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Germany Oct 20, 2025 Country Members Virtual german

Online: AI & DATA Knowledge Transfer - Briefing 20

Die Realisierung des Potenzials von KI und datengesteuerten Strategien stellt nicht länger nur einen Wettbewerbsvorteil dar, sondern ist Heute auch entscheidend für den langfristigen Erfolg eines jeden Unternehmens. Unsere Wissensaustausch-Briefings "AI & Data Knowledge Transfer" zielen darauf ab, CIDOs und Senior Digital Leaders praktische Anwendungen aufzuzeigen und umsetzbaren Erkenntnissen von Fachexperten zu vermitteln, die den Weg für die transformative digitale Reise ebnen und beschleunigen.

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Belgium Oct 21, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

CIONET Round Table - From Disconnected Data to Unified Insight ; Building a 360° customer view to unlock commercial growth

In today's competitive landscape, customer expectations have never been higher. They demand a personalised, seamless experience at every touchpoint, from initial marketing contact to post-sale service. Unified data is at the heart of creating engaging customer experiences and is meant to fuel the 360 profile.  However, for many organizations, a complete picture of the customer is fragmented, with critical data scattered in disconnected systems and departments.  This exclusive roundtable will bring together Digital Leaders active in multiple industries to discuss a critical challenge: breaking down data silos to build a true 360° view of the customer. We will explore how to solve the complex integration challenges that prevent a unified view, and how to transform disparate data into a single source of truth. Join us to: Discover how to overcome the technical hurdles of integrating critical business systems, such as ERP and CRM platforms, to unify customer data. Explore real-world case studies on how organisations have successfully created unified customer insights to enhance personalisation and boost commercial and operational efficiency. Discuss best practices for turning fragmented data into actionable insights that can anticipate customer needs, drive revenue growth, and foster long-term loyalty. This is a unique opportunity for Digital Leaders who are ready to transform their customer engagement strategy and unlock the full potential of their data.

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Spain Oct 22, 2025 Country Members Physical spanish

Barcelona TECH Quest 2025

Descubre cómo las organizaciones están utilizando la tecnología para impactar en el negocio  a través de casos reales de uso y aprendizajes clave en áreas como ciberseguridad, automatización o data, contados por los protagonistas. Un espacio diseñado para inspirarte, conectar con expertos y potenciar la innovación en tu organización.

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Belgium Oct 22, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

The End of the Firewall

Enterprises are questioning whether private networks and stacked firewalls are still worthwhile investments. A newer approach operates on the open internet with Zero Trust, eliminates perimeter complexity, and reframes cybersecurity as a business performance metric for boards and audit committees. This is a closed-door, peer discussion, not a lecture. We’ll examine the promise and its pitfalls: Are the promised savings significant, or are they too good to be true? What risks do you introduce? How does this collide with your installed base, legacy OT, entrenched processes and team competencies, and how do you overcome that without breaking operations or credibility with the board? Two senior leaders from global companies will spark the dialogue with lived experience: Kurt De Ruwe, CIO AkzoNobel Frank Bolata, CIO Syensqo    

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Poland Oct 23, 2025 Invitation Only Physical Polish

CLOUD UP'25

Cloud UP! ’25 to miejsce spotkań managerów, którzy chcą świadomie i skutecznie rozwijać swoje organizacje, wykorzystując najnowsze technologie. Nieformalnym hasłem tegorocznej edycji jest “Chmura gotowa na AI” - będziemy rozmawiać o tym, co sztuczna inteligencja naprawdę potrafi oraz pokazywać, jak wdrażać ją w praktyce. Wspólnie z ekspertami przeanalizujemy, jakie warunki muszą zostać spełnione, aby wdrożenia AI były zarówno skuteczne, jak i bezpieczne. Zerkniemy za kulisy najnowszych rodzimych produktów AI-owych, by zobaczyć ich możliwości, a także poznamy najciekawsze wdrożenia z wykorzystaniem Agentspace.  Po raz kolejny spotkamy się w formule Share.Explore.Execute. Stawiamy na wymianę wiedzy i doświadczeń zdobytych podczas realizacji projektów. To one stanowią punkt wyjścia do odkrywania, testowania i skutecznej implementacji najlepszych rozwiązań w organizacjach. Cloud UP! ’25 to cztery ścieżki tematyczne, na które złożą się prezentacje, rozmowy, sesje live-demo oraz pogłębione dyskusje w formule roundtables: AI: Beyond the Hype Data Mastery Resilience & Regulatory Advanced Practitioners Dołącz do liderów chmurowych innowacji w Polsce i spotkaj się z nami już 23 października w Event Hall w Fabryce Norblina. 

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Belgium Oct 23, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

AI: The Great Illusionist

How to lead responsibly when technology can deceive better than a human?  AI’s ability to shape our perceptions and create new realities is becoming increasingly sophisticated. While it opens significant opportunities, it also carries risks. What happens when AI goes beyond data and algorithms to influence - or even deceive - our senses? How does this change not only our understanding of reality but also the foundations of trust, creativity, and truth in business? AI isn’t just transforming business, it is altering how we experience and interpret everything around us. From AI-generated deepfakes to personalised experiences designed to influence behaviour, the line between truth and illusion is increasingly blurred. This event combines a roundtable discussion among peers with a hands-on sensory workshop, where you will experience illusions through sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch. Through these experiments, we will confront the ethical dilemmas that arise when AI has the power to fabricate realities and influence decisions.

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Nuffield Health undergoes digital expansion and protects against threats with Trend Micro

Undergoes digital expansion and protects against threats with Trend Micro

OVERVIEW

Healthcare organizations are an increasingly lucrative target for financially motivated cybercriminals. Throughout the pandemic, hospitals around the world have been hit with surging ransomware levels as highly organized groups use advanced persistent threat (APT)-style tactics to take lifesaving services offline. Elsewhere, patient and employee data remain highly sought-after. Cybersecurity professionals working in the industry warn that breaches could triple over the course of 2021.

Ed Moss, head of enabling IT at Nuffield Health, knows these risks all too well. His role demands oversight of a large, distributed estate that covers over 300 sites, including: 31 hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, seven clinics, and multiple corporate locations. That means securing not only servers, storage, and networks, but also end-user computing and unified communications for over 18,000 employees, consultants, and instructors.

 

"Trend Micro Vision One has definitely allowed us to run a leaner operations team. We don’t have a dedicated SOC or security resource, so we can focus our time in a better way."

Ed Moss - Head of Enabling IT, Nuffield Health

 
 

WHY TREND

Nuffield Health’s relationship with Trend Micro dates back to 2007, when the firm bought Cannons Health & Fitness, a Trend Micro customer. A decision was made early on to centralize endpoint security onto a single, unified tool. Trend Micro™ OfficeScan™ was chosen as IT managers deemed it a more streamlined product which nevertheless offered powerful protection. The organization has since upgraded to Trend Micro Apex One™ for all endpoints.

Having seen the benefits that Trend Micro solutions could bring to the organization, Nuffield Health subsequently invested in Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ Software for server protection and Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ Inspector for network-layer threat prevention. Moss noted the requirement for server security was for a product which could help to shield legacy systems from known and unknown threats, without impacting performance.

 

"I’ve worked with Trend Micro for 14 years in various roles and the thing I’ve noticed most is the progression and development of its account management and customer service."

Ed Moss - Head of Enabling IT, Nuffield Health

 
 

SOLUTION

Over the years, Nuffield Health has committed to Trend Micro across multiple layers of IT infrastructure. These include:
Trend Micro Apex One for endpoint security. It offers:

  • Comprehensive protection from device control, web reputation, and URL filtering to predictive and runtime machine learning, behavioural analysis, and data loss protection (DLP)
  • Centralized visibility and control for consistent security management, visibility, and reporting
  • Support for a broad range of devices, applications, and file types
  • Automated threat detection and response


Deep Security Software for runtime protection of workloads, delivering:

  • Connected security from a single agent across physical, virtual, cloud, and container environments
  • Protection against vulnerabilities with virtual patching
  • Seamless integration with DevOps via automated deployment and policy management, and tie-ins with orchestration tools such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible


Deep Discovery Inspector (DDI) for protection against advanced targeted threats via:

  • Monitoring of all network ports and over 105 protocols
  • Custom sandboxing, which is difficult for attackers to evade
  • Trend Micro™ Managed XDR option where Trend Micro experts monitor, investigate, and respond to serious threats at the network layer


Trend Micro Vision One for managed detection and response which enables:

  • Smart correlation of threats across multiple layers of defence, including servers, networks, endpoints, email, and cloud workloads
  • Increased risk visibility and faster response times
  • Simple integration into Trend Micro and third-party tools like security information and event management (SIEM) systems or security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) solutions


Trend Micro™ Cloud App Security for advanced threat and data protection of Mircosoft 365, Google Workspace™, and other cloud services. It offers:

  • Protection from millions of threats annually that native Microsoft and Google filters fail to detect
  • Detection of incoming and internal phishing attempts
  • Close integration with Trend Micro Vision One for extended detection and response (XDR)
 
 

RESULTS

Deep Security Software has provided enhanced protection for Nuffield Health without sacrificing performance, says Moss. “Having a large number of hospitals to manage means plenty of legacy systems and applications which are difficult to remove,” Moss notes. “This is where Deep Security [Software] virtual patching has been a huge win for us.”

Virtual patching is a multi-layered intrusion prevention solution which shields vulnerable software and operating systems (OS) from known and unknown threats. As such, it can buy customers time until a vendor patch is released or protect legacy systems for which patches are no longer available.

Adding Trend Micro Vision One with Trend Micro™ Managed XDR™ capabilities to the mix has also helped Nuffield work more productively, by “cutting out a lot of noise” and ensuring they only deal with the most critical alerts.

“We know Trend Micro has it covered and if anything critical comes in we get alerted. Trend Micro Vision One has definitely allowed us to run a leaner operations team. We don’t have a dedicated SOC or security resource, so we can focus our time in a better way,” says Moss.

Most recently, Nuffield Health switched on Cloud App Security integration with XDR, for enhanced visibility and control all the way from critical services running on hospital desktops to traffic flowing across cloud applications.

“Everything we’re seeing from [a Trend Micro] Apex One and Cloud App Security point of view is joined up and automated now, which allows us to remove false positives and focus on what needs to be done,” says Moss.

 
 

WHAT'S NEXT

Over the past 18 months, Nuffield Health has sought to digitally transform many of its IT services to improve cost efficiencies, productivity, and the customer experience. The pandemic has forced it, like many organisations, to accelerate these efforts with things like digital general practitioner (GP) services and online exercise classes. Trend Micro has been able to support these efforts with seamless integration into cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure™ and a SaaS delivery model. During this time, the relationship has continued to mature.

“I’ve worked with Trend Micro for 14 years in various roles and the thing I’ve noticed most is the progression and development of its account management and customer service,” concludes Moss.

“We’re now really involved in direct discussions on the product sets and have a technical resource aligned to the account manager who gives us detailed advice, as well as Premium Support. We feel confident that our next digital steps will be taken on a really secure foundation.”

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