From Cost Pressure and AI Hype
to Measurable Business Value
How Do You Transform Your IT Organization from Bottleneck to Accelerator?
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Kasteel Sint-Michiels, Sint-Katelijne-Waver
The next decade will not be won by the organizations that buy the most technology. It will be won by the organizations that turn technology into business results the fastest.
The Challenge
for CIOs
- IT delivers slower than expected.
- Costs keep rising.
- Complexity grows faster than value.
- Scaling innovation is hard.
- Governance becomes more complex.
- Access to technology is no longer the challenge.
How do we build an IT Operating Model that lets us deliver faster, stay in control and create business value continuously?
The answer does not start with an architecture exercise, and certainly not with isolated AI experiments. It starts with the way you organize your IT.
Agenda
The Operating Model
Joeri Pavlovic, Director Digital & IT, Fluxys
How Fluxys designed the vision for a product driven organization, and how the company puts it in place today. The starting point is the operating model at the highest level.
From Vision to Practice
Wim Henderyckx, Platform Engineering Manager, Umicore
Wim Jacops, Head of Cloud and Server Infrastructure, Umicore
How they bring that same vision into practice, step by step and workstream by workstream, without designing everything in detail first.
From Vision to Execution
45 Degrees brings the pieces together, from the vision on a product organization to the concrete execution in the teams, workstream by workstream. How do you translate this to your own IT organization?
Executive Panel Discussion
Topics: cost control, build versus buy, Platform Engineering, AI and innovation.
Drink and Dinner
We close the evening with an aperitif and a networking dinner.
Kasteel Sint-Michiels
Sessions in Het Koetshuis
Practical Information
Wednesday 28 October 2026
Welcome 16:00
Sessions start 16:30
End around 22:00
Het Koetshuis, Kasteel Sint-Michiels
Groenstraat 11
2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver
CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, IT directors and IT managers who want to take the next step
The number of seats is limited. The previous edition had 70 registrations.
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