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Belgium 21-4-26 Invitation Only Physical english

From Victim to Victor: Cyber resilience is a means, providing Business Continuity the goal

In an era where every outage, audit, and cyberattack is a test of organisational survival, resilience has become the new currency of trust. While traditional perimeter security with: firewalls, intrusion detection, and scanners, remains essential, it is no longer a sufficient guarantee against modern threats that bypass these layers to penetrate your core systems. Today, enterprises require security and continuity that are built-in, not bolted-on. This CIONET roundtable focuses on the shift from reactive disaster recovery to proactive Business Continuity. Together with experts from HPE Zerto, we will explore how organisations can transform their recovery strategies into seamless continuity models.

Belgium 23-4-26 Country Members Physical & Virtual english

CIOFEST BELGIUM: Leadership in the Agentic Era

AI is no longer confined to supporting human tasks. We are entering the agentic era, where autonomous systems act on behalf of people and organisations. These agents can gather information, make decisions, negotiate terms, and even complete transactions. The implications extend well beyond technology; they touch the very foundations of business models, governance, and leadership. For CIOs and their peers, the rise of “machine customers” and autonomous partners poses new questions: Market impact: How do you compete and create value when some customers and suppliers are machines? Governance: What trust, compliance, and accountability structures are needed when AI acts independently in financial, procurement, or customer-facing processes? Leadership: How should CIOs guide their organisations in redefining roles, responsibilities, and decision-making when agents take over parts of the value chain?Business strategy: What opportunities emerge for new revenue models, platforms, and ecosystems shaped by autonomous interaction? This session shifts the focus from the mechanics of AI agents to the decisions that will shape leadership in the next decade. It is a call for CIOs to prepare for a future where relationships, markets, and strategies are no longer limited to human-to-human interactions, but also extend to human-to-machine and machine-to-machine interactions.

Belgium 29-4-26 Invitation Only Physical english

Building Future-Ready Application Ecosystems in the Age of Intelligent Automation

This CIONET workshop is a collaborative deep-dive into the practicalities of"rewiring the building" while it’s still occupied. Drawing onKyndryl’s deep heritage in mission-critical infrastructure and their latestresearch, we will dismantle the "hidden costs" of legacyenvironments. The conversation will focus on the transition from static,monolithic structures to composable architectures that allow intelligent agentsto operate seamlessly across hybrid landscapes.

April 2, 2026 Squad Session Invitation Only Virtual english

Taming the SaaS Sprawl: Tracking spend, ownership, and usage before it slips out of control

SaaS gave business units freedom: quick onboarding, no infrastructure, and instant results. But over time, that freedom turned into fragmentation. Each team now buys, renews, and configures its own stack. HR has one platform, finance has another, and marketing probably has ten. The invoices keep coming, usage keeps dropping, and no one is sure who’s accountable for what.

May 12, 2026 Squad Session Invitation Only Physical english

Product-Centric IT 2.0: Blending product and project thinking

Everyone says they’ve gone product-centric. In reality, most organisations live in a hybrid world where projects, products, and platforms overlap. Teams manage releases while still chasing deadlines, and governance still thinks in milestones rather than outcomes. The shift is underway, but the mindset hasn’t caught up.

May 19, 2026 Squad Session Invitation Only Physical english

AI vs AI in Cybersecurity: When defenders and attackers both use AI

The game has changed, clearly. Attackers have AI, defenders have AI, and both sides are learning faster than anyone expected, or maybe the attackers are just a bit faster. What used to take hours now happens in seconds, and detection windows close before alerts even appear. It’s adaptation beyond automation, and no one gets to sit still.

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How CloudBees’ scaled content creation powered by Jasper

Jasper grew from merely a tool to an indispensable partner, enabling CloudBees’ marketing team to keep pace with their ever-growing content demands.

"We can be way more creative in what we’re putting out into the world. It’s a way for us to spice up the messaging we’re creating to make our content more engaging. We can have more freedom because we’re not stuck in our own brains.”

Dara Cohen

Sr. Manager, Campaign Strategy

Responding to the Challenge of Scaling with a Small Team

When you're a rapidly growing tech-oriented team like CloudBees, scaling content production to match the pace of the industry can be a daunting task. This was the challenge faced by Dara Cohen and the small, yet ambitious, marketing team of 20. Despite lacking a technical background in DevSecOps, Dara had to ensure that she and the team created relevant and engaging technical content that resonated with their target personas: developers and engineers. However, she wondered how she could keep up with the growing demand for content while also ensuring that content was valuable for a highly technical audience.

Discovering Jasper as the Content Creation Game-Changer

Dara turned to Jasper to empower faster ideation and content creation. Initially, like with any new tool, Dara was skeptical. But after some time, Jasper's ability to learn CloudBees' unique style and create on-brand messaging completely changed her viewpoint. Jasper grew from merely a tool to an indispensable partner, enabling CloudBees’ marketing team to keep pace with their ever-growing content demands. Dara particularly appreciated the campaign feature, which allowed her to swiftly generate landing page copy, email copy, nurture emails, social copy, paid ads, and tweets.

Unlocking Success of Creativity and Time Savings

Jasper's impact was transformative. It reduced content creation time by 6-10 times, depending on the content being made, and Dara's team gained the luxury of redirecting their focus toward what truly matters: strategy and organization. As the scope of their content demands grew, Jasper was there to meet it by aiding teams across events, web, social media, and email departments.

CloudBees harnessed the full potential of Jasper as a marketing co-pilot after streamlining the platform into the marketing team’s workflow. Dara summarized this value by stating, “We’re a small team and our goals are big. We want to output as much as we can, given our resources, and Jasper is helping us do that.”

Perhaps the greatest accomplishment was the creative revolution Jasper incited. No longer restrained by their own thought processes, the team was free to experiment and innovate with their content.

In an industry as dynamic as tech, having the ability to continuously deliver fresh and engaging content is priceless. That’s exactly what Jasper afforded CloudBees — a chance to redefine their content creation process and stand out in the enterprise software delivery market.

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Every business is a software business, and is under pressure to innovate constantly. This increased velocity introduces new business risks. CloudBees is building the world’s first end-to-end automated software delivery system, enabling companies to balance governance and developer freedom.

Headquarters: San Jose, California

Company Size: Enterprise (200+ employees)

Industry: Software

CIONET Business Circles

Cyber Circle

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.

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.

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 !

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.