Chief Digital Officer, Schneider Electric Se
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“My personal belief is that AI is today there where the internet was about 30 years ago. And if you think of the internet for a moment, the internet has pretty much changed every company, every business processes. It has changed all of our personal lives, right? We couldn't easily order pizza anymore without the interne...”
“I personally believe that AI also needs regulation but we need to make sure that we create the right and smart regulation to prevent unethical use of AI but also enable the use of AI to make European industry more competitive in the future. And there is certainly an area that we need to discuss more in Europe that our...”
“We believe at Schneider Electric that AI has a very similar transformative potential... every company in the future, every business, every industry will significantly be impacted by AI.”
“In order to manage this complexity of millions of micro grids... AI seems to be the only technology that will allow us to really manage these energy flows, to stabilize our grids and really decarbonize the demand side of the energy equation.”
“The green deal really has two dimensions. One side of that green deal is the supply side of energy and this has been very much part of the public debate in the recent years that we need to decarbonize the supply side of energy. What is less in the public debate and deserves a much bigger focus is the demand side of the...”
“Europe certainly needs to have a serious dialogue on what's required really to speed up and create the right investment climate in Europe. Today there are good number of barriers from many global companies why they should be investing in Europe and I think one ask to the European Commission is clearly around making sur...”
“Digital transformation means that at Schneider it's really a business transformation. Digital doesn't mean that we only introduce a couple of new tools across the organization but we are looking at this as a digital business transformation.”
“We want to kind of decommission 70 ERP systems in the course of the next years. That's a huge transformation and I believe in a very quick deployment and I believe this is only doable in public cloud because the whole commissioning can happen much faster if you go to a public cloud solution instead of a classical appro...”
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