The Siemens Xcelerator Community marks its second State of Community event on September 9, covering a year of Circles, research, and content. Members are also invited to complete a short survey that will guide what the community takes on next.

Our latest community pulse check finds SXC members more optimistic about AI than the broader industrial workforce, but just as candid about the gaps still standing in the way.

A community “pulse check” on how AI and automation are reshaping industrial work alongside the latest independent research on the same questions. This is the second annual research effort from the Siemens Xcelerator Community, following last year's study of generative AI adoption. This year's edition shifts the lens to the human and organizational side of that transformation.

SpaceX is now public, OpenAI and Anthropic are close behind, and the early market turbulence tells industrial companies something important about what happens when AI vendors start answering to Wall Street.

Europe's automakers have spare capacity; its defense manufacturers don't have enough. New reports on deals, EU policy, and regional economics suggest that interspace is closing fast.

The World Economic Forum’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2026 points to a future shaped by technologies that are more personal, distributed and materially efficient. From mRNA cancer vaccines and exosome drug delivery to everything-to-grid energy, precision fermentation, world models and quantum-safe cryptography, the report highlights systems moving from scientific promise toward practical consequence. The central challenge is whether institutions can build the trust, access, regulation and infrastructure needed for these technologies to scale well.

Space is becoming an industrial infrastructure, thanks to falling launch costs and increasing commercial investment. This edition of Industry Signals covers the engineering tools helping space startups scale, the commercial markets now outspending governments across most of the space economy, the $263 billion in Earth observation value that remains unrealized, and the coming together of satellite and mobile networks that is turning into connectivity industries can rely on almost anywhere.