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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.
Read MorePoland 11-9-25 Invitation Only Virtual Polish
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 MoreMarket leader TIM Group migrates to Red Hat OpenShift 4
TIM Group decided to migrate its existing Red Hat environment to Red Hat OpenShift 4. With help from a Red Hat, TIM successfully migrated critical business support system (BSS) applications with no downtime. The group can provision new container clusters in days. Cluster management and security is also easier and faster, with automated updates.
TIM Group is the leading information and communications technology (ICT) provider in Italy and Brazil and operates more than 100 million mobile and fixed lines. To take advantage of new management and data capabilities, TIM decided to migrate its existing Red Hat environment to Red Hat OpenShift 4. With help from a Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM), a dedicated expert and point of contact, TIM successfully migrated critical business support system (BSS) applications with no downtime. The group can now provision new container clusters in days, rather than months. Cluster management and security is also easier and faster, with automated updates that free staff to focus on more valuable projects.
The TIM Group is the leading information and communications technology (ICT) group in Italy and Brazil. The group offers fixed, mobile, cloud and datacenter infrastructure, as well as communications and entertainment services for individuals, small and medium enterprises, large companies, private and public sector, and wholesale.TIM operates more than 100 million mobile and fixed lines across both countries.
More than four years ago, TIM implemented Red Hat OpenShift. Running in a virtualized datacenter environment, this architecture, with more than 1000 vCores, supports the transformation from monolithic application architectures to microservices applications for both front-end digital channels and back-end services, including the most critical for business.
To continue improving its service delivery, TIM sought to take advantage of new capabilities in Red Hat OpenShift 4—such as self-management and cluster automation—for many critical applications, but a complex environment risked business disruption during the upgrade. Each live application needed to be migrated across five environments: development, three testing environments, and production.
“We could see that these new technology capabilities would provide many benefits to our developer and customer experience,” said Alessandro Bertini, BSS Platform Group Technical Lead, TIM. “But we also needed to avoid any extended maintenance windows or unplanned downtime that could lead to downtime for our business support system.”
TIM developers, architects, and application managers worked with the group’s Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM) to assist with the complex migration and optimize the group’s container platform investment. Red Hat TAMs work with customers to provide ongoing, security-focused guidance, functioning as a single point of contact for insight from an extended team of Red Hat product and support experts.
Together, TIM and its Red Hat TAM used Red Hat’s migration toolkit for containers to complete all migrations in just six months. This solution provides open source tools, including a web console and application programming interface (API) for migrating applications from the source cluster on Red Hat OpenShift 3 to a specified cluster on the latest Red Hat OpenShift release.
The group runs its updated Red Hat OpenShift environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS, a lightweight operating system that provides the stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the container platform.
“Our Red Hat TAM helped us plan the migration, with a breakdown of tasks and any prerequisites,” said Bertini. “He ensured any compatibility issues with legacy applications were resolved quickly. He’s involved in everything we do with our Red Hat OpenShift platform, and his support was critical to extending our team to complete the migration successfully.”
In addition to ongoing support from its Red Hat TAM, TIM also works closely with a Red Hat Customer Success Manager to orchestrate and monitor performance across its container environment.
Using the migration toolkit for containers web console, TIM established an automated approach that standardized and simplified the migration process compared to a manual approach. After creating a replication repository, adding the source cluster, and establishing the migration plan, no further manual work is required, eliminating the risk of human error or inconsistent configuration that could create service downtime or outages.
“With the toolkit, every application was migrated in the exact same way and remained the same as much as possible,” said Bertini. “Our critical BSS applications continue to operate without any issues, so we can continue to offer reliable infrastructure and telecommunications services to our customers as we deliver new, valuable features.”
Instead of five environments, the group’s new Red Hat OpenShift 4 infrastructure comprises a single production cluster and a single testing cluster, each running in different virtual machines (VMs) for resilience.
A simpler environment architecture, combined with a new operating system, has helped TIM reduce cluster provisioning time from months to days. TIM’s IT teams can now access a new cluster in 7-10 days, instead of 2.5 months.
“With Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS, we no longer need to install lots of software on the virtual server each time we provision a new cluster,” said Bertini. “We can go straight from creating the final, approved container image to being ready to deploy to our production VM in a single step.”
Management of TIM’s new container environment is also much more efficient, with automated, over-the-air updates for OpenShift. The OpenShift Update Service built-in feature automatically builds and notifies the operations team of updates based on recommended, tested paths. As a result, TIM can update an entire Red Hat OpenShift cluster, as well as its Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS deployment, in a single process.
Resilient, persistent software-defined storage based on Ceph® storage technology also helps TIM upgrade its Red Hat OpenShift clusters without affecting application performance. "We were happy to switch the storage technology from Gluster® to Ceph because the last one is a more robust and supported product. We are not using OpenShift Data Foundation."
“Updating our OpenShift clusters with the OpenShift Update Service accelerates our ability to stay current with the latest features, bug fixes, and enhancements. It’s a much simpler process that helps us scale as needed to meet demand.”
With only about half as many staff needed to manage its OpenShift and Linux platforms, TIM has freed resources to focus on more valuable projects, such as analyzing the adoption of hybrid cloud environments or working to make new OpenShift features that are not currently used available for developers.
TIM’s software architect team is now exploring other features of its updated container platform, including Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, a component that provides a distributed microservice architecture, and Red Hat Quay, a container registry that helps customers build, analyze, distribute, and deploy container images. “In particular, we’d like to use Red Hat Quay to set up a process that uses a certified base to increase application security,” said Bertini.
The team is also running developer workshops to introduce the new Red Hat OpenShift 4 features and encourage their adoption.
“As more of our telco services move to an as-a-Service model, we are transforming our legacy application architecture to a microservices architecture,” said Bertini. ”Red Hat provides the robust yet easy to manage technology that we need to support this new approach.”
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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.
The CIONET Cookbook uses the analogy of a five-star restaurant to explain the importance of optimally integrated technology, with the CIO as Master Chef. In order to provide the best service to its customers, a top restaurant must have the right atmosphere, an inviting menu, a well-equipped kitchen, talented and committed front-of-house and kitchen staff and smooth-running processes that ensure an enjoyable experience for diners.
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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