Hosted by Siemens once a year, the AI with Purpose Summit fosters critical engagement and collaboration to unlock AI’s true potential in the industrial world.
Leading industry executives, experts, entrepreneurs, analysts and media representatives are exclusively invited for unparalleled exchange and networking.
Innovative session formats demonstrate how AI, domain know-how and data are transforming critical systems – advancing productivity, sustainability, and societal progress.
AI with Purpose Summit
The AI with Purpose Summit is Europe’s premier leadership event for industrial AI. Watch the curated recordings of the Summit sessions below.
AI is everywhere. Real impact is in industry.
800+
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thought leaders participating in 2025’s event
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visionary talks addressing the key challenges and opportunities to navigate
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booths and showcases featuring the most exciting startups in industrial AI
Session insights
Explore selected session recordings from the AI with Purpose Summit’s conference tracks - addressing the defining issues surrounding industrial AI and the commitment to accelerating real transformation.
Main Stage Keynotes
From inspiring talks from our Management Board Members to key insights from you.com and Ottobock and to celebrating visionary startups with the Industrial AI Awards: Tune into our main stage sessions.
Future of Industrial AI
Discover the role of Industrial Domain Models, algorithmic advancements and agentic AI for design, engineering, and operational efficiency in the industrial sector.
The Data Challenge
Get insights on data governance and DataOps best practices, as well as data sharing concepts and the lever of synthetic data, as industrial data is the key ingredient for industrial AI.
Strategy & Transformation
Explore strategy definition best practices including critical success factors, an industrial AI readiness assessment, and an ecosystem-centric approach to industrial transformation.
Scale Up
Get best practices from customers, partners and our own factories to get over the “Stuck in Lab-Testing” hurdle.
People & Culture
Dive deeper into AI talent acquisition and retention strategies, enhancing employee activation and AI literacy, and the impact of Industrial Copilot technology on the daily work of shop floor workers and engineers.
Trust & Regulation
Discover pragmatic ways to establish AI Governance and deal with the EU AI Act.
Unlocking the true potential of industrial AI
AI continues to shape industry every day. See the expert insights helping startups get ahead of the hype and create real impact with AI.
The Industrial AI Awards for Startups
The 2025 Summit hosted the inaugural Industrial AI Awards for Startups – the destination for the pioneering startups and initiatives breaking barriers to translate AI’s potential into industrial value. Who will rise as the next leaders in purpose-driven AI applications? And how will their innovations reshape manufacturing, energy, and infrastructure? The awards recognize innovations that translate AI’s potential into real industrial value.
Winners will receive invaluable mentorship, exposure, and strategic growth opportunities to scale their impact with Siemens.
The winning startups are:
First Place: PAILOT
With their production planning software, PAILOT closes the organizational and technical gap between enterprise resource planning (ERP) and production. They provide an AI interfaced platform for manufacturing operations and production management, including features like data management, real time production performance tracking, and inventory and sales management.
Second Place: plus10
Focusing on real-time, GMP-compliant live learning for automated production lines, plus10 helps to optimize cycle times and scrap rates and ensures efficient ramp-up and continuous production improvements.
Third Place: BeyondMath
BeyondMath has built the world’s first generative AI physics platform enabling faster and smarter engineering. They deliver fast AI design exploration at industrial scale, eliminating the need for solver-ready meshes.
Crowd’s Choice Award: Blockbrain
Blockbrain is an AI platform that empowers organizations to harness their collective knowledge and transform it into a powerful competitive advantage. The platform is designed to automate key business processes, enhance internal collaboration and boost efficiency and profitability.
The AI with Purpose Summit redresses the balance between hype, hope and reality. This is the community that’s making AI happen across industries – which means real challenges get addressed, real progress is accelerated.
Impressions from the AI with Purpose Summit 2025
