Interview with Steffen Reithermann (Chair of Machine Learning / AI Project Office) on the Kaiserslautern / Westpfalz AI Competence Cluster for an article in a special supplement of the Rheinpfalz newspaper dated September 26, 2025

• Prof. Dr. Marius Kloft
  
  

  For the special supplement “Western Palatinate: Work - Culture - Life, Region with a Future” in the Rheinpfalz newspaper on September 26, 2025, Steffen Reithermann,
  project manager at the Chair of Machine Learning in the Department of Computer Science at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
  and managing director of the AI Project Office of the AI Alliance Rhineland-Palatinate,
  answers questions about the AI competence cluster in the Kaiserslautern and Western Palatinate region.

  "Groundbreaking innovations such as AI bring opportunities and challenges –
  in the Kaiserslautern region, we have the combined expertise
  to deal with both aspects competently."
  
  With the renowned Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) as its nucleus,
  a competence cluster for artificial intelligence has developed that is significant not only for Rhineland-Palatinate but also for Germany as a whole.
  In addition to the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau and the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, this cluster consists of a number of renowned research institutes
  such as the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM),
  the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS).

  
  
  05.10.2025