Joe Kaeser

Ultimately, it is the convergence of artificial and human intelligence that will enable manufacturers to achieve a new era of speed, flexibility, efficiency, and connectivity in the 21st century.

Artificial intelligence is here and being rapidly commercialized, with new applications being created not just for manufacturing but also for energy, healthcare, and oil and gas. This will change how we all do business.

Irrespective of our past, we need to look forward.

It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.

Like Siemens, the UAE is big on innovation. It has become famous as a think tank for thought leadership in areas of interest to the world - and to Siemens.

We need constant change, technological innovation capability, and high productivity to survive in the fierce competitive environment.

President el-Sisi of Egypt took over in a very complicated environment. He needed to give a new direction. It is quite a difficult job.

Siemens is a job machine.

All our wealth and all our export power has also come by the fact that other nations were willing to see us. This is very important.

From Siemens's perspective, a trade agreement like TTIP makes the U.S. and E.U. members more attractive.

Some in Europe take a plane, fly to Silicon Valley, visit and look and come back and say we need to do the same thing. Well you can copy others... but if you always copy others, you never get ahead.

Energy consumption has to be managed by an intelligent grid when it comes to highly populated areas. Smart-grid technologies allow for the integration of renewable energy into the grid as well as energy from distributed sources.