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In a world where technology advances, equality often lags behind. Read the blog of board member Meryem El-Bouyahyaoui and ask yourself as a CIO: are you using your position to really make a difference?

Stichting CA-ICT aims to improve the employability of the sector and its employees. This foundation is seeking help in developing career paths for ICT. Interested or do you have questions? Contact Marijke.

Members in the News! In this interview from CIOday, Nominee Ing Yan Ong, CIO Heineken, tells us, ‘Heineken has grown in 160 years because we have very good connections with our consumers, customers, suppliers and employees. The biggest challenge we see, across the board, is that the nature of those connections is substantially changed by digital.

As business users of digital technologies, CIOs and their colleagues have a pretty good understanding of the possibilities and benefits of Cloud services. As a result also of some of the possible improvements.

Members in the News! In this interview from CIOday, Nominee Mario Suykerbuyk, Director Business Technology Organisation Tennet, tells us that the biggest challenge is undoubtedly energy security and affordability: making sure the lights stay on at acceptable costs for you and me.

Members in the News! In this FD article, Anna Chernilovskaya, chief information officer (cio) at health insurer ONVZ, tells us that she is far from seeing an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven chatbot answering customers' questions about their health insurance?

Members in the News! In this video, e-commerce talks to Jurre Mulder, CIO Intergamma about the current state of the e-commerce landscape and Intergamma's complex customer journeys

Diversity in the boardroom goes beyond gender or ethnicity. Read board member Meryem El-Bouyahyaoui's blog with ten tips for directors to embrace diversity and use it effectively.

Members in the news! In this article in Dutch IT Leaders, Burce Gültekin CIO, tells us that in areas such as supply chain and commerce, FrieslandCampina has already made great strides. ‘But what we should never forget: this company consists of people. Without them, there will never be a successful digital transformation.’

Members in the news! In this Royal FloraHolland article, CIO André van der Linden tells how Royal FloraHolland has transformed from a traditional auction company to a platform cooperative that also auctions.

Members in the news! In this article from AGConnect, CTO Daniel Gebler talks about leadership in an engineering culture, with multi-functional autonomous teams with about 400 engineers in total.

Members in the news! In this article from Cobouw of 24 September, CTO Bram Mommers of Arcadis talks about the AI developments in construction and infrastructure and how Arcadis, with an IT department of 700 people, does 'smart things' such as rail and road surface detection and Arcadis-GPT.

In the recently presented coalition program (Dutch) of the Schoof administration, compared to previous coalition agreements, there is a fairly strong emphasis on digital technology and digitization. Almost all chapters of the program address this topic. King Willem-Alexander also emphasized the importance of digitalization for the future of the Netherlands in his speech (Dutch)from the throne. The government wants to ensure that everyone can participate safely and securely in digital society.

Earlier this week, Mario Draghi released his report “The future of European competitiveness”. This is seen as an important contribution to the discussion on the future of European competitiveness. A good time to see to what extent this corresponds to the Manifesto that CIO Platform Nederland published earlier this year with sister associations from Belgium (Beltug), France (Cigref) and Germany (Voice e.V.): “A Perspective on tomorrow's digital world”.

Members in the news! In an exclusive conversation, Burce Gültekin, Global Chief Information Officer of FrieslandCampina, discusses how the company harnesses technology to deliver on its promise of sustainable nutrition. Learn how the newly launched technology innovation centre in Malaysia is at the heart of this transformation, driving both global impact and local innovation.

Internet developments are progressing rapidly. To remain accessible and as safe as possible, it is useful to regularly check whether your own environment is still up-to-date in terms of the usage of standards. Internet.nl offers a simple tool to check this.