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Belgium 23-6-26 All Members Physical english

The Sovereignty Play : Sourcing for Autonomy, Resilience and Competitive Advantage

Sourcing for Autonomy, Resilience and Competitive Advantage. Global platforms offer incredible speed and innovation, but they also create deep dependencies that can expose your business to vendor lock-in, supply chain disruptions, and regulatory shifts. For today's CIO, the central challenge is no longer just about technology adoption; it's about building a digital foundation that is both agile and resilient. Strategic sourcing is the key. It has evolved from a procurement function into the primary tool for CIOs to navigate uncertainty, mitigate risk, and achieve digital autonomy. This session provides a practical playbook for using strategic sourcing to build a future-proof enterprise.

Belgium 30-6-26 Public Physical french

L'IT Public au point de rupture

L'IT Public au point de rupture : Vers un modèle à l'usage ? Transformer l'inertie en agilité : le défi du service public. Le constat : L’ère de la possession touche à sa fin Le citoyen n'attend pas que vous gériez des serveurs ; il attend des services. Pourtant, le modèle IT public reste prisonnier du « faire » plutôt que du « résultat ». Entre des budgets CAPEX verrouillés sur 5 ans et des cycles de procurement qui naissent périmés, l'écart se creuse. Le dilemme est stratégique : Comment passer d'une infrastructure que l'on subit à une informatique pilotée par le résultat (Outcome-based IT) ? Est-il possible d'adopter la souplesse du Cloud sans abandonner les clés de notre souveraineté ? L'objet du débat : Le "As-a-Service" au-delà du concept Nous vous invitons à remettre en question les promesses des modèles orientés vers la consommation. L'objectif est de débattre, sans tabou, du potentiel réel de ces approches pour le secteur public : Inverser la responsabilité : Passer de l'achat de matériel à l'achat de niveaux de service (SLA). Est-ce le secret pour libérer vos équipes de la maintenance ? Aligner le coût sur l'usage : En finir avec le surprovisionnement pour ne payer que ce qui est réellement consommé. Agilité "Procurement-proof" : Comment le modèle à l'usage permet-il de scaler en quelques jours ce qui prenait des mois d'appels d'offres ? La souveraineté par le contrat : Le "As-a-Service" sur site est-il le compromis idéal entre contrôle privé et flexibilité publique ? Le Format : "Zero Slides, Full Insight" Pas de présentation ni de marketing, uniquement une confrontation de visions entre pairs : Cercle restreint : Décideurs du secteur public francophone. Règle de Chatham House : Ce qui se dit à table reste à table. Débat pur : Une discussion structurée autour de vos doutes et de vos ambitions numériques.

Belgium 30-6-26 All Members Physical english

AI at Home

As AI becomes critical to business success, organisations in highly regulated sectors such as Financial Services, Critical Infrastructures and Defence, face strict data privacy, security, and compliance mandates that make public cloud AI a non-starter. This interactive session will explore the practical realities, both the benefits and limitations, of bringing enterprise-grade AI capabilities directly onto your own premises. Join CIONET, Kyndryl, and Dell Technologies for an exclusive, hands-on roundtable and live workshop on navigating the crucial intersection of artificial intelligence, data sovereignty, and autonomous operations. We will move beyond the theory by bringing the physical machine into the room for a live, air-gapped demonstration of cutting-edge workloads running entirely on-site. This interactive workshop will bring together Digital Leaders to: Demystify Sovereign AI at the C-Level: Review the strategic trade-offs, architecture, and compliance advantages of running localised AI models. See Zero-Leak Secure Code Review in Action: Watch a live demo of an on-premise LLM scanning software for vulnerabilities, ensuring your codebase never leaves your secure infrastructure. Experience On-Premise Agentic AI: Witness a local, autonomous monitoring agent, utilising advanced, Claude-level reasoning capabilities, managing critical IT Operations tasks completely offline. Collaborate on Best Practices: Engage with peers to discuss deployment timelines, security frameworks, and infrastructure requirements for true data control. Don't miss this opportunity to interact with live hardware, engage with industry peers, and gain actionable insights into unleashing the power of sovereign and agentic AI.

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Deutsche Bank democratizes application development with centralized platform

Deutsche Bank has embraced digital transformation by standardizing and streamlining developer access to compute capacity and other application resources to reach markets more quickly. Its new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Fabric, uses microservices and container capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, supported by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and managed using Red Hat Ansible Tower.

Benefits:

Cut end-to-end application development time from 6-9 months to 2-3 weeks
Simplified DevOps collaboration with flexible integration and agile approach
Optimized use and costs of datacenter and cloud capacity with microservices, containers, and cloudbursting

Platform complexity restricts efficient development

As a leading financial services provider for private, corporate, and fiduciary clients, Deutsche Bank has embraced the positive trends of digital transformation. By challenging traditional business approaches, the bank sought to enhance digital customer experiences — a goal directly tied to enhancing its developer experience.

“We’re focusing on shortening our development cycles so we can get products in front of our customers more quickly,” said Tom Gilbert, global head of cloud, application, and integration platforms at Deutsche Bank. “A need for greater agility is directing the industry to microservices, containers, and public cloud, and shifting the focus from infrastructure to ideas.”

But restrictive infrastructure specialization made integration difficult and application development slow. Managing thousands of servers and databases hindered growth and adoption of more agile technology. Many operating systems were being used across multiple datacenters.

The bank saw that a new, cloud-based approach was needed to support not only its current business, but also future data needs.

Deutsche Bank also wanted to support a more innovative, DevOps approach to replace its traditional waterfall processes and keep pace with rapid, iterative digital innovation. To gain the scale and flexibility needed, the bank sought to establish a PaaS that would streamline development and management, reduce risk, and support more agile work across all of its business units.

Open source technology supports global application development

To build its strategic as-a-Service platform, Deutsche Bank sought an open source solution. After years of success with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the bank added Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat Ansible Tower to build Fabric, a containerized, microservices-based application development platform at the bank.

“Red Hat offered the combination of open source with vendor support, patching, and management — all of the things that we need in a regulated business,” said Gilbert. “The shift from virtual machines to containers, and traditional applications to microservices, is a big one. We needed a partner that could help us build our deployment capabilities and train our global developer base so we could get maximum value from our investment.”

Fabric runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in several datacenters and in the bank’s Microsoft Azure public cloud environment. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides support for container- and microservices-based development, scaling compute and performance capacity from dedicated servers to cloud resources as needed. Both solutions are deployed and maintained using Red Hat Ansible Tower, a framework that automates and standardizes IT at enterprise scale.

Deutsche Bank’s developers and infrastructure teams worked with Red Hat Consulting to deploy and learn about OpenShift. “We enjoyed working with them. They helped us educate thousands of developers worldwide on how to develop cloud-native applications, and they’ve helped our infrastructure teams get used to this new technology and integrate it into the bank’s platforms,” said Gilbert.

Fabric hosts systems and tools for every application development team at the bank, from the retail group’s application programming interfaces (APIs) to internal HR and employee survey systems. In addition, Fabric offers elastic, on-demand compute to support tasks like daily risk calculations, which require large volumes of resources across data processing, disaster recovery, and acceptance and performance testing.

After two years, the platform is now running more than 3,100 projects in more than 15 environments, with 6,000 active monthly users. Releases every two weeks incorporate customer and user feedback to adjust features and performance.

Its successful creation of a DevOps-ready, container-based, global development platform earned Deutsche Bank a 2019 Red Hat Innovation Award.

Faster resource access speeds service time to market

Fabric offers global, standardized compute and other development resources across infrastructure providers through APIs to help Deutsche Bank’s developers work more efficiently. Developers can create their own container images and make them available in the platform. Instead of 6-9 months, applications now go from proof of concept (POC) to production in 2-3 weeks. Red Hat Ansible Tower automates provisioning, testing, and other routine tasks, saving the company months of engineering work and mitigating risk of errors during upgrades and maintenance.

Agile and DevOps practices simplify collaboration

To support its digital transformation, Deutsche Bank has embraced DevOps and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) approaches to developing at scale — supported by the flexibility of Ansible Tower and OpenShift Container Platform.

Integration and scalability are key to expanding these collaborative processes and taking advantage of the best ideas and code. “Instead of a hosted platform, microservices let us use elastic cloud resources to scale on demand,” said Boyle. “With Ansible and OpenShift, whether it’s a management report or a piece of data, once a service exists, we just need to expose it to other functions and applications for it to be reused.”

To keep these collaborative systems secure, Red Hat helps Deutsche Bank deploy the latest patches and updates to protect its Red Hat infrastructure from threats and vulnerabilities.

Containers and cloud help teams do more with less

Streamlining resource access has helped Deutsche Bank optimize its use of datacenter and cloud capacity, saving time, money, and resources.

Dense, container- and microservices-based infrastructure not only requires fewer staff to manage but also less hardware to run than VM-based infrastructure. By adopting cloud compute and running more workloads per physical server, Deutsche Bank anticipates saving millions of euros year over year.

Technologies

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat OpenShift

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