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Germany Sep 9, 2025 Country Members Physical german

Frankfurt: AI Driven Logistics

Vom ersten Use Case zur strategischen Neuausrichtung CIONET lädt bereits zum vierten Mal zu einem exklusiven Roundtable für CIOs und Digitalverantwortliche aus Logistik und Handel ein. Im Mittelpunkt des Abends steht die Frage, wie Unternehmen ihre KI-Initiativen erfolgreich skalieren und aus ersten Use Cases echten strategischen Mehrwert schaffen. Microsoft 365 für Frontline Worker: Moderne Tools, die Mitarbeitende im Tagesgeschäft entlasten ServiceNow für Prozessintegration: Automatisierte End-to-End-Workflows – vom Schadensfall bis zur Retourenabwicklung KI-gestützte Disposition und Planung: Mit smarten Algorithmen zur optimierten Supply Chain Digitale Lieferketten und letzte Meile: Transparenz, Effizienz und Kundenzentrierung durchgängig gedacht

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Belgium Sep 13, 2025 All Members Physical english

CIONET Cycling Event

Join us for a wonderful ride. The ride is accessible to all levels of riders and doesn't require extensive technical skills. More information will follow soon. Looking forward to ride together!

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Germany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german

München: Cyber Security Fatigue

Cybersecurity ist längst kein reines IT-Thema mehr – sie betrifft das gesamte Unternehmen. Doch während die Bedrohungslage zunimmt, geraten viele Security-Verantwortliche an ihre Belastungsgrenzen: zwischen 24/7-Verantwortung, wachsenden Anforderungen und dem ständigen Innovationsdruck.

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Germany Sep 17, 2025 Country Members Physical german

Köln: CIO & CISO, das Rezilienz-Power-Duo

IT-Betrieb und Cybersicherheit stehen heute unter extremem Druck: steigende Komplexität, wachsende regulatorische Anforderungen (NIS2, DORA, KRITIS), chronische Ressourcenknappheit – und gleichzeitig eine Bedrohungslage, die keine Verzögerungen duldet. Trotzdem agieren viele IT- und Security-Teams noch immer in Silos. Die Folge: ineffiziente Abläufe, Tool-Wildwuchs, langsame Reaktion auf Vorfälle und unklare Verantwortlichkeiten.

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Germany Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Virtual german

Online: Nachhaltige IT - CIDO Priorität

Nachhaltigkeit ist für CIOs nicht nur ein „Nice-to-have“, sondern eine strategische Priorität – sie beeinflusst direkt die finanzielle Performance, die operative Effizienz und die langfristige Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.

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Belgium Sep 18, 2025 Country Members Physical french

Les Rencontres: La dette technique : Un défi stratégique pour les entreprises

La dette technique est comparable à la négligence des réparations d'une maison. Ignorer un toit qui fuit peut faire gagner du temps aujourd'hui, mais cela pourrait conduire à l'effondrement du plafond plus tard. Pour remédier à la dette technique, il faut trouver et réparer ces fuites dès maintenant et mettre en place un plan d'entretien de la maison afin qu'elle soit prête pour les extensions futures. Pour résoudre ces problèmes, il faut définir des priorités stratégiques, communiquer clairement avec les parties prenantes et établir une feuille de route à long terme pour la modernisation. Cet événement se déroulera entièrement en français.

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Snorkel AI Teams with Google Cloud and Vertex AI to speed AI deployment

With Snorkel AI and Vertex AI enterprises can extract crucial information from complex documents.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping virtually every industry. Within the financial services sector, for example, McKinsey estimates that AI has the potential to generate an additional $1 trillion in annual value while Autonomous Research predicts that by 2030 AI will allow operational costs to be cut by 22%. And yet – despite AI’s potential – Gartner predicts that by 2024 half of current AI deployments will be either delayed or canceled outright.

The unfortunate reality is that despite spending millions on AI initiatives and assembling incredibly talented teams, most teams are struggling to achieve meaningful AI outcomes.

Snorkel AI and Google Cloud have partnered to help organizations successfully transform raw, unstructured data into actionable AI-powered systems. The combination of Google Cloud services with Snorkel AI’s data-centric AI platform accelerates training data curation for ML development 10-100x [1] and empowers enterprises to solve some of their most critical challenges by accessing all of their knowledge and data to build AI systems.

Snorkel Flow easily deploys on Google Cloud infrastructure, ingests data from Google Cloud data sources, and integrates with Google Cloud’s AI and Data Cloud services. Snorkel AI and Google Cloud are extending our partnership to include high-value integrations that further streamline MLOps workflows—for example, Snorkel Flow’s native integration with Google BigQuery and a new integration with Vertex AI to train and deploy powerful AI applications faster and at scale.

 

Snorkel AI redefines AI application development with a data-centric approach

Snorkel AI addresses the biggest blocker to AI deployment: the massive hand-labeled training datasets needed to train ML models. Enterprises have a treasure trove of valuable insights embedded in files, contracts, conversation transcripts, emails, and other unstructured formats. Labeling unstructured data for ML projects has traditionally involved humans tagging each data point manually. This time-consuming, labor-intensive process is costly – and often infeasible – when enterprises need to extract insights from volumes of complex data sources or proprietary data requiring specialized knowledge from clinicians, lawyers, financial analysis or other internal experts. Worst of all, when data drifts or business requirements inevitably change, the process restarts from scratch and experts have to spend their time relabeling massive amounts of data.

Snorkel AI solves this bottleneck with Snorkel Flow, the data-centric AI platform. Data science and machine learning teams use Snorkel Flow’s programmatic labeling technology to encode and combine knowledge from sources such as previously labeled data (even when imperfect), heuristics from subject matter experts, business logic, knowledge bases, and even foundation models and then scale it to label large quantities of data at machine speed. Users are able to rapidly improve training data quality and model performance using integrated error analysis and model-guided feedback to develop highly accurate and adaptable AI applications.

 

Fast-track production AI applications with Vertex AI

With training data creation unblocked, data scientists can harness the full power of Google Cloud’s end-to-end platform to fast-track AI applications and analytics development. Traditionally data scientists have had to engage other teams to set up infrastructure and serve models, complicating and delaying the process. Vertex AI accelerates the training and deployment of ML models in production by abstracting the most technically complex processes, empowering data scientists to focus on building world-class ML models without having to be involved in underlying infrastructure elements.

In addition to providing data scientists with the autonomy to productionize their models for batch or online serving, Vertex AI enables data scientists to continuously monitor data and models in production using Model Monitoring to detect training-serving skew or feature drift.  

 

Snorkel Flow + Google Cloud Vertex AI

Snorkel AI has partnered with Google Cloud to enable data scientists to quickly generate high-quality training data over complex, unstructured data sources, train custom ML models or fine-tune pre-built models including latest foundation models and LLMs, and rapidly deploy ML models into production. Snorkel AI is now making it even easier for organizations to train, deploy, and monitor models with the new Snorkel Flow integration for Vertex AI (currently in private preview).

Snorkel Flow’s integration with Vertex AI streamlines and accelerates the MLOps process:

  • Snorkel Flow consumes unstructured data from Google Cloud data services such as Google Cloud Storage (GCS) and BigQuery. Snorkel Flow integrates natively with BigQuery, enabling data scientists to access data with just a few clicks.
  • Data is labeled programmatically using a data-centric AI workflow in Snorkel Flow. Snorkel Flow includes templates to classify and extract information from unstructured text, native PDFs, richly formatted documents, HTML data, conversational text, and more.
  • Data scientists can use high-quality training datasets created with Snorkel Flow to train AutoML models for text classification or custom use cases in Vertex AI. Alternately, Vertex AI Endpoints can be used to rapidly deploy models trained in Snorkel Flow. 
  • Vertex AI Model Monitoring helps maintain model performance by detecting data and model drift.
  • When data drift is detected, input feature values can be submitted to Snorkel Flow as signal. It’s easy to quickly adjust parameters as part of Snorkel AI’s workflow and rapidly regenerate the entire training set so models can be retrained in minutes using Vertex AI.

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Real-World Impact

Top US banks, healthcare, insurance, and other Fortune 500 enterprises have used Snorkel Flow to extract information from complex documents such as 10-K reports, clinical trial protocols, technical manuals, rent rolls, legal contracts, and more.

The combination of Snorkel AI and Vertex AI equip organizations to address challenges specific to their business requirements using proprietary unstructured data. Example use cases include:  

  • Customize patient treatments using EHR data. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain rich information – clinical notes, laboratory results, diagnoses, etc. – that can be utilized to tailor specific treatments for each patient. Traditionally, training classifiers for named entity recognition (NER) and cue-based entity classification have relied on hand-labeled training data, which requires considerable domain expertise. Academic research and customer experience have proven that Snorkel can outperform hand labeling with much faster, explainable results.  
  • Save costs with predictive well maintenance. Oil companies generate massive volumes of unstructured data in daily drilling reports, well maintenance logs, and other files. Rich information is buried within tabular PDFs with variable formatting. With Snorkel Flow, one leading energy provider built an AI application in 3 days that reduced the time to extract information from oil well drilling reports from up to 3 hours per report to a few seconds.  


Better Together: Snorkel AI + Google Cloud

Snorkel AI, Google Cloud and Vertex AI partner to help organizations transform data into AI-powered systems faster than ever.

Together, Snorkel AI and Google Cloud enable Fortune 500 enterprises to operationalize unstructured data and accelerate AI to keep pace with rapidly evolving needs of the business.

“The accuracy of any machine learning model is only as good as the data it was trained on, which is why we are delighted to partner with Snorkel AI to help data science teams eliminate the bottleneck of manual labeling. The combination of Snorkel AI’s programmatic, data-centric approach to labeling with Google Cloud’s ability to help organizations build, deploy and scale efficient AI models is a game-changer. Together, we are helping enterprises capitalize on the promise of AI and large language models to improve business processes, innovate, and ultimately transform their businesses.”

 Dr. Ali Arsanjani, Director of Cloud Partner Engineering at Google Cloud

 

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We’re excited to team with Google Cloud to help accelerate AI development across industries. Schedule a custom demo tailored to your use case with our ML experts today.

 

References

[1] Snorkel AI documented customer results reflect 45x, 52%, 98% and similar improvements vs land-labeling https://snorkel.ai/case-studies/ 

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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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