Erwin Verstraelen becomes CDIO of the Port of Antwerp 26/09/2017 by Admin As of November, he will take on a new challenge as the first Chief Digital and Information Officer of the Port of Antwerp. As CDIO and member of the leadership team, led by CEO Jacques Vandermeiren, he will focus on streamlining the present IT support toward digital innovation to improve the competitive position of the Port of Antwerp. The Board, and executive committee wish him all the best, facing this exciting and challenging task. Erwin will remain the president of the CIOforum.
Emmanuel Gaudin and Thomas Endres succeeded Freddy Van den Wyngaert as Chairman of the Board of the European CIO Association. 01/06/2017 by mixette Press-release EuroCIO Emmanuel Gaudin, Group CIO Lagardere & Thomas Endres, Chairman VOICE Network, new Presidents of EuroCIO From January 1st, 2017 Emmanuel Gaudin and Thomas Endres succeeded Freddy Van den Wyngaert as Chairman of the Board of the European CIO Association. Freddy had this position for 3 years and EuroCIO thanks Freddy for starting the collaborative transformation of EuroCIO in a period of transition. Freddy Van den Wyngaert is now replaced by two Presidents, with each having also a specific focus on the Direct Members as well as the National Bodies/Associations. Emmanuel about this new position as President of EuroCIO: “This position is a real challenge but also opportunity for both of us.I’m already member of EuroCIO for a long time and also Board member,but as President I’ll becoming more the face of the Association to the outside world.We built over the last years a strong relation with the European Commission and are a major player in many EC projects focused on skills and leadership ,cybersecurity and Cloud computing.I look forward working with this great EuroCIO team to level up and to expand with more direct member CIO’s and to cooperate with European Commission..We also see that the role of the CIO is more and more shifting to innovation and digital transformation and is becoming a key business and strategic function.A lot to cover for our existing and future CIOs! Thomas about this new position as President of EuroCIO: ” This position is a real driver to work on the further professionalization of the IT job at the users IT demand side.This gives an opportunity to combine the strength of individual companies with the National Bodies and their visions and plans.I’m looking forward to level up the Association with more members and more National Bodies (today we have 10 countries as member with their National CIO organizations) and to face also the key global vendors in the discussion on challenges encountered by our members. I’m already for a long time member first as CIO and thereafter as key stakeholder and Board member to represent VOICE, the German CIO Network. Key objective is to combine the power of the various CIO networks associated with EuroCIO by increasing working together, focusing on pan-European and reducing the overlap between the networks.
Last Call: participate in the 2017 CIO Survey! 23/03/2017 by mixette The Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey is the world’s largest study on the priorities, strategies and careers of technology leaders. We kindly invite all CIO’s to participate. Please take into account that the survey will close at the end of this week (March 26th, 2017). All participants will receive a full copy of the 50+ page report, and an invite to one of our exclusive launch events or webinars across the world In addition in May 2017 we will deliver straight to your inbox a Personal Benchmark Report – a document, unique to you, that compares your responses with your sector peer group. Participate in the CIO Survey 2017
New partner: Amon 10/01/2017 by mixette CIOforum is delighted to present its new partner Amon, a leading ICT Recruitment & Executive Search organisation. With this partnership Amon and CIOforum hope to exchange ideas and insights on the extraordinary HR-challenges the CIO of today faces. Amon aims to contribute a lot of useful HR- and recruitment know-how to the CIO community and will actively contribute to the growth of the network. CIOfrum wil provide Amon with ready-to-use knowledge to share in its HR community.
A CISO SHOULD NOT BE A CRY WOLF 15/12/2016 by raftirmarche These are exciting times for both CIOs and CISOs. As digitization grows, people seem to be more aware of the importance of cyber security too. A recent study by ISACA showed that there are 1 million job openings in security. Companies are aware. Read More
We need to get our maturity levels up 12/12/2016 by raftirmarche Most SMEs acknowledge the importance of cybersecurity. A large majority even has the right tooling in place for cyber protection. Surprisingly enough, we all have a low cybersecurity maturity level. What are we doing wrong? Read More