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7 October 2025 | Hilton Amsterdam
7 October 2025
Hilton Amsterdam
Get together with Benelux's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
Modernizing The IT Operating Model to Enable Business Agility
Connecting Investments to Business Outcomes Through Strategic Alignment
Building Resilient Cybersecurity Ecosystems for Sustainable Growth
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CIOs, For CIOs®.
Nik Puri
ArcelorMittal
Group CIO & CISO
Allan Cockriel
ASML
Group CIO
Burce Gültekin
FrieslandCampina
Global CIO
Manoj Kumar
Aperam
Group CIO
Pascal Pauwels
Colruyt
Group CIO
From Uncertainty to Advantage — Redefining IT & Security Leadership for What's Next
As digital transformation, innovation and technology advance at a staggering pace, organisations need to rapidly adapt and ‘look beyond’ the horizon to remain relevant, competitive and proactive. With the need to transform technologies, culture, and organisational structures in a sustainable way, how should IT Leaders evolve their strategies, competencies and technology roadmaps to ensure they are well placed to deal with the changing obligations and opportunities?
Join this keynote to discuss:
An Evolving Security Mindset — From Advisor to Action Taker
Cybersecurity leaders are emerging as strategic members of the senior leadership team. As a result, we are being asked to deliver concrete outcomes rather than merely form risk-oriented opinions. How might we live up to these expectations to drive meaningful improvements that benefit the organisation? How can we ensure that our participation supports the organisation’s mission and objectives?
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Accelerating ROI with AI
No business leader invests in technology for its own sake—they seek measurable improvements in productivity, agility, and business outcomes. AI is no different, but its rapid evolution can make it difficult to determine where to start and how to scale. The key to unlocking ROI lies in identifying high-impact use cases, optimizing AI adoption, and ensuring teams have the right tools and skills to drive sustainable value.
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Scrapping Tradition to Improve Security, Transparency, and Trust in Today’s Workplace
Bolstering productivity and efficiencies across the enterprise is a primary function in the role of today’s IT leader, which increases reliance on emerging technologies, such as the enterprise browser. According to recent Gartner research, "Enterprise browsers will evolve to become the core platform for almost all of the day-to-day enterprise productivity and security software used by the workforce."
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From Gatekeepers to Enabling Partners - Redefining Security Leadership
As businesses race towards innovation and agility, the role of the CISO is undergoing a transformation from enforcers to enablers. Often seen as the "police officers" of security, CISOs must now align with agile and low-code environments to foster collaboration and drive business value.
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