Take a peek at the activities and offering of our digital innovation community.
Agoria paves the way for all technologically inspired companies in Belgium that strive for progress based on the development and application of innovations. More than 1,900 strong technology companies are members of Agoria. In a society in which technology contributes towards improving the quality of life, you can count on Agoria to connect everyone who is inspired by technology, increase the success of companies and plan for a sustainable future.
Headquartered in Leuven (Belgium) and with research sites across Belgium, in the Netherlands, Taiwan and the USA, an rep offices in China and Japan, imec leverages its state-of-the-art R&D infrastructure and its team of about 4,000 expert scientists, to drive open innovation across the globe. They unite world-industry leaders, Flanders-based and international companies, start-ups, and academia and knowledge centers, for R&D in nano-electronics and digital technologies, including advanced semiconductor scaling, silicon photonics, smart health, smart energy, smart mobility and smart cities solutions, artificial intelligence, beyond-5G and sensing technologies and more.
Next to its R&D offering, imec also leverages its expertise and large international industry network to support smaller organizations that have limited in-house R&D resources as well as larger companies with their innovation process from initial idea to fully functioning product, from the design of a product or chip, to prototyping, testing and optimizing, and manufacturing.
Finally, imec supports tech start-ups and scale-ups with a tailored offering. The imec.istart program is a business acceleration program that provides tech entrepreneurs with specialized coaching, facilities and overall support to help them grow their businesses, while the imec.scale-ups program focuses on larger innovative tech scale-ups looking to conquer the European market.
Commissioned by the Flemish government, Lantis is building connections that make the city and region flourish. Lantis is responsible for the realisation of the Oosterweel connection, which will increase prosperity and improve the quality of life. Lantis is contributing to this by promoting mobility, including the construction of numerous bicycle connections and multimodal junctions on the city outskirts of Antwerp.
Lantis strives for operational excellence in order to carry out projects as efficiently as possible and deliver quality. Thanks to intensive cooperation with the surrounding area, the organisation works transparently and with a focus on results. Innovation and transformation ensure future-oriented projects with a lasting impact on the dynamics of the region. This is the Lantis way of successfully realising large projects in an urban environment.
Lantis stands for Liveable Antwerp through Innovation and Cooperation and is a public limited company. The day-to-day management is in the hands of the management committee led by managing director Luc Hellemans. David Van Herreweghe chairs the board of directors.
As Europe’s second-largest port and largest integrated chemical cluster, the Port of Antwerp Bruges is a major lifeline for the Belgian economy: annually around 238 million tonnes of international maritime freight are handled. The Port of Antwerp Bruges accounts, directly and indirectly, for a total of around 143.000 jobs and more than €20 billion added value.
Innovation and digitisation enable our mission to be ‘a home port for a sustainable future’ as we aim to flexibly respond to a rapidly evolving maritime market. By supporting The Beacon, we want to ensure that our port platform finds relevant points of contact and vice versa. Furthermore, we want to facilitate the exchange effect created through the ecosystem being built around The Beacon.
The city of Antwerp welcomes businesses, researchers, citizens and city officials to experiment with smart technologies that aim to make urban life more enjoyable and sustainable. Antwerp is a living lab where solutions are tested and co-created with its inhabitants. The city is home to highly innovative businesses and with 171 nationalities that live in Antwerp, it is above all a very diverse, and international city. The Ecosystem in Antwerp is developing rapidly, over the past years the amount of start-ups and scaleups in Antwerp doubled.
Innovative companies are the driving force behind the Antwerp knowledge economy. Their growth is crucial for our future. The City of Antwerp therefore strongly believes in the power of digital networking and is developing an ecosystem for digital innovation in which large and small businesses, startups, scaleups, researchers and capital providers with an interest in the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence can meet each other. Thanks to the cross-pollination that occurs in The Beacon, innovative products are developed that are relevant to Antwerp’s ‘smart city’ ambitions and to our financial stakeholders: industry and logistics.
The University of Antwerp is a research university where pioneering, innovative research is conducted at an international level. Research and education are closely linked, with 20,000 students and 6000 staff spread across our nine faculties. As a driving force in the Antwerp innovation ecosystem, innovation is a constant focus.
The Beacon is the university’s pioneering pre-incubation structure for the domain of Metropolitanism, Smart City, Mobility & Logistics. It houses the IDLab research group and the Design Sciences Hub.
The IDLab research group of the University of Antwerp and imec performs fundamental and applied research on Wireless technologies, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things. IDLab, headed by prof. Steven Latré, targets the most daunting challenges industry is facing to deliver digital transformation, connecting everything and extracting high value from data. Bringing researchers and industrial partners together at the same location facilitates knowledge transfer and enables the cross-fertilization and co-creation insights on smart cities, IoT and AI towards the industrial partners in The Beacon.
The Design Sciences Hub of the Faculty of Design Sciences is an interdisciplinary innovation and valorization lab. They offer design solutions for urban challenges and wicked problems in the triangle of urban planning, built environment, and urban health.
Leer direct van de experts hoe je met Edge AI beveiligingstoepassingen slimmer maakt. Scailable. organiseert samen met Advantech en MCS een gratis workshop over de Scailable AI Manager.
Je krijgt een technische update en er worden nieuwe kansen gepresenteerd. Sinds de introductie van de MCS AI Gateway vorig jaar zijn er namelijk grote stappen gemaakt in de technische mogelijkheden van Edge AI.
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📆 Dinsdag 28 februari 2023
⏰ 12.30 - 14.45 uur, inclusief broodjeslunch
📍Kiotoweg 719 in Rotterdam (MCS hoofdkantoor)
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Looking for an exciting way to spend your evenings? Join us for an evening of inspiration, connection, and fun with a community of like-minded professionals and enthusiasts.
Each event you'll discover the latest buzzwords, cutting-edge innovations and emerging concepts in the digital world explained by field experts. Not only will you soak up knowledge and make connections, but you'll also have a blast! Don't miss out on this opportunity to expand your horizons!
Our first session will be filled with interesting, funny and eye opening facts and insights about the Metaverse brought to you by Jeroen Baert, computer scientist and comedian known from Podcast Nerdland and many other radio and tv shows.
After the show, all this new information can be digested during a networking dinner.
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We are pleased to announce a new partnership between NxtPort International and BigMile. Both our companies are at the forefront of driving supply chain sustainability.
This collaboration will combine NxtPort's expertise in secure data exchange between supply chain partners with BigMile's innovative Emission API, a tool that offers automated CO2 calculations for any shipment using any mode of transport. The Emission API will soon be available on NxtPort's digital marketplace, making it even easier for platform users to access and benefit from this valuable resource.
Following the European Parliament's recent approval of the Carbon Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), it is becoming increasingly important for companies to accurately report on their carbon emissions, including those caused by outsourced goods transport.
The BigMile Emission API enables you to provide yourself and your customers with insights into the transport-related carbon footprint and identify opportunities for further improvement.
We are excited to work with BigMile to drive sustainability in global supply chains and provide value to our clients through this partnership.
The finest digital technology & chemistry companies meet, in the margin of the Smart Industry Week.
Our Beaconeers joined us and Start it Accelerate to a Winterfest Wonderland.
Think of Christmas markets where our start-ups and resident had the oppurtunity to sell their arts & crafts, A lot of music, jenever and a wonderfull Cocktail Workshop hosted by Miraeus.
Innovative technology and digitisation have led to spectacular developments in the use of robotics, drones and ROVs for asset inspection and maintenance. As part of the Smart Industry Week, BEMAS & The Beacon organized the Smart Asset Inspection Demo Day on Thursday 24 November.
Next to attending several presentations, visitors could discover and watch demos of a broad range of maintenance & asset inspection robots, UAV’s, ROVs, crawlers, platforms, solutions and services.
