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Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
Belgium Jul 3, 2025 Invitation Only Physical english
Digital Sovereignty - Securing Corporate Autonomy in a Fragmented World In an era marked by geopolitical instability and escalating digital dependencies, corporate leaders face a critical imperative: reclaiming control over their digital ecosystems. This exclusive CIONET executive dinner offers a platform for CIOs, CTOs, and digital leaders to delve into strategies for achieving digital sovereignty. Key discussion points include: Redefining Digital Sovereignty for Enterprises: Exploring how digital sovereignty extends beyond national borders to encompass corporate control over digital assets, infrastructure, and data. Infrastructure Independence: On-Premises vs. Cloud: Evaluating the trade-offs between on-premises infrastructure and cloud services in the context of control, scalability, and sovereignty. Sovereign AI: Building Autonomous Intelligence: Discussing strategies for developing AI capabilities that align with corporate values and operate independently of external platforms. Vendor Lock-In and Technological Autonomy: Identifying risks of dependency on specific vendors and exploring approaches to achieve technological independence. Investing in Sovereign Digital Capabilities: Strategising investments in infrastructure, talent, and processes to build and sustain digital sovereignty. Join us for an evening of insightful discussions, shared experiences, and actionable strategies to navigate the complexities of digital sovereignty. Secure your organisation's future by understanding and implementing the pillars of digital autonomy.
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Italy Jul 3, 2025 Country Members Physical italian
Un appuntamento dedicato a Voi, la Community di Digital Leader più importante del nostro Bel Paese, per rafforzare e rendere sempre più speciale il legame di valore tra le persone che la compongono, brindando all’arrivo dell’estate.
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Germany Jul 3, 2025 Country Members Physical german
Das CIONET Sommerfest ist eine schöne Gelegenheit, CIONET-Mitglieder kennenzulernen oder wiederzutreffen und ein paar gemütliche Stunden miteinander zu verbringen.
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Germany Jul 7, 2025 Country Members Virtual german
KI gilt als Schlüsseltechnologie – doch viele Unternehmen kämpfen mit der Lücke zwischen Investition und echtem Mehrwert. Warum scheitern so viele Initiativen, und wie lässt sich Künstliche Intelligenz wirkungsvoll in die Praxis bringen? Diskutieren Sie mit uns, wie KI vom Buzzword zur echten Wertschöpfung wird!
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Italy Jul 8, 2025 Country Members Physical
Un appuntamento dedicato a Voi, la Community di Digital Leader più importante del nostro Bel Paese, per rafforzare e rendere sempre più speciale il legame di valore tra le persone che la compongono, brindando all’arrivo dell’estate.
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UK Jul 10, 2025 Country Members Physical english
Join us for our community event on 10th July in London. Sponsored by Business Partners Cognizant, Orange Business, Entelect, Strategy, Stefanini & Thoughtworks.
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Belfius - Transforming a digital workplace to increase customer trust
Discover how Belfius, one of Belgium's leading banks, partnered with Kyndryl to enhance their regulatory readiness in anticipation of the 2025 DORA deadline. By redefining their target operating model and conducting a comprehensive skills audit, Belfius successfully regained control over their IT infrastructure, increased flexibility, and ensured full transparency in their operations. This customer story highlights the practical steps taken by Belfius to strengthen their IT controls and achieve compliance, offering valuable insights for IT leaders navigating similar regulatory challenges.
As one of Belgium's leading banks and insurance companies, with a history of 150 years, Belfius serves 3.8 million customers, with over 12 thousand in the public sector. The company is embedded in all segments of the Belgian economy and society. Its brand values focus on caring for Belgian society by earning and maintaining the trust of every customer.
With the rise of hybrid work, Belfius recognized their need to transform their digital workplace environment. They needed to develop a secure, mobile, flexible and personalized solution that would enhance employee experience and enable Belfius to better serve their customers.
Belfius’ original digital workplace was implemented on premises at a time when dedicated telecom bandwidth was essential to guarantee consistent network performance for banking employees, so they could reliably and securely serve customers, especially in hundreds of Belfius branches. As internet bandwidth expanded, Belfius customers enjoyed fast mobile banking, but the bank’s employee-assisted services, based on a centralized application model, were sometimes hampered by unpredictable disconnections. At the same time, the centralized model faced challenges in keeping up with available technology upgrades and innovations. To address this, Belfius aimed to align its digital workplace with today’s requirements and expectations.
Together, Belfius and Kyndryl created a modernization strategy with a phased approach to minimize overall disruption to the business. This strategy supports Belfius in achieving their business goals by enabling faster delivery of new applications and smoother interactions with colleagues and customers.
In the first phase, Belfius designed and rolled out a new corporate device program that includes:
Belfius’ digital workplace transformation is built on leading Microsoft technologies:
Belfius has gained increased productivity and engagement with reduced risk as a result of these first phase achievements:
Currently, Belfius is refactoring virtualized applications to directly run on Microsoft Windows 11. This extends the benefits of the new digital workplace to Belfius employees regardless of where they are working.
“One of my favorite features of the Digital Experience Management is that corrective actions are taken even before the users notice a problem.”
Bart Vercammen
Head of Digital Workplace Services, Belfius
Kalman Tiboldi - CTO & Founder at GemOne-TVH - Simplify or Die: Why Complexity Is the Real IT Challenge
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Isabelle Droll - CIO for Airline, Corporate, Hotels & Resorts and Sustainability at TUI - Data, Diversity, and Destinations
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Sharon Prior - CIO in transition - How Great Tech Leadership Begins with Business Thinking
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José Antonio López, Group CIO at TOUS - Jewels, Data & AI: Inside the Digital Transformation of TOUS
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Tom Tanghe - General Manager ITC EMEA at Daikin Europe - Reinventing the CIO Role
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CIOFEST 2025 - From Order Taker to Proactive Disruptor
From economic uncertainty to governance, security and trade concerns, today’s IT leaders face unprecedented challenges that require them to navigate, and thrive, in chaos. That, at least, is the proposition of a new sequence of events from Cognizant and CIONET.
This high-energy panel event explored how artificial intelligence is transforming enterprise strategy, operations, and culture. Industry leaders from AstraZeneca, Orange Business, Strategy and Soho House shared how they are reimagining their organisations to stay competitive in the AI era.
The evolution of AI is comparable to that of IT, but it’s happening much faster. As with IT in its early days, AI is becoming deeply embedded in almost every business function. Amara’s Law also applies here: we tend to overestimate AI’s short-term effects and underestimate its long-term impact. This makes it essential to embed AI across your company in a structured way.
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