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Belgium 01-10-2026 Squad Only Virtual english
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.
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Belgium 06-10-2026 All Members Physical english
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.
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Belgium 08-10-2026 All Members Physical english
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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CIONET Trailblazer: CISO: The Shift from Prevention to Resilience: Turning Visibility into Execution
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How Amplitude revolutionized their content marketing with Jasper
Jasper content creation saved Amplitude a massive amount compared to using an agency for the same project, allowing SEO Manager Scott Mathson & team to focus on content strategy.
Amplitude, a leading digital analytics platform, recently launched an online Glossary to aid website visitors and potential customers in understanding various technical, analytical, and product terms. By leveraging the power of Jasper's content creation platform, Amplitude saw significant scale in marketing content production, increased its speed to market, and reduced costs.
When Scott Mathson, Senior Growth Marketing & SEO Manager, first joined Amplitude, he took on the daunting challenge to increase organic traffic to the company's website. Amplitude needed to ensure that its online presence was both informative and engaging. However, creating high-quality content that resonated with users and ranked well on search engines can often be very time-consuming and resource-intensive.
To launch one of his initial organic growth initiatives, Scott turned to Jasper to assist him in the content creation process. “Jasper was a tool that was not well-utilized at Amplitude yet, and I decided to bring it into the project. Turns out it was a pretty amazing counterpart.”
Scott found Jasper invaluable in scaling his content production. His first initiative was to launch a comprehensive Glossary of growth-oriented product and analytics terms, which would live on Amplitude's website. The scope was hefty; its first iteration would include 20 individual term landing pages, each containing 600-800 words with extensive explanation and supporting links. Total, the Glossary amounted to over 15,000 words of Jasper-created content, which was then internally human-edited and reviewed for accuracy.
As Amplitude was concurrently undergoing a CMS migration, Scott was able to concentrate on editing and polishing the Glossary pages rather than creating them from scratch. This approach allowed Amplitude to swiftly launch the new Glossary while exerting minimal manual effort and maintaining high standards of accuracy. “I had a coworker and fellow subject matter expert assist me with the edits on some of these articles to guarantee we had the best information. The content was high-quality and we felt confident launching the Glossary in weeks, rather than months. It gave us the opportunity to publish quickly and then monitor, to ensure Google began indexing each page as soon as possible.”
Promising results came fairly quickly once the content was published online. Within three weeks, some terms from the Glossary ranked on page 1 of Google search results for “what is x” queries. Amplitude hadn't been featured among results for these keywords before. It marks an early success for the exceptional content that Jasper assisted in creating for Scott and the Amplitude team.
By using Jasper for the Glossary project, the Amplitude team was able to significantly cut costs by a staggering 88%. Scott employed Jasper's convenient templates and attests features like 'One Shot Blog Post’ served as the basis for this rapid output. The flexible yet secure nature of the Jasper platform allowed the project to be completed in a seamless and efficient manner, further aided by guidance from his customer success manager. With Jasper, Amplitude achieved a level of productivity and cost-effectiveness that would have been impossible otherwise.
Scott harnessed the power of Jasper's AI technology to boost website traffic through aligning its output with Scott’s SEO strategy, setting a robust foundation for future optimization efforts, and reducing costs significantly for Amplitude. Since creating the Glossary, he’s been using Jasper to assist in production of other catalogs of pages, as well as planned future iterations and additions to the Glossary. Scott is now leveraging Jasper’s API to produce content at an even larger capacity. With Jasper on board, Scott has more time to shape strategy and save money while increasing productivity, providing much to celebrate for Amplitude.
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Company Size: Enterprise (200+ employees)
Industry: Software
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CIONET’s Cyber Circle: a new three-event programme exclusively focusing on the most urgent, complex, and high-impact challenges in cybersecurity today. Launched in 2026, this initiative brings together CISOs, CIOs, and senior IT executives with a strong interest in cybersecurity for three curated gatherings each year. As part of CIONET’s trusted executive community, the Cyber Circle provides a confidential, peer-driven environment to exchange insights, share real-world experiences, and address evolving cyber threats. Each session is designed to foster strategic dialogue, strengthen resilience, and elevate cybersecurity as a core driver of business value.
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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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