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Belgium 9-9-25 Squad Only Physical english

Fixing the Data Foundations ; Making data trustworthy, consistent, and ready for action

As Belgium navigates the complexities of GDPR and various data sovereignty regulations, organizations across multiple industries face both challenges and opportunities in managing their data across borders. The quest for compliance often intersects with the need for business growth, raising questions about the balance between protection and progress. How can companies effectively own and safeguard their data while ensuring compliance without stifling innovation and expansion in a multi-industry landscape?

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Belgium 11-9-25 Squad Only Virtual english

Customer Experience at the Frontline ; Designing digital tools that actually work

You’ve built the portal. Added the chatbot. Rolled out self-service. But your support lines are still ringing. And your frontline teams are still improvising. If you want digital services to feel seamless, not just look polished, this session brings you back to where value is felt: at the frontline.

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Belgium 13-9-25 All Members Physical english

CIONET Cycling Event

Join us for a scenic ride along the route of the Brabantse Pijl!This ride is suitable for all levels of cyclists and doesn’t require advanced technical skills. We’ll start at de Zoete Waters, where parking is available, and head into the charming Brabant region. Along the way, we’ll tackle some of the area’s iconic climbs — including the legendary Moskesstraat, known for its cobbled character and history in pro cycling. Expect a relaxed, friendly atmosphere and beautiful views throughout. Whether you're training, exploring, or just riding for fun, you’re more than welcome to join!

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September 9, 2025 Squad Session Invitation Only Virtual polish

Talenty w akcji: sekrety pozyskiwania i rozwoju w CIRF

Utrzymanie talentów w organizacji IT ulokowanej na konkurencyjnym rynku pracy to nie lada zadanie. A jeśli do tego mówimy o organizacji z sektora publicznego? O swoich i swojej organizacji doświadczeniach, metodach i programach opowie Anna Wituła z CIRF. Będzie to jak zawsze okazja do dyskusji na temat różnych sposobów na utrzymanie talentów w firmie.

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September 9, 2025 Squad Session Squad Only Physical english

Fixing the Data Foundations ; Making data trustworthy, consistent, and ready for action

As Belgium tackles GDPR and data sovereignty rules, organizations face challenges and opportunities in cross-border data management. Balancing compliance with growth raises key questions: How can companies protect and control their data while staying compliant—without blocking innovation and expansion across industries?

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September 11, 2025 Squad Session Invitation Only Virtual polish

(Nie)bezpieczny łańcuch dostaw OT: co powinien wiedzieć dział IT

W fabrykach cyberbezpieczeństwo często zależy od podwykonawców – integratorów, dostawców systemów automatyki i firm serwisowych, które mają zaskakująco szeroki dostęp do infrastruktury OT. W tej prezentacji Igor Zbyryt z BZK pokaże, jak z perspektywy końcowego użytkownika i integratora wygląda współpraca z tymi firmami oraz jakie realne ryzyka to niesie – również w kontekście NIS2. Zamiast wyliczać różnice między IT a OT, skupi się na wspólnym mianowniku i tym, co trzeba zmienić w podejściu organizacji, żeby cyber w produkcji zaczęło działać.

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Siemens Energy democratizes data and drives digitalization with Alteryx

Siemens Energy, a global power generation leader, faced challenges managing complex data from multiple sources. By implementing Alteryx, the company automated data processes, improved efficiency, and empowered employees to make data-driven decisions. This led to increased productivity, cost savings, and accelerated digital transformation initiatives.

 

A global supplier with global data to match

Siemens Energy is a global force in power generation and transmission, renewable energy, and more. Its Power Transmission business unit manufactures and supplies thousands of energy network components to a customer base that spans the world.

The Transmission unit has 36 geographically distributed factories producing everything a power network needs to function effectively — earthing switches, coils, circuit breakers, and more. This creates a huge amount of production, logistics management, and financial data and, to complicate matters, each factory has its own database to store information.

But the business unit’s data sources don’t end there; Tim Kessler, Business Unit Program Lead for Digitalization in Production and Processes, leads a community which also needs to pull information from sources such as SAP, Salesforce and Amazon Web Services. This complexity lead to a major data management challenge, which prevented the organization from drawing the full value from its data.

“There was no data analytics. It was just crunching data,” says Kessler. “We were tied up in spreadsheets, spending all our time consolidating data, checking it was valid, and ensuring our formulas were working properly.”

The organization needed a solution which provided access and consolidation in order to gain full visibility into the company’s data estate — and the automation capabilities to make it simple.

Data democracy is so important. With Alteryx, we can give vital data access to people who didn’t have it before.

 

Tim Kessler

Business Unit Program Lead for Digitalization in Production and Processes, Power Transmission, Siemens Energy

 

From basic workflows to complex processes

“We hired a new colleague, who immediately asked ‘why aren’t you using Alteryx?’,” says Kessler. “After doing some research, talking to colleagues in other units who already use Alteryx, and attending the Inspire conference later that year, all I had to do was convince the organization and leadership.”

As his first project with Alteryx Designer, Kessler built a simple workflow to automate one of his weekly tasks: creating and sending a cash-in report to his internal stakeholders. “The workflow translates a spreadsheet of raw data into a report spreadsheet, and automatically emails it to my internal counterparts. It’s an easy way to save 30 minutes on a Monday morning, when there are always other urgent tasks to take care of.”

The second workflow already turned up the complexity — automating forecasting reports for up to 30 projects and a group of commercial project managers at a time. The workflow is fully customizable through Alteryx analytic app interfaces, the whole team can easily adjust and consume the output for their own forecasts even if they are not an Alteryx Designer license holder.

“With Alteryx Designer, domain expertise becomes more important than IT skills,” says Kessler. “The business user can build their own workflows and solutions at high speed based on their needs, and then it can be made available to everyone through the gallery.”

 

Reducing pressure and boosting efficiency through automation

In less than six months, it was possible to build over 350 workflows in Alteryx Designer, with at least another 200 use case ideas in the pipeline.

As well as saving time, Alteryx workflows are helping the business unit gain end-to-end control over data and process quality. One workflow, for example, sends order confirmation reminders to suppliers, which in turn is encouraging the procurement team to update order information on time. As Kessler explains: “There’s more accuracy and process discipline on both ends now, on the supplier side and internally, leading to better process quality. And because workflows make it so quick and simple, analyses that used to take hours every month can be run daily in minutes.”

The impact of automation became even clearer during COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, when many employees were forced to work remotely. One process in a department uses a huge Microsoft Access database and took up to six hours to complete the analysis overnight. But there was a catch: it could only be launched from a specific workstation, and its operator was classed as high-risk, which meant he wasn’t able to come into the office.

By building a workflow in Alteryx Designer, the team could not only launch this process remotely, but dramatically reduce the time it took to run. Instead of hours overnight, it now completes in minutes.

For Kessler, working with Alteryx Designer on projects like this has created a real sense of relief. “You know that automation is taking care of the process,” he says. “The workflows can all run independently — often we don’t even need to click a button. And that means we’re not dependent on individual attendance times or office hours.”

There's a strong Alteryx power user community within Siemens Energy[...] We're creating a powerful network of data workers, future skills, mindset and use case ideas.

 

Tim Kessler

Business Unit Program Lead for Digitalization in Production and Processes, Power Transmission, Siemens Energy

 

 

Driving digitalization through people power

Within just a few months of introducing Alteryx, Kessler’s community within his business unit has grown to approximately 100 active users alongside a wider Siemens Energy community of 600 license holders. “There’s a strong Alteryx power user community within Siemens Energy supporting and relying on each other,” he says. “We’re creating a powerful network of data workers, future skills, mindset and use case ideas.”

For Kessler, the automation this community is achieving with Alteryx is helping drive a wider program and spirit of digitalization within Siemens Energy. “As we move more into Industry 4.0, and focusing on using machine learning and artificial intelligence, topics like data democracy and literacy will be so important. In this context, digital transformation is only successful when you involve the people it impacts — and with Alteryx, we put the power right in their hands.”

 
 
BENEFITS OF USING ALTERYX
Global automation

Analytic automation that can be easily scaled across all divisions and a range of business units

Productivity

Removing manual data tasks and unlocking valuable insights

Foster data literacy and democracy

Promoting an analytic mindset throughout the organization by allowing visibility to data

 

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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?

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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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