Siemens and IBM showcase an AI-based, CO2 friendly advisor

Making the case for AI, or any nascent technology for that matter, can be a struggle for companies today. While large enterprises know they need to be fast, agile and innovation-obsessed to survive disruption, their age-old policies, antiquated systems, disconnected data and entrenched corporate habits can be serious blockers to adoption. With a century plus-long tradition of engineering excellence, we at Siemens knew we had a challenge to transform ourselves in order to continue to lead in the AI era. Adopting a mindset of risk-taking and innovation from the inside-out had to be a key part of that transformation journey. Thanks to our recent efforts with the IBM Data Science and AI Elite team, together with the IBM Garage at the Watson IoT Center in Munich, we recently made a critical breakthrough on our journey to AI. Working with partners such as IBM and others, we developed a proof of concept to showcase how we could harness AI and blockchain to drastically reduce our employees carbon output--not through mandates, but through incentivizing more eco-friendly behavior.