A New Pace of Change with Industrial AI
Source: Siemens | · LINKEDIN · | February 13, 2025
Featuring new insights from over 200 senior executives and experts at the forefront of AI innovation, our latest report — produced in collaboration with Reuters Events, explores how industrial AI can help shape, accelerate, and scale sustainability initiatives within organizations.
Together with representatives from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), ETH AI Center, Technische Universität Berlin and more, the report examines the key challenges, opportunities, and emerging trends to consider. Its findings reveal:
A race demanding unity, stalled by division
In the race against climate change, 46% of executives report their business is at risk of missing interim energy transition targets. A collision of complexity is slowing sustainability progress.
In a complex world, industrial AI takes center stage
69% of executives consider industrial AI ‘essential’ to simplifying climate change complexity for their organizations, while 91% believe it will significantly help accelerate the energy transition in their industries, within three years.
Navigating roadblocks
Like any transformative technology, AI faces certain adoption challenges:
Measuring or projecting ROI (cited by 38% of respondents)
Sourcing optimal solutions or vendors (33%)
A lack of appropriate internal skills (26%)