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Belgium 20-10-2026 Squad Only Virtual English

Deciding What Runs Where: Cloud, Edge, On-Prem, or Hybrid; How to place workloads based on performance, cost, sovereignty, resilience, and AI requirements.

Cloud decisions are becoming more selective. The challenge is deciding where each workload should run based on cost, performance, control, resilience, sovereignty, and business need. Three pressure points usually drive the decision. - Cost visibility becomes harder when usage grows across cloud services, data platforms, and AI workloads. - Performance and latency matter more when systems need fast access to data or support operational processes. - Sovereignty and resilience become critical when data location, continuity, vendor dependency, and exit options enter the discussion. The working question is simple: how do we place workloads where they create the most value while keeping the hybrid landscape manageable? If these trade-offs are on your agenda, let’s compare how others are handling similar choices.

Belgium 10-11-2026 Squad Only Virtual English

Choosing the Right Data Platform Without Creating New Silos; How to balance speed, flexibility, semantics, governance, and long-term maintainability.

Data platforms are meant to simplify access and support better use of data. The challenge is choosing and governing the platform landscape in a way that creates consistency, reuse, and long-term value. Three pressure points usually appear. - Platform choice becomes difficult when teams have different needs for speed, flexibility, cost, and control. - Business meaning needs protection: customer, revenue, product, risk, and FTE need shared definitions across tools. - Ownership and governance need to be clear, so platforms grow with accountability and discipline. The working question is simple: how do we give teams the data capabilities they need while keeping the platform landscape understandable, governed, and reusable? If these questions are familiar, let’s compare approaches with others facing the same data landscape.

Belgium 13-11-2026 Squad Only Physical English

Building the Business Case for New IT Capabilities; How to justify investment when value is strategic, shared, or only visible over time.

Many IT capabilities are essential and difficult to fund through a simple project ROI. The challenge is showing why architecture, governance, resilience, cybersecurity maturity, data foundations, and AI readiness deserve investment before the gap becomes expensive. Three pressure points make the case harder. - Shared value means the benefit often sits across several teams, while the budget sits in one place. - Timing creates friction because the cost is immediate while the value appears over time. - Risk translation is needed so business and finance leaders understand the consequence of delaying the investment. The working question is simple: how do we turn foundational IT capabilities into credible investment cases that link cost, risk, business value, and future flexibility? If you are building these cases internally, let’s compare how others are positioning value, risk, and timing.

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Optimize Claims Processing with expert.ai’s New Guidewire Marketplace App

Insurers using Guidewire ClaimCenter™ will be able to easily access the expert.ai accelerator to intelligently automate claims processes, applying human-like language understanding to extract and analyze medical information and data from claims forms and related documents including medical histories, appraisals, reports, receipts and invoices, etc.

CUSTOMER/PARTNER

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. More than 450 insurers, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

CHALLENGE

Guidewire help to make claims handling more efficient for insurers with customized workflows and integrations. They partnered with expert.ai to add human-like language understanding to read and extract the most important details from medical reports automatically...reducing by 90% the time spent reviewing documents.

SOLUTION

Expert.ai’s integration with Guidewire ClaimCenter 10.0 applies human-like natural language understanding to analyze medical claims data, forms, and related documents – including reports, appraisals, medical records, invoices, and loss findings. Integrated directly into the Guidewire ClaimCenter workflow, expert.ai’s medical record extraction technology saves claims handlers time and avoids having to retype details from a PDF. Within 10 seconds of the document upload it is analyzed, the key medical details are extracted, and data field are populated in ClaimCenter. This saves administrators an average of 10 minutes per document and over 500 keystrokes.

BENEFITS

- Reduces insurance document review times by 90%
- Minimize claims leakage by removing subjectivity
- Accelerates decision making and claims resolution

Technologies

expert.ai Insight Engine

Partners

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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.