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 MoreEpson supports distributed workforces with fast and highly secure printing powered by Adobe.
For more than 80 years, Seiko Epson Corporation (Epson) has set the bar on innovation. The company began as a small precision manufacturer of watch parts, but has since grown into one of the top names in robotics, projectors, semiconductors, and sensors. For many consumers and office workers, Epson is best known as a reliable name in printers and copiers in the commercial and industrial printing business. The EP-101 was the world’s first mini-printer, and Epson equipment is found in homes and offices around the world.
Recently, Epson began expanding support for workers in satellite offices as well. Workers can rent office space for a few minutes or hours to take a conference call, hop onto wifi, or hold a quick meeting.
Some of these satellite offices now include Epson printers featuring Epson Print Admin, allowing workers to more securely print documents on the way to a meeting. And with Adobe PDF Services API within Adobe Acrobat Services, Epson is helping workers print Microsoft Office files quickly, easily, and accurately.
“As we enter the age where remote work and distributed office spaces become more common, workers have a need for reliable and safe workspaces anywhere,” says Mr. Tatsuya Mine, Technical Representative at Epson. “The Adobe PDF Services API has helped us improve printing services to make the shared satellite offices as secure and functional as any office building.”
“When we talked to Microsoft about our need to convert documents to PDF quickly and accurately, Microsoft recommended Adobe PDF Services API.”
Mr. Koki Togashi - Manager, Seiko Epson Corporation
More secure, easy printing
Epson Print Admin takes a highly secure new approach to business printing. Only registered users can print, copy, or scan documents, and print jobs are only released from the print queue when a user signs in at the printer. Sign-in may involve entering a username and password or hovering an ID card over the card reader. Satellite offices wanted something even more universal, which would allow any registered user to access printing without needing to remember passwords or carry cards.
Epson incorporated a facial recognition system developed for some satellite office across Japan by Panasonic System Solutions Japan into the Epson Print Admin. Registered users simply stand in front of a tablet and let facial recognition sign them in with no effort.
“Security is critical, especially when workers from different companies use a shared office space,” says Mr. Hiroshi Matsumoto, Team Leader at Epson. “Facial recognition keeps printed documents private, with greater ease and security than a password or ID card. We’re still in the trial phase, but we could soon see facial recognition at more satellite offices across Japan.”
Satellite offices also requested a driverless version of Epson Print Admin, as it reduces updates and security risks from installed drivers and software. However, this driverless version could only print PDF documents, not the Microsoft Office documents popular with business users. Users would need to convert Microsoft Office documents on their personal devices before uploading the PDF to the cloud for printing. Epson wanted to improve the efficiency and convenience for people by automatically converting Microsoft Office documents for them before printing.
“When we talked to Microsoft about our need to convert documents to PDF quickly and accurately, Microsoft recommended Adobe PDF Services API,” says Mr. Koki Togashi, Manager at Epson.
Using the Create PDF function, users now just select any Microsoft Office document on the Epson Print Admin interface. The document is automatically converted into a high-fidelity PDF file, eliminating many of the conversion errors that users might experience on other types of PDF conversion tools. Users simply need to select print settings and click the print button.
“By incorporating the PDF Services API, printing is much easier for users, as they no longer need to manually convert documents,” says Mr. Togashi. “Removing the manual steps also makes printing twice as fast. Workers spend less time waiting for paper, so they can spend more time in the satellite office catching up on their work.”
“With support from Adobe, we’re developing new ways to handle print and digital business needs for distributed workforces.”
Mr. Takeshi Yamada - Chief Engineer, Seiko Epson Corporation
Since incorporating PDF Services API, Epson Print Admin stations have seen a growing number of transactions come from repeat users, indicating that the service is finding a home with a mobile workforce. While Epson is only creating PDF documents at the moment, the Adobe APIs could provide more ways for the company to incorporate other services in the future, from PDF editing to optical character recognition (OCR).
“Working with the PDF Services API was very easy, with clear documentation and references that allowed us to quickly incorporate Create PDF into our workflow,” says Mr. Takeshi Yamada, Chief Engineer at Seiko Epson Corporation. “With support from Adobe, we’re developing new ways to handle print and digital business needs for distributed workforces.”
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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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