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Belgium 01-10-2026 Squad Only Virtual english

Letting Teams Build Safely with Low-Code, No-Code, and AI Tools. ; How to enable business-led development while keeping security, architecture, and support under control.

Low-code, no-code, and AI tools are giving business teams more ability to build solutions themselves. The challenge is setting the right boundaries before fast local solutions become important operational assets. Three pressure points need attention. - Boundaries must be clear: teams need to know what they can build alone and what requires IT, security, or architecture review. - Supportability matters when a quick solution becomes business-critical. - Risk control remains necessary around data access, compliance, security, process dependency, and maintenance. The working question is simple: how do we enable business-led development while keeping security, ownership, and support under control? If you are trying to enable this safely, let’s compare approaches with others facing the same balance.

Belgium 06-10-2026 All Members Physical english

The Token Trap: Reclaiming Control of Enterprise AI

As enterprise AI transitions from experimental Proofs of Concept (POCs) into real implementations, digital leaders are encountering a shared challenge: consumption-based public cloud token billing models do not fit neatly into traditional IT budgeting. Daily token consumption can rise unexpectedly, pushing expenses through the roof while arbitrary caps quickly kill momentum for innovation. For many CIOs, this raises an open strategic question: How do we keep costs under control while further stimulating innovation? During this interactive CIONET roundtable, we will explore among peers how to navigate AI tokenomics. Rather than treating public cloud LLMs as the default path, we will investigate how different execution environments, ranging from hybrid cloud setups and targeted on-premise models to specialised edge hardware, can help balance cost with performance. This session is intentionally designed as an open peer-to-peer exchange; a space to compare notes, challenge current ways of working and architectural setups, and discuss practical approaches to building predictable, scalable AI models.

Belgium 08-10-2026 All Members Physical english

The Permanent (R)evolution

Every large organisation has been through a major transformation, and most through several. The word transformation is misleading because it suggests a beginning and an end. But organisations that do well are the ones that have given up on the idea of arriving and realise that constant change has become the new norm, and missing a single cycle leaves you permanently behind. This evening, two leaders will share how they think about this, coming from opposite directions. John Porter led Telenet through a sustained period of reinvention spanning the pandemic, a full reorganisation into tribes, M&A, and a shift to a performance driven culture. Along the way, the IT department was dissolved and technology was embedded inside autonomous tribes that run as small businesses. There is no CIO at Telenet. It is Telenet Group’s purpose to become a digital-first, customer-centric organisation. To deliver on this ambition, it has embarked on a transformation journey built on three pillars: (i) the implementation of a scaled-agile operating model (organisation), (ii) the acceleration of digitisation and automation underpinned by optimised IT systems, platforms, and strategic technology partnerships (digitisation), and (iii) a performance leadership culture focused on accountability, ownership, and a change mindset (culture). Kris Vervaet, on the other hand, has just become CIO at KBC, the bank whose mobile app has been ranked best in the world three times and whose AI assistant Kate now handles 70% of customer queries on its own. But Kris is no ordinary CIO: he ran DPG Media Belgium as CEO, and KBC went looking for someone who has led transformation rather than someone who manages technology. So while one organisation got rid of the CIO role, the other reinvented it, and both are thriving. The conversation will range across organisational and IT redesign, the rise of digital-first customer experience, the impact of AI on how every business is run, and the harder questions of culture, talent and leadership. The question for every leader in the room is what that tells you about your own role, your own operating model, and the pace at which you are prepared to keep evolving.

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DoorDash Accelerates Revenue Data Management and Accuracy with Alteryx Analytics Cloud

DoorDash, a food delivery giant, harnessed Alteryx to revolutionize its finance operations. By automating processes and consolidating data, the company achieved significant time savings and improved accuracy. Alteryx empowered DoorDash to make data-driven decisions, meet rigorous compliance standards, and focus on strategic initiatives.

The idea behind DoorDash, the largest food delivery platform in the U.S., started as a class project. The co-founders were students at Stanford who took a joint engineering and business course called “Startup Garage.” It was there that they bonded over their mutual interest in using technology to help local business owners.

After interviewing hundreds of small businesses, they realized food delivery was a common pain point. Using their coding skills to build a prototype, and their own cars, the co-founders were the original ‘dashers’, delivering food across the campus of Stanford. Today, the company supports hundreds of thousands of merchants and millions of customers in more than 500 cities across North America.

Wrangling a mecca of data

As a tech company that focuses on logistics, the accounting team at DoorDash manages what Alex Barr calls the ‘mecca of data’. Barr is Senior Manager for Revenue Data at DoorDash. His team owns the data technologies and financial processes within the company that support financial reporting. “I would say that core accounting, tax and finance are using approximately 1000 workflows within our environment,” says Barr.

Like many accounting teams, DoorDash was dealing with a growing volume and complexity of data combined with pressure to speed up processes. Foundational to everything is meeting the rigorous standards to be SOX compliant. “Sox compliance is key for an accounting organization, but also it’s the foundation to any good business process,” Barr says.

Accelerating transformation in the cloud

These were all compelling factors in the decision by DoorDash to roll out a cloud strategy that included Alteryx Analytics Cloud. Barr says Alteryx has transformed what used to be complex and time-consuming financial processes with no touch, end-to-end automation. “We use Alteryx for streamlining tons of different operational processes, from self-service data acquisition, conducting in-depth financial analysis, automating transactions, and ensuring our account reconciliations are automatically prepped and accurate.”

Alteryx Analytics Cloud is a key game changer within our business process transformation.

Alex Barr

Senior Manager for Revenue Data, DoorDash

The automated and low-code capabilities of Alteryx enable accountants and data analysts to quickly develop analytic workflows and significantly improve efficiencies. “We’re probably saving 25,000 hours a year and millions in ROI,” says Barr.

The time savings also enable the team to focus on more value-added, strategic tasks. “We can free them up to do things that can help us drive better and more accurate accounting.”

I can't imagine a world without Alteryx, without a tool that's low-code, that's so easy to train on, is so easily scalable.

Alex Barr

Senior Manager for Revenue Data, DoorDash

With seamless integration capabilities, DoorDash has also been able to integrate the Alteryx Analytics Cloud platform with their Workato platform, exponentially increasing data management capabilities. “Data can be pushed from Alteryx Analytics Cloud into Workato to do things like creating Jira tickets, creating transactions within our ERP system,” says Barr. This integration has enabled seamless workflow management and increased efficiency in their operations.

While accounting may appear to be a back-end process, Barr and his team know they support the greater mission of DoorDash to service merchants, customers and ‘dashers’. Barr says “it’s not just about accounting, it’s also to doing good business and being responsive to our customer needs.”

BENEFITS OF USING ALTERYX

Speed

No touch, end-to-end automation streamlines manual processes and improves operational efficiencies

Ease of Use

Low-code platform enables non-technical business users to build workflows and solve the problems they are closest to

Accuracy

Alteryx improves accounting accuracy and ability to meet rigorous SOX compliance requirements

Technologies

Alteryx Analytics Cloud Platform

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