Dr. André Scholz is Head of AI Innovation and Autonomous Factory at Siemens Digital Industries, one of the world’s most advanced industrial AI programs, and Advisory Board Member in the AI Future Council of the Swiss Future Institute AG. This dual mandate makes him the ideal voice. In the AI Future Council and as Head of the newest AI robotics innovations in applied industry cases, he drives AI deployment at enterprise global scale, with direct expertise in operational workflow optimization, decision automation, and the governance frameworks required to eliminate hallucinations in mission-critical environments. He does not theorize about AI risk and robotics; he engineers it daily.
Robotics is moving beyond the factory floor into hospitals, logistics networks, and everyday life — forcing a new tension between automation and human accountability. This session looks ahead to 2050 and the next stage of human–AI evolution, drawing on global use cases where humanoid and hybrid systems are already reshaping industries. Katrin J. Yuan, CEO of Swiss Future Institute and Chair of the AI Future Council, and Dr. André Scholz, Head of AI Innovation and Autonomous Factory at Siemens, explore what embodied AI means for industries at scale — and how enterprises, including SMEs, can build trust while pairing human expertise with autonomous systems to move from experimentation to real operational value.
