Jim Hagemann Snabe, Chairman of the
Supervisory Board of Siemens AG, is recovering from a leg injury that will
prevent him from being physically present at this year’s annual shareholders’
meeting in Munich. As foreseen by the governance process in such cases, Second
Deputy Chairman Werner Brandt will be the Chair of the annual shareholders’
meeting on February 8, 2024.
"I regret that I won't be able to
exchange personally with our shareholders at this year’s annual shareholders’
meeting and I am grateful that Werner Brandt will fill in while I get back to
full strength", said Jim Hagemann Snabe.
First call for 70 trains from the 2023
framework agreement
Order worth more than €800 million
Consistent development of the Mireo
platform
Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) has ordered the first 70
trains from the framework agreement won by Siemens Mobility at the end of
summer 2023. The trains will be delivered in three different versions from late
2027 onwards. The trains are a further development of the in Europe successfully
established and proven Mireo electric multiple-units. Designed to operate at
speeds up to 160 km/h, the Mireos offer numerous amenities for passengers,
including air conditioning, WiFi service, barrier-free access, electrical plugs,
racks for skis and snowboards, capacity for buggies and wheelchairs near the
doors as well as space for bicycles. The cars will be wider than on previous
Mireos trains to further enhance the passenger experience of ÖBB customers.
And, for the first time, Siemens Mobility is designing the new trains with
inner bearing bogies as a single car concept.
- Together with customers and partners including Sony, AWS, Red Bull Racing, Unlimited Tomorrow, and Blendhub, Siemens highlights how technology is transforming the everyday
- Siemens partners with Sony to introduce new solution for immersive engineering that combines Sony head mounted display with Siemens Xcelerator software
- AWS and Siemens to make generative AI more accessible to application developers through combination of AWS Bedrock and Mendix Low-Code platform
- Siemens enhances Siemens Xcelerator open business platform with new capabilities to combine real and digital worlds and drive digital transformation across industries
Siemens
unveiled innovations that are combining the real world and the digital worlds
to redefine reality as it opened CES 2024, the world’s leading technology gathering.
Siemens announced new partnerships and breakthroughs in AI and immersive
engineering to enable the industrial metaverse, and highlighted how these
technologies are empowering the world’s innovators to thrive using its open
digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator.
- Siemens to integrate Amazon Bedrock into its Mendix low-code development platform to allow customers to create new and upgrade existing applications with the power of generative AI
- Access to Amazon Bedrock’s advanced generative AI technologies will help customers accelerate digitalization and tackle skilled labor shortages
- Mendix is an industry leader in low-code development with 50M end-users and more than 200,000 applications running on AWS across industrial, finance and other sectors
Siemens and Amazon Web
Services (AWS) are strengthening their partnership and making it easier for
businesses of all sizes and industries to build and scale generative artificial
intelligence (AI) applications. Domain experts in fields such as engineering
and manufacturing, as well as logistics, insurance or banking will be able to
create new and upgrade existing applications with the most advanced generative
AI technology. To make this possible, Siemens is integrating Amazon Bedrock - a
service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading
AI companies via a single API, along with security, privacy, and responsible AI
capabilities - with Mendix, the leading low-code platform that is part of the
Siemens Xcelerator portfolio.
- Zsolt Sluitner to hand over leadership
of the business as of March 1, 2024
- Jörg Vocke has been working at
Siemens for 20 years and has many years of experience in Siemens Real Estate’s business
- Current focus areas: Sustainable and
value-oriented growth as well as transformation of global office and production
locations
Effective
March 1, 2024, Jörg Vocke (55) will become the new CEO of Siemens Real
Estate (SRE), the real estate company of Siemens. In this role, he will report
directly to Ralf P. Thomas, Chief Financial Officer and member of the
Managing Board of Siemens AG. As a corporate real estate manager, SRE is
responsible for Siemens’ global real estate portfolio and continuously drives
the further development of this portfolio in a sustainable, socially
responsible and value-oriented manner. SRE also plays a key role in Siemens’ €2
billion global investment strategy for getting production locations fit for the
future.
- Further 8 percent
stake transferred to Siemens Pension-Trust e. V.
- Transfer strengthens Siemens’
pension assets in Germany
- Move reduces Siemens’ investment in Siemens
Energy AG to 17.1 percent from 25.1 percent
- Prof. Dr. Ralf P. Thomas to resign
from the supervisory board of Siemens Energy AG
Today, on December 18, 2023, Siemens AG is transferring an 8 percent stake in Siemens Energy AG to Siemens Pension-Trust
e. V. As a result, Siemens AG’s stake in Siemens Energy AG is declining to
17.1 percent. With this move, Siemens is executing its previously announced
plans to further reduce its investment in Siemens Energy. By transferring the
shares to Siemens Pension‑Trust e.V., Siemens is strengthening
its pension assets in Germany.
- Major order for 75 regional trains: 41 three-car
Mireo trains, 18 four-car Mireos, and 16 battery-powered Mireo Plus B trains
- MDSB 2025+ project with Leipzig hub
- Planned start
of operations in December 2026
- Order volume of approximately €500 million
- Largest Mireo order to date for Siemens
Mobility
Siemens Mobility has
won an order for the delivery of 75 Mireo trains for the “Central German S-Bahn
Network 2025+” (MDSB 2025+) project with an order volume of approximately €500
million. All in all, 41 three-car Mireo trains were ordered by the operators of
Die Länderbahn DLB, and 18
four-car Mireo trains as well as 16 two-car battery-powered Mireo Plus B trains
by DB Regio AG.
- The
inventions focus on artificial intelligence and sustainability
- €6.2
billion invested in research and development
- 5,383
Siemens inventions in fiscal 2023, amounting to around 24 inventions per
workday
Each year,
Siemens presents the Inventors of the Year award to outstanding inventors in
six categories: Newcomers, Open Innovation, Outstanding Invention, Lifetime
Achievement, Design and User Experience and the recently added PhD Award. In
addition to helping explain artificial intelligence (AI), the prize-winning
inventions also make power grids more sustainable, railcar axles more stable
and charging stations for electric vehicles more universal. The 2023 award will be presented today to twelve Inventors of the Year from the U.S., the UK, China,
India, Kazakhstan and Germany. You can find all award-winning inventions and
the people behind them at: www.siemens.com/inventors.
- Annual Shareholders’ Meeting to be
held on February 8, 2024
- Main
content of speeches to be given by Supervisory Board Chairman Jim Hagemann Snabe
as well as President and CEO Roland Busch are expected to be published by no
later than January 31, 2024
- Supervisory Board and Managing Board propose increasing dividend to €4.70 (fiscal
2022: €4.25)
- PwC is being proposed to 2024 Annual
Shareholders’ Meeting as new independent auditors for fiscal 2024
Siemens AG has
published its Notice of Annual
Shareholders’ Meeting, along with the agenda of this meeting, which is to be
held on February 8, 2024. Based on an authorization approved by a large
majority at Siemens’ 2023 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, the Annual
Shareholders’ Meeting will again be held in a virtual format.
- All hydrogen-powered Mireo Plus H trains have
arrived at the Wildenrath test center
- Siemens Mobility delivers seven two-car trains
powered by fuel cells for the Heidekrautbahn network operated by Niederbarnimer
Eisenbahn (NEB)
- Siemens Mobility’s first order for a train
fleet based on hydrogen technology – first hydrogen-powered train fleet for
Berlin-Brandenburg
- Hydrogen fleet to be delivered in the fall of
2024. Trains are to operate on the Heidekrautbahn network (RB27) beginning in
December 2024.
Siemens Mobility has built seven two-car Mireo Plus H trains for Niederbarnimer
Eisenbahn (NEB). The last train in the series left the factory in Krefeld on
October 30, 2023, and was transferred to the Siemens Mobility test center in Wegberg-Wildenrath
near Mönchengladbach.