Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
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Belgium 30-9-25 Squad Only Virtual english
Everyone has technical debt. The question is what to do with it. Refactor now? Wait for the next feature? Build on it and hope it holds? If you’re tired of debating whether to clean up or move on, this session helps you frame the debt conversation in a way that supports both speed and stability.
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Zespoły i ludzie w dobie zmiany w sposobie dostarczania usług. Jak przechodzimy przez złożone zmiany technologiczne i organizacyjne? Czy transformacje w obszarach infrastruktury zmieniają wymagania na przywództwo i kompetencje zespołów.
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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.
Read MoreBelgium 1-10-25 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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Architecture doesn’t happen in diagrams. It happens in minds, seasoned, curious, sharp minds that understand how the pieces fit. But who’s shaping these minds? Who’s growing the next generation of digital architects? If you’re responsible for complex systems, and for the people designing them, this session is for you.
Read MoreGermany Sep 25, 2025 Country Members Physical english
Join us for an evening of thought-provoking discussions, real-world use cases, and insights from digital leaders, tech-pioneers and academics as we explore the dynamics of the human-machine relationship.
Read MoreNetherlands Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical dutch
Alleen op uitnodiging. How can organizations proactively ensure business continuity and IT resilience in 2025 amidst increasing disruptions?
Read MoreGermany 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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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.
Read MoreUK 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.
Read MoreNetherlands 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.
Read MoreGermany Sep 25, 2025 Country Members Physical english
Join us for an evening of thought-provoking discussions, real-world use cases, and insights from digital leaders, tech-pioneers and academics as we explore the dynamics of the human-machine relationship.
Read MoreNetherlands Sep 25, 2025 Invitation Only Physical dutch
Alleen op uitnodiging. How can organizations proactively ensure business continuity and IT resilience in 2025 amidst increasing disruptions?
Read MoreGermany 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.
Read MoreGermany 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.
Read MoreUK 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.
Read MoreNetherlands 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.
Read MoreToyo Engineering Automates Complex Engineering Processes with Alteryx
Toyo Engineering, a global EPC leader serving giants like ExxonMobil and BASF, faced a daunting challenge: managing vast, complex datasets. By implementing Alteryx, Toyo revolutionized its operations, automating data processes, improving efficiency, and unlocking new opportunities for innovation
You may not have heard of Toyo Engineering (hereinafter referred to as TOYO), but they have a footprint in many well-known global brands like Exxon Mobile and BASF. The company provides engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services for large-scale chemical plants, primarily serving the hydrocarbon (oil and gas) and petrochemical sectors.
Construction of state-of-the-art chemical plants is a massive undertaking that requires precise engineering for every part that is manufactured. The DX Engineering Department at TOYO is at the heart of the process, responsible for engineering tool applications for the company’s EPC projects, including 3D CAD software that is used for the design and fabrication of piping in the plants they build.
The TOYO team uses a solution called Smart 3D (S3D), powered by Hexagon, to digitize every part. The 3D database is huge – just one project contains tens of thousands of tables, with millions of records stored in each table.
In order to extract data for each project, engineers had to combine dozens of tables with SQL and output to a CSV file, and then process with Excel. Each project could take thousands of hours for the millions of records that had to be pulled, cleansed, and consolidated.
Project Team Manager Jifeng Qiu said the process overloaded their resources and wasted valuable time on repetitive, time-consuming tasks. “3D Administrators had to stop their work for a day or two for large data streams,” said Qiu. “Since Excel is not repeatable, they had to do the same task every day or every week.”
The manual process was also vulnerable to human error. “We were copying and pasting from Excel to Excel or even worse, from PDF to Excel,” said Ippei Nakagawa, Alteryx CoE Member at TOYO. “Sometimes a digit or two would be missing but we didn’t realize it because we thought we were doing everything correctly,” said Qiu. The errors wouldn’t be noticed until the process was downstream, sometimes a month or two later, causing expensive and unnecessary delays or re-works.
As part of TOYO’s larger mission to promote digital transformation, the DX Engineering team adopted Alteryx Server and Designer to automate the tedious and time-consuming process of extracting data and generating reports, 3D modeling work and design quality control check.
The key to automating the process was an API connection. With Alteryx, TOYO set up an API with S3D and automated design rules so engineers could build models within Alteryx.
Using Alteryx significantly reduces the number of SQL types and users can create multiple reports (some workflows extract 30 kinds of reports) with different purposes at the same time. Qiu says his team is running more than 100 schedules and generating 250 kinds of reports and 1,700 files every day for multiple projects on Alteryx Server. “Alteryx can make the impossible possible. We have automated the complicated 3D modeling work process required for construction DWG generation by Alteryx, which was considered impossible before introducing Alteryx,” said Daisuke Tsuchiya, 3D CAD R&D Task Leader. He estimates they have saved more than 38,000 hours on one project alone, which equals an 85% reduction in man-hours.
With Alteryx, we can significantly improve the productivity of our data ETL activities, interfacing with Power BI or Tableau for visualization,” said Qiu. “More importantly, it is a repeatable process.
Jifeng Qiu
Project Team Manager, Toyo Engineering
Getting started with Alteryx was easy and contributed to fast time to value. The no-code, low-code, drag-and-drop capabilities enable TOYO users of all skill levels to build workflows and reports without assistance from data experts.
“Alteryx is very easy to use for Excel users without IT or programming skills,” said Motoi Tokimatsu, Senior Engineer of the R&D Team. “They can easily develop workflows and get the required output by themselves.”
Empowering engineers and other business users with automated analytics is accelerating digital transformation efforts and a data-driven culture at TOYO. The time saved using Alteryx is also opening new opportunities for innovation. “We can use the extra time to focus on education and improving design quality,” says Nakagawa.
Improvements in quality have downstream benefits by reducing design changes, re-works and expenses at the construction site. Field Revision Instruction, or FRI, which is issued to construction contractors to solve issues such as modifying pipe routes to solve the clash or design errors. “Having to make a fix to an error found during an FRI can drive up organizational expenses by 10x,” said Qiu.
TOYO’s analytics automation for the design quality control checked by Alteryx has significantly reduced the drawing checking man-hours and number of re-works at the construction site and the risk of having to cover costs resulting from an error being found during the installation.
Qiu sees unlimited possibilities using Alteryx in the future. He envisions leveraging AI for predictive capabilities to estimate how to make better cost estimations for clients based on historical data.
For now, Qiu and his team are happy to have the days of time-consuming, manual work behind them. Instead, they are focusing on using advanced technologies like Alteryx to make flawless products and happy customers.
Alteryx improves productivity and significantly reduces the time spent on repetitive, manual work
Intuitive drag-and-drop capabilities allow users with non-technical backgrounds to build workflows and generate reports with ease
Automating manual processes with Alteryx removes the risk of parts that are not designed to specifications due to human errors
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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.
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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