IDC CIO Summit 2026 · Session recap
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Charging Infrastructure as a Living Product
What it takes to run EV charging as a product that keeps evolving after go-live
Most infrastructure gets planned as a project. You scope it, build it, hand it over and move on. EV charging does not work that way. A charging network keeps changing after it goes live, as hardware, regulation, energy-market dynamics and user expectations all shift around it. Run it as a fixed project and it starts to break the first time one of those things moves. Run it as a product and it can keep pace.
That was the case Runibex VP of Strategy Ismail Arslan and Burak Demirtaş, Chief Digital Officer of WAT Mobilite, put to the room at the IDC CIO Summit 2026 Türkiye, drawing on the WAT Mobilite platform that Runibex re-architected with them.
From cost centre to product organisation
Behind the charging example sits a wider argument about how technology organisations should be run:
“Cost centre, or product organisation? There is no third option.”
— Ismail Arslan, VP of Strategy, Runibex
The old model treats IT as a cost centre that delivers projects and then moves on. Ismail’s argument is that this model is running out of road, for three reasons: cloud infrastructure has become a commodity, product thinking has replaced project thinking, and AI has closed the feedback loop between what a team ships and what it learns. On this reading, technology is no longer a service the business consumes on the side; it is increasingly the business itself.
What a "living product" asks for in practice
This is work Runibex did with WAT Mobilite. WAT’s platform runs EV charging across more than 700 stations and 2,000 sockets in Türkiye, and it had been built as a fixed-scope project that could not keep up with changing regulations, hardware and energy-provider requirements. Runibex treated that as a product development problem rather than a software one, and the response came down to three things that apply well beyond mobility.
A rebuilt architecture. Runibex designed a modular, microservices-based architecture that takes on new hardware, policy changes and integrations as upgrades, without disrupting what already runs.
A product operating model. Runibex brought in product managers and a living roadmap, with a dedicated team focused on WAT rather than rotating across projects, and prioritisation driven by return on investment.
Data and AI in the loop. With a platform built to evolve, the network can behave as a system that learns, which opens new revenue opportunities through data and AI.
That last point connects to the summit’s theme, The Rise of Agentic Systems. Agentic AI is software that plans, decides and acts, rather than only drafting and suggesting. It earns its keep only when there is a real product underneath it to act on: resilient cloud foundations, connected and decision-ready data, and an operating model where someone keeps improving the system after it goes live. IDC projects AI investment across the Middle East, Türkiye and Africa to reach $14.6 billion by 2028. Capturing that is as much an engineering and operating-model problem as a modelling one.
The results back the argument. WAT’s platform now runs at 99.89% uptime with no stranded drivers, ships zero-downtime releases every two weeks, and has grown into a multi-tenant product WAT can sell. Read the full WAT Mobilite case study.
Where Runibex fits
Runibex builds and operates product-led technology across cloud, commerce and digital operations. The principle behind that work is that modernisation is a planned capability, not a one-off project, and that it should keep a business scalable and profitable well after the system goes live. WAT Mobilite is that principle in practice. A product that keeps evolving does more for the business than a project that breaks.
Product Development — the practice behind the WAT Mobilite engagement, uniting discovery, cloud-native architecture, roadmap and delivery for products built to keep evolving.
Cloud — foundations for running mission-critical platforms in production.
Runibex Insights — turning enterprise data into decisions.
If any of this maps to a platform you are trying to keep evolving, talk to us.
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