{"id":1734,"date":"2021-12-15T17:06:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ypto.be\/?page_id=1734"},"modified":"2023-06-06T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T08:55:48","slug":"what-we-are-proud-of","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ypto.be\/en\/what-we-are-proud-of\/","title":{"rendered":"What we are proud of"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What we are proud of<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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From SAP awards to our famous Strava challenge, Ypto already has a number of great achievements to be proud of!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Ypto wins another Corporate IT Award in 2023<\/h3>\n

For the second time in a row, we received a Corporate IT Award. This time, we were recognized for our case \u201cDigitalisation of train operations and services\u201d.<\/p>\n

The jury praised the fact that our submission perfectly met the requirements: optimising and scaling up IT resources, rethinking IT business models, reallocating IT infrastructure and improving business agility and resilience.<\/p>\n

Our efforts, through the commissioning of eDrive, DITA and Linda (the three solutions we highlighted in our award entry submission), contribute to the user-friendliness, comfort and safety of our travellers and our SNCB colleagues. They are important for the fulfilment of the obligations in the new 10-year public service offering contract that SNCB signed with the Belgian government as far as punctuality, safety and digitalisation are concerned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Well-being is our top priority<\/h3>\n

At Ypto, we deeply care about the well-being of our collaborators. We therefore have a well-being team and also strongly encourage everyone to exercise. We do this not only through our annual Ypto Move Challenge, but also by sponsoring participation in sporting events, such as the 20\u00a0km of Brussels and the Ekiden Run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Ypto won a Corporate IT Award in 2022<\/h3>\n

During the Corporate IT Awards gala on 24\u00a0March\u00a02022 in Affligem, Ypto was named winner in the category\u00a0 \u201cBest IT recruiting and onboarding programs\u201d. For more than 10 years, these awards have been among the most prestigious awards in our sector.<\/p>\n

During this edition, the focus was mainly on organisations that address the key challenges of recruiting, onboarding, managing, engaging and retaining talents in the IT and technology sectors. The jury rewarded Ypto for its innovative efforts to attract the right profiles while paying particular attention to the candidate\u2019s cultural fit, which is deemed as essential as their expertise and knowledge.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Ypto, winning this Corporate IT Award is an acknowledgement of its excellence\u201d, says Christof Kieboom, Head of HR\u00a0&\u00a0Communication. \u201cWe are delighted and proud to have won this prestigious award. As it is a corporate award and not an individual one, it is a real sign of recognition, not only to our management but also for the entire HR department and, more broadly, for all our collaborators. When hiring people, we indeed attach great importance to their adherence to our PROs values. For us, this already starts during the pre- and onboarding process.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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CIO of the Year 2020<\/h3>\n

The CIO of the Year award is presented each year by Data News. With this prize, the news agency wishes to praise a CIO for his or her achievements, vision, strategic insight, leadership qualities and personality. He or she must succeed in aligning IT with the company\u2019s strategy, positioning IT as a new business driver and helping to drive or accelerate the company\u2019s digital transformation.<\/p>\n

Our CEO (also CIO of SNCB), won this award in 2020, ahead of Dirk Altgassen, Group CIO of Etex, and Yves Dupuy, CIO of Euroclear.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Guido Lemeire, the jury chooses a CIO in a sector with a somewhat outdated image, where digitalisation has gone through some though times. In the eyes of the jury, the fact that in recent years he has managed to get the train back on track, as the saying goes, shows that Guido Lemeire is not only a strong leader, but also the right man for the job. It is also remarkable that digitalisation has taken place both on the technological and on the architectural side. This digitalisation is reflected in the internal back-end but also impacts the travellers, which are additional strengths that contributed to the choice of Guido Lemeire.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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FEIEA Grand Prix 2021: Best Audiovisual Production<\/h3>\n

Both overjoyed and proud. That is how we felt after the virtual FEIEA Grand Prix 2021 Award Show. FEIEA is the European platform for internal communication. They awarded us the prize in the category ‘Best Audiovisual Production 2021’ for our entry ‘A day in the life of …’. We were very pleased, because this competition is widely regarded as the European championship for internal communication, with participants from the Netherlands, Italy, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, Austria, Switzerland, Romania and Belgium competing in eight different categories this year.<\/p>\n

In our prize-winning entry, a series of four videos clearly explain how we at Ypto and from behind the scenes make an impact in the lives of train drivers, train managers, SNCB employees in the workshops and travellers.<\/p>\n

In its motivation, the European jury praised our entry by qualifying it as \u201ca nice example of clarifying key roles in the life of the company and making them available to anyone in the enterprise\u201d. They added, \u201cIt is an innovative way of presenting your company. This entry also offers numerous amelioration opportunities, both for communication towards the world and the collaborators.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>