Peter Koerte

Member of the Managing Board, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, Siemens

Search every verified Peter Koerte interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Peter Koerte, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at Siemens, participated in a panel discussion on March 30, 2026, alongside KION CTO Rob Smith and OHB CTO Christina Wagner, focusing on industrial AI, digital twins, and data ecosystems. Koerte stated that the major difference between industrial AI and consumer-oriented large language models is the data challenge, noting that industrial data, unlike language found on the internet, is not publicly available. He argued that no single company has enough data to build the next generation of frontier models for the physical world, and that the only way forward is to build open data ecosystems through partnerships where companies exchange data while protecting intellectual property. Koerte described the partnership with KION and OHB as a way to combine domain expertise and datasets, with Siemens helping to encapsulate that knowledge in models that can be scaled universally. He expressed the belief that Europe has a global advantage in domain knowledge, and that by combining it with trusted partners to build an industrial foundation model, the region can scale it faster than others. Koerte also noted that space and aerospace companies face challenges in designing systems for flexibility and making them software-defined and AI-capable, as assets in deep space are not easily adaptable.