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Belgium 11-12-25 Country Members Physical english

Next Generation Digital Twins - CIONET Belgium: Community Event

Imagine being able to monitor, simulate, and optimise an entire city, factory, or supply chain in real time. Next-generation digital twins are making this vision a reality, transforming how we manage and understand complex systems. By creating dynamic virtual replicas of physical assets and processes, digital twins allow organisations to predict issues, optimize performance, and make data-driven decisions with unprecedented accuracy.This event will explore how digital twins are being used across industries to revolutionize the way we operate and maintain large-scale, intricate systems—whether it’s the infrastructure of a smart city, the efficiency of a factory floor, or the resilience of global supply chains.Examples of Digital Twins in Action:Smart Cities: Urban planners can use digital twins to simulate traffic flow, monitor energy usage, or predict the impact of weather events on infrastructure. This enables cities to optimize resources and improve the quality of life for their citizens.Factories of the Future: Manufacturing plants are leveraging digital twins to monitor equipment in real time, prevent downtime, and optimize production lines. With predictive analytics, factories can avoid costly breakdowns and improve overall efficiency.Supply Chain Management: Complex supply chains, spanning continents and industries, can be modeled as digital twins to track shipments, simulate disruptions, and optimize logistics. Businesses can reduce inefficiencies and respond faster to market demands.Key Themes:Real-Time Monitoring and Simulation: How digital twins provide real-time insights into complex systems, allowing for dynamic response and optimization.Predictive Power: Leveraging AI and data analytics, digital twins help organisations predict and mitigate issues before they happen, from equipment failures to supply chain bottlenecks.Scalability Across Ecosystems: Digital twins aren’t limited to individual assets—learn how they can be scaled across entire ecosystems like smart cities or global supply chains for maximum impact.Building Trust and Security: With digital twins handling critical infrastructure and sensitive data, what are the security and governance frameworks needed to ensure trust in these virtual systems?Why You Should Attend:Next-generation digital twins are no longer just a concept—they are revolutionizing industries by offering a new way to manage complexity. Whether you’re looking to optimize a city, factory, or supply chain, this event will provide practical insights into how digital twins can transform your organisation’s operations and drive future innovation.

Belgium 12-12-25 Squad Only Physical english

Managing IT Cost Without Losing Capability ; A practical look at how to control infrastructure, apps, and dev spend

Everyone wants value for money. But in IT, that value is spread across infrastructure, software, services, and people. Your infra spend is creeping up. App maintenance is eating your budget. New development is exciting but comes with hidden overhead. And people costs, from operations to engineering, remain the largest, most overlooked slice. If you’re under pressure to optimise without compromise, this session brings the right questions, trade-offs, and shared lessons to the table.

Belgium 16-12-25 Invitation Only Physical english

CIONET Round Table: Mastering Enterprise Service Management

This CIONET Round Table will focus on how the IT department can be the enabler that unlocks organisational efficiencies and helps to improve the employee experience. We will explore how CIOs and Digital Leaders can fundamentally transform the internal service experience by breaking down organizational silos, orchestrating complex cross-functional workflows, and leveraging a unified platform to deliver a truly frictionless experience for every employee.

December 12, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Physical english

Managing IT Cost Without Losing Capability ; A practical look at how to control infrastructure, apps, and dev spend

January 13, 2026 Squad Session Invitation Only Virtual english

Moving Legacy Systems to the Cloud Efficiently : Balancing cost, risk, and continuity in complex migrations

Migrating legacy systems to the cloud remains one of the toughest balancing acts in IT. Every choice affects stability, cost, and trust at once, and what starts as a modernisation effort quickly turns into a negotiation between ambition and reality. Suddenly budgets rise, dependencies appear late, and timelines tighten as old architectures collide with new expectations. In the end, success depends on sequencing, ownership, and aligning business priorities with infrastructure limits, and not only on technical readiness. Making it work requires more than a plan on paper. Knowing which systems genuinely belong in the cloud, which can wait, and which should stay put shapes the entire roadmap and defines its success. Each refactoring decision sets the level of future flexibility, but it also drives cost and risk. The trade-offs between speed, sustainability, and resilience only become clear once migration begins and pressure builds. Let’s discuss how to plan migrations that stay on track, manage hidden dependencies, and handle downtime with confidence. Let’s also discuss how governance, testing, and vendor coordination keep progress visible and credible. Are you in? A closed conversation for those who turn cloud migration from a disruption into a long-term advantage.

January 22, 2026 Squad Session Invitation Only Virtual english

AI-Driven Development: Redesigning workflows, responsibilities, and trust in the age of automation

AI coding assistants entered development teams quietly, but their impact grows by the day. What started as autocomplete now shapes architecture decisions, documentation, and testing. And when productivity gains are visible, so are new risks: security blind spots, uneven quality, and the slow erosion of shared standards. Teams move faster, but not always in the same direction. The challenge has become integration rather than adoption. And new questions have risen: how do you blend automation into established practices without losing oversight? When is human review still essential, and what should the rules of collaboration between developer and machine look like? As AI tools learn from proprietary code, where do responsibility and accountability sit? Let’s talk about how to redefine those workflows, balancing creativity with control, and protecting code quality in a hybrid human-AI environment. A closed conversation on where AI accelerates progress, where it introduces new debt, and how development culture must evolve to stay credible.

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Camelot national lottery operator is winning with multi-layered defense from Trend Micro

National lottery operator is winning with multi-layered defense from Trend Micro

OVERVIEW

For over two decades, Camelot Group has been making dreams come true as steward of the UK’s National Lottery. The Watford-headquartered company has grown to over 700 employees and generates billions of pounds in revenue each year, although much of this goes to good causes, as well as national treasury, the Exchequer.

CHALLENGES

In early 2017, Camelot Head of Information Security, David Boda, and his team reviewed the firm’s endpoint protection capabilities, shortlisting Trend Micro after carrying out in-depth due diligence in the market. Being shortlisted was no mean feat: Boda and his team conducted exhaustive market research, rating solutions by as many as 40 different criteria. As the operator of the UK’s National Lottery, the firm represents a major target to online attackers, so he was keen to source the latest functionality from mounting endpoint threats, including ransomware, data theft, phishing and more.

WHY TREND

It was also crucial to invest in a trusted cybersecurity expert with strong cross-platform support, offering best-in-class capabilities across multiple layers of IT infrastructure. With previous experience with Trend Micro™ TippingPoint™ products, Boda already knew “the engineering was really good”, causing him to line Trend Micro up for a proof-of-concept trial.

"Because we run such a wide technology stack, it’s been great that Trend Micro works across all our different platforms."

David Boda

Head of Information Security, Camelot

SOLUTION

The results were outstanding and Camelot chose Trend Micro™ Smart Protection™ for Endpoints for comprehensive, cloud-based endpoint protection, complementing its previous investment in Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ data center platform for on-premise and cloud environments.

Trend Micro™ Worry-Free™ Services is part of the Smart Protection for Endpoint platform. It’s powered by XGen™ security, offering a blend of cross-generational threat prevention techniques optimized so the right tool is always used at the right time. This includes everything from web and file reputation to app control, behavioural analysis and pre-execution and runtime machine learning.

Smart Protection for Endpoints offers:

100 percent SaaS (software as a service), which means it’s simple to deploy, with zero maintenance and 24/7 support
Lightweight and optimized security uses the right detection technique at the right time to ensure minimal impact on devices and networks
Comprehensive security capabilities on Microsoft® Windows®, iOS, Android™ and Mac® devices
Global intelligence from industry-leading cloud-based Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ infrastructure

Deep Security is Trend Micro’s flagship offering for protecting server workloads, providing:

Optimized security across leading cloud environments like AWS®, Azure®, VMware® — including protection for containers
Comprehensive protection including IPS, host firewall, virtual patching, anti-malware, app control, integrity monitoring and more
Centralized management and control across on-premise and hybrid cloud deployments
Accelerated compliance with GDPR, PCI DSS, and more
Reduced risk by automatically enforcing policies depending on context

RESULTS

Camelot Group’s increasing investment in Trend Micro products across its IT infrastructure illustrates a partnership based on trust and exceptional performance. Trend Micro’s technical team worked hand-in-hand with Camelot from the initial investigation phase to align with both business and technical needs. That engagement had grown even closer over time to include discussions over product feature roadmaps and rapid response to any ongoing support queries.

“Because we run such a wide technology stack, it’s been great that Trend Micro works across all our different platforms,” says Boda. “When we buy technology, we’re only partly buying the tech itself. The real investment is in outsourcing the engineering function behind it, so knowing it works well and is protecting us against the mounting cyber threats out there is vital.”

The relationship has even expanded beyond product into other areas. Trend Micro accepted an invitation recently to speak at Camelot HQ on how employees can create a more secure online environment at home for their families. It’s a great idea and one we’re delighted to get behind as part of our push to raise awareness about internet safety for kids and families.

Technologies

Smart Protection Suite Trend Micro TippingPoint Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ Worry Free Services

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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.