At its
meeting today, the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG renewed the appointment of
Managing Board Member Judith Wiese (51). The term of the Chief People &
Sustainability Officer and Labor Director will run a further five years until
September 30, 2028.
“We
recognize the substantial contribution that Judith Wiese has made since she
joined Siemens two years ago. Judith holds a key role in ensuring that Siemens
can attract and retain the best people and to create an environment in which
they can thrive. At the same time, she has been at the heart of ramping up our
sustainability activities as a key pillar of business strategy,” said Jim
Hagemann Snabe, Chairman of the Siemens Supervisory Board. “Judith’s open
leadership style is a catalyst for the transformation of Siemens.”
- Six-part series on personal development and success
- FC Bayern athletes share personal experiences
Siemens and
FC Bayern Munich have developed a six-part video campaign called "#ItTakesMore"
that aims to take a
more honest look at success – and, in the process, show what it really takes to
make things happen, namely continuous personal development, and refusing to
rest on your laurels. In the episodes, professional
soccer players, Bundesliga basketball players and managers from FC Bayern
Munich talk, among other things, about what success means to them, how they
have always been able to rekindle their enthusiasm for their sport and, as a
result, overcome difficult phases in their career. The episodes will be
available at siemens.com/ittakesmore from November 15, 2022, and
will be released on a monthly basis.
Microsoft has joined the Charter of Trust
(CoT) cybersecurity initiative as of November 10, 2022. As a CoT member, Microsoft
plans to contribute its cybersecurity expertise in developing and promoting
awareness of robust security principles for a secure digital world. With the addition
of Microsoft, the Charter of Trust initiative has grown to 18 members. Siemens
and eight partners from the industrial sector founded this initiative in 2018
to drive advances in cybersecurity across industries and at a global level.
- Siemens presents an industrial metaverse
experience of the underwater farming project “Nemo’s Garden”
- Keynotes, panel discussions, master
classes, and developer lounge talks for tech community
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Siemens showcases open digital
business platform Siemens Xcelerator portfolio and use cases
At this year’s Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal,
Siemens is showcasing the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio and references
illustrating practical applications of its open, digital business platform. The
company will outline the path towards the industrial metaverse. Chief People
and Sustainability Officer and Siemens Board Member Judith Wiese, as well as
Chief Strategy and Technology Officer Peter Körte will both attend in person
during the world‘s largest tech conference (by attendance number).
- Green Stay Initiative (GSI) is first global standard to enable more
sustainable business-travel lodging and meetings
- Beginning in 2023, Siemens to select its preferred supplier hotels
according to GSI sustainability criteria
- Open-source tool available for also enabling other companies to
reduce their carbon footprint
Siemens will be the first global company to introduce a mandatory Green Stay
Initiative (GSI) policy and request that hotels provide data about their
environmental impact. Together with the international service company HRS,
Siemens developed global, traceable, and standardized criteria by which the
carbon footprint of each individual hotel can be tracked and compared with others.
So far, there has not been a global standard for using traceable criteria to compare
hotel sustainability.
Using less resources and emitting less CO2, but also being profitable -
this is what Siemens is out to do for its customers at speed and scale with its
digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator. Digital business is one of
Siemens’ key growth drivers today. The ecosystem of Siemens Xcelerator and with
it its curated portfolio is ever expanding.
- Open, digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator based on comprehensive, curated portfolio of software, services and connected hardware keeps expanding
- Volta Trucks and Siemens partner to accelerate commercial fleet electrification
- Automotive Cells Company (ACC) and Siemens partner to optimize battery cell production
- Siemens is confident to exceed 10 percent revenue growth in its digital businesses, in fiscal 2022
- Digital Twins are building blocks of the emerging industrial metaverse
Together
with its partners and customers, Siemens is driving the digital transformation
of economies through its open digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator,
launched on June 29, 2022. The platform consists of a comprehensive, curated
portfolio; a powerful ecosystem of partners and a marketplace for customers,
partners and developers and strives to make digitalization easier, faster and
at scale. Today, Siemens announced two new partnerships related to the Siemens
Xcelerator platform.
- Founded as a courtyard workshop in Berlin on October 1, 1847
- Around four million people employed worldwide to date since 1847
- Current global market leader in automation, electrification, digitalization and transportation
- Celebration in Berlin with German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz
On October
12, 1847, Siemens started operations as a small factory workshop with ten
employees manufacturing pointer telegraphs, in a courtyard tucked away behind a
building on Schoeneberger Strasse in Berlin. Now, 175 years later, Siemens has more
than 300,000 employees around the world and, with around €62 billion in annual
revenue, is one of the world’s largest technology powerhouses. On
October 1, 1847, 11 days before operations began, Werner von Siemens and
precision mechanic Johann Georg Halske had completed the company’s official
founding. Today, October 12, 2022, Siemens is marking its 175th birthday with a
celebratory event at the Schaltwerk factory in the Siemensstadt section of
Berlin. German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, together with numerous guests
from the realms of politics, business and academia will join the anniversary event.
- Hannes Apitzsch to retire; business to be handed over effective October 1, 2022
- Eckard Eberle – formerly CEO of Process Automation Business Unit at Siemens Digital Industries – has extensive track record inside and outside Germany
- Eberle will focus on developing the business strategically and operationally creating additional value for Siemens Group
Eckard
Eberle (57) will be appointed as the new CEO of Siemens Global Business
Services (GBS) with effect from October 1, 2022. He will report directly to
Judith Wiese, member of the Siemens AG Managing Board and Chief People and
Sustainability Officer (CPSO). GBS designs, develops and operates efficient and
innovative business services for Siemens AG, Siemens Healthineers AG, Siemens
Energy AG and other companies. Eckard Eberle succeeds Hannes Apitzsch (64), who
has led GBS since 2019 as CEO and is entering retirement after more than 40
years at the company. Hannes Apitzsch will continue to support Siemens in an
advisory capacity until December 31, 2022.
- Siemens and partners launch safe.trAIn
research project
- Practicable linking of AI processes with
requirements and approval procedures in railway environments
- AI-based methodologies for driverless
regional trains
- Safe.trAIn to support standardization
activities in AI and rail transportation
In a project that will run until the end of 2024, Siemens
and 16 partners will facilitate advances in the driverless operation of
regional trains with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). Within the “safe.trAIn”
project, which the German government is subsidizing, there is a budget of €23 million
available for this task. Solutions for meeting the requirements in this highly
regulated and standardized environment have the potential to substantially boost
the efficiency and sustainability of regional railway transportation.