How do small and medium-sized enterprises benefit from AI?
How do they strategically integrate AI into products, processes, and business models? Under the focus topic „AI Pioneers and Leaders,“ the @Smart Enterprise 2025 conference series put the spotlight on the pioneers of digitalization. Among them were Prof. Dr. Oliver Thomas, entrepreneur, scientific director of DFKI, and professor at the University of Osnabrück, as well as Thomas Kübler, founder and managing partner of leading hall heating specialist KÜBLER.
„AI is not the megatrend of tomorrow; it has long since arrived in both our private and professional lives and will have a fundamental impact on all of us—faster than some people can imagine,“ says Thomas Kübler. The experienced entrepreneur is convinced that this also applies to the energy transition. His company has technically exhausted the topic of energy efficiency in hall heating systems with savings of up to 70%, but AI applications could open up completely new possibilities here.
For KÜBLER, the topic of AI and collaboration with DFKI is nothing new. Among other things, the pilot project „TwinFicient,“ funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, was implemented jointly as part of the Green AI Hub Mittelstand.
The Smart Enterprise Engineering research department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the University of Osnabrück extended invitations to Smart Enterprise 2025.
You can find out more about hall heating and the energy transition here:
https://www.green-ai-hub.de/pilotprojekte/pilotprojekt-kuebler
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