In light of the rapid advances in Machine Learning and digitalization, countless industrial applications for modern AI systems are revealing themselves today. At the same time, it is increasingly difficult to discern the hype from the trend, the real potential from exaggerated expectations. In order to provide new impulses and proof points to develop, boost and sharpen our AI innovation roadmap, we want to provide an open-minded and entrepreneurial environment driven by interdisciplinary collaboration: the Siemens AI Lab.

The Siemens AI Lab was founded in 2017 in Munich. Meanwhile, Siemens has established further branches in Beijing and the Silicon Valley, and the Labs serve as interface and platform between the central corporate technology function, Siemens business units and customers for the development of new industrial AI solutions in Europe, China and the US. As such, the AI Lab channels AI-related research and development activities within Siemens and provides a first point of contact for the outside world on AI-related topics.

It is a platform to explore and test new emerging use cases of AI across the business and within an industrial context. With an entrepreneurial mindset and a start-up-like fail fast culture, teams develop tangible prototypes for the next game-changer in less than a week. Prototype after prototype. Week after week. At the co-location space in the heart of Munich, cross-functional teams come together to outperform traditional project set-ups in terms of speed, creativity, relevance, and agility. The Lab was co-founded by Dr. Ulli Waltinger and Bernd “Benno” Blumoser, who are the technology and innovation heads of the lab.