
Episode #53
Michael Loechle, Executive Advisor, Chief Digital & Security Officer, Hitachi
"AI will take away quite some jobs, and it will create other jobs. So that's a little bit of a challenge we have as a society." Michael Loechle, Executive Advisor to Hitachi, Ltd. Vice President & Executive Officer, Chief Digital & Security Officer, and René Wiedemann discuss what that means for a company driving sustainable energy transformation with AI. The carve-out from ABB in 2020 was the chance to build up an IT from scratch, reshape the governance and advance innovative power grid technologies. More than 3 billion people depend on those technologies – a purpose that attracts young talent. AI's role here is clear: to streamline the business and accelerate it. That is where it becomes a real game changer – and where the hard work starts. Companies need to orchestrate their initiatives and build an architecture that follows a long-term strategy, before they automate. Because the worst thing you can do with AI is automate a process which actually is broken.






