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Belgium 21-4-26 Invitation Only Physical english

From Victim to Victor: Cyber resilience is a means, providing Business Continuity the goal

In an era where every outage, audit, and cyberattack is a test of organisational survival, resilience has become the new currency of trust. While traditional perimeter security with: firewalls, intrusion detection, and scanners, remains essential, it is no longer a sufficient guarantee against modern threats that bypass these layers to penetrate your core systems. Today, enterprises require security and continuity that are built-in, not bolted-on. This CIONET roundtable focuses on the shift from reactive disaster recovery to proactive Business Continuity. Together with experts from HPE Zerto, we will explore how organisations can transform their recovery strategies into seamless continuity models.

Belgium 23-4-26 Country Members Physical & Virtual english

CIOFEST BELGIUM: Leadership in the Agentic Era

AI is no longer confined to supporting human tasks. We are entering the agentic era, where autonomous systems act on behalf of people and organisations. These agents can gather information, make decisions, negotiate terms, and even complete transactions. The implications extend well beyond technology; they touch the very foundations of business models, governance, and leadership. For CIOs and their peers, the rise of “machine customers” and autonomous partners poses new questions: Market impact: How do you compete and create value when some customers and suppliers are machines? Governance: What trust, compliance, and accountability structures are needed when AI acts independently in financial, procurement, or customer-facing processes? Leadership: How should CIOs guide their organisations in redefining roles, responsibilities, and decision-making when agents take over parts of the value chain?Business strategy: What opportunities emerge for new revenue models, platforms, and ecosystems shaped by autonomous interaction? This session shifts the focus from the mechanics of AI agents to the decisions that will shape leadership in the next decade. It is a call for CIOs to prepare for a future where relationships, markets, and strategies are no longer limited to human-to-human interactions, but also extend to human-to-machine and machine-to-machine interactions.

Belgium 29-4-26 Invitation Only Physical english

Building Future-Ready Application Ecosystems in the Age of Intelligent Automation

This CIONET workshop is a collaborative deep-dive into the practicalities of"rewiring the building" while it’s still occupied. Drawing onKyndryl’s deep heritage in mission-critical infrastructure and their latestresearch, we will dismantle the "hidden costs" of legacyenvironments. The conversation will focus on the transition from static,monolithic structures to composable architectures that allow intelligent agentsto operate seamlessly across hybrid landscapes.

April 2, 2026 Squad Session Invitation Only Virtual english

Taming the SaaS Sprawl: Tracking spend, ownership, and usage before it slips out of control

SaaS gave business units freedom: quick onboarding, no infrastructure, and instant results. But over time, that freedom turned into fragmentation. Each team now buys, renews, and configures its own stack. HR has one platform, finance has another, and marketing probably has ten. The invoices keep coming, usage keeps dropping, and no one is sure who’s accountable for what.

May 12, 2026 Squad Session Invitation Only Physical english

Product-Centric IT 2.0: Blending product and project thinking

Everyone says they’ve gone product-centric. In reality, most organisations live in a hybrid world where projects, products, and platforms overlap. Teams manage releases while still chasing deadlines, and governance still thinks in milestones rather than outcomes. The shift is underway, but the mindset hasn’t caught up.

May 19, 2026 Squad Session Invitation Only Physical english

AI vs AI in Cybersecurity: When defenders and attackers both use AI

The game has changed, clearly. Attackers have AI, defenders have AI, and both sides are learning faster than anyone expected, or maybe the attackers are just a bit faster. What used to take hours now happens in seconds, and detection windows close before alerts even appear. It’s adaptation beyond automation, and no one gets to sit still.

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Enables clients to set a higher bar for security and DevOps

CMD Solutions is a professional services and cloud consulting company that focuses on the design of hybrid cloud solutions that are secure, scalable, and efficient. Based in Sydney, Australia, their team of AWS certified consultants are well versed in IRAP, APRA, and PCI-DSS compliance standards, while specializing in Security Competency and DevOps transformations.

Challenges

CMD needed a continuous security-monitoring tool that would help their team identify baseline controls for their clients, while remaining consistent and up to date with evolving security best practices. Agility and responsiveness to the market was key for CMD.

Being an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, it was important for their tool of choice to measure against the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and common industry compliance standards.

As CMD’s clients move through a DevSecOps transformation and add services during migration, real-time visibility into their evolving cloud infrastructure is critical to ongoing support and assessments.

"Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity allows us to provide visibility to our customers - that we’re configuring their infrastructure correctly."

Adam Durbin - CTO, CMD

Solution

CMD uses Trend Micro Cloud One - Conformity with 600+ rules mapped against the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and industry compliance standards to assess their customer’s public cloud environments. With every rule violation, remediation steps are offered with clear instructions on how to perform the updates; these changes can be made through the AWS console or via the AWS^® Command Line Interface (CLI).

Trend Micro’s approach to cloud security, compliance posture management, and governance is well aligned with CMD’s expertise in professional consulting services that focus on DevSecOps transformations. “Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity allows us to provide visibility to our customers - that we’re configuring their infrastructure correctly,” says Adam Durbin, CTO of CMD.

CMD has leveraged Cloud One - Conformity’s extensive reporting feature to create new professional services for their managed services arm. Their monthly reviews, based on findings by Conformity, enable their clients to set a higher bar for security and DevOps, as new initiatives are set.

Conformity provides CMD’s clients with greater visibility into their cloud infrastructure. By using a third-party audit, CMD presents clients unbiased results and maintains a consistently productive relationship as updates and implementations take place.

Using Conformity, CMD is able to run a single infrastructure security review, which covers several compliance standards. Time saved in the discovery process allows more time to focus on growth opportunities, without compromising on the critical regulatory standards their clients are held to.

"Trend Micro Cloud One - Conformity gives us instant visibility into our customer’s cloud and speeds up our audits, continually monitoring so we can improve their security and adhere to governance policies."

Fabio Carvana - Head of Managed Services, CMD

Results

CMD’s partnership with Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity allowed them to create a new managed services arm. They can offer their clients greater visibility and trust, while delivering their mission to design secure, scalable, and efficient cloud solutions and enabling DevOps transformations.

Along with Conformity, CMD customers are leveraging other Trend Micro Cloud One services, including Workload Security, providing runtime protection for hybrid workloads and containers.

Technologies

Trend Micro Cloud One

CIONET Business Circles

Cyber Circle

CIONET’s Cyber Circle: a new three-event programme exclusively focusing on the most urgent, complex, and high-impact challenges in cybersecurity today. Launched in 2026, this initiative brings together CISOs, CIOs, and senior IT executives with a strong interest in cybersecurity for three curated gatherings each year. As part of CIONET’s trusted executive community, the Cyber Circle provides a confidential, peer-driven environment to exchange insights, share real-world experiences, and address evolving cyber threats. Each session is designed to foster strategic dialogue, strengthen resilience, and elevate cybersecurity as a core driver of business value.

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.

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 !

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.