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Belgium 9-9-25 Squad Only Physical english
As Belgium navigates the complexities of GDPR and various data sovereignty regulations, organizations across multiple industries face both challenges and opportunities in managing their data across borders. The quest for compliance often intersects with the need for business growth, raising questions about the balance between protection and progress. How can companies effectively own and safeguard their data while ensuring compliance without stifling innovation and expansion in a multi-industry landscape?
Read MorePoland 9-9-25 Invitation Only Virtual Polish
Utrzymanie talentów w organizacji IT ulokowanej na konkurencyjnym rynku pracy to nie lada zadanie. A jeśli do tego mówimy o organizacji z sektora publicznego? O swoich i swojej organizacji doświadczeniach, metodach i programach opowie Anna Wituła z CIRF. Będzie to jak zawsze okazja do dyskusji na temat różnych sposobów na utrzymanie talentów w firmie.
Read MoreBelgium 11-9-25 Squad Only Virtual english
You’ve built the portal. Added the chatbot. Rolled out self-service. But your support lines are still ringing. And your frontline teams are still improvising. If you want digital services to feel seamless, not just look polished, this session brings you back to where value is felt: at the frontline.
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W fabrykach cyberbezpieczeństwo często zależy od podwykonawców – integratorów, dostawców systemów automatyki i firm serwisowych, które mają zaskakująco szeroki dostęp do infrastruktury OT. W tej prezentacji Igor Zbyryt z BZK pokaże, jak z perspektywy końcowego użytkownika i integratora wygląda współpraca z tymi firmami oraz jakie realne ryzyka to niesie – również w kontekście NIS2. Zamiast wyliczać różnice między IT a OT, skupi się na wspólnym mianowniku i tym, co trzeba zmienić w podejściu organizacji, żeby cyber w produkcji zaczęło działać.
Read MoreBelgium 13-9-25 All Members Physical english
Join us for a scenic ride along the route of the Brabantse Pijl!This ride is suitable for all levels of cyclists and doesn’t require advanced technical skills. We’ll start at de Zoete Waters, where parking is available, and head into the charming Brabant region. Along the way, we’ll tackle some of the area’s iconic climbs — including the legendary Moskesstraat, known for its cobbled character and history in pro cycling. Expect a relaxed, friendly atmosphere and beautiful views throughout. Whether you're training, exploring, or just riding for fun, you’re more than welcome to join!
Read MoreBelgium 16-9-25 Squad Only Physical english
The system works. That’s the problem. It’s old, complex, deeply integrated, and still running your most critical operations. Everyone agrees change is needed. But no one wants to be the one who breaks it. The stakes are too high.
Read MoreGermany Sep 9, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Vom ersten Use Case zur strategischen Neuausrichtung CIONET lädt bereits zum vierten Mal zu einem exklusiven Roundtable für CIOs und Digitalverantwortliche aus Logistik und Handel ein. Im Mittelpunkt des Abends steht die Frage, wie Unternehmen ihre KI-Initiativen erfolgreich skalieren und aus ersten Use Cases echten strategischen Mehrwert schaffen. Microsoft 365 für Frontline Worker: Moderne Tools, die Mitarbeitende im Tagesgeschäft entlasten ServiceNow für Prozessintegration: Automatisierte End-to-End-Workflows – vom Schadensfall bis zur Retourenabwicklung KI-gestützte Disposition und Planung: Mit smarten Algorithmen zur optimierten Supply Chain Digitale Lieferketten und letzte Meile: Transparenz, Effizienz und Kundenzentrierung durchgängig gedacht
Read MoreBelgium Sep 13, 2025 All Members Physical english
Join us for a wonderful ride. The ride is accessible to all levels of riders and doesn't require extensive technical skills. More information will follow soon. Looking forward to ride together!
Read MoreGermany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Cybersecurity ist längst kein reines IT-Thema mehr – sie betrifft das gesamte Unternehmen. Doch während die Bedrohungslage zunimmt, geraten viele Security-Verantwortliche an ihre Belastungsgrenzen: zwischen 24/7-Verantwortung, wachsenden Anforderungen und dem ständigen Innovationsdruck.
Read MoreGermany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german
IT-Betrieb und Cybersicherheit stehen heute unter extremem Druck: steigende Komplexität, wachsende regulatorische Anforderungen (NIS2, DORA, KRITIS), chronische Ressourcenknappheit – und gleichzeitig eine Bedrohungslage, die keine Verzögerungen duldet. Trotzdem agieren viele IT- und Security-Teams noch immer in Silos. Die Folge: ineffiziente Abläufe, Tool-Wildwuchs, langsame Reaktion auf Vorfälle und unklare Verantwortlichkeiten.
Read MoreGermany Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Nachhaltigkeit ist für CIOs nicht nur ein „Nice-to-have“, sondern eine strategische Priorität – sie beeinflusst direkt die finanzielle Performance, die operative Effizienz und die langfristige Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.
Read MoreBelgium Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Physical french
La dette technique est comparable à la négligence des réparations d'une maison. Ignorer un toit qui fuit peut faire gagner du temps aujourd'hui, mais cela pourrait conduire à l'effondrement du plafond plus tard. Pour remédier à la dette technique, il faut trouver et réparer ces fuites dès maintenant et mettre en place un plan d'entretien de la maison afin qu'elle soit prête pour les extensions futures. Pour résoudre ces problèmes, il faut définir des priorités stratégiques, communiquer clairement avec les parties prenantes et établir une feuille de route à long terme pour la modernisation. Cet événement se déroulera entièrement en français.
Read MoreGermany Sep 9, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Vom ersten Use Case zur strategischen Neuausrichtung CIONET lädt bereits zum vierten Mal zu einem exklusiven Roundtable für CIOs und Digitalverantwortliche aus Logistik und Handel ein. Im Mittelpunkt des Abends steht die Frage, wie Unternehmen ihre KI-Initiativen erfolgreich skalieren und aus ersten Use Cases echten strategischen Mehrwert schaffen. Microsoft 365 für Frontline Worker: Moderne Tools, die Mitarbeitende im Tagesgeschäft entlasten ServiceNow für Prozessintegration: Automatisierte End-to-End-Workflows – vom Schadensfall bis zur Retourenabwicklung KI-gestützte Disposition und Planung: Mit smarten Algorithmen zur optimierten Supply Chain Digitale Lieferketten und letzte Meile: Transparenz, Effizienz und Kundenzentrierung durchgängig gedacht
Read MoreBelgium Sep 13, 2025 All Members Physical english
Join us for a wonderful ride. The ride is accessible to all levels of riders and doesn't require extensive technical skills. More information will follow soon. Looking forward to ride together!
Read MoreGermany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Cybersecurity ist längst kein reines IT-Thema mehr – sie betrifft das gesamte Unternehmen. Doch während die Bedrohungslage zunimmt, geraten viele Security-Verantwortliche an ihre Belastungsgrenzen: zwischen 24/7-Verantwortung, wachsenden Anforderungen und dem ständigen Innovationsdruck.
Read MoreGermany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german
IT-Betrieb und Cybersicherheit stehen heute unter extremem Druck: steigende Komplexität, wachsende regulatorische Anforderungen (NIS2, DORA, KRITIS), chronische Ressourcenknappheit – und gleichzeitig eine Bedrohungslage, die keine Verzögerungen duldet. Trotzdem agieren viele IT- und Security-Teams noch immer in Silos. Die Folge: ineffiziente Abläufe, Tool-Wildwuchs, langsame Reaktion auf Vorfälle und unklare Verantwortlichkeiten.
Read MoreGermany Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Nachhaltigkeit ist für CIOs nicht nur ein „Nice-to-have“, sondern eine strategische Priorität – sie beeinflusst direkt die finanzielle Performance, die operative Effizienz und die langfristige Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.
Read MoreBelgium Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Physical french
La dette technique est comparable à la négligence des réparations d'une maison. Ignorer un toit qui fuit peut faire gagner du temps aujourd'hui, mais cela pourrait conduire à l'effondrement du plafond plus tard. Pour remédier à la dette technique, il faut trouver et réparer ces fuites dès maintenant et mettre en place un plan d'entretien de la maison afin qu'elle soit prête pour les extensions futures. Pour résoudre ces problèmes, il faut définir des priorités stratégiques, communiquer clairement avec les parties prenantes et établir une feuille de route à long terme pour la modernisation. Cet événement se déroulera entièrement en français.
Read MoreMauritius Commercial Bank saves 2,000 IT team work days per year
To deliver new online banking features faster and expand to new markets, Mauritius Commercial Bank redesigned its IT infrastructure. By adopting Red Hat® OpenShift®, an enterprise open source container solution, supported by Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, MCB had established a responsive yet stable foundation for maintaining its Temenos Transact platform.
To deliver new online banking features faster and expand to new markets, Mauritius Commercial
Bank (MCB) decided to reimagine its IT infrastructure and embrace modern technology, such as
containers and automation. By adopting Red Hat OpenShift, an enterprise open source container
solution, supported by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, MCB had established a responsive yet stable
foundation for maintaining its Temenos Transact platform and scaling its mobile application to
500,000 users. Automating routine provisioning and operational processes with Red Hat Ansible
Automation Platform has also helped the bank save more than 2,000 work days per year, freeing
skilled employees to focus on building and delivering competitive new experiences to customers
Simplifying mobile banking platform to deliver new features faster
Founded in 1838, Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB) is the country’s oldest and largest bank. Its 4
main subsidiaries operate in Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar, and Maldives, with additional market
presence in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
To remain relevant in a rapidly changing industry, MCB began a digital transformation project in
2018 with three main goals: changing how products and services are delivered to customers,
gaining new technology skills, and maintaining an agile technology stack. This project combines
its missions of customer service excellence, continuous process improvement, and development
of a knowledgeable, motivate workforce with the latest technology innovation.
As a first focus area for the project, MCB sought to improve deployment of its core banking platform,
Temenos Transact. Each of the bank’s 4 main subsidiaries operated its own customized, locally
hosted instance of Temenos. Delivering infrastructure and software upgrades to each instance was
time-consuming and led to significant service downtime and disruption. The effort required to
maintain these unique versions of Temenos, services, and integrations also affected new product
development and market launches.
Adopting adaptable IT infrastructure with enterprise platforms from Red Hat
To maintain its reputation as a responsive, modern financial services provider, MCB sought to adopt
an agile, container-based IT architecture, ready for deployment into both its current infrastructure
environment and future private cloud environment.
“We realized that building a resilient operational backbone would be key, but we needed guidance
for how to meet strict security and compliance requirements. Ideally, we also wanted something
open source,” said Patrice Herve, Head of Technology, Mauritius Commercial Bank. “Red Hat offered
not only the advanced container and Linux technology we were looking for, but also the expert
consulting services to help us succeed in the face of technology issues or skills shortages.”
Working with Red Hat Consulting to determine challenge areas, business needs, and potential
solutions, MCB decided to deploy Red Hat OpenShift as the enterprise container foundation for
Temenos Transact. Running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, this platform provides consistent
development, deployment, and management capabilities across hybrid environments—including
automated version and security management. To expand the built-in automation capabilities
provided by Red Hat OpenShift, MCB also adopted Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. This
playbook-based, scalable platform integrates with the bank’s other Red Hat software for easier,
faster application of new process automations.
With step-by-step implementation guidance and training on the new technologies from Red Hat
consultants, MCB has now migrated workloads for almost all of its customer-facing operations—
including consumer, mobile, and internet banking—as well as all back-end middleware services
to Red Hat OpenShift.
“We started with smaller applications, such as our credit application platform, before moving on to our
business and flagship retail mobile banking applications,” said Herve. “Our plan to learn alongside
Red Hat experts with a clear set of goals over a set timeframe paved a path to successfully migrate
these critical services with minimal disruption.”
Expanding banking features to new customers—with less time and effort
Increased mobile application feature delivery from yearly to monthly
By replacing the 4 customized instances of Temenos Transact with a single, central solution running
in a modular Red Hat OpenShift container environment, MCB can now make faster, more frequent
upgrades to the platform’s capabilities and integration services.
“On our legacy infrastructure, we released new mobile features maybe once or twice a year. We had
to go through very painstaking testing processes to ensure consistent quality and performance
across each version of our technology stack,” said Herve. “Now, with Red Hat OpenShift providing
a consistent, central management point, we save time and effort that can be redirected to building
new features. We’re now delivering smaller, more iterative new releases monthly, or even more
frequently, with minimal disruption to existing services.”
For example, the bank recently deployed a new online account creation feature, as well as a
user-to-user mobile payment service. Delivering continual innovation to customers will help MCB
continue to compete in a challenging market against new startups and other entrants.
Saved more than 2,000 work days per year with automation
MCB strives to keep as many IT resources in-house as possible. While doing so means ongoing
access to a skilled, trained talent base, the bank also needs to balance maintaining low headcount
costs with continuing to deliver projects on time as business needs evolve. By introducing
human-readable, reusable scripts through Ansible Automation Platform, MCB’s IT department
has automated routine manual work for a variety of processes—freeing staff to focus on more
valuable work.
“We now have more than 1,000 Ansible Playbooks that save us over 2,000 work days per year,” said
Ronny Pazot, IT Specialist, Mauritius Commercial Bank. “Automation helps us do more productive
work with the same size team by removing repetitive tasks that do not add value.”
The bank has now reduced provisioning times for new development environments from 5 days to just
1 day, with 50% less execution time and 70% less hardware required. MCB anticipates similar results
when it expands automation to software engineering and related activities.
“Automation is an ongoing process,” said Herve. “We’re embracing the possibilities provided by
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to continually analyze which processes take the most time to
complete, and where those manual processes could potentially be partially or fully automated.”
Simplified business expansion to new customers and markets
In the past, expanding to new markets, products, and services was a complex process that required
MCB to develop an end-to-end customized solution. Standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
Red Hat OpenShift provides a common foundation for delivering services to new business locations
and users. The bank is now processing more than 300,000 payments per day without latency or
other performance issues.
“For instance, if we want to expand our business in Africa, we can simply deploy new services within
our existing banking stack instance, with minor tweaks to address any unique regional or country
market conditions,” said Herve. “Having a stable, reliable operating system and application platform
in place makes scaling easier. Where we previously struggled to run a mobile app for 200,000
customers, Red Hat OpenShift now enables a high-quality experience for nearly 500,000 users.”
Creating a cloud-based future for mobile services
With a Linux and container foundation and automated processes in place, MCB continues to look for
new ways to improve Temenos Transact with innovative technology, such as hybrid cloud computing.
“As we have begun setting up our private cloud environment, we have also started to test a public
cloud solution to access even greater scale as our customer base continues to grow,” said Herve.
“Our Red Hat technology will make it easier to move workloads between these cloud environments.
We see cloud as a key element of our digital transformation journey, and working with Red Hat is a
big part of helping us achieve our vision.”
About Mauritius Commercial Bank
Mauritius Commercial Bank, founded in 1838, is the country’s oldest and largest banking institution.
It is also the oldest banking institution in sub-Saharan Africa, and one the oldest in the Commonwealth
that still uses its original name. MCB has a local network of 40 branches and 150 ATMs in Mauritius
and operates major subsidiaries in Seychelles, Maldives, and Madagascar. It offers a broad and
growing range of products and services to individuals, businesses, and other organizations
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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.
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