Egypt accelerating efforts to achieve digital transformation, become digital innovation hub: CEO Siemens Middle East
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Tuesday - 2 November 2021
Egypt has been accelerating its efforts to achieve digital transformation and become a hub for digital innovation, Helmut Von Struve, CEO Siemens Middle East said.
Von Struve told Daily News Egypt that this progress supports the country’s Vision 2030, which aims, among other things, to create a knowledge-based economy, spur innovation, ensure cybersecurity, and achieve sustainable development while improving the quality of life for Egyptians.
“As Egypt forges ahead with its digital transformation strategy, Siemens is providing the country with the latest technologies to develop new cities, smart factories and vital digital infrastructure. Siemens is also actively involved in helping Egypt’s industrial workers acquire new skills through training programmes about digitalization, automation solutions, and smart city technologies,” he added during the interview.
The interview touched on Siemens’ projects in Egypt, and the company’s five years strategy in the country. The interview tackles the outcomes of Von Struve’s recent visit to Egypt, and the impact of the pandemic on Siemens projects. It also discusses Egypt’s strategy in planning and developing several smart cities across the country and digital transformation strategy.
What is Siemens’ 5-year strategy in Egypt? What are company’s new projects in Egypt and Middle East?
Our core strategy is to transform the everyday by delivering advanced technologies that our customers need to build more efficient factories, smart cities and sustainable infrastructure for current and future generations. As you may know, Siemens has been active in Egypt since 1859, when our founder Werner von Siemens laid a communications cable through the Red Sea. Currently, we’re involved in several strategic projects with Egypt’s government and private sector.
Foremost among them is the New Administrative Capital, where we’re deploying our latest technologies and smart solutions.
We’re also working with Fiber Misr on the Control Center at Knowledge City and with our partner EMAS to deliver low-voltage control systems for the new capital’s Iconic Tower. In addition, Siemens is building the National Energy Control Center, with Hassam Allam; we expect to complete it in the coming months. And we recently delivered the command, control and communication systems for Ahmed Hamdy Tunnel 2, another milestone in our cooperation with the government.
As for the wider Middle East, we see many opportunities. Our latest flagship project outside Egypt is Expo 2020 Dubai, where Siemens is the Premier Partner for Infrastructure Digitalization. At Expo, we’ve co-created a blueprint for future smarter cities by digitally linking more than 130 buildings on a site that’s twice the size of Monaco. Expo will have a lasting legacy after the six-month event ends in March; 80% of the Expo site’s infrastructure will remain in place to form the nucleus of a planned sustainable district of Dubai known as District 2020.
