After months of intensive planning, conception and construction, the time had come on February 10: The T-Systems Innovation Center officially opened its doors on Munich's Marsplatz. Around 120 customers from industry, energy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and IT accepted the team's invitation to the kick-off event – a strong signal of the importance of the Innovation Center in the heart of the Bavarian capital.
With the new Industrial AI Cloud at Tucherpark and the official launch of the Innovation Center at Marsplatz, Munich will become a beacon of future technology work for T-Systems.
Thematically, the Innovation Center is consistently focused on T-Systems' strategic growth areas – cloud, artificial intelligence & data, industrial AI cloud, security and digital sovereignty are the focus.
The strong partnerships also play a central role: Together with Palo Alto Networks, NetApp, Fortinet, Dell, Suse and innovative start-ups from the TechBoost program, collaborative innovation spaces are created in which synergies are used in a targeted manner to accelerate digital breakthroughs. A KUKA robot shows live how a digital twin is created with the help of the NVIDIA Omniverse, while a second robot learns autonomous process optimizations with artificial intelligence – an impressive demonstration of the Industrial AI Cloud at your fingertips.
Daniel Hofmann, Head of the Logistics Business Unit and moderator opened the event together with Rafaela Sieber, Head of the Innovation Center. With the relocation from the Euro Industrial Park to the city center, Deutsche Telekom is sending a visible signal for practical digitalization and dialogue at eye level. Here, no concepts are created for the drawer, but concrete solutions for digital transformation. "We are now even closer to our customers and to the strategic questions that their transformation really needs today," emphasized Rafaela Sieber.
Innovation far beyond Bavaria
Among the guests: Dr. Fabian Mehring, Bavarian State Minister for Digital Affairs.
Sovereignty: A Journey from Feeling to Reality
Dr. Christine Knackfuss-Nikolic, Chief Sovereignty Officer, T-Systems
Industrial AI Cloud means: Simple.Done.
Björn Weidenmüller, SVP AI Factory Go-To-Market, and Andreas Schlegel, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer at T-Systems, introduce the Industrial AI Cloud to customers and partners.
Innovation Transformation strengthens competitive advantage
Dan Bieler, Principal Analyst and Consultant at PAC, specializes in digital strategy, innovation and business model transformation in the European technology market.
Daniel Hofmann, Head of the Logistics Business Unit and Moderator opens the event together with Rafaela Sieber, Head of the Innovation Center.
Dan Bieler, Principal Analyst and Consultant at Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), specializes in digital strategy, innovation and business model transformation in the European technology market. He sees a clear competitive advantage in the transformation that is being created in the Innovation Center.
Björn Weidenmüller, SVP AI Factory Go-To-Market, and Andreas Schlegel, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer at T-Systems introduced the Industrial AI Cloud to customers and partners. In addition to the incredibly fast implementation of the AI Factory at Tucherpark in only six months, the data center offers enormous potential for industrial applications. With the Deutschland Stack across all levels of industrial AI-relevant development and operation, the Industrial AI Cloud is unique in Europe.
Among the guests: Dr. Fabian Mehring, Bavarian State Minister for Digital Affairs. "The new T-Systems Innovation Center is much more than just a building. It is a place where ideas become concrete applications. Here, cutting-edge research, entrepreneurial practice and state responsibility merge to create real innovation. The new Munich Innovation Center will become a powerhouse for digital progress in the heart of our state capital – a tangible win-win for business, state and society," said Mehring.
Christine Knackfuß-Nikolic, Chief Sovereignty Officer, is proud that T-Systems is ranked 3rd in the hyperscaler market by ISG in Germany, ahead of Google. In her lecture, she also presented the three pillars of digital sovereignty. Firstly, software sovereignty "Made in Europe", secondly, technical sovereignty, also in terms of infrastructure, and thirdly, open interfaces (APIs) and standardised processes so that Telekom and its customers can retain sovereignty over their own IT strategy at all times.
The speakers and the participants of the panel discussion were pleased with the lively participation in the plenary session and the discussions following the official part of the kick-off event.
