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Gunter Van Craen - CDIO at Bekaert - Embracing Digital Transformation
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Belgium Dec 11, 2025 Country Members Physical english
Imagine being able to monitor, simulate, and optimise an entire city, factory, or supply chain in real time. Next-generation digital twins are making this vision a reality, transforming how we manage and understand complex systems. By creating dynamic virtual replicas of physical assets and processes, digital twins allow organisations to predict issues, optimize performance, and make data-driven decisions with unprecedented accuracy.This event will explore how digital twins are being used across industries to revolutionize the way we operate and maintain large-scale, intricate systems—whether it’s the infrastructure of a smart city, the efficiency of a factory floor, or the resilience of global supply chains.Examples of Digital Twins in Action:Smart Cities: Urban planners can use digital twins to simulate traffic flow, monitor energy usage, or predict the impact of weather events on infrastructure. This enables cities to optimize resources and improve the quality of life for their citizens.Factories of the Future: Manufacturing plants are leveraging digital twins to monitor equipment in real time, prevent downtime, and optimize production lines. With predictive analytics, factories can avoid costly breakdowns and improve overall efficiency.Supply Chain Management: Complex supply chains, spanning continents and industries, can be modeled as digital twins to track shipments, simulate disruptions, and optimize logistics. Businesses can reduce inefficiencies and respond faster to market demands.Key Themes:Real-Time Monitoring and Simulation: How digital twins provide real-time insights into complex systems, allowing for dynamic response and optimization.Predictive Power: Leveraging AI and data analytics, digital twins help organisations predict and mitigate issues before they happen, from equipment failures to supply chain bottlenecks.Scalability Across Ecosystems: Digital twins aren’t limited to individual assets—learn how they can be scaled across entire ecosystems like smart cities or global supply chains for maximum impact.Building Trust and Security: With digital twins handling critical infrastructure and sensitive data, what are the security and governance frameworks needed to ensure trust in these virtual systems?Why You Should Attend:Next-generation digital twins are no longer just a concept—they are revolutionizing industries by offering a new way to manage complexity. Whether you’re looking to optimize a city, factory, or supply chain, this event will provide practical insights into how digital twins can transform your organisation’s operations and drive future innovation.
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Germany Dec 15, 2025 Public Virtual german
Angesichts wachsender Cyberbedrohungen und der zunehmenden Automatisierung von Geschäftsprozessen blicken CIOs auf eine ereignisreiche Zeit zurück. Umso spannender ist die Frage, welche Herausforderungen und Chancen die IT-Welt künftig erwarten. ngesichts wachsender Cyberbedrohungen und der zunehmenden Automatisierung von Geschäftsprozessen blicken CIOs auf ein ereignisreiches Jahr 2024 zurück. Umso spannender ist die Frage, welche neuen Herausforderungen und Chancen die IT-Welt im Jahr 2025 erwarten.AA
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Belgium Dec 16, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
This CIONET Round Table will focus on how the IT department can be the enabler that unlocks organisational efficiencies and helps to improve the employee experience. We will explore how CIOs and Digital Leaders can fundamentally transform the internal service experience by breaking down organizational silos, orchestrating complex cross-functional workflows, and leveraging a unified platform to deliver a truly frictionless experience for every employee.
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UK Dec 16, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
At this CIONET executive roundtable – brought to you in association with UiPath – we’ll explore this question and more. Bringing together senior IT professionals from across multiple vertical markets, we will focus on the benefits of agentic AI as applied to end-to-end processes. And we’ll seek to understand how organisations might overcome automation barriers to drive greater value creation.
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Belgium Dec 18, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
We look forward to brainstorming with you on how we can strengthen meaningful engagement among our participants, create valuable opportunities for visibility, foster peer-to-peer networking, and deliver impactful content. Your expertise and guidance will help shape our strategy for the coming year and ensure that we continue to provide the best possible value to our entire community. Together, we can build a stronger, more connected community that benefits us all.
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Germany Jan 19, 2026 Country Members Virtual german
Bei diesem „Spotlight“-Online-Event wird diskutiert, wie moderne Identity Security im Zeitalter autonomer KI-Agenten gestaltet werden kann. Teilnehmende erfahren, wie KI-Agenten als eigene Identitäten verwaltet werden, wie korrekte Zugriffsrechte für Mensch und Maschine sichergestellt werden und wie Zero-Standing-Risk-Ansätze vor modernen Bedrohungen schützen. Praxisnahe Einblicke unterstützen Unternehmen dabei, ihre Identity-Programme zukunftssicher auszurichten.
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Media Data Services Company selects Trend Micro Apex One as a Service with XDR to protect data
Selects Trend Micro Apex One as a Service with XDR to protect data
OVERVIEW
Data is everything for this organization that collects and analyzes vast amounts of data to provide audience insights and consumer behavior data for their customers. With Trend Micro Apex One™ as a Service with XDR, their small IT team protects all the company’s data with a single, integrated solution.
Trend Micro Apex One as a Service with XDR has brought me immediate value that I can share with my executives.
CHALLENGES
Protecting data has always been a priority. The company’s two-person IT team is responsible for protecting more than 500 endpoints. With the threat landscape continuing to expand and become more sophisticated, the team realized they needed a single security solution that could provide centralized visibility and end-to-end protection.
“We needed to isolate endpoints, block threats across the environment, and provide better visibility and reporting,” says the company’s information security analyst.
Early in 2020, the company had several Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 systems that were reaching the end of their support. The team needed to ensure that those operating systems were fully protected from malicious attacks. Then the pandemic hit, and the threat landscape experienced a significant increase in the growth of malware and ransomware threats. At the same time, the company saw a rise in internal users installing unauthorized applications, potentially exposing the company to additional security risks.
WHY TREND
The company is a longtime user of Trend Micro™ Endpoint Security and was ready to upgrade with Trend Micro to keep up with the evolving threat environment. When it came time to make the move, the team didn’t consider any solutions beyond Trend Micro.
“Trend Micro knows our business and our challenges. Their team makes us feel like a priority customer,” says their information security analyst. “For us, data is gold. We wanted to work with a vendor that is leading the research field. Trend Micro is good at discovery, and they stay up to date with the latest information. Trend Micro was also the only company we found that would protect everything, including Macs.”
The team also appreciate the consistent communication and support Trend Micro provides.
“From the beginning, we’ve had someone helping and guiding us through deployments. When our deployments are fast, we get a good return on investment. Trend Micro’s team always follows up to make sure we’re taking advantage of all the features of their products.”
Trend Micro takes responsibility for updating and patching in the cloud, so there is no more heavy lifting or on-premises management required on our part.
Information Security Analyst, Meta Data Service Company
SOLUTION
The company upgraded to Trend Micro Apex One as a Service with XDR and Trend Micro Apex Central™ in early 2020, adding Trend Micro Vision One™ shortly thereafter. Because the company’s IT team is small, it was important to have a centralized platform that was easy to manage and deploy.
“XDR capabilities allow me to access the feeds from one central location. I used to have to manually identify threat intelligence. Now, with Trend Micro Apex Central, everything is presented nicely on one screen. I also like the fact that I can customize my use cases based on my environment.”
The team can now share reports with senior management that convey the company’s security posture graphically.
“Trend Micro Apex One as a Service with XDR has brought me immediate value that I can share with my executives. The board and the CEO love the reports that are delivered from Trend Micro Apex Central.”
Trend Micro Apex One as a Service also keeps them secure by providing virtual patching for end-of-life operating systems until the company can upgrade those machines.
“Trend Micro takes responsibility for updating and patching in the cloud, so there is no more heavy lifting or on-premises management required on our part.”
RESULTS
Using Trend Micro Apex One as a Service with XDR and Trend Micro Apex Central makes triage and root-cause analysis faster for the organization’s IT team. The solutions’ execution profiles provide immediate visual representations of what’s happening so they can better understand and address threats.
“With XDR capabilities, the affected platform is presented on a single screen, and one click gets me to the place where I can resolve the issue.”
Meanwhile, the solutions’ machine learning capabilities help the company manage risky employee installations of unauthorized applications.
“The machine learning included in Trend Micro solutions keeps track of those instances and can be configured to block them immediately.”
Trend Micro Apex Central also helped protect employees in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic when they shifted to working remotely.
“Using Trend Micro, we can extend security to protect employees using personal laptops from home. Without Trend Micro Apex One as a Service, we would have had to modify our firewall, set up another server, or purchase new laptops for employees to ensure security. We saved a lot of time and money not having to do any of that.”
WHAT'S NEXT
As the company continues to grow, they plan to add Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Workload Security to automate troubleshooting and allow personnel to investigate security incidents more thoroughly. The company is also considering Trend Micro solutions to improve their cloud security posture in their Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure environments.
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Carla Milovanov - Navigating Transformation: Insights from Landal's CIO
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Claudio Balbo - Senior Director and Head of IT Architecture at Intesa Sanpaolo - Revolutionizing Core Banking
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Angélique Bidault-Verliac - CDPO, SNCF Connect & Tech - Data, AI, and Customer-First Transformation
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Rajat Dhawan - Group Chief Digital & Technology Officer at Soho House - How Data & AI Enhance Member Experiences
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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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