KitzSki wins Ailevator Award 2025 For AI Project In Online Sales

The Kitzbühel cable car "KitzSki" was honored with the AILEVATOR AWARD 2025 in the "SME" category as part of the Know Center's 25th anniversary celebrations in Graz. The award recognizes innovative AI projects that combine responsibility and technological excellence.

KitzSki, winner in the "SME" category, demonstrates how medium-sized companies successfully utilize data-driven approaches: Together with Know Center, the in-house IT department developed an intelligent discount and pricing system for online ticket sales. The system is intended to enable higher booking numbers and revenue, provide valuable marketing data, and serve as a planning tool for pricing for upcoming seasons.

"This award confirms our innovative approach to digitalization and our strategy of using data-driven systems to increase customer focus and operational efficiency. The partnership between KitzSki and Know Center also demonstrates how digital innovation can have a lasting impact in tourism and the alpine environment," said board member Christian Wörister, delighted with the honor.

About the Know Center:

Know Center is a leading innovation and competence center for trustworthy AI and data science. With state-of-the-art and beyond technologies, cutting-edge in-house research, and highly innovative projects with clients from industry, energy, and healthcare, the Graz-based innovation hub ensures the transformation of the latest findings in data science and AI into concrete competitive advantages for companies.

The company provides science and society with the technological basis for solving the major questions of the future. With its groundbreaking innovations, Know Center is helping Europe regain technological and data sovereignty and guarantee strategic control over relevant data while maintaining an open and innovation-driven market.