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Rajat Dhawan - Group Chief Digital & Technology Officer at Soho House - How Data & AI Enhance Member Experiences
Germany Nov 17, 2025 Country Members Virtual english
Many AI initiatives stumble at the very beginning—often because the data foundation isn’t ready. Success requires balancing proven systems with new technologies and finding ways to apply AI across hybrid environments. In this session, speakers from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland will share their perspectives on how CIOs can turn these challenges into real progress.
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Belgium Nov 18, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
As businesses navigate increasing demands for agility and digital transformation, aligning IT strategies with business goals is essential for success. This roundtable will bring together CIOs, CTOs, and Digital Leaders to explore how to develop and manage IT Operating Models that effectively support business objectives. The discussion will focus on the key components of an IT Operating Model, including people, processes, technology, and governance, and the importance of agility in today’s fast-paced environment.
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UK Nov 19, 2025 Country Members Physical english
Join us for the final community event of 2025 on 19th November in London. Join us for our community event on 21st May in London. Sponsored by Business Partners Cognizant, Orange Business, Entelect, Strategy, Stefanini & Thoughtworks.
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Belgium Nov 20, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
Every organisation sits on a mountain of data, builds new platforms, and experiments with AI. Yet the key question remains: how much of this activity creates value that leaders can see and measure? Data in isolation delivers little; without clear decisions, it clutters rather than clarifies. The task is shifting from stockpiling information to making better, faster decisions that scale across every channel and moment that matters. How to close the gap between data investments and business outcomes? Which decisions should be centralised, and which remain distributed? What role should AI and automation play in orchestrating relevance?
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Germany Nov 20, 2025 Country Members Physical english
CIONET, BT und Cisco laden am 20. November 2025 ab 18 Uhr zu einem vertraulichen Dinner mit ausgewählten CIOs und IT-Verantwortlichen aus Enterprise- und Großunternehmen nach München ein – Teil einer länderübergreifenden CIO-Gesprächsreihe in Europas wichtigsten Märkten. Im Zentrum der Diskussion steht eine der drängendsten Fragen unserer Zeit: Wie können Unternehmen digitale Souveränität angesichts geopolitischer Risiken, wachsender Regulierung und technologischer Abhängigkeiten konkret umsetzen?
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Spain Nov 20, 2025 Country Members Physical spanish
Gala de entrega de los Premios CIONET Vocento 2025. Reconoceremos a las Compañías Líderes en Excelencia Tecnológica en Proyectos y a los Líderes Digitales del Año 2025.
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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.
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.
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.”
No touch, end-to-end automation streamlines manual processes and improves operational efficiencies
Low-code platform enables non-technical business users to build workflows and solve the problems they are closest to
Alteryx improves accounting accuracy and ability to meet rigorous SOX compliance requirements
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Radosław Maćkiewicz - CEO at COI - Empowering Citizens Through Digital Innovation
Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
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.
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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