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 MoreAdoption success. New voice solution for a media company
Moving to a unified communications platform to accelerate digital transformation and boost productivity.
Overview
Technology is changing the world as we know it.
It’s a huge challenge for organisations looking to accelerate their digital transformation. Including one of our longstanding customers, a mass media company who needed to move to a unified communications platform to help their teams work smarter and improve customer and user experience. But when you’re a global organisation with 30,000 staff across 170 locations in 84 countries, it’s not so straightforward.
The challenge
Changing user behaviour
The rise in remote working meant a number of their employees were using their own phones, laptops and unsupported collaboration apps. Lack of visibility and control of BYOD not only posed a real risk to their network, but also user experience.
Having everyone use a single solution across chat, phone and meetings would not only simplify end user experience but improve collaboration, increase productivity, and strengthen security. But due to their size, this wouldn’t be an easy task.
It wasn’t just about rolling out a new communications platform across the organisation but changing its culture too. The customer needed to educate its people before, after and during the migration to ensure they fully embraced the new technology and got the most out of it.
And that’s where our user adoption service came in.
In addition to adding great business value, the BT user adoption team worked as collaborative partners and were a true pleasure to work with.”
Chief People Officer
The solution
User adoption made simple
The customer was using multiple collaboration tools – this wasn’t cost-effective or scalable. Migrating to Microsoft Teams Direct Routing would give them a workspace for real-time collaboration, communication and meetings, all in one place. Along with a choice of calling plans over our global SIP network allowing them to make and receive calls within the platform.
Our proven methodology has helped organisations achieve faster business results and ongoing value from their cloud technology investment. So, we were best placed to deliver a user adoption programme to support the upgrade of 27,000 users to the new cloud-based platform.
A big part of our user adoption service is taking the time to understand our customers’ business challenges. Our dedicated specialist spent time with them to understand their users’ current behaviour and identify the change required.
The plan was to deliver an “early adopter” programme to 420 employees. The customer would then take the learnings from the programme to further improve the overall roll out of Microsoft Teams Direct Routing to its wider organisation.
To support the early adopters through the change and drive engagement, we created a detailed launch communication plan, including training and assets, and personalised email communications inviting them to attend tailored online training sessions. We also launched a user content library for online video tutorials, quick start guides and FAQs. We created additional help and advice for hearing impaired users, guiding them through the platform's accessibility features, like live captions. Users were asked to complete a small survey four weeks after the early adopter launch, to provide valuable insight to help improve the wider roll out.
In addition to our comprehensive early adoption programme, we also set up our Genius Desk, a ‘go to’ specialist team who became a part of the customer’s organisation for six months. The team offered users specific help and support on each phase of the Teams migration to drive maximum adoption.
The result
A better user experience
We successfully helped the customer change user behaviour and get everyone on board. The early adopters programme achieved 100% take-up as a result of our detailed launch plan - avoiding any disruption to business activity.
Our user adoption team received high praise from the customer, calling out their amazing support for what was “a very complex series of inter-related projects” and how they were a “true pleasure to work with”.
Users also got a lot from our training, with one saying: “It was fast paced, insightful, and will help me be more efficient day-to-day.”
Six months since the roll out of Teams the customer has seen call volumes increase 15 times over.
The training was fast paced, insightful, and will help me be more efficient day-to-day.”
Early adoption programme user
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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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