KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Annemarie Breu
For decades, manufacturing has relied on deterministic automation and incremental improvement. Today, rising global competition, productivity pressure, and a shrinking technical workforce have fundamentally changed that model. Manufacturers can no longer bolt AI onto existing systems and expect transformation. Without context, guardrails, and orchestration, AI adds risk instead of value.
This keynote explores the “Automation Impact”, a shift toward integrating industrial AI with proven automation to build more resilient, adaptive operations. Drawing on real-world examples, it examines how manufacturers can move from being data-rich but insight-poor to creating a connected digital thread that turns insight into action. The session also highlights why workforce enablement is essential to scaling AI responsibly.
Speaker Bio
Annemarie Breu leads Siemens New Portfolio Incubation program in the US. Annemarie is passionate about solving the most challenging customer problems at the intersection of OT and IT with innovative solutions. Throughout her 8 years with Siemens, she’s been shaping dynamic teams to address automation, Industrial Edge, Industrial AI, simulation, and data integration use cases and strategically shape the Siemens innovation roadmaps. She has a lot of energy to drive co-innovation partnerships and make things happen.
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