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Exclusive CIO Format

Creating Perspectives,
Shaping the Future

An exclusive format for CIOs delivering insights and impulses on the most relevant challenges in IT leadership, digital transformation, and organisational design.

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27
Nov 2026

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AI Governance

Bee360 Office, Karlsruhe · 10:00 AM CET · By invitation

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About the Format

What is the CIO Insight Session?

The CIO Insight Session is an exclusive format designed for CIOs, offering insights and impulses for CIO-relevant challenges. The programme focuses on excellent IT management and digital leadership, prerequisites for IT-business alignment, and contemporary operating models. Theories, concepts, and hypotheses are combined to develop new perspectives. The dialogue between practice and theory fosters innovative ideas and produces tangible solutions.

IT Management & LeadershipDigital LeadershipIT-Business AlignmentOperating ModelsDemand & Portfolio Management

What You Will Gain

Three Reasons to Participate

Scientifically Founded, Practically Applicable

Combines academic depth with concrete practical relevance — delivering impulses you can act on immediately within your organisation.

New Impulses Through Peer Exchange

Fresh thinking approaches through the linking of theory and practice and the exchange of experience among CIOs at eye level.

Reflection, Inspiration & Solutions

Challenge established structures, develop new perspectives, and co-create implementable ideas with direct organisational impact.

What Participants Say

Voices from the Session

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"It's a completely different format. Testing theoretical theses against real-world practice."

Nora Legittimo

Nora Legittimo

Managing Director, Marantec Group

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"There was a whole lot of food for thought in what we discussed today."

Stefan Orbach

Stefan Orbach

Global Head of IT, Herrenknecht AG

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"I take away a confirmation of my own views through the experience shared by colleagues."

Uwe Herold

Uwe Herold

SVP Information Technology, Miele

How the Format Works

From Preparation to Publication

01

Preparation

Participants receive advance materials on selected focus topics.

02

CIO Insight Session

Group discussion with experience-sharing and informal networking.

03

Documentation

Findings are captured in practice-oriented reports.

04

CIO Review

Participants review and refine the written results.

05

Publication

Insights are published accessibly and ready for organisational sharing.

Published Reports

Insights to Take Away

From Pilots to Operations: A Field Study of AI Maturity, Governance, and the Evolving CIO Role
CIO ReportBee360May 2026

From Pilots to Operations: A Field Study of AI Maturity, Governance, and the Evolving CIO Role

20 CIOs at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium 2026 on AI maturity, scale barriers, governance posture, and the evolving CIO role — supplemented by a European comparison survey.

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Resilience Through Rolling Planning: Insights From CIOs' Industry Experience and Academic Research
CIO ReportBee360Apr 2026

Resilience Through Rolling Planning: Insights From CIOs' Industry Experience and Academic Research

A CIO Insight Session report positioning rolling planning as a central lever for IT resilience, based on focus group discussions with five CIOs across industries, with academic grounding.

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The findings of each session are captured in practice-oriented reports and made available to the community. Go to Reports

CIO Insight Session

Ready to Join?

Join the CIO Insight Session and shape the future of IT together with other IT leaders.

Dr. Tamara Leuthe

Dr. Tamara Leuthe

Senior Researcher

Dr. Julia Schreier

Dr. Julia Schreier

Head of Digital University

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