, Trend Micro aligns its billing mechanisms with implementation practices through AWS Marketplace to offer the elasticity and scalability needed to respond to changing conditions. Cradit considers this to be a considerable competitive advantage.
Pivvot chose Trend Cloud One - Workload Security to help meet its objectives of ensuring security throughout the development life cycle while enabling quick solution deployment. “By embedding security into the development process, rather than implementing it as a standalone activity, Trend Cloud One - Workload Security enables Pivvot to develop new cloud-native applications that meet compliance requirements and customer demands right from the start―at first build―and throughout the life of the product,” says Cradit.
Workload Security allows Pivvot to operationalize new products quickly and easily with built-in security by taking advantage of its automation capabilities. It also provides the elasticity needed to align secure product build efforts with changing business conditions.
For continuous and secure application development, container image, and registry scanning provided by Deep Security Smart Check—which Cradit regards as a powerful solution for the company—supports Pivvot’s migration of its APIs to a container architecture. “The Smart Check dashboard provides Pivvot with the visibility to detect malware, secrets and keys, compliance violations, custom rules, and known or unexpected vulnerabilities earlier in the build pipeline,” reinforces Cradit.
Trend Micro’s ability to not just keep current but to define what’s current is what’s really interesting to me. I wouldn’t look to anyone else to secure the cloud-based microservices DevOps environment.
RESULTS
By applying Smart Check controls, Pivvot is able to build new applications more securely without putting up roadblocks for developers and with minimum intervention by security teams. In its cloud-based AWS environment with Docker containers, Pivvot found that Workload Security supports the DevOps demands to continuously build secure, ship fast, and run anywhere. Knowing they have reduced risk, Pivvot can focus on business goals and customer success.
Smart Check offers solution providers the capabilities they need to protect against malware, content and compliance violations, and vulnerabilities early in the development pipeline. “By building security into the pipeline, Pivvot’s developers are able to give their full attention to the end user. The built-in, automated security of Workload Security reduces the opportunity for humans to inadvertently introduce errors along the way and helps eliminate the need for costly downtime and rework of applications,” says Cradit. “And Pivvot gains scalability—when the automation for a single unit is good, it will scale. This makes Pivvot much more agile and ready to quickly adapt to changing needs.”
WHAT'S NEXT
Pivvot is exploring moving its container platforms to Amazon® Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS). Pivvot intends to continue to address security concerns head-on in its microservices journey by leveraging Trend Micro security solutions to embed security into every aspect of product development—from build to ship to run. Cradit is also impressed with what he has seen with Cloud One – Conformity. “We liked the simplicity of it, breadth of details and how actionable the findings were. The pricing structure was simple and as we love it being available on the AWS Marketplace.”
“Trend Micro’s ability to not just keep current but to define what’s current is what’s really interesting to me,” says Cradit. “I wouldn’t look to anyone else to secure the cloudbased microservices DevOps environment.”
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