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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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Canva’s AI-powered Magic Studio used 5 billion times and counting.

Canva is a visual communication platform, enjoyed by more than 175 million people monthly to make presentations, videos, documents, websites, social media graphics and more. The combination of Canva's easy-to-use interface, extensive libraries and time-saving tools allows anyone to create visually appealing content.

Pioneering a new creative process with AI

Canva believes that AI can transform and accelerate the creative process, making design more intuitive and faster for all skill levels. To quickly put AI in its users hands, Canva tapped OpenAI as the foundational model for developing several of the tools for its AI suite, Magic Studio.

Canva aimed to make Magic Studio a unified creative suite that consolidates the best AI technology available into a single platform. While Canva has leveraged AI in its product for years, integrating generative AI tools was a delicate challenge because it required adding more capabilities without complicating the product. After all, Canva’s reputation is based on providing a simple way to produce high-quality content, even for non-professional designers. 

Magic Studio had to ensure that various modalities—text, image, video—could work together effectively without overwhelming the user. OpenAI’s GPT-4 excels at incorporating multimodalities into a single workflow, making it possible for Canva to deliver on advanced AI product options while maintaining an intuitive user experience. 

“Providing powerful and safe AI technology is critical to Canva’s ability to further the world of design. OpenAI has empowered us to supercharge Canva’s AI vision at speed,” says Danny Wu, Head of AI Products at Canva.

 

Building Magic Studio, an integrated AI suite

Using the creative power of GPT-4 to power several of the tools within Magic Studio(opens in a new window):

  • Magic Write(opens in a new window) is an AI writing tool powered by OpenAI's API. In addition to generating text in response to a prompt, Magic Write is optimized to support every step of the writing process, including outlining, generating paragraphs, rewriting, paraphrasing, grammar checking, and summarizing. Users across languages and content types have written over 10 billion words using Magic Write.

  • Magic Design(opens in a new window), Canva’s design generation tool, pairs OpenAI’s API with Canva’s own AI design engine and library of over 100 million assets and templates. To generate presentations, social media posts, and videos, users simply enter a prompt for what they want to create. 

  • Magic Switch(opens in a new window) converts one design into countless other formats at the click of a button. Canva leverages OpenAI’s API and vision technology to help parse and understand the content designs, from whiteboards to presentations. Magic Switch can summarize, translate, rearrange, or even convert it to another format like an email song lyrics. All the user has to do is describe what they want, such as “convert this poster to a presentation in French” or “make this document horizontal.” And OpenAIs GPT-4 model supports more than 100 languages for instant translation.


  • The Canva Magic Studio homepage overlayed on an abstract expressionist digital painting in hues of blue and pink.

Magic Design pairs OpenAI’s API with Canva’s own AI design engine and library of over 100 million assets and templates.

 

Canva Magic Swith UI overlayed on an abstract expressionist digital painting in hues of blue and purple.

Magic Switch converts one design into countless other formats at the click of a button.

 

Creativity through collaboration

Canva’s in-house AI development team knew it could go further and faster through collaboration directly with OpenAI. They wanted to ensure they were building AI tools that adhere to the trust and safety guidance of customers while opening doors for innovation.

OpenAI’s robust safety practices and controls, augmented by collaboration between each platform’s respective Trust and Safety teams, make Canva confident in deploying safe and responsible AI. “We have deep respect for the mission of OpenAI, and its charter,” Wu says. 

Canva’s tight partnership with OpenAI extends beyond Magic Studio. A native DALL-E app(opens in a new window) makes it extremely simple to generate high-quality images right in Canva. Or if you’re in ChatGPT, the Canva GPT(opens in a new window) makes generating visual assets as easy as having a conversation about what you want to create. This custom GPT has proven to be a strong source of new user acquisition for Canva.

 

More progress coming

To date, people worldwide have used Canva’s AI products more than 5 billion times.

Back in 2018, Canva began imagining Magic Studio as something that only technology in the  “far far future” would allow. Advancements by Canva and OpenAI have made this a reality much sooner than expected. Yet for all they’ve accomplished so far, Wu believes that in terms of the possibilities for AI design generation, “we’re only 1% of the way there.”

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OpenAI's GPT-4

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Healthcare Circle

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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Telenet Business Leadership Circle

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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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 !

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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.

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