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Roland Busch

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
528 total appearances

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

These are basically softer defined trains because they tell you whatever.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

Even before they come to the depot, they tell the depot what they need, which part, what's wrong, and how to replace it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

So it's technology at its best.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

However...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

Which company can say that we are transforming the whole economy of 110 million people country, which is Egypt, where we built 2,000 kilometer of railway lines from the north to the south, west to the east, connecting 90 million people and transforming the whole system with high-speed commuter and locomotives.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

I mean, this makes people proud.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

And I didn't mention any AI technology, even though it's in our trains, but this is something where we could say,

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

Which company in the world can do that?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

Obviously, we believe rather in free trade than in trade barriers because it brought the world to where we are and leveraging technology as fast as possible means bringing it to different countries as fast as possible.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

The good news about it is since, and I mentioned our footprint before, since we are global from the very first beginning, by the way, when Werner von Siemens founded this company 175 years or more ago, even at the beginning, he sent one brother to London

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

and one to Russia because he knew Germany is too small for his technology to scale.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

So ever since, Siemens is a global company.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

And now our local for local content in the United States or in China is 85%, 87%.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

So that means we are so local and we have still goods traveling from different places.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

The impact on tariffs currently, and we said it last year, it's a public figure, in 2025, last fiscal year, was a low mid-single-digit bottom-line impact.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

So, okay, that's good for us.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

It's maybe not good for others.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

Our customers are suffering, and with our customers, we are suffering, obviously.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

We know that from machine builders.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything

They have reduced volume because their machines are tariffed when they go to the United States.