CES 2024 Keynote Highlights

Introduction

• Technology can create, entertain, heal, connect, and protect.
• Potential to solve major global challenges (food security, healthcare, sustainability, etc.).
• CES 2024: A celebration of technological advancements aimed at improving human security and the future.

Gary Shapiro (CTA President)

• Focus on Innovation: Healthcare, mobility, food production, and more.
• Siemens' Role: Over 175 years impacting industries like automation, healthcare (MRI/CT), electric grids, and more.
• Seamans' Innovations: Transition from medical devices to a leading tech company under Dr. Roland Busch, a physicist focused on sustainable tech.

Siemens' Vision (Roland Busch, CEO)

• Technological Transformation: Combining real and digital worlds for rapid progress.
• Industrial Metaverse: Enables design and testing before physical production.
• Generative AI: Speeds up innovation and makes tech more accessible.

Importance of the Industrial Metaverse

• Accelerates Innovation: Digital twin technology simulates products before real-world construction.
• Sustainability: Quantifies environmental impact, reducing resource usage.
• Access to Technology: Inclusive development, accessible to smaller companies and less experienced workers.

Siemens' Building Blocks for the Future

1. Digital Twin:
   • Detailed 3D simulations of products (airplanes, power grids, etc.).
   • Allows for rapid iteration and optimization.
2. Software-Defined Automation:
   • Modernizes factory automation using virtual PLCs, reducing physical hardware needs.
   • Integrates easily with modern programming languages and cloud solutions.
3. Data and AI:
   • Processes and filters massive data volumes for actionable insights.
   • Industrial co-pilot with Microsoft enhances machine operation through natural language AI.

Collaboration and Integration

• USD Standard: Extending Pixar’s Universal Scene Description for use in industrial applications.
• Partnerships:
  • NVIDIA: BMW plant simulations in the industrial metaverse.
  • Microsoft: Factory optimization.
  • AWS: New generative AI solutions for low-code platforms.

Innovative Applications and Partnerships

• Sony Collaboration: Immersive engineering with head-mounted displays for industrial design.
• Red Bull Racing: Utilizing digital twins and immersive tech for Formula 1 car designs.
• Blend Hub: Localized food powder production addressing global malnutrition with microfactories.

Health and Accessibility Innovations

• Unlimited Tomorrow: Custom prosthetic limbs using 3D scanning and digital twins at reduced costs.

Transformative Healthcare

• Siemens Health: AI in cancer diagnosis and treatment.
  • Speeds up treatment planning, enhances precision, and personalizes care.
  • Examples of AI in radiotherapy and surgical planning.

Conclusion

• The Future of Technology: Emphasis on collaboration, accessibility, sustainability, and innovation.
• Role of Siemens: Continued focus on solving global challenges through technology, working together with experts and partners worldwide.