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Upcoming Events

 
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Belgium 3-7-25 Invitation Only Physical english

CIONET Round Table - Digital Sovereignty

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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Belgium 28-8-25 Country Members Physical english

20 Years CIONET - CIONET Belgium: Summer Festival

A special celebration marking 20 years of CIONET—two decades of empowering digital leaders and driving innovation in the technology landscape. This exclusive event will bring together our members to reflect on the incredible journey we've shared and look ahead to the future of digital leadership.Featuring keynote presentations from visionary CIOs, industry pioneers, and founding members, we’ll explore how far we’ve come and what lies ahead in the ever-evolving world of technology. Together, we will honour the contributions of our members who have shaped CIONET’s legacy while offering insights into how the community will continue to lead in the years to come.This is more than a celebration—it’s an opportunity to reconnect, reflect, and recharge with your fellow digital leaders. Don't miss this exclusive experience packed with inspiring talks, networking opportunities, and special recognitions that highlight the best of CIONET’s history and future.Let’s celebrate the past, present, and future of the digital community you helped build.

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Belgium 2-9-25 All TRIBERS Virtual english

What Does It Cost to Host an App? ; A practical guide to calculating hosting costs across infra, licenses, and operations

You’ve been asked a simple question: “What does it cost to host this application?” But the answer is anything but simple. The platform sits across multiple data centres. The app spans a few VMs, shares a backup system, uses licensed monitoring, and touches five different teams. Your CMDB should help, but it’s rigid, outdated, or incomplete. And yet, you still need to provide a number, clear, explainable, and grounded in reality.

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Upcoming TRIBE Events

 
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July 3, 2025 Squad Session Invitation Only Virtual polish

Własny SOC czy outsourcing? Analiza modeli operacyjnych w bezpieczeństwie IT

Zapraszamy na praktyczną dyskusję o wadach i zaletach różnych modeli utrzymania Security Operations Center. Dawid Wachowiak (TDJ) podzieli się doświadczeniami z wdrożenia i funkcjonowania modelu outsourcingowego. Porozmawiamy o tym, co wpływa na skuteczność SOC-a – od decyzji strategicznej po reakcję na incydent – i jak dopasować model operacyjny do potrzeb organizacji.

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July 14, 2025 Squad Session Invitation Only Virtual polish

Platforma KSEF – Krajowy System eFaktur

Ministerstwo Finansów zapowiedziało wdrożenie platformy KSeF na 2026 rok. Przygotowanie firm i ich systemów wymaga wiedzy o zakresie KSeF i elementach integracji na poziomie IT. Zapraszamy na kontynuację spotkania z udziałem przedstawicieli Centrum Informatyki Resortu Finansów (CIRF) i Ministerstwa Finansów.

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July 16, 2025 Squad Session Physical polish

TRIBES LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Tribes Leadership Circle to cykliczne, wysokopoziomowe spotkania wyłącznie dla dyrektorów obszarowych, posiadających dostęp w ramach wykupionego członkostwa.

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CIONET Partner Updates

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Cognizant personalizes the learning experience for more than 350,000 users with Azure Machine Learning

Cognizant empowers workforce with AI-powered learning platform. Built with Azure Machine Learning, "My Learning Studio" personalizes learning journeys through AI search & recommendations, helping employees upskill & reskill for the digital future.

Reimagining learning and development

In the future of work, organizations need to build a culture of continuous learning to enable employees to grow, stay current and adapt to rapidly evolving technology that is quickly altering the work environment and business processes. In this scenario, reskilling and upskilling are critical to unlocking the true potential of the workforce, leading to employee growth and organizational success. It is also a key value proposition in Cognizant’s goal to be the employer of choice in its industry and attract and retain top talent.

Cognizant has a comprehensive learning and development program and wanted to make sure that the requirements of the modern workforce were being fulfilled. So, it undertook a study focused on learning and development needs across the organization. The study gleaned some interesting results, revealing that employees wanted to forge their own learning paths, preferred greater autonomy in the selection of skilling programs, and wanted to be able to decide when and where to learn.

Delivering an enhanced learning experience with Azure Machine Learning

Taking a cue from its own employees, Cognizant decided to create a learning platform that would personalize learning and serve as a marketplace for skilling and reskilling content for all employees. The team realized that Azure Machine Learning’s ability to accelerate time to value would make it the ideal service to build the AI-driven search and recommendation engine of the learning platform.

Once Cognizant conceptualized its new learning experience and platform, naming it My Learning Studio (MLS), the Learning and Development team worked with Microsoft to design and deliver MLS using Azure Machine Learning. MLS, which offers AI-driven search and a recommendation tool, took about six months to be completed.

“With the potential information and content overload that we have today, it is critical that the Learning and Development team is able to help our associates identify the most relevant learning aligned to their roles, skill levels, interests, and other personal attributes,” says Saransh Agrawal, VP – Learning and Development, Cognizant. He adds, “AI-powered search and recommendations provide a rewarding experience for our associates and add more value to our self-guided learning ecosystem.“

With the potential information and content overload that we have today, it is critical that the Learning and Development team is able to help our associates identify the most relevant learning aligned to their roles, skill levels, interests, and other personal attributes AI-powered search and recommendations provide a rewarding experience for our associates and add more value to our self-guided learning ecosystem. 

Saransh Agrawal: VP – Learning and Development

Cognizant

MLS has been used by more than 170,000 unique users since its relaunch. The following enhancements have helped them enjoy a more productive and satisfying learning experience:

Hyper-personalized search results: MLS considers employee attributes such as role, grade, business unit, skill-proficiency level, and factors like course rating and consumption when producing search results. It delivers flexible content that is categorized by type (formal training courses, videos, articles, quizzes, etc.) to enable learners to discover the right content required to upskill themselves and learn according to their preferred style. The Azure-based search component has helped reduce throughput search time by 30-40 percent. It also delivers the most relevant results that match the search string, helping employees find courses quickly and achieve their L&D goals more effectively. Across more than 700,000 searches that include about 175,000 novel search strings, MLS has achieved an impressive 93 percent accuracy in presenting search results.

Providing associates with an opportunity to grow is a big part of retaining top talent. Our Learning and Development program also is critical to building an empowered workforce capable of keeping up with the latest technologies. The addition of Azure’s AI-powered search and matching capabilities to the platform has improved the associate experience and results. 

Neal Ramasamy: Chief Information Officer

Cognizant

More intelligent recommendations: To support continuous learning, MLS delivers the most relevant content with recommendations based on how popular the courses are among peers and the employee’s learning history. It also suggests prompts on search text for better search results. Since its launch in April 2022, the proactive recommendation system has seen approximately 83,000 unique users with a clickthrough rate of about 8 percent. Cognizant expects the clickthrough rate to rise to over 15 percent in two months.

Easily searchable content across multiple sources: Employees can search for learning content across MLS, SharePoint sites, content developed within MLS, and other internal and external sources.

Peer learning and knowledge sharingThe intuitive platform allows employees to develop and share formal and informal content. It enhances learning collaboration and greater knowledge sharing, resulting in more accumulated knowledge and expertise within the organization, which leads to better performance and productivity.

“Providing associates with an opportunity to grow is a big part of retaining top talent. Our Learning and Development program also is critical to building an empowered workforce capable of keeping up with the latest technologies,” says Neal Ramasamy, Chief Information Officer, Cognizant. He further remarks, “The addition of Azure’s AI-powered search and matching capabilities to the platform has improved the associate experience and results.”

Enriching the learning experience with more AI use cases

The innovative learning solution won the gold medal at the 2022 Brandon Hall Group Human Capital Management (HCM) awards, the largest and longest-running awards program in Human Capital Management.

Cognizant is looking forward to getting more value from MLS by implementing more AI use cases. These include leveraging data points such as employees’ skills, current learning trends in the organization, and peer learning behaviors to deliver more-customized search results and recommendations.

Additionally, Cognizant plans to introduce a feature that charts a customized learning path for employees based on their interactions with the tool. It also intends to leverage the tool to upskill employees faster and at scale based on the company’s business requirements.

By adding more layers of intelligence to MLS, Cognizant aims to redefine and enrich the employee experience, empowering the workforce to thrive and be more productive at lower costs.

CIONET Circles

CIONET Business Circles

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Healthcare Circle

Digital Transformation is redefining the future of health care and health delivery. All stakeholders are convinced that these innovations will create value for patients, healthcare practitioners, hospitals, and governments along the patient pathway. The benefits are starting from prevention and awareness to diagnosis, treatment, short- and long-term follow-up, and ultimately survival. But how do you make sure that your working towards an architecturally sound, secure and interoperable health IT ecosystem for your hospital and avoid implementing a hodgepodge of spot solutions? How does your IT department work together with the other stakeholders, such as the doctors and other healthcare practitioners, Life Sciences companies, Tech companies, regulators and your internal governance and administrative bodies?

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Telenet Business Leadership Circle

The Telenet Business Leadership Circle powered by CIONET, offers a platform where IT executives and thought leaders can meet to inspire each other and share best practices. We want to be a facilitator who helps you optimise the performance of your IT function and your business by embracing the endless opportunities that digital change brings.

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Les Rencontres

Découvrez la dynamique du leadership numérique aux Rencontres de CIONET, le programme francophone exclusif de CIONET pour les leaders numériques en Belgique, rendu possible grâce au soutien et à l'engagement de nos partenaires de programme : Deloitte, Denodo et Red Hat. Rejoignez trois événements inspirants par an à Liège, Namur et en Brabant Wallon, où des CIOs et des experts numériques francophones de premier plan partagent leurs perspectives et expériences sur des thèmes d'affaires et de IT actuels. Laissez-vous inspirer et apprenez des meilleurs du secteur lors de sessions captivantes conçues spécialement pour soutenir et enrichir votre rôle en tant que CIO pair. Ne manquez pas cette opportunité de faire partie d'un réseau exceptionnel d'innovateurs numériques !

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Female Leadership Circle

CIONET is committed to highlighting and celebrating female role models in IT, Tech & Digital, creating a leadership programme that empowers and elevates women within the tech industry. This initiative is dedicated to showcasing the achievements and successes of leading women, fostering an environment where female role models are recognised, and their contributions can ignite progress and inspire the next generation of women in IT. Our mission is to shine the spotlight a little brighter on female role models in IT, Tech & Digital, and to empower each other through this inner network community.

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