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Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
Germany Oct 20, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
Die Realisierung des Potenzials von KI und datengesteuerten Strategien stellt nicht länger nur einen Wettbewerbsvorteil dar, sondern ist Heute auch entscheidend für den langfristigen Erfolg eines jeden Unternehmens. Unsere Wissensaustausch-Briefings "AI & Data Knowledge Transfer" zielen darauf ab, CIDOs und Senior Digital Leaders praktische Anwendungen aufzuzeigen und umsetzbaren Erkenntnissen von Fachexperten zu vermitteln, die den Weg für die transformative digitale Reise ebnen und beschleunigen.
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Belgium Oct 21, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
In today's competitive landscape, customer expectations have never been higher. They demand a personalised, seamless experience at every touchpoint, from initial marketing contact to post-sale service. Unified data is at the heart of creating engaging customer experiences and is meant to fuel the 360 profile. However, for many organizations, a complete picture of the customer is fragmented, with critical data scattered in disconnected systems and departments. This exclusive roundtable will bring together Digital Leaders active in multiple industries to discuss a critical challenge: breaking down data silos to build a true 360° view of the customer. We will explore how to solve the complex integration challenges that prevent a unified view, and how to transform disparate data into a single source of truth. Join us to: Discover how to overcome the technical hurdles of integrating critical business systems, such as ERP and CRM platforms, to unify customer data. Explore real-world case studies on how organisations have successfully created unified customer insights to enhance personalisation and boost commercial and operational efficiency. Discuss best practices for turning fragmented data into actionable insights that can anticipate customer needs, drive revenue growth, and foster long-term loyalty. This is a unique opportunity for Digital Leaders who are ready to transform their customer engagement strategy and unlock the full potential of their data.
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Spain Oct 22, 2025 Country Members Physical spanish
Descubre cómo las organizaciones están utilizando la tecnología para impactar en el negocio a través de casos reales de uso y aprendizajes clave en áreas como ciberseguridad, automatización o data, contados por los protagonistas. Un espacio diseñado para inspirarte, conectar con expertos y potenciar la innovación en tu organización.
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Belgium Oct 22, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
Enterprises are questioning whether private networks and stacked firewalls are still worthwhile investments. A newer approach operates on the open internet with Zero Trust, eliminates perimeter complexity, and reframes cybersecurity as a business performance metric for boards and audit committees. This is a closed-door, peer discussion, not a lecture. We’ll examine the promise and its pitfalls: Are the promised savings significant, or are they too good to be true? What risks do you introduce? How does this collide with your installed base, legacy OT, entrenched processes and team competencies, and how do you overcome that without breaking operations or credibility with the board? Two senior leaders from global companies will spark the dialogue with lived experience: Kurt De Ruwe, CIO AkzoNobel Frank Bolata, CIO Syensqo
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Poland Oct 23, 2025 Invitation Only Physical Polish
Cloud UP! ’25 to miejsce spotkań managerów, którzy chcą świadomie i skutecznie rozwijać swoje organizacje, wykorzystując najnowsze technologie. Nieformalnym hasłem tegorocznej edycji jest “Chmura gotowa na AI” - będziemy rozmawiać o tym, co sztuczna inteligencja naprawdę potrafi oraz pokazywać, jak wdrażać ją w praktyce. Wspólnie z ekspertami przeanalizujemy, jakie warunki muszą zostać spełnione, aby wdrożenia AI były zarówno skuteczne, jak i bezpieczne. Zerkniemy za kulisy najnowszych rodzimych produktów AI-owych, by zobaczyć ich możliwości, a także poznamy najciekawsze wdrożenia z wykorzystaniem Agentspace. Po raz kolejny spotkamy się w formule Share.Explore.Execute. Stawiamy na wymianę wiedzy i doświadczeń zdobytych podczas realizacji projektów. To one stanowią punkt wyjścia do odkrywania, testowania i skutecznej implementacji najlepszych rozwiązań w organizacjach. Cloud UP! ’25 to cztery ścieżki tematyczne, na które złożą się prezentacje, rozmowy, sesje live-demo oraz pogłębione dyskusje w formule roundtables: AI: Beyond the Hype Data Mastery Resilience & Regulatory Advanced Practitioners Dołącz do liderów chmurowych innowacji w Polsce i spotkaj się z nami już 23 października w Event Hall w Fabryce Norblina.
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Belgium Oct 23, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
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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How do you modernize technology systems to deliver the fastest possible response times?
Discover how Securitas, a global leader in security solutions, partnered with Kyndryl to transform their IT infrastructure and ensure seamless, always-on operations. By modernizing their aging Tier 2 datacenters and implementing advanced, scalable technology, Securitas enhanced the performance and reliability of their Security Operations Centers (SOCs), which are crucial for real-time communication and operational efficiency. This case study is a must-read for CIOs and IT leaders looking to drive digital transformation and achieve high efficiency at scale.
Securitas has been making the world a safer place for 90 years
With 57,000 security endpoints monitored in the Security Operations Center (SOC), the Belgian Securitas operations team processes more than 3 million alarms a year. In Belgium, the company safeguards people, enterprises, private residences, and critical environments including airports, banks, government and military sites, hospitals, nuclear sites, police zones, ports and NATO HQ. They step in to resolve more than 68,000 situations in customer locations, some triggering police or firefighter response.
Ken Vanden Haesevelde, the Securitas IT Infrastructure Lead for Belgium and Luxembourg, describes the Securitas Belgium Security Operations Centers (SOCs) as the “beating heart of their security services.” Always-on system availability in the SOCs is essential to guaranteeing communications with guards on the ground.
In addition to the critical SOC communications, essential business applications enable Securitas guards, operators and staff to access their operational data, anytime and anywhere. Securitas employees, including those working from home, can access timecards and orders for training, uniforms, badging and equipment, HR, payroll and more.
Ken knew that the Securitas aging Tier 2 datacenters were experiencing increasing latency. He had sleepless nights worrying if or when infrastructure performance might compromise the safety of guards in the field.
Any outage would put client trust at risk and threaten the reputation of Securitas. And business expansion plans hinged on upgrading to modern infrastructure that would ensure operations performed with high efficiency at scale.
With datacenter performance challenges and the need to support future business, Ken saw an opportunity to address both with a single solution. Consulting with Wim Vancluysen, his Kyndryl partner, Ken envisioned a modernized infrastructure with:
For years, Securitas relied on Kyndryl as a trusted managed services partner and saw the team as an extension of their own. So Kyndryl was a natural choice for collaborator on Securitas’ infrastructure and network transformation.
Specially trained security officers with innovative data technology such as rugged phones with sensors that alert the SOC if a person is down, and AI capabilities, help provide fastest-possible responses. It’s vital that communications are up 24/7 to comply with security and resilience industry standards.
Securitas SOC operators continually monitor customer sites with cameras and react when alarms go off, which may generate police or firefighter involvement. Incidents in the field need to be addressed within seconds.
While maintaining business continuity in production, Kyndryl experts would work to introduce complex network services, monitoring for each Securitas customer, software support and a managed service desk, back-up and disaster recovery, and infrastructure management services.
Then, they’d need to install new hardware and networking systems and test the connections from the new data centers to client sites and the SOC—all ahead of planning the existing system migration. Working with Kyndryl as a single partner for both business as usual and the new solution helped Ken mitigate risks in coordinating the parallel efforts.
High-availability infrastructure designed to keep thousands of customers safe
Together, the Securitas and Kyndryl team scoped, designed and implemented new server and network infrastructure. Using VMware® tools, they migrated existing systems and applications to the new Kyndryl datacenter in southern Belgium. Using redundant links and dedicated customer VPN tunnels, the network now connects all core applications with 24/7 availability and added security layers around firewalls and load balancers.
To maintain the same high service levels for new and existing clients, Kyndryl networking experts needed to deploy higher bandwidth connections. These would ensure low latency communications between core applications and across operations.
A disaster recovery solution at the new datacenter complex was implemented by Kyndryl. Redundant networking between Securitas service centers, offices and datacenter sites ensured critical applications were available throughout deployment. Examples of improvement results include:
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) measured in minutes not days, so in case of an outage critical applications have excellent RTOs
More than 100 virtual machines migrated, including multi-tier networks and the security layer, together with end-to-end connectivity for Securitas’ customers
Project completed in just 4 months, without business interruptions
As part of new business as usual operations, Kyndryl enforces security parameters for each system, and keeps backup and recovery documents up to date for security compliance, easing the burden on Securitas.
Kyndryl Bridge™ proactively recommends solutions for issues that have not yet occurred and automates issue resolution as permissions allow. Kyndryl Bridge AIOps extends ITSM efficiency by applying solutions to issues tracked over years in thousands of other customer engagements to the Securitas systems. The team expects up to 90% of issues to be automatically resolved as their ITSM evolves and critical applications and system resilience are boosted.
Fix once and resolve-for-all is achieved with IT Service Management (ITSM) software to track system and performance. As they resolve issues, the team creates and distributes Red Hat® Ansible® playbooks across all servers, for automated issues resolution, with 50 playbooks running in the Securitas infrastructure deployment. The team also uses RedHat Ansible for software updates and patches, important to applying compliant systems.
Ken cites Kyndryl’s ongoing communication as a significant reason for the success of the operations and ongoing reassurance the Securitas clients are secure. The Securitas and Kyndryl operations team includes global experts working from more than five nations and in multiple languages. The team is far-flung but keeps in close contact, talking nearly every day.
The modernized infrastructure solution already has proven its business value in being able to accommodate company growth. In July 2022, Securitas announced the acquisition of Stanley Security, the Electronic Security Solutions business from Stanley Black & Decker Inc., growing their worldwide client base to more than 500,000 clients, and expanding their technology capabilities.
The Securitas leadership team extended its Kyndryl partnership with an expansion and approximately 100 new virtual machines to help support the Stanley Security acquisition. The project was completed at the end of February 2024.
Over the years, Kyndryl has always been a Securitas trusted partner through various IT transformations, infrastructure changes and datacenter migrations. Kyndryl exceeds themselves every time with very thorough planning and speed to act all while upholding a superb level of professionalism in all levels of their organization.
A key success outcome is that the modernized high-availability network and infrastructure have eliminated latency issues for end-to-end, fail-proof communication between the SOC and guards. This helps ensure the security of the company’s thousands of customers.
The migration to Tier 4 datacenters took just 4 months—without interruptions, maintaining business continuity for thousands of customers. Disaster recovery initiation for critical applications takes minutes, not days. With 50 playbooks implemented to solve incident alerts automatically and eliminate false alerts, service helpdesk resolution time goals are consistently exceeded. The anticipated 90% standardized ITSM task automation will help free IT experts from routine tasks to work on higher value projects.
Above all, the low latency of the new solution gives Securitas the solid foundation the team needs to evolve services based on remote monitoring technologies, which is the company's strategic business goal. Ken reports an additional key measure: being able to sleep better at night.
Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Securitas is a world-leading safety and security solutions partner offering on-site and mobile guarding, aviation and electronic security, fire and safety services and enterprise risk management.
Securitas’ Belgium employees monitor over 55,000 security endpoints, including residential customers, small organizations, and critical enterprise operations. More than 3.1 million alarms are processed annually, resulting in 53,200 effective interventions.
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CIOFEST 2025 - From Order Taker to Proactive Disruptor
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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