IT for Business was established in France in 1966 and taken over by the Cho You Group in 2018. It consists today of a media organisation and a service club committed to IT executives. CIONET was set up by Hendrik Deckers in Belgium in 2005 and has become a community of more than 10,000 digital leaders in Europe, Asia and the Americas. 

"The partnership between our organisations feels a natural fit as we are both dedicated to helping IT executives and digital leaders to excel in their job by enabling them to leverage a community of peers who exchange expertise and support each other. At the end of the day, they all have to deal with the same challenges such as the digital transformation of their organisations, the search for environmental sustainability and the quest for mastering the Cloud", confirms Luc Hendrikx CEO of CIONET. 

"In addition, this partnership allows CIONET to expand its presence in Europe by entering the French market, making France the tenth European country where the company has a local presence", as to Hendrik Deckers, founding father of CIONET. 

As the collaboration with CIONET will also enable IT For Business to offer its services to other markets within the EU and beyond, each organisation will be able to expand its global reach and bring its services and information to a broader audience. Hence, key decision makers from various EU countries, including Chief Information Officers, will have the opportunity to collaborate and share experiences. The partnership will provide an elevated, innovative experience to the whole IT community. IT for Business and CIONET together will facilitate interactive communication between sponsors and the global community of IT decision-makers through a series of hosted events across Europe. This will provide new opportunities, enabling companies worldwide to form deeper relationships and solve problems more efficiently. The collaboration will create a strengthened European team able to support IT decision-makers worldwide.

"CIONET and IT for Business have always shared common goals and audiences, so this collaboration will benefit both organisations by expanding our footprints for the sake of the global IT community. I am greatly excited to move forward with this partnership and to see how we can better serve the community as a team," said Frédéric Ktorza, CEO IT for Business.

About CIONET: 

CIONET is the leading community of more than 10,000 digital leaders in 20+ countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Through this global presence CIONET orchestrates peer-to-peer interactions focused on the most important business and technology issues of the day. CIONET members join over a thousand international and regional live and virtual events annually, ranging from roundtables, programs for peer-to-peer exchange of expertise, community networking events, to large international gatherings. Its members testify that CIONET is an impartial and value adding platform that helps them use the wisdom of the (IT) crowd, to acquire expertise, advance their professional development, analyse and solve IT issues, and accelerate beneficial outcomes within their organisation.

About IT for Business

IT for Business, formerly 01 Informatique, is a French media group dedicated to CIOs. Created in 1966 to meet the specific needs of IT leaders, the media activities were rebranded IT for Business in 2014 to embrace the market changes and address the wider audience of digital managers. In addition to publishing a magazine, IT for Business has a strong presence online with its website, itforbusiness.fr, and a community of some 10,000 followers on social networks (https://urlz.fr/fEqA). IT for Business also organises monthly conferences with business expert guests and customer testimonials to cover the latest challenges the community of CIOs and digital leaders are facing.
IT for Business is part of the Cho You Group, an organisation providing content and marketing services to the world's leading IT companies, both in Europe and the Americas.