From April 11 to 12, 2024, the Siemens Intelligent Infrastructure Group Greater China Management Conference (SICC 2024) was held in Shanghai, with the theme of “Running against the wind, into the future”. More than 220 colleagues from the Intelligent Infrastructure Group (SI) Greater China region attended the event. At the same time, more than 700 colleagues online participated in the first day of live broadcast, listening to the business progress and development strategy from the global and China management.

3300/20-12-01-03-00-00 Matthias Rebelus, member of the Board of Directors of Siemens AG and CEO of Intelligent Infrastructure Group, and CFO Axel Meier were there. They said that the China team is part of the global family and affirmed the contribution of the China team to SI’s global business. Matthias shared the lighthouse projects in China and said that these successful models will stimulate more market potential. In the face of many challenges, he stressed that SI’s business is at the core of global trends, through the integration of the real and virtual worlds, to provide sustainable infrastructure, so that we can navigate the challenges. At the same time, they are full of expectations for the Chinese team to win the market.

Dr. Xiao Song, President and CEO of Siemens Greater China, and Ouyang Bo, Chief Financial Officer of Siemens Greater China, delivered keynote speeches.

China is crucial to global markets. Dr. Xiao Song said that SI China has made remarkable achievements in exploring digital opportunities and promoting sustainable development. The Chinese market is showing structural opportunities, and Siemens must further focus on high-growth industries and innovation areas, with faster speed and stronger efforts to meet the difficulties and win the market.

Ouyang Bo pointed out that in the face of severe challenges, only by further promoting localization and cost optimization can we cope with fierce competition and achieve growth.

SI Greater China management Lin Bin and Liang Qianmin gave a comprehensive interpretation of the macro environment and market pattern, and analyzed how to seize the opportunities brought by digitalization and decarbonization, in traditional industries and emerging industries, by providing digital and decarbonization solutions covering the full value chain of source and network storage, to help customers achieve transformation and upgrading. SI China will continue to deepen the “one engine, four wheel drive” business strategy and achieve more milestones in the process of implementing and realizing the strategic goals of Siemens Chinaa. Lin Bin and Liang Qianmin use the “Gobi spirit” to inspire every SI person to adapt to the environment, overcome all difficulties, and achieve their goals.

3300/20-12-01-03-00-00 The general managers of SI China business units and related product heads explained their business strategies and implementation from their respective perspectives, including how to accelerate local product development, promote digitalization and low-carbon, deepen vertical markets, and achieve win-win results with partners.

SI Sales and industry sales management colleagues share examples on how to explore the white spot market, enhance industry competitiveness and key account management, and promote business growth in a multi-pronged approach.

SI’s Supply Chain Management lead shares with you the challenges of supply chain management and how to address them, aiming to build sustainable supply chains for fast, stable delivery, and mission.

Digital business can not be separated from the promotion of each colleague, the head of DEC and RSS, SPA colleagues together, analyzed how the digital solution to achieve the “three steps”, that is, product definition, market validation and scale.

The head of SI Xcelerator explained how the Siemens Xcelerator platform and the corresponding product portfolio, ecosystem and online platform will help customers accelerate their digital transformation. Customers and partners can learn about the latest SI digital product solutions and cases on the platform, and some products can be directly traded online.

The head of SI P&O and three colleagues discussed the topic of talent development, in the face of environmental change and various challenges, the need to have an entrepreneurial spirit and take the initiative to respond with a growth mindset.

The conference culminated in an awards dinner. Through an exciting live voting process, three SI projects in Greater China were awarded the Best Project Award and 12 colleagues were awarded the SI Employees in Greater China Award.

The second day of the meeting was organized around four important topics, and colleagues actively participated and pooled their efforts to support sales to a greater extent and create maximum synergies.