Dr. Florian Kegel

🧑‍💻 Increasing productivity & quality for Siemens with AI products 🤖🚀

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

👋 Hello! I'm Florian. I am working as the Head of AI Products at Siemens, where we, as a great team, make things smarter, efficient, and more connected with innovative digital services. 🎯Software 🎯AI 🎯Innovation 🎯Together ✨ for a better future 🤝 I am happy to connect with like-minded professionals, thought leaders, and collaborators who share a passion for leveraging technology to address climate change and drive sustainability. 🌱Let's connect and explore how we can make a positive impact together. 🏆Werner von Siemens Award - Technology with purpose 🏆Young top researcher for innovative AI 🏆ATOS worldwide IT Challenge shortlisted teams for cooperative AI 🏆30+ International conference papers in the area cloud & AI 🏆2x Best paper awards

Experience

  • Siemens (Full-time · 4 yrs 9 mos)
    • Head of AI Products
      Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

      Driving internal productivity, value, and growth at Siemens by scaling enterprise-grade AI solutions across the global organization. Spearheading the mission to put Everyday AI into the hands of every employee while industrializing Process AI through standardized, reusable components.

    • Head of Software & AI Innovation - Cost and Value Engineering
      Jun 2024 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 10 mos

      - Driving innovative digital products for Cost and Value Engineering - Leadership: Serve my team by fostering a supportive and growth-oriented environment. Guide, mentor, and inspire team members throughout their professional journey to reach their full potential. - Management: Scale up and oversee a diverse team of experts across 5 agile teams specializing in cloud, data, software engineering, data analysis, and AI. Establish and maintain a structured working environment to ensure optimal performance and efficient collaboration. - Innovation: Being leading in software development and exploring AI solutions to enhance Siemens’ digital services. - Expertise: Utilize deep technical knowledge in software engineering and AI to tackle complex challenges and create scalable, efficient solutions.

    • IT Architect
      Oct 2021 - Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      - Winner of Werner von Siemens Award - Technology with purpose - Driving digital products for #GreenDigitalTwin, #DigitalTwinOfCost, and the #DigitalEcosystem at Cost & Value Engineering to shift to a more sustainable and prosperous future. - Leading the development and implementation of a cutting-edge carbon footprinting digital services to measure and track environmental impact across Siemens' products, services, and operations. - Applying rapid growth mindset and scale-up strategies to drive scalability, efficiency, and continuous improvement of the digital products. - Architecting and building a digital ecosystem with AWS & Azure cloud - Advancing digital twins for cost and sustainability optimizations to the next level by combining expert models with machine learning models and leveraging automation - Establishing data pipelines to automatize and significantly reduce the efforts for calculating the environmental footprint and costs of industrial products - Standardize interoperability between applications with high-security standards - Training and onboarding of application users - Security auditing documentation of digital ecosystem

  • Advisory Board Member at exalsius
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
    • Postdoctoral Researcher
      Jun 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

      - Young top researcher award for innovative AI - Advisory board member for strategy of academic education at TU Berlin - Scientific advisory board member for EU project mindSET (Erasmus+) - Project manager for multiple projects funded by EU, German Federal Government, Industry - Lecturer and thesis supervisor - Research focus: Distributed Intelligence, Cognitive Cloud Continuum, Smart Experts

    • Scientific Researcher
      Jan 2016 - Jun 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos

      - ATOS Worldwide IT-Challenge Short-listed Teams for Cooperative AI - Teaching certification for higher education - Lecturer and thesis supervisor - Research focus: Anomaly Detection, AIOps, Sensor AI

  • Speaker and contractual lecturer at Freelance
    Sep 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Contracts with universities and public services in Germany and Norway.

  • Visiting Researcher at BT Group
    May 2016 - Jul 2016 · 3 mos