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Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
Germany Sep 29, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Unsere Wissensaustausch-Briefings "AI & Data Knowledge Transfer" zielen darauf ab, CIDOs und Senior Digital Leaders mit praktischen Anwendungen und umsetzbaren Erkenntnissen von Fachexperten zu vermitteln, die den Weg für transformative digitale Reisen ebnen.
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Germany Sep 30, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Von der Theorie in die Praxis: Erst Business, dann Bier.Unstrukturierte Daten sind das verborgene Kapital vieler Unternehmen – und zugleich eine der größten Herausforderungen moderner IT. Gemeinsam mit CIOs, CDOs und CTOs der CIONET-Community sprechen wir zuerst bei WeWork München über Strategien, Technologien und echte Use Cases, um dieses Potenzial zu heben. Danach geht's weiter auf die Wiesn – für den offenen Austausch in bayerischer Atmosphäre.
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UK Sep 30, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
This exclusive Jefferson dinner, hosted by Mendix and CIONET, brings together a hand-picked group of senior executives and digital leaders from across the UK financial sector.
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Netherlands Sep 30, 2025 Invitation Only Physical dutch
Alleen op uitnodiging. Mastering Digital Sovereignty Control, trust and resilience in an era of geopolitical and regulatory shifts. From the Network to the Data.
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Belgium Oct 1, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, organisations face a critical challenge: how to modernise their legacy systems while managing costs, maintaining security, and ensuring operational continuity. This exclusive round table discussion brings together CIOs, CTOs, and Digital Leaders to explore best practices for legacy and lifecycle management. Key topics include extending the lifespan of existing systems, mitigating cyber security risks, optimising costs, and integrating legacy platforms with modern technologies. We’ll also delve into sustainability, workforce challenges, and future-proofing IT infrastructures to navigate technological obsolescence.
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Germany Oct 7, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Alle nutzen KI, aber keiner weiß wie effektiv! Im Jahr 2025 sind wir als IT-EntscheiderInnen gefordert die Wünsche der Fachbereiche an Künstliche Intelligenz zu managen. Welche KI dient als Copilot für unsere Mitarbeitenden, inwieweit hat diese Zugang zu Firmenwissen und könnten wir heute bereits sinnvoll einen KI Agenten in die IT Systemlandschaft einbinden? Unser Business Partner Scheer PAS spricht als Anbieter einer Process iPaaS Plattform mit hunderten Unternehmen jedes Jahr über IT-Integration. In dieser Online-Session besprechen wir erste Reifegradmodelle zu KI, wo der deutsche Mittelstand sich befindet und wie wir die nächste Innovationsstufe erreichen. Wir teilen praktische Erfahrungen aus dem Marktumfeld und planen unsere nächsten Schritte in der Adaption von KI.
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Nordstrom Analytical Platform and Enhancing the Customer Experience
Nordstrom develops the Nordstrom Analytics Platform (NAP), which uses AI-powered analytics to personalize the shopping experience through deeper customer insights and predictions.
Chief Technology Officer, Edmond Mesrobian, recently participated in a conversation with VentureBeat's Hari Sivaraman, discussing the role of data infrastructure to enhance the customer experience. Focusing on AI-powered analytics, Edmond described the journey of building the Nordstrom Analytical Platform (NAP) to leverage deeper insights and predictions for a personalized experience. See highlights from their conversation below.
With our Nordstrom Analytical Platform (NAP), we are improving on our ability to provide personalized product discovery and service.
When we think about analytics as opposed to data reporting, timing is the most precious commodity, and making the timeliest decisions required us to build a platform. Whether it's stores, fulfillment centers or online, we built and translated those signals through models and actions. It's difficult to buy that type of solution off-the-shelf because you need to wire your enterprise. We asked, can we generate a prediction cost-effectively and translate that into a customer benefit and service? That's where we started, and we realized we needed to create it as opposed to buying it.
We embarked on this journey to get the business aligned so that we can capture events and stream them in real-time or near real-time into our analytical platform. We then layered analytical models of a variety of forms to translate into predictions—today's predictions are the new KPIs. Our goal was not to be technology providers for the components, but rather stitch it together to create the kind of analytical platform that we can then robustly drive machine learning. What we call our one-hop engine essentially translates our business events into something that could then be activated through a model. And so that's the special sauce—how we put the business events together, how we transformed them from one hop into our models and then generated predictions on the other end.
Our goal is to make the digital experience personal by offering our customers curated product choices on an individual level.
There are over a hundred AI models that we leverage daily at Nordstrom—a significant portion of them are backward-facing capabilities from inventory control to fulfillment and how to route orders to the nearest store and more. Customers will experience those capabilities indirectly in terms of getting orders shipped and delivered on time. Our mission and holy grail from a digital perspective is delivering the capability of discovery. Taking what we know about our customers we can deliver personalized products and better selection—through improved Looks, style boards and more. We are using AI in a more robust way to drive product discovery and personalization.
We are also focused on what we call our fashion map. The fashion map essentially takes a natural language-based approach with deep learning to interpret images and information from social networks—this allows us so to get to know customers through a natural language conversation, as opposed to keyword searches that are very taxonomy driven and hardcoded. We are continuing to work on achieving AI discovery to get closer to our customers in a personalized way.
See the full conversation below.
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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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