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Belgium Oct 21, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
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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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LIC Mutual Fund achieves Connected Threat Defense with Trend Micro
Achieves Connected Threat Defense with Trend Micro
OVERVIEW
LIC Mutual Fund is a leading Indian asset management company that offers a variety of diverse financial products to its customers. LIC Mutual Fund is based in Mumbai, and was established in 1989 by LIC of India, which covers more than 250 million people and is the largest life insurer in the world. The company specializes in equity, exchange traded funds, debt, hybrid, liquid, and portfolio management services.
CHALLENGES
As one of India’s prominent asset management and financial product advisors, LIC Mutual Fund handles large amounts of classified financial data. Any breach of IT security can be a disaster for the company and its customers. This made it extremely important to devise a protection strategy that addressed the security challenges and compliance requirements of a modern data center.
With financial sector cybercrimes increasing, LIC Mutual Fund wanted to take preventive measures and secure its endpoints, network, and data centers. Taking into consideration the increase in targeted attacks and cyber threats in the financial sector, it was important to implement a “Connected Threat Defense and Response Strategy” that would be efficient enough to detect and block threats across all channels.
The company searched for an enterprise-class security solution that would integrate seamlessly with its existing IT infrastructure and scale to meet current and future protection needs. “With ever-growing security risks and a complex IT environment, it was very important to find a flexible, customizable, easy-to-manage solution suitable for our business,” said Prashant Thakkar, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Strategy at LIC Mutual Fund Asset Management Limited.
With ever-growing security risks and a complex IT environment, it was very important to find a flexible, customizable, easy-to-manage solution for our business
Prashant Thakkar
Chief Technology Officer and Head of Strategy,
LIC Mutual Fund Asset Management Limited
WHY TREND
LIC Mutual Fund needed an IT security partner that stayed ahead of the latest threats and could integrate quickly with its IT ecosystem to deliver cutting-edge protection and maintain high system performance. The choice was easy once they discovered that Trend Micro could provide a complete suite of solutions that provide a multi-layered defense approach to secure endpoints, data centers, and the network.
Trend Micro assured the IT team of LIC Mutual Fund that its servers and endpoints could be defended against zero-day threats, breaches, and business disruptions by adapting a virtual patching mechanism. Simultaneously, Trend Micro offered a strong network defense strategy that provided 360-degree visibility and included counter measures to supplement traditional security measures.
As a result, LIC Mutual Fund and Trend Micro worked closely to ensure that the company’s IT environment could function and grow without being compromised by cyberattacks. “Partnering with Trend Micro led to a harmonious collaboration that helped us combat the challenges of securing and protecting our data and network from potential security risks and cyber threats,” said Thakkar.
Partnering with Trend Micro led to a harmonious collaboration that helped us combat the challenges of securing and protecting our data and network from potential security risks and cyber threats.
Prashant Thakkar
Chief Technology Officer and Head of Strategy,
LIC Mutual Fund Asset Management Limited
SOLUTION
To enable threat protection and data security for users and corporate information across all devices and applications, LIC Mutual Fund implemented Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Complete. Multiple layers of advanced XGen™ security threat and malware protection with techniques like high-fidelity machine learning, behavioral analysis, exploit protection, advanced ransomware protection, file reputation, variant protection, intrusion prevention, command-and-control (C&C) blocking, browser exploit protection, application whitelisting, web reputation, data loss prevention (DLP), encryption, sandbox integration and more make up this solution. It also provides a connected security suite that combines the broadest range of endpoint and mobile threat protection capabilities with multiple layers of email, collaboration, and gateway security.
LIC Mutual Fund also implemented Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ to identify malicious content and cyber threats. It provides complete visibility into network traffic, allowing LIC Mutual Fund to stay ahead of purpose-built attacks which evade out-of-date controls, exploit network vulnerabilities, and steal sensitive data, communications, and intellectual property.
Additionally, Trend Micro™ Deep Security™, with robust capabilities for physical, virtual, and cloud servers in a single integrated platform, was deployed for server protection. The centralized management enabled continuous monitoring and vulnerability shielding to save time and resources.
RESULTS
Partnering with Trend Micro significantly improved the security profile of LIC Mutual Fund. The solutions provided visibility into potential security threats and increased protection against zero-day vulnerabilities. Trend Micro solutions also improved operational efficiency by reducing unscheduled patching events, customer code fixes, and improved productivity due to reduced unscheduled downtime.
Deployed as a single, multifunction agent across all environments in the data centers, Trend Micro solutions addressed resource contention issues and helped to simplify security operations. LIC Mutual Fund also benefits from a centralized management solution that provides a single, integrated interface to manage, monitor, and report across multiple layers of security.
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