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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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Mongoose Media grows traffic 166% in two months with Jasper

Over six months, Mongoose Media, an Orlando-based digital marketing agency, wrote 40+ blog posts for a client’s site, something that CEO Lauren Petrullo says wouldn’t have been possible without Jasper

"We’re writing anywhere from 1,500 to 3,000 words in less than 2 hours. That same process used to take 8-10 hours."

Lauren Petrullo

Founder & CMO

How Mongoose Media uses Jasper:

If you’re an SEO or content marketer, you know that 3,000 words in under 2 hours is unheard of.

What’s Mongoose Media’s secret to writing faster with Jasper? A good process.

“Our process is: our on-page SEO manager provides the keywords, our copywriter uses the keywords to write the content with the help of Jasper, and then we use Surfer SEO, of course, to make sure we're using the right keywords and placements so that it has a good Surfer score.” Lauren says.

Mongoose Media’s Helpful Content Update Challenge:

In August 2022, Google announced the highly-anticipated Helpful Content update. Right off the bat, marketers everywhere speculated this algorithm update was meant to target and devalue AI-generated content. Lauren decided to put this theory to the test.

“I was curious, with all the backlash around [AI content], how Google’s Helpful Content update would affect our client’s content,” Lauren said. “We've been using Jasper to create AI generated content alongside our copywriter for the past six months.”

And it was working. Lauren’s team was seeing massive organic growth for their client within a matter of months.

Would the Helpful Content update derail their momentum?

The Result:

Lauren began monitoring her client’s traffic after Google started rolling out the Helpful Content update in late August. Two months later, she sent Team Jasper an update.

“I'm looking at ahrefs and the Helpful Content update hit August 25th. [At that time], we were getting just under 3,000 organic visitors per month. As of today, October 28th, we’re getting 7,975 visitors.”

That’s a 166% increase in organic traffic in just two months.

“Since the Google Helpful Content update, we went from around 3,000 to just under 8,000 [organic visitors]. So anyone that's arguing that the Helpful Content is bad for AI software, that's so wrong.”

But, Lauren says, you have to use AI responsibly. Here are Lauren’s tips for working with AI writing assistants like Jasper:

“If you use AI tools in isolation, yeah, you're not gonna be helpful [to your audience]. We didn't use it in isolation. Jasper was a tool that we used to help our copywriter write their content faster, more efficiently, and to increase efficacy of SEO performance,” Lauren says.

“If you use Jasper for your team to create faster, smarter, more rankable content, you're going to see it take off.”

"Since the Google Helpful Content update, we went from around 3,000 to just under 8,000 organic visitors. That’s a 166% increase in organic traffic in just two months."

- Lauren Petrullo, Founder & CMO

We help Shopify stores in the baby, beauty, and food space with interruption marketing to scale the biz.

Headquarters: Orlando, Florida USA

Company Size: Small Business (1-25 employees)

Industry: Agency

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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.