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Germany Sep 29, 2025 Country Members Virtual german

Online: AI & DATA Knowledge Transfer - Briefing 19

Unsere Wissensaustausch-Briefings "AI & Data Knowledge Transfer" zielen darauf ab, CIDOs und Senior Digital Leaders mit praktischen Anwendungen und umsetzbaren Erkenntnissen von Fachexperten zu vermitteln, die den Weg für transformative digitale Reisen ebnen.

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Germany Sep 30, 2025 Country Members Physical german

München: Unstrukturierte Daten – Das verborgene Kapital in deinem Unternehmen

Von der Theorie in die Praxis: Erst Business, dann Bier.Unstrukturierte Daten sind das verborgene Kapital vieler Unternehmen – und zugleich eine der größten Herausforderungen moderner IT. Gemeinsam mit CIOs, CDOs und CTOs der CIONET-Community sprechen wir zuerst bei WeWork München über Strategien, Technologien und echte Use Cases, um dieses Potenzial zu heben. Danach geht's weiter auf die Wiesn – für den offenen Austausch in bayerischer Atmosphäre.  

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UK Sep 30, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

How CIOs drive game-changing results at scale?

This exclusive Jefferson dinner, hosted by Mendix and CIONET, brings together a hand-picked group of senior executives and digital leaders from across the UK financial sector.

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Netherlands Sep 30, 2025 Invitation Only Physical dutch

Vision Dinner From the Network to the Data

Alleen op uitnodiging. Mastering Digital Sovereignty Control, trust and resilience in an era of geopolitical and regulatory shifts. From the Network to the Data.

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Belgium Oct 1, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

Telenet Business Leadership Circle - Legacy & Lifecycle Management

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, organisations face a critical challenge: how to modernise their legacy systems while managing costs, maintaining security, and ensuring operational continuity. This exclusive round table discussion brings together CIOs, CTOs, and Digital Leaders to explore best practices for legacy and lifecycle management. Key topics include extending the lifespan of existing systems, mitigating cyber security risks, optimising costs, and integrating legacy platforms with modern technologies. We’ll also delve into sustainability, workforce challenges, and future-proofing IT infrastructures to navigate technological obsolescence.

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Germany Oct 7, 2025 Country Members Virtual german

Online: KI-CHECK: Wo steht dein Unternehmen?

Alle nutzen KI, aber keiner weiß wie effektiv! Im Jahr 2025 sind wir als IT-EntscheiderInnen gefordert die Wünsche der Fachbereiche an Künstliche Intelligenz zu managen. Welche KI dient als Copilot für unsere Mitarbeitenden, inwieweit hat diese Zugang zu Firmenwissen und könnten wir heute bereits sinnvoll einen KI Agenten in die IT Systemlandschaft einbinden? Unser Business Partner Scheer PAS spricht als Anbieter einer Process iPaaS Plattform mit hunderten Unternehmen jedes Jahr über IT-Integration. In dieser Online-Session besprechen wir erste Reifegradmodelle zu KI, wo der deutsche Mittelstand sich befindet und wie wir die nächste Innovationsstufe erreichen. Wir teilen praktische Erfahrungen aus dem Marktumfeld und planen unsere nächsten Schritte in der Adaption von KI.

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Mitra Adiperkasa infrastructure Gets Real-Time, Integrated Protection

Infrastructure Gets Real-Time, Integrated Protection

OVERVIEW

Mitra Adiperkasa (MAP) is a leading lifestyle retailer in Indonesia with a diversified portfolio that includes sports, fashion, department stores, kids, food & beverage, and lifestyle products. It has recently introduced an IT team to build IT infrastructure that is able to provide faster, reliable support required to manage corporate business presence with a network of over 2,000 retail stores and over 22,000 employees in 69 cities across the nation.

 

We were confident with Trend Micro’s reputation and expertise of providing us with integrated, real-time, enterprise-scale security solutions.

Suwandi Budiratma

Senior General Manager, Head of IT Infrastructure at Mitra Adiperkasa.

  

CHALLENGES

Serving as central source of business data and information support, IT is at the heart of the company’s business priority, and with continually growing business that demands the rapid establishment of new stores throughout the nation, the use of business-critical applications also increased, needing even faster provision of new IT resources.

The IT department realized that the increased reliance on physical servers and increasing number of applications would result in a higher cost. The use of a physical infrastructure could not meet the need for speedy delivery, causing vulnerable downtime and longer time to recover. Without applied SLAs, managing the expectation of IT services to end-users was hard.

In 2012 MAP’s IT decided to modernize their IT infrastructure and operations, and later in 2013, they migrated to the public cloud, deploying around 100 VMs to support their workloads, along with around 150 VMs in the corporate data centers. In 2015, the migration to virtualized servers was completed.

Apart from the rigid infrastructure prior the IT modernization, MAP’s previous security was standalone, posing a serious challenge when performing antivirus updates and new rules configuration. With thousands of endpoints deployed both in the head office and stores, IT was vulnerable to any attacks, like zero-days, and unknown threats.

“The ever-growing threats, like today’s ransomware, was worrying us. With around 8,000 workstations installed across the stores, they were vulnerable to virus attacks that propagated offline and online at our connected IT infrastructure. In addition to continuously raising security awareness with our end-users, we also needed to take serious proactive security measures by implementing a flexible, customizable, easy-tomanage security solution, that provided comprehensive protection, from email, VDIs, to endpoints, and provided wide insight into our data centers,” said Suwandi Budiratma, Senior General Manager, Head of IT Infrastructure at Mitra Adiperkasa.

 
 

WHY TREND

MAP’s IT department was required to assess, identify, and modify their overall security posture to ensure that the implementation of the security solutions at the endpoints were appropriate and relevant with those at the central IT, and consistent with dynamic business applications and requirements.  They searched for an enterprise-class security solution that would integrate seamlessly with its existing infrastructure, was easy to configure, and scaled to meet current and future protection needs.

Budiratma said, “We were confident with Trend Micro’s reputation and expertise of providing us with integrated, real-time, enterprise-scale security solutions.”

 
 

SOLUTION

“From new extortion schemes and connected system and device threats, to sophisticated cybercrime legislation, the stakes were high with the growing threat landscape at that time. We needed a security solution that could not only prevent, detect, analyze, and respond to any form of sophisticated attacks, but also have the ability to communicate and integrate effectively, and was manageable from a single pane of glass. We considered Trend Micro because we believe that integration is at the heart of Trend Micro’s multi-layer security offerings,” said Budiratma.

In 2012, to provide proactive security measures and to protect today’s fast-growing business critical data and information traffic within the company, MAP’s IT began the proof of concept and continued with the implementation of Trend Micro’s comprehensive solutions, consisting of the Enterprise Security Suite, together with Deep Discovery™ Inspector, Endpoint Security Solutions, and TippingPoint™ Advanced Threat Protection, into their virtualized infrastructure.

 
 

RESULTS

Today, MAP’s IT achieves a new level of in-line, real-time protection with a proactive network security in place. It protects infrastructure and traffic of critical data, applications, data centers, and cloud, added with automated system remediation; all without compromising performance.

“Any breaches can now be detected and prevented before gaining foothold on our system. We now have needed visibility to monitor our resources, from endpoints at our remote stores, emails, network ports, to data centers and protocols at our head office, from our desk,” said Budiratma. “The effectiveness of our new security posture was proven when WannaCry ransomware emerged and struck across the globe, taking out servers at companies and shutting down many businesses. We did not have any incidents related to that, thanks to Trend Micro’s security solutions.”

 
 

WHAT'S NEXT

With the mission to become a world-class brand and omni-channel retail network, and the growing momentum of their online shopping mall business, MAP’s IT is looking to add additional protection that will keep them ahead of increasingly sophisticated attackers.

 

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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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