NEWS
Lufthansa Consulting and
German Aerospace Center agree
strategic innovation partnership
Futurice and
Peltarion
partner to
empower
clients with
operational AI
S
tockholm-headquartered Peltarion,
a leader in operational Artificial
Intelligence (AI), is partnering with
international digital engineering and
innovation consultancy, Futurice, to help
make AI useable and affordable for all.
Peltarion helps customers create real-world
AI applications at scale and at speed.
It dramatically cuts the cost and complexity
associated with technologies like deep
learning by reducing the need for specialist
skills and infrastructure through its cloud-
based Operational AI Platform.
L
ufthansa Consulting (LCG) and the
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
have agreed to work more closely
together in the future and have formed
a strategic partnership.
The aim of the cooperation is to
translate new technologies and
promising innovations developed by
DLR into marketable and practical
solutions, products and services, and to
make them available to LCG clients in
joint projects.
The collaboration with DLR Technology
Marketing will focus primarily on the
airline, airport and transport infrastructure
sectors, but also in other areas in which
technologies and services from these
sectors can be applied.
One potential area of collaboration,
for example, is the development of a
laser system for non-contact detection
of explosives by DLR. The use of such
a system at airports not only has very
important security aspects but also affects
the throughput speed of passengers
during check-in processes, a current cause
of bottlenecks at all airports.
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“Concrete practical problems come face-
to-face with research and development
and lead to new solutions through
intensified exchange,” said Dr Rolf-
Dieter Fischer, Director DLR Technology
Marketing, and Bernd Knabe, Lufthansa
Consulting’s Head of Corporate Office, in
a joint statement.
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is
a publicly funded engineering research
facility. In its institutes at 26 locations
throughout Germany, it conducts
research on important issues such as
aviation, aerospace, energy, transport,
digitalisation and security.
DLR Technology Marketing works in cross-
sector networks and employs the latest
methods of innovation management to
develop new products and services.
Lufthansa Consulting is one of the
leading management consultancies in
the aviation industry. The independent
subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group
develops individual solution concepts for
its international client groups, including
airlines, airports, public authorities,
institutes and related industries.
“At present, organisations are just scratching
the surface of what AI can do,” said Luka
Crnkovic-Friis, CEO and Co-founder of
Peltarion. “Peltarion and Futurice are aligned
in their vision that technology is a powerful
tool for change and will work together to
make AI widely available for all.”
Futurice’s focus on innovation includes digital
product design and build, and encouraging
its customers to embrace emerging
technologies, agile software development and
lean organisational change.
“AI is not only a powerful tool for change,
but also for creating value. To reap the
benefits, companies need to both play to their
strengths and learn a bunch of new tricks,”
said Vice President, Claes Kaarni, Futurice.
“It’s important to keep in mind that user-
centricity still carries the day.
Fundamentally, we are out to demystify AI
and Machine Learning, and Peltarion is a
great partner for it.”
With a shared presence in the UK and the
Nordics, Futurice’s partnership with Peltarion is
based on deep technological understanding,
engineering talent and a complementary client
base that’s focused on innovation.
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