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Belgium Jun 3, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

AI, Ethics & Aesthetics

Artificial intelligence not only presents technological challenges but also raises fundamental questions about what it means to be human. This interactive workshop brings together CIOs, an AI artist and an ethicist to examine the impact of AI on our human values, dignity and creativity. We will explore the tension between technological advancement and the essence of being human, seeking an ethical framework for the development and implementation of AI. Prepare for an inspiring journey that will broaden your perspective on AI, art and the future of humanity. 

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Germany Jun 3, 2025 Country Members Physical german

München: AI Party - Build your own AI Agent

Erlebe auf unserer AI Party am 3. Juni im 2025 Fujitsu Tower, wie agentenbasierte KI echte Business-Prozesse automatisiert und optimiert. Mit dabei: Praxisnahe Use Cases, interaktive Demos, Expert:innen-Talks – und natürlich Drinks, Beats & Networking!

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Germany Jun 4, 2025 Country Members Physical german

Köln: CYBERSECURITY ROI

CIOs und CISOs stehen vor der wachsenden Herausforderung, den Spagat zwischen steigendem Budgetdruck, zunehmenden IT- und Security-Kosten und einer immer komplexeren Bedrohungslage zu meistern.  Wie gelingt es, Security-Strategien effektiv und kosteneffizient auszubalancieren? CIONET und Trend Micro laden CIOs und CISOs herzlich zu einem exklusiven Roundtable-Dinner in Köln am 4. Juni 2025 ein, um in einem vertraulichen Rahmen Erfahrungen und Strategien zu diesen wachsenden Herausforderungen auszutauschen.

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Germany Jun 5, 2025 Country Members Virtual german

Online: State of Data Infrastructure - Solving the Skills Gap

Die IT Skills Gap stellt eine wachsende Herausforderung dar, da Unternehmen Schwierigkeiten haben, die Talente zu finden, die sie benötigen, um in zunehmend komplexen Umgebungen erfolgreich zu sein. Technologische Fortschritte – insbesondere in den Bereichen Künstliche Intelligenz und Automatisierung – verändern IT-Rollen grundlegend und definieren die Arbeitsweise von Unternehmen neu. Gleichzeitig führt der Aufstieg globaler Organisationsnetzwerke und stark vernetzter Partnerökosysteme zu zusätzlichen Ebenen operativer Komplexität.

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Poland Jun 5, 2025 All Members Physical Polish

COMMUNITY EVENT #5: A NEW CIO: FIRST 365 DAYS

Community Event #5 : A NEW CIO: THE FIRST 365 DAYS

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Belgium Jun 5, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

Telenet Business Leadership Circle - Critical Infrastructure

The escalating cyber threat landscape demands urgent action to protect critical infrastructure. This exclusive roundtable, for CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs in banking, utilities, airports, and related sectors, tackles these challenges head-on.  Participants will explore the evolving threat landscape, analyzing the latest attacks from nation-state actors, ransomware, and supply chain compromises, including recent breaches.

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Newport ONE Improves Nonprofit Revenue With AI-Powered Analytics Insights

Newport ONE, a nonprofit fundraising agency, boosted campaign performance using Alteryx. By consolidating data and automating analysis, they gained deeper insights into donor behavior. Alteryx empowered the team to create custom reports, identify high-performing segments, and optimize campaigns for maximum ROI.

There’s a story behind the name of Newport ONE, a full-service fundraising agency for nonprofit organizations. They believe in the power of one — one person, one donor, or one organization that can make a difference in the world.

The direct response fundraising agency helps nonprofits engage with their donors through marketing campaigns. Like any business, nonprofits must spend money to make money. The goal of Newport ONE is to make sure their clients get the highest return possible on campaign investments.

“When you’re in the nonprofit sector, every dollar spent is very important,” says Collin Ward, Chief Innovation Officer at Newport ONE. “We want to make sure it’s spent wisely and that it’s returning more than double what we’re putting out.”

 

Improving direct response performance

To ensure ROI for their clients, Ward says every direct response campaign they put out is heavily measured and scrutinized. “Every day we look at ways to improve campaign performance for our clients and help them raise more money,” Ward says.

To help them achieve this goal, Newport ONE is using Alteryx to quickly analyze data and uncover critical audience insights. “It’s helping to bring all our data together, to see and build reports that we never had before,” remarks Ward.

Alteryx is a marketer’s dream, especially if you’re a data-driven marketer.

Collin Ward

Chief Innovation Officer, Newport ONE

Ward and his team also rely on AI-powered Auto Insights to automatically surface insights they can use to improve campaigns, “With Auto Insights, we’re improving ROI by targeting the right people. It’s pointing to key segments that are overperforming and we’re able to feed into a model and improve campaign performance by 20-30%.”

 
 

Reporting in minutes

Alteryx also makes it a breeze for Ward and his team to get campaign reports in the hands of clients. They used to rely on time-consuming manual processes, excel spreadsheets, and outside partners to run reports. “It was so much more manual work and so much more time spent compared to now.”

With Alteryx, they get answers at the speed of business. “We get daily feeds from our clients and can create reports that they have access to 24/7,” says Ward. “Within minutes, I can see everything that’s going on instead of manually going through reports.”

Newport ONE further accelerates reporting to clients with Magic Documents, part of the Alteryx AI engine. Harnessing generative AI, Magic Documents automatically summarizes findings and key insights into an email message or PowerPoint deck that can be sent to any audience at any time.

 

Democratizing data

Ward says the easy-to-use Alteryx interface also empowers everyone at Newport ONE to access, analyze and draw insights from data, regardless of their technical skills. “Data and reporting are so important to what we do and is not exclusive to the data analyst,” says Ward. “I’m not an expert in some of these coding languages so Alteryx has empowered me and my team to become data experts.”

Alteryx has changed our lives. It’s beyond democratizing data, it’s just made things so much easier.

Collin Ward

Chief Innovation Officer, Newport ONE

 

Infusing AI into the enterprise

Alteryx is also helping Newport ONE turn AI hype into reality by leveraging the benefits of generative AI within a governed and secure solution. “Alteryx is thinking of ways to infuse AI into every product in a smart way that helps the end user speed up the time they typically spend on something,” says Ward.

As for what’s next at Newport ONE, Ward says he’s looking forward to what the future holds for his team and how they use Alteryx, “the way Alteryx is enhancing and improving their tools, we’re able to do more than we ever thought we could.” That includes more than they thought they could to fulfill their mission of enabling the power of one to make a difference in the world.

 

BENEFITS OF USING ALTERYX
Ease of Use

Alteryx empowers a data-driven culture with no-code, low-code capabilities that non-data experts can use to gain insights and improve decision making

Time Savings

Alteryx replaces time-consuming manual spreadsheet work with automated workflows and AI-powered reporting processes

Accelerated ROI

Using Alteryx helps Newport One increase the ROI of marketing campaigns by improving customer insights and targeting

Checkout our CIONET COOKBOOK

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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.

CIONET TV

 
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Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge

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Isabelle Droll - CIO for Airline, Corporate, Hotels & Resorts and Sustainability at TUI - Data, Diversity, and Destinations

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Sharon Prior - CIO in transition - How Great Tech Leadership Begins with Business Thinking

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José Antonio López, Group CIO at TOUS - Jewels, Data & AI: Inside the Digital Transformation of TOUS

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Tom Tanghe - General Manager ITC EMEA at Daikin Europe - Reinventing the CIO Role

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CIOFEST 2025 - From Order Taker to Proactive Disruptor

CIONET Reports

 
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The impact of AI on ICT

The evolution of AI is comparable to that of IT, but it’s happening much faster. As with IT in its early days, AI is becoming deeply embedded in almost every business function. Amara’s Law also applies here: we tend to overestimate AI’s short-term effects and underestimate its long-term impact. This makes it essential to embed AI across your company in a structured way.

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CIOFEST UK: Charting Your CIO Career

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the event's insights and reflections from industry leaders, along with actionable takeaways for IT professionals aspiring to reach leadership positions.

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Investment Report 2025- Risk-on, Risk-off

In this report, Roger Camrass reviews the financial events of 2024 and presents his opinion on investment prospects for 2025 Roger has followed global finance markets closely for over 40 years and summarises trends in investment reports annually1 As former Research Director at CIONET, Europe’s largest community of digital leaders2, Roger has first-hand knowledge of digital trends

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Head of IT Germany and Regional Office Lead Munich, Microsoft

“The CIONET App allows us to learn from eachother and and find the courage to be authentic by hearing stories from others! Thanks to Tobias and the whole team for bringing us together:-) ”
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About CIONET

CIONET’s mission is to help IT executives become more at ease and above all more successful in their jobs. So they can do more than just keep up with change but ultimately define it. CIONET opens up a whole new universe of opportunities in IT management.

With the largest membership of corporate digital leaders across Europe, Latin America, US and Australia, CIONET has the expertise and pioneering vision to solve or address any IT management challenge.

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