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A dedicated programme bringing together female digital leaders, role models and members across IT, Tech and Digital in Belgium. Featuring leaders with standout experience in transformation, innovation, leadership and inclusion, creating exchange on topics of key interest to our community.
CIONET's programme for French-speaking CIOs and Digital Leaders in Belgium. Through three exclusive executive gatherings each year, it provides a confidential, peer-driven forum where technology leaders exchange experiences, debate strategic challenges and explore the trends shaping the future of business and IT. Hosted in inspiring venues across Wallonia and Brussels, Les Rencontres combines thought leadership with meaningful peer networking.
A dedicated programme bringing together CISOs, CIOs, security leaders and our Business Partners around cybersecurity topics of key interest to the Belgian community. Featuring cyber leaders and experts with standout experience in resilience, risk, regulation, trust and security strategies and operations.
CIONET's long-standing executive forum, developed in close partnership with Telenet. Bringing together a select group of CIOs and Digital Leaders, the programme offers three strategic discussions each year on the technologies, leadership challenges and business priorities shaping the digital enterprise.
The CIONET European Annual Programme is a premium, dual-track residency, fostering strategic collaboration and executive learning among top European Digital Leaders. Developed for our members, it provides a trusted space to candidly benchmark strategies and tackle transformation challenges alongside true peers. The programme features two tracks: the Signature Circle, private, high-intensity sessions under the Chatham House Rule, and the CIONET Awards, a technology domain-led platform celebrating excellence that culminates in our flagship the London Gala.
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Belgium 10-11-2026 Squad Only Virtual English
Data platforms are meant to simplify access and support better use of data. The challenge is choosing and governing the platform landscape in a way that creates consistency, reuse, and long-term value. Three pressure points usually appear. - Platform choice becomes difficult when teams have different needs for speed, flexibility, cost, and control. - Business meaning needs protection: customer, revenue, product, risk, and FTE need shared definitions across tools. - Ownership and governance need to be clear, so platforms grow with accountability and discipline. The working question is simple: how do we give teams the data capabilities they need while keeping the platform landscape understandable, governed, and reusable? If these questions are familiar, let’s compare approaches with others facing the same data landscape.
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Belgium 13-11-2026 Squad Only Physical English
Many IT capabilities are essential and difficult to fund through a simple project ROI. The challenge is showing why architecture, governance, resilience, cybersecurity maturity, data foundations, and AI readiness deserve investment before the gap becomes expensive. Three pressure points make the case harder. - Shared value means the benefit often sits across several teams, while the budget sits in one place. - Timing creates friction because the cost is immediate while the value appears over time. - Risk translation is needed so business and finance leaders understand the consequence of delaying the investment. The working question is simple: how do we turn foundational IT capabilities into credible investment cases that link cost, risk, business value, and future flexibility? If you are building these cases internally, let’s compare how others are positioning value, risk, and timing.
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Belgium 19-11-2026 All Members Physical English
Public organisations are re-evaluating the digital foundations on which critical services depend. Cloud strategy is increasingly shaped by questions of operational control, legal exposure, supplier dependency, interoperability and long-term resilience. For public-sector leaders, the issue is not only where workloads are hosted, but how much strategic control remains over the technologies that support essential public services. This is where European cloud initiatives, sovereign infrastructure and open-source technologies become strategically important. Together, they can increase transparency, preserve portability and reduce dependency on individual providers. But they also raise practical questions around maturity, procurement, integration, support models and long-term sustainability. Open source brings a specific dimension to this discussion. It claims to better support transparency, interoperability and strategic autonomy, but it is also requiring clear governance, security controls and operational support. The opportunity is to understand where open technologies can strengthen the public-sector technology stack, where commercial platforms remain essential and how both can coexist within a coherent European digital strategy. Three questions shape the discussion: Which parts of the public-sector technology stack require stronger European control? What role should open-source technologies play in reducing dependency and strengthening transparency? Which governance and procurement decisions will determine whether a sovereign cloud strategy succeeds? Bringing these perspectives together can define where sovereign cloud and open technologies create strategic value, identify the decisions that deserve executive attention, and establish practical principles for strengthening Europe’s digital foundations while preserving flexibility and innovation. See you at the table?
Read More"My most memorable moment at CIONET was, in fact, the CIO of the National Lottery. I never knew that the ICT there in the National Lottery could be that exciting, and I learnt so much just in one talk."
Caroline van Cromphaut, IT Director Strategy & Enterprise Architect
Proximus
“The added value from CIONET is really the connections I can make with some of the top executives in our community.”
Bart Kerkhofs, CIO
Bridgestone
“It’s always professionally organised, in nice locations, and with a little fun factor which allows the connection you make deeper.”
An Swalens, CIO
National Bank of Belgium
"My most memorable moment at CIONET was, in fact, the CIO of the National Lottery. I never knew that the ICT there in the National Lottery could be that exciting, and I learnt so much just in one talk."
Caroline van Cromphaut, IT Director Strategy & Enterprise Architect
Proximus
"The added value from CIONET is really the connections I can make with some of the top executives in our community."
Bart Kerkhofs, CIO
Bridgestone
"It’s always professionally organised, in nice locations, and with a little fun factor which allows the connection you make deeper."
An Swalens, CIO
National Bank of Belgium