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Erwin Verstraelen replaces Freddy Van den Wyngaert as president

Thanks for your massive presence on monday: good content, interesting speakers and good conversations afterwards. Strong indicators of a vibrant community. A special thank you also to Freddy Van den Wyngaert who has led our community with so much enthusiasm and passion the past six years as president: CIOforum wouldn’t be what it is today without him.

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Peter Bal (WABCO) is CIO of the Year 2015

We proudly announce that Peter Bal from Wabco became officially the newly elected CIO of the Year 2015! Peter is Board member and EOC president of our CIOforum Belgian Business community! Congrats to Peter Bal who takes the torch from Veerle Lozie also a CIOforum Board member who represented, during 2014, the obligations of the CIO of the Year! Thanks to both for your commitment, to the profession and our community.

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The Year End Event 2015 at 360°

We provide you with the link to access the 360 degrees recording of Johan Driessens’ presentation at our Year End Event. Allows you to get a feel of the potential. To play this video, use Google Chrome instead of Safari or other browsers. On mobile phones this video can be played using the Youtube App (available from apps stores).

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How to stimulate innovation through Intrapreneurship

Let’s push an open door: not innovating is as good as standing still. Former CIO of the Year Cécile Gonfroid (RTBf) said it at our year-end event in 2013: “Listen to the business, innovate or disappear.” Earlier this year, Group Aveve’s CIO Erwin Verstraelen talked to us about collaborative economies and how they are disrupting current business models: Airbnb in the hotel sector, Uber in the taxi and carrier sector, and others. How should a company innovate its model? You cannot stimulate the desire for change. But you can facilitate intrapreneurship.

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Enterprise Architecture As The Blueprint For Your IT’s Future

“Why should one need an enterprise architecture ?” Inno.com’s Johan Van Looy started the masterclass on EA with a legitimate question. The answer is quite straightforward, he believes: “Enterprise architectures allow you to secure added value for your investments today and in the future.”

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The Internet of Things is a big opportunity for IT

The past decade, computing power has grown by factor three thousand. This has enabled new digitalization capabilities and we’re entering a new era: the internet of things. As a business, we have to understand customers have adopted new, digital habits and be more human or customer-centric. Digitalization makes us reinvent the value chain. The internet of things will allow us to bridge the physical and digital worlds.

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