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Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
Belgium Oct 21, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
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
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
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 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
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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Germany Oct 23, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Längst ist klar: Die KI-Transformation im Unternehmen beginnt mit der richtigen Dateninfrastruktur. Auf dem Weg zu einer “Enterprise AI-Engine”, in der Unternehmen KI für die eigenen Daten effizient nutzbar machen, müssen bewährte Fundamentals jedoch nicht gleich über Bord geworfen werden. Der CIO im Zentrum eines strategischen Transformationsprozesses sollte vor allem die richtige Balance zwischen Bestand und Innovation finden. Die zentrale Frage lautet daher: Wie lassen sich modernste KI-Technologien in hybriden Umgebungen nutzen, wenn viele Daten noch in gewachsener Infrastruktur liegen? Genau diese Fragestellung – und die nachfolgenden Diskussionspunkte – greifen wir am 23. Oktober im Rahmen eines exklusiven CIDO Roundtables auf.
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Trend Micro builds connected threat protection for Together Housing Association
Trend Micro builds connected threat protection for Together Housing Association
OVERVIEW
Together Housing Association is one of the largest organisations of its kind in the north of England, managing over 37,000 homes across the region. As a non-profit, all the money it makes is invested back into the company for the benefit of residents and local communities.
The ICT team for the group continually scan the market for new products which might align with Together Housing’s evolving requirements, as well as managing day-to-day hybrid server and network environments. There are two main sites with many more satellite offices and 1,600 users to manage across that ICT infrastructure.
"We’ve been working with Trend Micro a few years now and work so well with the team there. If we need to configure a product in an unusual way or have any other queries, we have access to the technical guys immediately. We jump online and we get the job done. You just don’t seem to get that from other vendors."
ICT Team, Together Housing Association
Organisations like Together Housing may not sound like the typical target for a cybercriminal. However, these types of organisations are often seen as a “soft” target that may be less well protected than commercial counterparts.
According to a 2020 government survey, a quarter of charities (26%) reported having experienced cybersecurity breaches or attacks in the previous 12 months, rising to 57% for those with larger incomes. It’s a figure that’s been on the rise for several years.
Together Housing was already a Trend Micro customer, but recently began a journey towards a more unified, cloud-centric, connected threat defence approach. They wanted solutions across network, endpoint, and cloud app layers that closely interact for maximum protection and minimum management overhead.
The ICT team have always viewed themselves as enablers for the organisation, and have been open to trialling new Trend Micro products.
“We are led by Trend Micro in terms of the roadmap for products,” the team said.
“If it is benefitting us as an organisation and making our life easier while improving security, we will look to roll out additional solutions.”
WHY TREND MICRO
Although Together Housing was already set up with a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and had a flexible working philosophy pre-pandemic, the transition to mass remote working forced by COVID-19 accelerated its digital transformation even further. Trend Micro has been there every step of the way to support these efforts.
Together Housing upgraded to Trend Micro Vision One™ for unified endpoint protection, Deep Discovery™ Inspector for network-based threat detection and Cloud App Security (CAS).
SOLUTION
Trend Micro Vision One offers:
Deep Discovery Inspector offers:
Cloud App Security offers:
With Trend Micro Vision One in place the team have been able to enforce security policy across all virtual and regular endpoints and servers across the non-profit’s 1,600-strong userbase, wherever they are—particularly useful given the distributed nature of the workforce.
The integration of Trend Micro Vision One XDR across endpoints, servers, cloud apps, and the network has been particularly powerful in providing correlated threat detection and response across the entire environment.
From the ICT team’s perspective, the unified visibility and control Trend Micro provides from a single user interface has been especially welcome—boosting ICT staff productivity.
“In the past, being forced to log-in to different services to check alerts and notifications could be quite cumbersome,” explained the team. “With Trend Micro it’s all there in one window, which is a lot more intuitive. It just makes life much easier.” The success of the relationship is not just down to product but also people, they conclude.
“We’ve been working with Trend Micro a few years now and work so well with the team there. If we need to configure a product in an unusual way or have any other queries, we have access to the technical guys immediately. We jump online and we get the job done. You just don’t seem to get that from other vendors.”
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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.
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