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 MoreCarbery Group dairy giant protected with cyber “eyes and ears” from Trend Micro
Dairy giant protected with cyber “eyes and ears” from Trend Micro
OVERVIEW
Carbery Group is a global nutrition and dairy company. Founded in 1965 and today owned by four Irish dairy co-operatives, it employs 750 staff at several facilities worldwide, including Ireland, the UK, Italy, US, Brazil, and Thailand. Chief Information Officer (CIO) Anthony O’Callaghan works with a diverse team of IT professionals supporting sites across the globe.
We want to be confident that we are protected and supported in our digital growth.
Anthony O’Callaghan
Chief Information Officer, Carbery Group
Like many CIOs, Anthony O’Callaghan has to balance his budget whilst driving digital innovation to help the organization carve out competitive differentiation in the market. But upon taking on his new position at the Cork-headquartered multi-national Carbery Group, he also recognised that cybersecurity is an often an underrated but essential foundation towards such efforts. Ransomware attackers are using increasingly sophisticated and targeted techniques today to infiltrate networks and cause maximum disruption, often stealing data in the process in order to force payment. Cybercriminals also continue to target corporates for sensitive internal and customer data to sell on the dark web.
The challenge was to standardise Carbery Group’s global cyber operations onto a single vendor across on-premises and cloud systems in order to protect business-critical data and systems at 10 geographically dispersed locations. Anthony wanted a provider that could do much of the heavy-lifting and was also looking for a true partner on cybersecurity, a firm he could trust to go beyond the transactional relationships many vendors offer.
Having worked with Trend Micro for several years in a previous role, although not as a customer, he knew that this was the right choice for Carbery Group.
It’s important to have eyes and ears on this area constantly to stay ahead of cyber threats as they are evolving quickly. That’s what we got from Trend, combined with our internal teams.
Anthony O’Callaghan
Chief Information Officer, Carbery Group
WHY TREND
Anthony chose Trend Micro to support end-to-end global cybersecurity, from the endpoint to networks and cloud workloads. This meant several major investments:
Smart Protection Complete is a comprehensive suite of enterprise products available, (SaaS and on-premises), which cover endpoint security and encryption (via Trend Micro Apex One), mobile security, web security, and email and collaboration security (via Cloud App Security).
Deep Discovery Inspector is a physical or virtual network appliance which uses advanced techniques, such as custom sandbox analysis, to rapidly detect advanced, targeted malware that typically bypasses traditional security defences.
Trend Micro Cloud One – Workload Protection is a SaaS solution designed to secure customer data centres, cloud, and containers without compromising performance or security. It’s optimised to integrate tightly into the leading platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud™, and Microsoft® Azure™.
Managed XDR (MDR) is the perfect choice for customers that want to take advantage of holistic threat detection and response but don’t have the in-house resources to manage it. The platform goes beyond the endpoint to also collect and correlate data from email, server, cloud workloads, and network sources. Trend Micro analysts combine their expertise with AI and security analytics, as well as global threat intelligence, to optimise powerful detection and investigation capabilities.
We’re a global organisation and what we wanted was to have someone to keep us safe from the latest cyberattacks 24/7. That’s exactly what we got with Trend Micro.
Anthony O’Callaghan
Chief Information Officer, Carbery Group
RESULTS
The above combination has provided Carbery Group with “a significant stack” of full coverage, with MDR as the cyber “eyes and ears” of the organization, according to Anthony. Implementation was slightly slower than expected due to COVID-19-related issues, but the delays also allowed him to improve security awareness of remote working employees via the Trend Micro Phish Insight tool.
“We want to be confident that we are protected and supported in our digital growth”, said O’Callaghan. ”We’re a global organization and what we wanted was to have someone to keep us safe from the latest cyberattacks 24/7. That’s exactly what we got with Trend Micro. It’s important to have eyes and ears on this area constantly to stay ahead of cyber threats as they are evolving quickly. That’s what we got from Trend, combined with our internal teams.”
Anthony also invested in Trend Micro’s Premium Support Program (PSP) for dedicated round-the-clock help, a named customer service manager, ongoing security assessments and recommendations, priority case handling, and much more. It’s provided further peace of mind and support for the small in-house team at Carbery.
“It’s been a great partnership so far and the team is always there for us and this includes the team we’ve worked with on the commercial side, who we’re still in touch with and have a great relationship with,” says O’Callaghan. “The fact that they’ve also stayed engaged is testament to the organisation Trend Micro is.”
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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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