Belgium 23-9-25 Squad Only Virtual english
Security teams are overwhelmed. Too many tools. Too many alerts. Too few people. And now, increasing pressure from the board to protect everything, everywhere, all the time. Expect honest reflection, shared strategies, and a conversation that cuts through compliance noise and focuses on what to do when your team is stretched and your risk is rising.
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In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, the financial services industry in Belgium faces a critical juncture regarding its cloud adoption strategy. While the allure of cloud computing – with its promise of scalability, agility, and innovation – is undeniable, the unique regulatory demands and paramount need for data sovereignty present significant challenges. This CIONET roundtable, aims to bring together Digital Leaders from the Belgian financial sector to discuss how to navigate these complexities. We will explore how financial institutions can leverage cloud technologies while ensuring complete control over their data, maintaining compliance with stringent European regulations like GDPR and DORA, and mitigating geopolitical risks.
Read MoreBelgium 24-9-25 Invitation Only Physical english
As smart devices proliferate across operational environments — from sensors on factory lines and GPS trackers in logistics fleets to wearables in healthcare and connected systems in smart cities — the integration of Managed IoT (MiOT) is accelerating. But with it comes a surge in cybersecurity risks. No longer isolated or air-gapped, OT systems are becoming fully networked, remotely accessible, and deeply entwined with IT. This creates a vulnerable, highly complex digital mesh, one where a single compromised device can trigger physical, financial, and reputational consequences.
Read MoreSeptember 23, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english
Security teams are overwhelmed. Too many tools. Too many alerts. Too few people. And now, increasing pressure from the board to protect everything, everywhere, all the time. Expect honest reflection, shared strategies, and a conversation that cuts through compliance noise and focuses on what to do when your team is stretched and your risk is rising.
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 MoreDelhaize digitally transforms its store network with Hanshow using Azure
Belgian retailer Delhaize was facing an operational challenge to efficiently manage pricing systems in its growing network of stores. Delhaize needed the ability to centrally manage its electronic shelf labels (ESL) and other IoT devices across its entire store network for faster and more consistent update and upgrades.
Belgian retailer Delhaize was facing an operational challenge to efficiently manage pricing systems in its growing network of stores. Despite having adopted a degree of digitalization through electronic shelf labels, local IT infrastructure left many gains in efficiency on the table through the need to still update pricing information store by store. Delhaize needed the ability to centrally manage its electronic shelf labels (ESL) and other IoT devices across its entire store network for faster and more consistent update and upgrades.
ESL improves pricing and promotion management and enhances the client’s digital shopping experience. With this technology costs go down, and efficiency goes up.Rolf Vanden Eynde: Regional IT-Manager - Ahold-Delhaize
Deploying scalable and affordable enterprise grade IoT applications in the retail industry was previously constrained by technology limitations. But digital retail solutions leader Hanshow developed a SaaS solution on Microsoft Azure that accelerated this digital transformation by connecting store shelves to retailers, store operators, and customers for Delhaize stores across Belgium and Luxembourg.
Delhaize and Hanshow began partnering in 2018 to install electronic shelf labels and other digital solutions for their store network. ESLs are the building blocks of retail digitization, and effective solutions for connecting them are crucial to maximize efficiency and new possibilities. ESL allows customers to easily obtain product information and pay conveniently with mobile phones or NFC cards, and it also allows for quicker and more dynamic pricing methods such as automated price reductions for items close to expiration date. While ESLs already greatly increase store operational efficiency, the ability to remotely manage millions of ESL across hundreds of stores through one cloud-based network is a new and encouraging development.
Delhaize had been using ESL for several years already, however all their affiliated brands across Belgium and Luxembourg were all managed under separate local IT infrastructure. This causes a range of problems and inefficiencies for the retailer. Costs to maintain multiple localized IoT device management networks are high both financially and in time usage. For instance, if Delhaize needed to update the design templates on their ESLs, this would need to be done at each location on the localized servers.
Delhaize was looking for a way to solve these inefficiencies along with the ability to centrally manage ESL and other devices on one cloud for their entire store network with stores in Belgium and Luxembourg. With plans for continuing to add digital solutions beyond ESL to this network, the need for a one cloud-based management system became even more important.
To realize cloud-based management of the Delhaize store network and its over 4 million ESLs, Hanshow partnered with Microsoft to develop a SaaS solution that can handle this massive amount of integration. Hanshow’s operating system was tailored to run on Microsoft Azure Database for MySQL, unlocking the full potential of cloud-based management. And with Microsoft’s established and industry leading Azure service already in place, these stores could now be operating ESL and other in-store digital solutions instantly.
“ESL improves pricing and promotion management and enhances the client’s digital shopping experience. With this technology costs go down, and efficiency goes up,” notes Rolf Vanden Eynde, Regional IT-Manager for Ahold-Delhaize.
The Hanshow SaaS solution addresses numerous challenges for Delhaize such as staffing surges during peak hours, labor costs, space constraints, and overall productivity. Under previous scenarios, retailers must install and operate their own system of servers and infrastructure on premise requiring a massive investment, untold time to set up, and significant input from IT professionals. Large retailers need to update several million price tags across their stores on any given day. Through the Hanshow SaaS system, 3 million ESLs can be updated in just 80 minutes and can be done simply from a system login anywhere.
The Hanshow SaaS solution provides global retailers an intelligent, easy-to-deploy, user-friendly, and analytics driven platform.
“This scale and advancement in retail technology was made possible through the safety, stability, scalability and speed of Microsoft SaaS with Hanshow’s innovative management software,” said Raj Raguneethan, regional leader, Retail & Consumer Goods at Microsoft Asia. “With this work, we’re seeing only the beginning of what’s possible with IoT and SaaS.”
With the building blocks of retail digitalization in place with ESL and the Azure cloud, Hanshow and Delhaize are also entering into a proof-of-concept phase for AI-powered solutions that monitor planogram management and out-of-stock occurrences. Being able to receive and act on real time data in these areas will further help Delhaize maximize efficiency and profitability while providing a more optimized customer experience.
“By integrating retail digitization with SaaS, the possibilities are endless,” said Hanshow Executive Chairman and CEO Shiguo Hou. “Digital store solutions can now become a reality for the world’s largest retailers. This is the future. We are already seeing the wide-ranging benefits this technology brings to customers and retailers, and Hanshow is dedicated continuing these breakthroughs on an even grander scale.”
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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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