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Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
Belgium Sep 24, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
As smart devices proliferate across operational environments — from sensors on factory lines and GPS trackers in logistics fleets to wearables in healthcare and connected systems in smart cities — the integration of Managed IoT (MiOT) is accelerating. But with it comes a surge in cybersecurity risks. No longer isolated or air-gapped, OT systems are becoming fully networked, remotely accessible, and deeply entwined with IT. This creates a vulnerable, highly complex digital mesh, one where a single compromised device can trigger physical, financial, and reputational consequences.
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UK Sep 24, 2025 Country Members Physical english
Join us for our community event on 24th September in London. Join us for our community event on 21st May in London. Sponsored by Business Partners Cognizant, Orange Business, Entelect, Strategy, Stefanini & Thoughtworks.
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Belgium Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
On 25th September, during the Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 in Brussels, CIONET is hosting an exclusive, invitation-only round table for leading CIOs, CTOs, and digital leaders. While the Summit offers a broad programme, this CIONET session is a separate, distinct event, conducted in its own dedicated room with private catering, ensuring a focused and confidential peer-to-peer discussion. This round table will delve into why certain cloud-native techniques offer undeniable benefits, irrespective of where your applications are deployed, be it on-premise, in a hyperscale cloud, or a hybrid environment. Even outside public clouds, these modern, modular architectures consistently deliver increased agility, enhanced scalability, and quicker time-to-market. The real power behind these advantages lies in automation. When done properly, automation significantly boosts team efficiency, improves system quality, and drastically cuts risks from slow systems or downtime. However, achieving truly effective automation comes with its own set of challenges, which we'll address head-on. Key Discussion Points Include: "No-Regret" Cloud-Native Pillars: We'll try to pinpoint essential techniques every organisation should adopt, such as microservices architecture, containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), API-first design, stateless application design, and immutable infrastructure. Why are these crucial for modern applications, no matter the deployment location? Strategic Vendor Lock-in: How to judiciously manage vendor lock-in. For new innovations and applications with a relatively short life expectancy, leveraging the latest unique features of a hyperscale cloud might be beneficial. For long-lived applications (expected to be live for decades), the focus might shift to limiting exposure by utilising generally available technologies. Automation Anywhere: How can organisations effectively implement automation strategies to unlock the full potential of cloud-native initiatives across diverse infrastructures? What are the biggest hurdles, and how are leaders overcoming them? This CIONET round table offers a unique and intimate setting for digital leaders to gain critical insights, exchange perspectives, and shape the strategic path towards application modernisation that truly offers no regrets.
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Belgium Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
As AI shapes our future, the time is now to address and correct its inherent biases. Join leading female voices in tech as we explore how to undo past mistakes, champion neutrality, and feed AI systems with inclusive, unbiased data. This conference is a call to action for female leaders in AI and tech to ensure the next generation of intelligent systems reflects fairness, diversity, and equity. Together, let’s set things right and redefine the future of AI.
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Poland Sep 25, 2025 All Members Physical Polish
Agenci AI to przyszłość, która wyniesie organizacje na inny poziom dostarczania wartości biznesowej. Już teraz wiadomo, że nowa generacja inteligentnych agentów zmienia sposób, w jaki firmy działają, podejmują decyzje i się rozwijają. Podczas siódmego Community Eventu wraz z ekspertami AI sprawdzimy: możliwości, które dają agenci; jak wprowadzić governance i umiejscowić w organizacji tysiące sztucznych pracowników; jak zapewnić bezpieczeństwo, gdy każdy z agentów może wykonywać inne operacje; jaki jest wpływ wykorzystania agentów na koszty i środowisko; jak zmienia się pozycja firmy na rynku. Omówimy, jak liderzy IT i cyfrowi mogą i muszą strategicznie dostosować się do tej nowej rzeczywistości. Zarejestruj się już teraz i zapewnij sobie miejsce!
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Italy Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical italian
Nel percorso verso l’AI e la trasformazione digitale, dati e automazione sono gli elementi centrali di ogni strategia tecnologica. Ma senza una governance chiara, rischiano di diventare non solo fonte di inefficienza, ma anche di rischi e incoerenza. Come garantire che i dati siano completi, accessibili e affidabili? Come automatizzare le operation IT e i processi aziendali mantenendo controllo, compliance e sicurezza? Durante questa roundtable esclusiva, organizzata da CIONET Italia e IBM, affronteremo: La governance come abilitatore di dati affidabili e automazione sicura. Come prepararsi a un’adozione dell’AI realmente scalabile. Il ruolo di controllo, resilienza e gestione del rischio nell’innovazione.
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Achieves comprehensive network protection with proactive advanced threat detection and mitigation
OVERVIEW
Ananda Bazar Patrika Group (ABP) is a renowned media group with headquarters in Kolkata, India. ABP Group uses media to inform, educate, and entertain. With eleven leading publications, three news channels and one of India’s largest and most popular newspapers, ABP prides itself on showing the world to its customers each day.
The company has evolved from print-based media to leadership in new media, including television, mobile and internet properties. Products include the oldest Bengali newspaper, Anandabazar Patrika, and the most innovative British newspaper, The Telegraph—both with online editions. ABP Group is also the proud owner of Desh, India’s most culturally-revered magazine.
CHALLENGES
ABP faced issues with spam, viruses, malware, network monitoring, vulnerability scanning, and patch management. They had difficulty securing its network and endpoints using traditional firewalls and antivirus products. ABP needed a solution that could protect the organization against the growing number of targeted attacks, advanced persistent threats, and multistage malware—all designed to deceive and ultimately breach organizations and their security solutions.
ABP did not know whether its data could be stolen or end up in the wrong hands. The company wanted to gain visibility into its security posture and its crucially important IT infrastructure . “An organization’s network is the lifeline that employees rely on to do their jobs and subsequently make money for the organization,” said Abdur Rafi, chief manager of IT Infrastructure at ABP.
WHY TREND
Before choosing Trend Micro, ABP evaluated options from other security vendors. They selected Trend Micro to solve their security challenges for several reasons, including experience with Trend Micro solutions. ABP had already been using Trend Micro’s security landscape to protect their organization’s users, data, and systems.
ABP conducted a rigorous proof of concept (POC) and found that the Trend Micro solutions could identify systems that had already been infiltrated by attacks that were not detectable with traditional antivirus products. The POC also revealed comprehensive network security, which monitored all network ports and 100+ protocols to identify attacks anywhere on the network. In addition, Trend Micro solutions offered the centralized policy management for data and threat protection that ABP needed.
We always receive proactive and effective support from Trend Micro. Even after sales and installation, the backend technical team is very helpful in resolving issues.
Abdur Rafi
Chief Manager, IT Infrastructure
ABP Pvt. Ltd.
SOLUTION
ABP selected Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ and Trend Micro™ Control Manager™ solutions to work in collaboration with the antivirus resolution and the proxy server. The special detection engine’s correlation rules configured by Deep Discovery detects all types of targeted attacks. Its custom sandboxing uses virtual images to precisely match ABP’s system configurations to safely detect targeted threats and global threat intelligence from the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™, powering attack investigations.
Deep Discovery simplified ABP’s security with a single appliance and enhanced the company’s existing cybersecurity investments. In addition, ABP did not have to worry about the hardware and operating system licensing because the solution was available as a complete appliance. All they needed to arrange was a 1U rack space for a single appliance, along with mirror ports of their VLANS.
Control Manager provides central threat and data loss prevention (DLP) policy management across layers of the IT infrastructure. Customizable data displays provide the visibility and situational awareness to rapidly assess status, identify threats, and respond to incidents. ABP can streamline administration and achieve more consistent policy enforcement with single-click deployment of data protection policies across endpoint, messaging, and gateway solutions.
All of Trend Micro’s products have proven to be lightweight and extremely cost-effective.
Abdur Rafi
Chief Manager, IT Infrastructure
ABP Pvt. Ltd.
RESULTS
Even though ABP conducted a rigorous POC spread across a month, the implementation was smooth and completed in one day. “We always receive proactive and effective support from Trend Micro. All of Trend Micro’s products have proven to be lightweight and extremely cost-effective,” says Rafi.
The deployment gave ABP visibility into threats and the ability to take well-informed, immediate, and effective remedial measures. The company, enabled by Trend Micro’s solution, has now become extremely proactive at detecting advanced threats and mitigating them.
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CIOFEST 2025 - From Order Taker to Proactive Disruptor
As AI transitions from a specialised tool to an all-pervasive force, understanding its profound implications for our human lives is no longer merely academic but an urgent imperative for social well-being and strategic preparedness.
Geopolitical tensions have dominated the headlines for over two years now. In this context, the cyber threat landscape is also evolving rapidly. The protection and security of critical infrastructure – both physical and digital – is becoming increasingly important.
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