How to fully develop market potential in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA)?
What is needed to enhance international competitiveness for enterprises and cities?
What can we do to unleash innovation to achieve sustainable development with mutual benefits?
These are the important questions arising in light of emerging trends in digitalization and huge opportunities from the Development Plan of GBA.
Under the theme of “Connect • Create • Collaborate”, Siemens will host the Siemens Greater Bay Area Forum in Guangzhou.
Time: September 12th
Location: Guangzhou
The forum will provide a great platform for pinpointing the opportunities in GBA, and exploring the ways in which all parties can collaborate to co-create value. Governmental officials, business leaders, Siemens management, academics, technology experts, developers, influencers and media representatives will gather to exchange ideas about hot topics, such as the visions, strategic planning and investment policies of the GBA as well as new technologies and new dynamics in the fields of intelligent manufacturing & industry cloud, IoT technology & solutions, smart infrastructure, clean energy and education & talent development.
Let’s exchange, inspire and work together for a prosperous future of the GBA!
Moderator:
Shang Huijie
General Manager of Region South
Siemens Ltd., China
Panelists
Government Official from Guangdong Province
Lao Pun Lap
Director of the Macao Policy Research Office & Chairman of Macau Economic Association
Tony Verb
Co-Founder & Partner, GreaterBay Ventures & Advisors
Maximilian Butek
Delegate & Chief Representative, Delegation of German Industry & Commerce Guangzhou
Best Practice Sharing: Creating Values together in GBA with Co-creation:
- Clean Energy
- Smart Infrastructure
- Intelligent Manufacturing
Qiao Xu Bing
General Manager, CEEG Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd.
Yao Zhenguo
General Manager, Gas & Power, Siemens Greater China
Chen Li Qian
Deputy General Manager, Guangdong QiXin Data Service Co., Ltd
Thomas Brenner
General Manager, Smart Infrastructure, Siemens Greater China
Yao Wei Bing
CEO
Guangzhou MINO Automotive Equipment Co., Ltd.
Bai Liping
Vice President, Digital Industries & General Manager,
Sales Region South
Digital Industries
Siemens Ltd., China
Clean Energy Theme Forum
Official from government
Key influencers and business leaders from government organizations and energy industries
Siemens management team and representatives
- Guangdong provincial energy market landscape and development plan
- Leading transition to make a difference in the future of energy
- Insight and reference sharing on how to build a clean, low carbon, safe and highly efficient energy system
- Innovation and digitalization for energy industry
Smart Infrastructure Theme Forum
Business leaders from infrastructure sector
Experts from various verticals
Technology experts
Siemens management and representatives
- Make campus smarter
- Smart building solution
- MindPower - Smart Power Distribution Cloud Platform
- Smart city - Digitization of Power Utility
- Smart city - TIP solution in Metro
The First China’s Developers Forum of Siemens MindSphere
Official from government
MindSphere developer, partner, end users
Think tank, and MindSphere expert representatives
Siemens managemen
- Market outlook, challenges and opportunities for IIoT in China and Siemens answers
- Local policy and market outlook of IIoT in GBA
- Interaction & Collaboration
- MindSphere Ecosystem scenarios discussion
- MindSphere use case sharing
- MindSphere hands-on experience
IoT Services
Decision makers of corporates
Heads of strategy, operation and manufacturing
Technology heads
Siemens management and experts
- Digital transformation strategy
- Siemens’ digital transformation
- Operation consulting
- Digital transformation implementation
- Smart Campus based on Data Layer
- Intelligent traffic system and connected city solutions
Education & Talent Development Theme Forum
Official from government
Faculties from universities, vocational and technical schools
Siemens Management, education cooperation and training experts
- Strategies for talent demand and development in the GBA
- Perspective from German enterprise on talent development
- Siemens Professional Education (SPE) Introduction
- SCE project empowers intelligent manufacturing "New Engineers”
- Siemens laboratory solution
- Experience sharing of Sino-Germany technical college

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