AI4growth is an initiative of AI stakeholders in the industry, public services and academic world.

 
 

A start-up with a good plan? A company wanting to evolve? Questions about financing and subsidies? VLAIO guides you through the possibilities and gives you the right advice. To do this, we make use of a large network of partners who can offer expertise, coaching, or the right networks. Have an ambitious plan or innovative idea? Schedule a meeting with a VLAIO consultant, who will analyze your plans, get you in touch with the right experts, and help you get the right subsidies.

 

 
 
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Axelera AI is creating a cutting-edge, scalable technology with best-in-class performance and efficiency to accelerate AI inference at the edge.  

Our technology integrates custom dataflow architecture with multicore in-memory computing to deliver extremely high performance at a power envelope of few watts and a flexibility to support multiple networks.  

Axelera AI has offices in Leuven (Belgium), Eindhoven (The Netherlands), Zürich (Switzerland) and Pisa (Italy).

 

 

By now, we all understand that "data is the new oil"... But in reality, the true power of big data can only be harnessed in a refined form. Transforming your data into actionable insights is exactly what we do at Boltzmann on a day-to-day basis. All we need from you is the data you’ve gathered across the value chain of your company, and a willingness to innovate and prepare for the disruption in your respective industry.

 

 

Cegeka is a leading European IT solutions provider. The company specializes in multi-cloud services, cloud orchestration, managed services and optimization of applications, infrastructure and business processes and takes care of the development and integration of applications, eco-systems and platforms.

Cegeka’s Data Intelligence unit offers solutions going from traditional business intelligence, big data to artificial intelligence. We build and integrate data solutions in and beyond the cloud and infuse data innovation in your daily business processes and applications with machine learning.

 

 

C​NH Industrial is a global leader in capital goods that implements design, manufacturing, distribution, commercial and financial activities in international markets.

Through our 12 brands we make the vehicles that keep agriculture and industry growing. From tractors and combines to trucks and buses, as well as powertrain solutions for on-road and off-road and marine vehicles, we design, produce and sell machines for work.​

 

 

Crunch Analytics is a service company based in Ghent & Rotterdam that develops strategies, builds customized tooling & provides training for organizations eager to grow a data-driven organization.

As trusted advisors, we want to challenge current conventions by using the ever-growing abundance of data and lever data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence to create lean & lightweight advanced analytics & AI tooling. Tools that provide better insights and help a person in making that best possible decision or automate certain decision-making.

 

 

Delaware.ai is a fast-growing, global company that delivers advanced solutions and services to organizations striving for a sustainable, competitive advantage.

Our AI-experts help our clients realize their sustainable, competitive advantage through the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in 3 key-areas: Computer Vision, Language and Data & IoT. This makes Delaware.ai the go-to-partner for our customers to guide them through their business transformation.

 

 

Dotdash offers consulting services to connect data assets. We unlock untapped predictive potential by leveraging the bigger picture of enterprise data with knowledge graphs and AI.

Dotdash creates solutions by capturing the expert's knowledge in stand-alone “expert goggles”, formulated as a knowledge graph.
End users can use these expert goggles to look at the data and reveal new insights. Setting up these knowledge graphs happens quick and they are also highly flexible to cope with ever changing data requirements.


Dotdash adds a layer of AI and transforms unreadable data in clear and actionable data insights.

 
 
 

 

Imec is a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, energy and education.

As a trusted partner for companies, start-ups and universities we bring together more than 4,000 brilliant minds from over 97 nationalities. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and has distributed R&D groups at a number of Flemish universities, in the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, and offices in China, India and Japan. In 2018, imec's revenue (P&L) totaled 583 million euro.

 

 

Data is everywhere, insights are not. To close this gap, ML6 is all about empowering businesses with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Our team of data science experts and machine learning engineers prepares companies for the challenges of tomorrow and helps them foster the digital AI first revolution with its broad expertise.

 

 
 

Omina Technologies is an ethical artificial intelligence company active in Europe and the US since 2016. We build scalable, ethical and trustworthy AI solutions that fit your business needs. We believe in leveraging artificial intelligence in an ethical way. We believe that artificial intelligence should be available to companies big and small. We believe in handling data ethically and with respect for privacy. We believe that artificial intelligence should be explainable and transparent. We offer ethical artificial intelligence services to enable your company to successfully develop Artificial Intelligence solutions with real business impact, by providing an AI self-service platform for domain experts (Omina Platform), by educating on what AI can mean for your company (Omina Academy), and by providing hard-to-find AI profiles (Omina Consultancy).

 

 

Ordina is the largest local IT services provider in the Benelux, with around 2,650 employees. We focus on giving our clients a digital edge in the sectors: financial services, industry, the public sector and healthcare. We do this by devising, building and managing technological applications. Ordina helps its clients to stay ahead of the challenges and changes in their business.

Ordina’s BI & Analytics unit, VisionWorks, works for companies that focus on data driven decision-making. More and more data is collected and recorded digitally. It is becoming increasingly more complex to get the right information, efficiently merged and made available. Many large companies are struggling with getting value from their data or getting those promised results from Artificial Intelligence. Our Data2Value approach helps companies getting that return on their data.

 
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Proximus Group is a telecommunication & ICT company operating in the Belgian and international markets. We are the leading provider in Belgium offering quality and service with a full choice of features, bringing customers instantly close to what matters. It’s our ambition to become a digital service provider, connecting everyone and everything so people live better and work smarter. Through our best-quality integrated fixed and mobile networks, we provide access anywhere and anytime to digital services and easy-to-use solutions, as well as to a broad offering of multimedia content. We transform technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Cloud and Security into solutions with positive impact on people and society.

 

 

Robovision is worldwide market leader in AI-based plant rooting. Robovision analyzes, rethinks and optimizes current steps in processes by applying deep learning and other machine learning techniques. We assist our customers to disrupt their industry.

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Savaco is an IT service provider based in Kortrijk and Ghent. With more than 30 years of experience and 180+ highly qualified and enthusiastic employees, Savaco is today seen as a renowned IT partner delivering high impact solutions. Savaco’s ambition is to guide companies and organizations throughout their digital transformation journey. How? By offering a wide range of best-in-class ICT solutions and high quality services for Data Analytics & Insights, Smart Connected IoT Platforms, Hybrid Cloud, Network Connectivity, Cyber Security, Flexible workplaces & Mobility, Smart Product Development and Business Productivity.

 

Savaco’s experienced Data Insights & Analytics team has a proven track record in diverse projects in Business Intelligence (Power BI) , Data Warehousing (SQL Server & Azure SQL) and Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning). Their motto: from data to actionable insights, step by step. Savaco experts will help you both in designing the concept, choosing the best technology and implementing new technology.

 

 

Sentiance is a global leader in behavioral change through contextual AI, delivering services for a new human-centric economy where the user is in control of this data. We empower our clients to create personalized engagement services and products through intelligent contextual recommenders.

We turn data into actionable insights about individuals' behavior and real-time context, creating impact and sustainability in mobility, wellbeing, and leisure industries by driving Behavior Change through contextualizing engagement for optimized experiences and outcomes. We have a strong focus on trust and ethical AI, we believe the right use of data and good technology can and will improve people’s lives.

 

 
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Trensition is a data analytics company that supports organizations with AI-powered trend insights. By applying natural language processing on large amounts of unstructured text, we are able to monitor and predict the evolutions of a wide range of trends in various business contexts, across different regions in the world. Our insights are used by organizations to support their strategy planning, innovation roadmapping, investments and merger & acquisitions.

 

 

Ghent, the capital of East Flanders in Belgium, offers an unusual mix of compact city intimacy and metropolitan openness. Ghent is a top 10 European port area with a highly competitive industrial production cluster, but also the largest center of higher education in Flanders. Together with Ghent University and other public and private partners, projects and developments like Tech Lane Ghent Science Park are initiated to cater for the needs of innovative companies that want to take advantage of these assets. Ghent has taken a leading position in life sciences, MedTech and AI and is home to an ecosystem that produced Belgium’s only unicorns, and roughly one-third of all tech companies that have raised over 1 million EUR in venture capital.

 

 

Ghent University (UGent) is one of the major universities in the Dutch-speaking region of Europe. It distinguishes itself as a socially committed and pluralistic university in a broad international perspective. 117 faculty departments, spread over 11 faculties, offer high-quality courses in every one of their scientific disciplines. With a view to cooperation in research and community service, numerous research groups, centres and institutes have been founded over the years. 

 

 

Voka, the biggest Flemish network of enterprises, was established in 2004 as an alliance of the then eight Flemish Chambers of Commerce. As a network we unite more than 18.000 businesses representing 65% of the private employment and 70% of the added value in Flanders and Brussels.

As the most influential network of entrepreneurs, our mission is to create an optimal framework for succesful entrepreneurship.


 

 
 

Waylay is a modular software platform that provides best-of-breed IoT and AI technology for back-end development and operations, enabling accelerated industrial IoT solution delivery at scale.

Waylay is used by IoT solution providers to build applications for data-intensive industries such as Industrial Automation, Machinery & OEMs, HVAC & Appliances and Energy & Buildings

 

 

The Flanders AI Research Program stands for strategic basic research into AI. Their aim is the successful adoption of AI in Flanders. In this way, they contribute to a sustainable and prosperous human-centered digital future in Flanders, as well to economic growth and innovation in our region. They also align our activities with the European ambition and strategies for AI and the digital agenda for 2030.