Siemens willing to cooperate with FPT in training digital human resources

Siemens President and CEO Joe Kaeser visited FPT’s F-Ville Software Village and FPT University during his first working visit of Việt Nam on May 24^th.

Joe Kaeser expressed his views on FPT’s digital transformation services and said he wished to co-operate with the Vietnamese corporation to implement Siemens’ digital solutions in FPT’s key markets.

On this occasion, FPT also asked Siemens to set up an associate research and development laboratory for Việt Nam and Indochina, collaborate in training and developing workforces to deploy the cloud platform developed by Siemens (MindSphere) and pilot projects using MindSphere and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions from Siemens.

FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh said that the two side agreed on training digital human resources. FPT Corp and German Siemens are expected to sign a strategic co-operation agreement on digital human resources training on the occasion of the Vietnamese Prime Minister’s State-level visit to Germany in July.

Siemens President and CEO Joe Kaeser wished to co-operate with the Vietnamese corporation to implement Siemens’ digital solutions in FPT’s key markets.

At the meeting with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on the afternoon of May 24th, Mr. Joe Kaeser asserted that Siemens was willing to cooperate with FPT to train human resources, especially young people for Vietnam’s successful participation in the 4th revolution.

Earlier, during a meeting with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Davos in January, Joe Kaeser expressed his desire to build a training program for Vietnamese trainees and students. Siemens already deployed this program for over 2,000 interns from 48 countries around the world.

Joe Kaeser has acted as President and CEO of Siemens since 2013. During his more than 37 years of serving here, he has held several important positions, including Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Financial Officer etc. Strongly implementing digitization and automation programs at Siemens, he has cut more than 10,000 employees but the turnover has grown by more than 5 billion euros since he came to power.

In addition to the leader of Siemens, he is also a BOD member of the leading corporations in Germany and Europe namely Allianz Deutschland, Daimler, NXP Semiconductor etc. He is entrusted with these tasks thanks to his experience in project management and business finance for dozens of years.

Kaeser is responsible for the promotion of the forth industrial revolution in Germany and around the world, opening research labs on cloud computing and implementing digitised industrial resource programmes in Egypt, India, China and Singapore. Under his impetus, the fourth industrial revolution has been included in the German government’s weekly report.

Siemens, Europe’s No. 1 industrial corporation with sales of € 79.6 billion in 2016, is a giant in the energy, healthcare and software industries. Siemens now has more than 350,000 employees in over 170 offices around the world. Besides General Electric (GE), Siemens is one of the two most influential industrial conglomerates in the world today.