Belgium 25-9-25 Invitation Only Physical english
As AI shapes our future, the time is now to address and correct its inherent biases. Join leading female voices in tech as we explore how to undo past mistakes, champion neutrality, and feed AI systems with inclusive, unbiased data. This conference is a call to action for female leaders in AI and tech to ensure the next generation of intelligent systems reflects fairness, diversity, and equity. Together, let’s set things right and redefine the future of AI.
Read MoreBelgium 25-9-25 Invitation Only Physical english
On 25th September, during the Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 in Brussels, CIONET is hosting an exclusive, invitation-only round table for leading CIOs, CTOs, and digital leaders. While the Summit offers a broad programme, this CIONET session is a separate, distinct event, conducted in its own dedicated room with private catering, ensuring a focused and confidential peer-to-peer discussion. This round table will delve into why certain cloud-native techniques offer undeniable benefits, irrespective of where your applications are deployed, be it on-premise, in a hyperscale cloud, or a hybrid environment. Even outside public clouds, these modern, modular architectures consistently deliver increased agility, enhanced scalability, and quicker time-to-market. The real power behind these advantages lies in automation. When done properly, automation significantly boosts team efficiency, improves system quality, and drastically cuts risks from slow systems or downtime. However, achieving truly effective automation comes with its own set of challenges, which we'll address head-on. Key Discussion Points Include: "No-Regret" Cloud-Native Pillars: We'll try to pinpoint essential techniques every organisation should adopt, such as microservices architecture, containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), API-first design, stateless application design, and immutable infrastructure. Why are these crucial for modern applications, no matter the deployment location? Strategic Vendor Lock-in: How to judiciously manage vendor lock-in. For new innovations and applications with a relatively short life expectancy, leveraging the latest unique features of a hyperscale cloud might be beneficial. For long-lived applications (expected to be live for decades), the focus might shift to limiting exposure by utilising generally available technologies. Automation Anywhere: How can organisations effectively implement automation strategies to unlock the full potential of cloud-native initiatives across diverse infrastructures? What are the biggest hurdles, and how are leaders overcoming them? This CIONET round table offers a unique and intimate setting for digital leaders to gain critical insights, exchange perspectives, and shape the strategic path towards application modernisation that truly offers no regrets.
Read MoreBelgium 30-9-25 Squad Only Virtual english
Everyone has technical debt. The question is what to do with it. Refactor now? Wait for the next feature? Build on it and hope it holds? If you’re tired of debating whether to clean up or move on, this session helps you frame the debt conversation in a way that supports both speed and stability.
Read MoreSeptember 30, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english
Everyone has technical debt. The question is what to do with it. Refactor now? Wait for the next feature? Build on it and hope it holds? If you’re tired of debating whether to clean up or move on, this session helps you frame the debt conversation in a way that supports both speed and stability.
Read MoreOctober 2, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english
Architecture doesn’t happen in diagrams. It happens in minds, seasoned, curious, sharp minds that understand how the pieces fit. But who’s shaping these minds? Who’s growing the next generation of digital architects? If you’re responsible for complex systems, and for the people designing them, this session is for you.
Read MoreOctober 14, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english
Agile delivery often collides with inflexible infrastructures. One team wants to release weekly. Another is waiting six months for a new test environment. Sounds familiar? If your infra team is tired of being the bottleneck, and your devs are tired of waiting, this session opens a path forward.
Read MoreBelgian brand Kambukka dials up productivity with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Kambukka is a premium Belgian brand creating trendy and eco-friendly drinking and eating vessels. The company's sales process was time-consuming, prone to human inaccuracy and distracted employees from selling. To solve this, Kambukka turned to the connector application between Shopify and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Thanks to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, we can easily work towards peaks in several ways: control of stocks, managing orders, and keeping track of data and progress. - Sabrina Ruzzi: Chief Marketing Officer - Kambukka
Kambukka is the Swahili word for “enjoy, benefit, amuse” and the name chosen by a premium Belgian brand creating fashionable and eco-friendly drinking vessels like water bottles and insulated mugs, as well as snack containers. Over the last ten years, Kambukka has grown from a small online store to a well-regarded brand that handles 80 to 150 orders per day—and often more, during peak gift-giving seasons. Kambukka sells its products both on its own website and through multiple online marketplaces. To help manage its several points of sale, Kambukka operates on Shopify, an all-in-one commerce platform that helps people start, run, and grow businesses.
But as Kambukka has grown, its manual process for reconciling inventory between Shopify and its business software had largely stayed the same. Whenever a customer placed an order, it went to the fulfillment center automatically, but since the fulfillment and business software didn’t connect to one another, an employee needed to manually adjust the inventory levels between the two. Additionally, the “back-office” team at Kambukka used one software to look up order information, and the “front-end” e-commerce team used another to manage inventory and track online sales. This meant that Kambukka had a limited view of sales across channels and didn’t always have an accurate idea of how the business was performing.
Looking to connect all sides of the business and gain better visibility into sales, Kambukka turned to the Shopify connector app for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. According to Sabrina Ruzzi, the Chief Marketing Officer at Kambukka, this connector application has had a huge impact on workflows. “All orders are created automatically, stock levels are deducted from the right warehouse, and customer profiles are also created in Dynamics 365 Business Central. This has saved us immense time and effort, an entire day per month saved in simplified workflows.”
Now, Kambukka uses Microsoft Power BI to get better insights on sales performance, making analysis easier and faster. Day to day, Kambukka can see sales by channel, product SKU, and country, giving it the insight and verification its teams need to better manage profit margins and determine where marketing money is best spent. “Thanks to Power BI, we know our marketing spending and can better control sales versus costs,” says Ruzzi. Kambukka employees are also using Microsoft Teams to collaborate, share data and insights, and ensure both the business and e-commerce teams are in alignment with each other and the company’s overarching goals.
To implement the connector between Shopify and Dynamics 365 Business Central, Kambukka worked with Scapta, a Microsoft Cloud Partner Program member. “We were very lucky to talk with a professional team,” says Ruzzi. “With their help we managed to get a clear overview of what our options were and where we could make further improvements. As a small company, saving time with a team ultimately saves money.”
Using the new solution, Kambukka can operate more efficiently and focus its efforts on fulfilling customer orders and growing operations. “We have time to focus on what’s relevant. We can rely on the system, and have a better day-to-day view of our business,” says Ruzzi. With these integrations and use of Microsoft apps, Kambukka employees can adapt on the fly to changes in their industry.
“We want to stay true to our name—with our products, obviously—but also with the way we work,” says Ruzzi. “Thanks to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, we can easily work towards peaks in several ways: control of stocks, managing orders, and keeping track of data and progress. That’s exciting and promises good times ahead—for us and our customers,” Ruzzi says.
We were very lucky to talk with a professional team. With their help we managed to get a clear overview of what our options were and where we could make further improvements. - Sabrina Ruzzi: Chief Marketing Officer - Kambukka
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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?
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreDécouvrez 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 !
Read MoreCIONET 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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