Benelux CIO Executive Summit

Benelux Executive Summit Governing Body members host this dinner for attendees to launch the event with an evening of peer networking. 

The life of the executive is complex, challenging and often exhausting. If you’re not dealing with vulnerabilities or implementing and managing a suite of solutions, you’re navigating data governance and company-wide risk perspectives. When do CIOs and CISOs get a chance to breathe and beat the fatigue? Led by a group of future-focused practitioners, this session serves to ignite commitment from you, your teams and other business leaders to shape the future of your role and industry as a whole. Join this dynamic, interactive discussion to find well-deserved solace and explore solutions.

Today’s digital businesses need deep customer insights to successfully deliver new products and services that can increase customer engagement and brand loyalty while maintaining their security and privacy. At the same time legislation and regulations like GDPR are putting more parameters around protecting consumer privacy. Customer identity & access management, if done well, can help businesses to overcome the challenges of agility and regulation, and lay the foundation for transforming digital business successfully. In this presentation, Gerald Horst explores the business relevance of consumer identity & access management, based on tangible and first-hand experience.

Today’s digitization wave puts IT under pressure. While the demand for apps is exploding, many organizations struggle to fulfill business needs and shorten time-to-value. Executing a digital transformation strategy is more than just buying new technology. This roundtable discussion, led by Hans de Visser of Mendix, will explore best practices within the four pillars of portfolio, people, process and platform. Join with your peers to address the challenge of business and IT alignment, talent scarcity and rapid application delivery.

The intelligent enterprise is the ultimate data-driven organization. It harnesses traditionally counteractive forces – agility and governance, convenience and security, ease of use and enterprise functionality – to go beyond business intelligence and deliver transformative insights to every user, constituent and partner. Today, every forward leaning company is racing to become an intelligent enterprise. Why? Because organizations that build this intelligent edge over competitors will be the dominant force of tomorrow.

In this keynote, you’ll hear:

• How to map out your organization into an intelligent enterprise
• Best practices to build data analytics throughout the organization
• Ecosystem solutions to help manage data securely but remain agile

Creating, maturing and maintaining sound information security program management is a critical concern for many CISOs. Unfortunately, this is a complex task for those who lack the C-level support, internal governance and technical expertise needed to drive such a program forward.

In this session, learn how one organization successfully: 

• Earned management support of its program
• Created effective organizational governance that supported its program
• Retained a team of expert staff to drive its program forward

In a market changing as rapidly as IT, it can be difficult to plan how to get the most value out of your company’s investments. How do you remain flexible and adapt to constant changes, while at the same time remaining cost effective and avoiding huge disinvestments? The rapidly emerging market of pre-used licensing enables companies to establish cost optimization and reduction strategies. Join this open conversation with Relicense and FrieslandCampina on how you can embed the opportunities of this emerging market into your IT strategy.

Choosing the right words when you go before your board — plus the right metrics, financials, data and visuals — can make or break whether you get the resources you need or walk away empty handed. When you just have a few minutes, you’ve got to sell your successes and highlight your challenges in a way that provides value without drowning the board in facts and figures. In this interactive show-and-tell, you’ll be encouraged to workshop best practices with your peers by bringing examples of real-life wins, stumbling blocks and questions you’ve asked when preparing for your pitch.

Digital innovation comes fast and furious these days — and with today’s speed of change, there is no room for falling behind the curve. Nowhere is this truer than the field of artificial intelligence, and depending on who you ask, AI is either the future or it will help to hasten the end. Join Johan Kestens for a fascinating look into the two extremes of the AI spectrum. Kestens will explore the benefits and drawbacks of recent innovations in AI and what you can do to harness AI’s power to protect and advance your organization. 

As hacks via third parties continue to threaten data and business continuity, the old school of thought around securing the enterprise is no longer relevant. Business leaders remain responsible critical information assets, yet are quickly losing control as the walls of the enterprise expand to include third and fourth parties and traditional tools get mixed with new strategies. Layering old and new methods allows for a big shift in how goals are defined and how resources get deployed. It is much easier now to determine what’s important, dangerous and real in your third party ecosystem. The big question is, what does this mean for your organization?

Talent priorities keep shifting but there’s no question that securing workers with evolving skills has become critical to successful workforce planning. For executives tasked with accelerating innovation, it can be difficult to find and keep skilled professionals, and at the same time to make sure that the existing workforce attains digital literacy, business acumen, and the skills it will take to keep up. This peer discussion will cover tactics for life cycle career management and strategies for hiring, retaining and reskilling your workforce. 

Ask a group of CIOs what digitisation means, and you’ll get dozens of different answers. For Bouke Hoving, digital transformation revolves around one very simple idea: focus on the customer and the rest will follow. By erasing internal siloes and integrating discrete product components into a single unified vision, KPN has rebuilt the customer experience from scratch. Join Hoving for a fireside conversation with Michel van Hout on the importance of defining your digital mandate, aligning purposefully with the business, and balancing short and long term elements of your transformation roadmap.