Prof Dr . Rainer M . Speh has been Chief Technology Officer ( CTO ) of Siemens Ltd . headquartered in Riyadh , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 1 February , 2015 . Before that he worked in the Infrastructure & Cities Sector as well as in the Business Unit Power Plant Controls of Siemens as their CTO for more than 15 years . From 1985 to 1999 , he held several technical positions in the industry in Germany . He received his Professorship from the Technical University Kaiserslautern , Germany , in 2014 and has lectured since 1996 . He earned his PhD from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1985 , where he also studied Electrical Power Engineering from 1975 — 1980 . Prof . Speh is the current Past President of the Power Engineering Society ( ETG ) within the Association for Electrical , Electronic & Information Technologies ( VDE ) of Germany .
EUROPE and machine learning adds tremendous value . At the end of the day , it ’ s about drawing conclusions from this data . By using this data , we can monitor a whole plant or do predictive maintenance down to a single device . This is where we need to combine Siemens ’ expertise with that of the client .”
Saudi Arabia is in the midst of a visionary transformation . With its eyes set on Vision 2030 , the Kingdom is aiming to diversify its economy away
“ TOGETHER , WE DISCOVER THEIR PAIN POINTS AND THEN CO-CREATE SOLUTIONS THAT PERFECTLY FIT THEIR NEEDS ”
— Rainer Speh , CTO at Siemens Saudi Arabia
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Prof Dr . Rainer M . Speh has been Chief Technology Officer ( CTO ) of Siemens Ltd . headquartered in Riyadh , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 1 February , 2015 . Before that he worked in the Infrastructure & Cities Sector as well as in the Business Unit Power Plant Controls of Siemens as their CTO for more than 15 years . From 1985 to 1999 , he held several technical positions in the industry in Germany . He received his Professorship from the Technical University Kaiserslautern , Germany , in 2014 and has lectured since 1996 . He earned his PhD from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1985 , where he also studied Electrical Power Engineering from 1975 — 1980 . Prof . Speh is the current Past President of the Power Engineering Society ( ETG ) within the Association for Electrical , Electronic & Information Technologies ( VDE ) of Germany .
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