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Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
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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Belgium Oct 16, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
AI isn’t just another tool. It changes how we work, how we think, how we organise ourselves.Yet most organisations still approach it like a digital upgrade, deploying assistants, automating workflows, testing use cases inisolation.The results are predictable. Short-term wins. Long-term confusion.Effort spent. Value unclear.Many companies can’t connect AI to their actual strategic goals,and the promised ROI never materialises.At the same time, something deeper is shifting.AI can now reason, decide, adapt. Not just mimic processes butcontribute to them.The technology is evolving, but the way we implement it hasn’tcaught up.If your AI still fits inside a single department, you’re likely solvingthe wrong problem.If it works only for individuals, you're missing how your teamsactually deliver value.If it replaces people instead of supporting them, you're buildingfor today, not tomorrow.The next step isn’t more AI. It’s the right AI.Built for your business, your teams, your way of working.Not a tool to add but a structure to build around.Are we ready to treat AI as a shared capability, not a scatteredexperiment?Can we move beyond individual efficiency and build systems thatcollaborate, learn and adapt with us?Those are the questions we’ll explore at the round table.
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Germany Oct 28, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Am 28. Oktober lädt CIONET CIOs und Digital Leaders nach Köln ein: hier stellen wir reale Anwendungsfälle vor, in denen KI-Agenten Aufgaben autonom übernehmen, Prozesse beschleunigen und Entscheidungen vorbereiten – mit messbarem Nutzen für das Business.
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France Nov 4, 2025 Country Members Physical french
À l’ère des mutations géopolitiques et réglementaires, l’établissement d’une souveraineté numérique est devenu un élément stratégique essentiel pour les entreprises. Ce dialogue stratégique mettra en lumière le rôle fondamental du réseau dans la mise en place du contrôle, de la confiance et de la résilience. Nous explorerons comment une infrastructure moderne et résiliente permet d’appliquer des politiques de gestion des données et d’assurer la continuité opérationnelle. Ce dialogue stratégique, réservé à un groupe restreint de pairs, est conçu pour permettre aux leaders du numérique d’échanger sur l’un des enjeux les plus urgents aujourd’hui. Nous discuterons des réseaux « sovereign-ready » et débattrons des préoccupations croissantes autour de la souveraineté des données, qui motivent l’adoption de politiques de confidentialité et de protection des données de plus en plus strictes à l’échelle mondiale.
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Netherlands Nov 10, 2025 Public Physical english
CIONET Nederland vertrekt met een groep Nederlandse CIO's en digital leaders 10 t/m 12 november 2025 voor de geheel verzorgde CIO Innovation Trip naar de Web Summit in Lissabon, Portugal. Reis jij mee of neem je collega(s) mee!
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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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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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