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Belgium 6-11-25 Invitation Only Physical english
The modern cyber threat landscape has evolved from simple data breaches to sophisticated, systemic attacks designed to cripple an entire organisation. Ransomware, in particular, has made traditional backup and recovery strategies insufficient, as attackers often compromise backups before launching their main assault. In this new reality, the question is no longer "if" an attack will happen, but "when” and how quickly you can recover. Furthermore, regulations like DORA and NIS2 are making robust recovery a legal imperative, compelling businesses to adopt solutions that can guarantee data integrity and business continuity even after a catastrophic cyber event, making a Cybervault a critical component of regulatory compliance.
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Belgium 13-11-25 Country Members Physical english
The Role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) The role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is no longer confined to securing the network perimeter. As organisations become more digitally connected and data-driven, the CISO’s responsibilities have expanded far beyond traditional security measures. Today’s CISO must not only defend against cyber threats but also enable the business to innovate securely, manage complex regulatory environments, and instill a culture of trust across the organisation. This event will explore the evolving role of the CISO as a strategic leader who balances security with business enablement. As digital transformation accelerates, how can CISOs align their security strategies with organisational goals, ensure compliance, and lead their teams in the fight against increasingly sophisticated threats? Key Discussion Points: From Gatekeeper to Strategic Partner: How CISOs can shift from being seen as barriers to innovation to becoming key enablers of business agility and transformation through security. Balancing Risk and Innovation: Learn how top CISOs navigate the delicate balance between mitigating risk and supporting the organisation’s need to innovate and scale in a secure environment. Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC): Explore how CISOs are managing an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, ensuring compliance while still driving business objectives forward. Building a Security-First Culture: Practical strategies for CISOs to foster a culture where security is embedded into every part of the business, from boardroom discussions to frontline operations. CISO as Crisis Manager: How to prepare for and lead your organisation through major cybersecurity incidents. From ransomware attacks to data breaches, we’ll discuss how today’s CISO is as much a crisis manager as they are a strategist. Why You Should Attend: As a CISO, your role is evolving faster than ever before. This event is designed to provide you with actionable insights into how to embrace your expanded responsibilities while keeping your organisation safe and secure. Whether you’re focused on aligning security with business goals, navigating regulatory challenges, or leading in times of crisis, this event will equip you with the strategies to lead the next era of cybersecurity.
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Belgium 18-11-25 Squad Only Physical english
Too often, architecture is drawn top-down, neat boxes, elegant flows, and little connection to the way teams really work. But what if we flipped it? What if our systems evolved from the actual processes, pains, and needs that drive the business? If you’re tired of systems that look good on slides but frustrate in practice, this session will ground the conversation where value is created, at the process level.
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November 4, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english
You’ve got a roadmap, a backlog, and a lot of pressure. Every team wants their feature. Every stakeholder claims urgency. And your developers? They just want to deliver something meaningful. But how do you prioritise in a way that serves the business, and keeps the team sane? If your backlog keeps growing and your outcomes stay flat, this session helps you turn intent into value, without losing control.
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November 18, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Physical english
Too often, architecture is drawn top-down, neat boxes, elegant flows, and little connection to the way teams really work. But what if we flipped it? What if our systems evolved from the actual processes, pains, and needs that drive the business? If you’re tired of systems that look good on slides but frustrate in practice, this session will ground the conversation where value is created, at the process level.
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November 20, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Virtual english
You can’t build a smart service without smart data. And you can’t access smart data without trust. Across Europe, industries are trying to make this work, through data spaces, standardisation, and new governance frameworks. But progress is slow. If you’re part of a sector with potential for shared intelligence, but stuck in silos, this session will challenge assumptions and explore practical pathways.
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Market leader TIM Group migrates to Red Hat OpenShift 4
TIM Group decided to migrate its existing Red Hat environment to Red Hat OpenShift 4. With help from a Red Hat, TIM successfully migrated critical business support system (BSS) applications with no downtime. The group can provision new container clusters in days. Cluster management and security is also easier and faster, with automated updates.
TIM Group is the leading information and communications technology (ICT) provider in Italy and Brazil and operates more than 100 million mobile and fixed lines. To take advantage of new management and data capabilities, TIM decided to migrate its existing Red Hat environment to Red Hat OpenShift 4. With help from a Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM), a dedicated expert and point of contact, TIM successfully migrated critical business support system (BSS) applications with no downtime. The group can now provision new container clusters in days, rather than months. Cluster management and security is also easier and faster, with automated updates that free staff to focus on more valuable projects.
The TIM Group is the leading information and communications technology (ICT) group in Italy and Brazil. The group offers fixed, mobile, cloud and datacenter infrastructure, as well as communications and entertainment services for individuals, small and medium enterprises, large companies, private and public sector, and wholesale.TIM operates more than 100 million mobile and fixed lines across both countries.
More than four years ago, TIM implemented Red Hat OpenShift. Running in a virtualized datacenter environment, this architecture, with more than 1000 vCores, supports the transformation from monolithic application architectures to microservices applications for both front-end digital channels and back-end services, including the most critical for business.
To continue improving its service delivery, TIM sought to take advantage of new capabilities in Red Hat OpenShift 4—such as self-management and cluster automation—for many critical applications, but a complex environment risked business disruption during the upgrade. Each live application needed to be migrated across five environments: development, three testing environments, and production.
“We could see that these new technology capabilities would provide many benefits to our developer and customer experience,” said Alessandro Bertini, BSS Platform Group Technical Lead, TIM. “But we also needed to avoid any extended maintenance windows or unplanned downtime that could lead to downtime for our business support system.”
TIM developers, architects, and application managers worked with the group’s Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM) to assist with the complex migration and optimize the group’s container platform investment. Red Hat TAMs work with customers to provide ongoing, security-focused guidance, functioning as a single point of contact for insight from an extended team of Red Hat product and support experts.
Together, TIM and its Red Hat TAM used Red Hat’s migration toolkit for containers to complete all migrations in just six months. This solution provides open source tools, including a web console and application programming interface (API) for migrating applications from the source cluster on Red Hat OpenShift 3 to a specified cluster on the latest Red Hat OpenShift release.
The group runs its updated Red Hat OpenShift environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS, a lightweight operating system that provides the stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux within the container platform.
“Our Red Hat TAM helped us plan the migration, with a breakdown of tasks and any prerequisites,” said Bertini. “He ensured any compatibility issues with legacy applications were resolved quickly. He’s involved in everything we do with our Red Hat OpenShift platform, and his support was critical to extending our team to complete the migration successfully.”
In addition to ongoing support from its Red Hat TAM, TIM also works closely with a Red Hat Customer Success Manager to orchestrate and monitor performance across its container environment.
Using the migration toolkit for containers web console, TIM established an automated approach that standardized and simplified the migration process compared to a manual approach. After creating a replication repository, adding the source cluster, and establishing the migration plan, no further manual work is required, eliminating the risk of human error or inconsistent configuration that could create service downtime or outages.
“With the toolkit, every application was migrated in the exact same way and remained the same as much as possible,” said Bertini. “Our critical BSS applications continue to operate without any issues, so we can continue to offer reliable infrastructure and telecommunications services to our customers as we deliver new, valuable features.”
Instead of five environments, the group’s new Red Hat OpenShift 4 infrastructure comprises a single production cluster and a single testing cluster, each running in different virtual machines (VMs) for resilience.
A simpler environment architecture, combined with a new operating system, has helped TIM reduce cluster provisioning time from months to days. TIM’s IT teams can now access a new cluster in 7-10 days, instead of 2.5 months.
“With Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS, we no longer need to install lots of software on the virtual server each time we provision a new cluster,” said Bertini. “We can go straight from creating the final, approved container image to being ready to deploy to our production VM in a single step.”
Management of TIM’s new container environment is also much more efficient, with automated, over-the-air updates for OpenShift. The OpenShift Update Service built-in feature automatically builds and notifies the operations team of updates based on recommended, tested paths. As a result, TIM can update an entire Red Hat OpenShift cluster, as well as its Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS deployment, in a single process.
Resilient, persistent software-defined storage based on Ceph® storage technology also helps TIM upgrade its Red Hat OpenShift clusters without affecting application performance. "We were happy to switch the storage technology from Gluster® to Ceph because the last one is a more robust and supported product. We are not using OpenShift Data Foundation."
“Updating our OpenShift clusters with the OpenShift Update Service accelerates our ability to stay current with the latest features, bug fixes, and enhancements. It’s a much simpler process that helps us scale as needed to meet demand.”
With only about half as many staff needed to manage its OpenShift and Linux platforms, TIM has freed resources to focus on more valuable projects, such as analyzing the adoption of hybrid cloud environments or working to make new OpenShift features that are not currently used available for developers.
TIM’s software architect team is now exploring other features of its updated container platform, including Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, a component that provides a distributed microservice architecture, and Red Hat Quay, a container registry that helps customers build, analyze, distribute, and deploy container images. “In particular, we’d like to use Red Hat Quay to set up a process that uses a certified base to increase application security,” said Bertini.
The team is also running developer workshops to introduce the new Red Hat OpenShift 4 features and encourage their adoption.
“As more of our telco services move to an as-a-Service model, we are transforming our legacy application architecture to a microservices architecture,” said Bertini. ”Red Hat provides the robust yet easy to manage technology that we need to support this new approach.”
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?
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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.
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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 !
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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.
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