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Belgium Oct 23, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

AI: The Great Illusionist

How to lead responsibly when technology can deceive better than a human?  AI’s ability to shape our perceptions and create new realities is becoming increasingly sophisticated. While it opens significant opportunities, it also carries risks. What happens when AI goes beyond data and algorithms to influence - or even deceive - our senses? How does this change not only our understanding of reality but also the foundations of trust, creativity, and truth in business? AI isn’t just transforming business, it is altering how we experience and interpret everything around us. From AI-generated deepfakes to personalised experiences designed to influence behaviour, the line between truth and illusion is increasingly blurred. This event combines a roundtable discussion among peers with a hands-on sensory workshop, where you will experience illusions through sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch. Through these experiments, we will confront the ethical dilemmas that arise when AI has the power to fabricate realities and influence decisions.

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Germany Oct 23, 2025 Country Members Physical german

Frankfurt: Von Datensilos zur Enterprise AI-Engine

Längst ist klar: Die KI-Transformation im Unternehmen beginnt mit der richtigen Dateninfrastruktur. Auf dem Weg zu einer “Enterprise AI-Engine”, in der Unternehmen KI für die eigenen Daten effizient nutzbar machen, müssen bewährte Fundamentals jedoch nicht gleich über Bord geworfen werden. Der CIO im Zentrum eines strategischen Transformationsprozesses sollte vor allem die richtige Balance zwischen Bestand und Innovation finden. Die zentrale Frage lautet daher: Wie lassen sich modernste KI-Technologien in hybriden Umgebungen nutzen, wenn viele Daten noch in gewachsener Infrastruktur liegen? Genau diese Fragestellung – und die nachfolgenden Diskussionspunkte – greifen wir am 23. Oktober im Rahmen eines exklusiven CIDO Roundtables auf.

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Germany Oct 23, 2025 Country Members Physical german

München: Wird der AI Act zum Treiber der AI Adoption?

KI-Initiativen stehen heute unter doppeltem Druck: schnell Wirkung entfalten und dabei verantwortungsvoll skalieren. Der AI Act bringt neue Anforderungen, aber auch die Chance, Governance neu zu denken, Use Cases sicher zu operationalisieren und Vertrauen aufzubauen.

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UK Oct 23, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english

Agentic AI: how to extract value end-to-end

At this CIONET executive roundtable – brought to you in association with UiPath – we’ll explore this question and more. Bringing together senior IT professionals from across multiple vertical markets, we will focus on the benefits of agentic AI as applied to end-to-end processes. And we’ll seek to understand how organisations might overcome automation barriers to drive greater value creation.

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Spain Oct 23, 2025 Invitation Only Physical spanish

Control, trust and resilience in an era of geopolitical and regulatory shifts

En este debate estratégico, acompañados por Vanessa Escribá, Group CIO de Mapfre, y en el exclusivo restaurante Gaytán pondremos el foco en el papel esencial de la red como base para garantizar el control, la confianza y la resiliencia de nuestras compañías.

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Poland Oct 28, 2025 All Members Physical Polish

COMMUNITY EVENT #8: OCTOBER CYBERFEST

OCTOBER CYBER FEST

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DoorDash Accelerates Revenue Data Management and Accuracy with Alteryx Analytics Cloud

DoorDash, a food delivery giant, harnessed Alteryx to revolutionize its finance operations. By automating processes and consolidating data, the company achieved significant time savings and improved accuracy. Alteryx empowered DoorDash to make data-driven decisions, meet rigorous compliance standards, and focus on strategic initiatives.

The idea behind DoorDash, the largest food delivery platform in the U.S., started as a class project. The co-founders were students at Stanford who took a joint engineering and business course called “Startup Garage.” It was there that they bonded over their mutual interest in using technology to help local business owners.

After interviewing hundreds of small businesses, they realized food delivery was a common pain point. Using their coding skills to build a prototype, and their own cars, the co-founders were the original ‘dashers’, delivering food across the campus of Stanford. Today, the company supports hundreds of thousands of merchants and millions of customers in more than 500 cities across North America.

 

Wrangling a mecca of data

As a tech company that focuses on logistics, the accounting team at DoorDash manages what Alex Barr calls the ‘mecca of data’. Barr is Senior Manager for Revenue Data at DoorDash. His team owns the data technologies and financial processes within the company that support financial reporting. “I would say that core accounting, tax and finance are using approximately 1000 workflows within our environment,” says Barr.

Like many accounting teams, DoorDash was dealing with a growing volume and complexity of data combined with pressure to speed up processes. Foundational to everything is meeting the rigorous standards to be SOX compliant.  “Sox compliance is key for an accounting organization, but also it’s the foundation to any good business process,” Barr says.

 

Accelerating transformation in the cloud

These were all compelling factors in the decision by DoorDash to roll out a cloud strategy that included Alteryx Analytics Cloud. Barr says Alteryx has transformed what used to be complex and time-consuming financial processes with no touch, end-to-end automation.  “We use Alteryx for streamlining tons of different operational processes, from self-service data acquisition, conducting in-depth financial analysis, automating transactions, and ensuring our account reconciliations are automatically prepped and accurate.”

Alteryx Analytics Cloud is a key game changer within our business process transformation.

Alex Barr

Senior Manager for Revenue Data, DoorDash

 

The automated and low-code capabilities of Alteryx enable accountants and data analysts to quickly develop analytic workflows and significantly improve efficiencies. “We’re probably saving 25,000 hours a year and millions in ROI,” says Barr.

The time savings also enable the team to focus on more value-added, strategic tasks. “We can free them up to do things that can help us drive better and more accurate accounting.”

 

I can't imagine a world without Alteryx, without a tool that's low-code, that's so easy to train on, is so easily scalable.

Alex Barr

Senior Manager for Revenue Data, DoorDash

 

With seamless integration capabilities, DoorDash has also been able to integrate the Alteryx Analytics Cloud platform with their Workato platform, exponentially increasing data management capabilities. “Data can be pushed from Alteryx Analytics Cloud into Workato to do things like creating Jira tickets, creating transactions within our ERP system,” says Barr. This integration has enabled seamless workflow management and increased efficiency in their operations.

While accounting may appear to be a back-end process, Barr and his team know they support the greater mission of DoorDash to service merchants, customers and ‘dashers’. Barr says “it’s not just about accounting, it’s also to doing good business and being responsive to our customer needs.”

 

BENEFITS OF USING ALTERYX
Speed

No touch, end-to-end automation streamlines manual processes and improves operational efficiencies

Ease of Use

Low-code platform enables non-technical business users to build workflows and solve the problems they are closest to

Accuracy

Alteryx improves accounting accuracy and ability to meet rigorous SOX compliance requirements

 
 

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.

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CIOFEST 2025 - From Order Taker to Proactive Disruptor

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The role of the CIO has evolved from managing systems to shaping outcomes: growth, resilience, and competitive edge are now won or lost in the technology arena. Today ’ s CIOs must balance stability with innovation, control costs while attracting scarce talent, and modernise legacy infrastructure while adopting emerging technologies.

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A research proposal_AI and the Human Experience

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.

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Cybersecurity in critical infrastructure

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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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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From our local and global events, from our publications and research to our executive education programmes, everything we do is aimed at making sure digital leaders maximise their potential.

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