Belgium 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.
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In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, organisations face a critical challenge: how to modernise their legacy systems while managing costs, maintaining security, and ensuring operational continuity. This exclusive round table discussion brings together CIOs, CTOs, and Digital Leaders to explore best practices for legacy and lifecycle management. Key topics include extending the lifespan of existing systems, mitigating cyber security risks, optimising costs, and integrating legacy platforms with modern technologies. We’ll also delve into sustainability, workforce challenges, and future-proofing IT infrastructures to navigate technological obsolescence.
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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 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 MoreHow Siemens increased productivity and made CX more human with AI
Europe’s largest manufacturing company needed a way to centralize data and automate high-volume requests. With Zendesk and Ultimate, they were able to free up agents so they had more time for human-to-human interactions while also streamlining productivity.
Siemens is Europe’s biggest manufacturing company, serving customers from large enterprises to small sole traders in a wide range of industries.
They serve a global customer base in regions including France, Spain, Poland, the US, Germany, Nordics and the UK.
What started as a small deployment with one support team has now expanded to over 600 Zendesk licences across all their regions.
Siemens offers automated support through ticket automation and a seamless integration with their CRM, Zendesk.
For Siemens, CX as a differentiator has always been a core value. But with agents relying on email inboxes, spreadsheets, and other applications to track customer data, delivering on that value was a challenge.
With Zendesk Enterprise Suite and Ultimate’s ticket automation solution, Siemens found a holistic way to view and manage all customer data and automate support across channels.
Following the successful implementation of the Zendesk platform, Siemens wanted to further improve the customer experience through the integration of AI. The company opted to automate with Ultimate because of a few key factors.
The first being that Ultimate could build an AI solution directly into Zendesk. The second reason addresses the challenge of having multiple languages. With Ultimate’s polyglot AI model, responses to customer questions are made directly in the native language, as opposed to translating into English first. The integration of Ultimate also enables the individual regions to implement AI at a pace that works for them.
“When we look across all our customer contacts, about 30% of them are data requests or information requests. We felt that with a good AI solution, we could automate that. So within three years, we want 15% of our responses to be automated. While this may seem conservative, we firstly want to ensure we are providing a really great customer experience, and then gradually push it out,” says Steven Franklin, Head of Global Customer Services at Siemens.
To integrate AI into Zendesk, Steven and the Siemens team worked closely with their Zendesk Customer Success Executive, Peter Eshkeri, together with the team at Ultimate. “We have been on a journey with Zendesk, from the early days of deploying it in a small team. Today we have over 600 licenses and it’s deployed across all our regions. Bringing Ultimate into this partnership, I think we have a really compelling solution for our customers,” says Steven. It’s a partnership grounded in shared values and goals. Together, solutions are developed to streamline the customer journey.
Steven Franklin
Head of Global Customer Services, Siemens
The strong partnership between Zendesk, Ultimate and Siemens means that they operate seamlessly as one company, not three — working together to find the best means of solving a problem.
As well as automating responses to common queries, Siemens’ bot uses AI to populate tickets with data. This speeds up handling times and gives their agents more time to focus on value-added customer interactions.
Instead of using different platforms and applications, all customer data is in one place, so agents can stay within Zendesk. In this omnichannel environment, including phone, email, and WhatsApp, they can efficiently communicate and answer customer queries.
Since introducing Zendesk and Ultimate, Siemens have been able to resolve tickets faster, exchange tickets between departments more smoothly, and expedite customer onboarding — resulting in 23% increase in productivity in the Nordics and almost 2x the productivity in France.
With the help of Zendesk and Ultimate, Siemens is on track to achieving a holistic global digital customer journey. As AI has been introduced at different speeds across their various markets, some regions are further ahead and are already experiencing productivity gains. This is translating into increased customer satisfaction scores (CSAT). For instance, the Nordics region is hitting an 86% CSAT rating versus an 83% industry benchmark.
Steven says, “Ultimately, we want to get to the point where we have a holistic global digital customer journey. With Zendesk as the foundation and the various apps and integrations such as Ultimate’s AI sitting on top of that, we are getting closer and closer to achieving that.”
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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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