Sponsors
2018
Lego
The LEGO Group is a privately held, family-owned company with headquarters in Billund, Denmark, and main offices in Enfield, USA, London, UK, Shanghai, China, and Singapore. Founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, and based on the iconic LEGO® brick, it is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of play materials.
Hopspots
Hopspots revolutionizes the classroom and uses technology in the physical space. Hopspots motivates children to play and learn through games and movement, and reaches the children at the right level. Children are equipped to co-create their own educational material instead of just consuming it.
Futurebox
Futurebox is DTU Science Park’s deep tech incubator and accelerator. It’s the innovation workspace for hardware startups and industry partners. We’re a house made up of creators, innovators and inventors all building hardware products.
C4 Videnscenter
The C4 Association is an umbrella organization that assembles Hillerød city and the municipality in four pillars:
Business, Trade, Culture / Sport / Tourism, and Education.
A strong network C4’s network strengthens the dialogue between the city’s business and decision makers. The network provides new relationships and creates the opportunity for new customer contacts and more business.
C4 arranges events for their members about new technology, new legislation, new local initiatives and much more.
Trelleborg
Trelleborg is a world leader in engineered polymer solutions that seal, damp and protect critical applications in demanding environments. Its innovative solutions accelerate performance for customers in a sustainable way. The Trelleborg Group has annual sales of SEK 31 billion (EUR 3.23 billion, USD 3.60 billion) in over 40 countries. The Group comprises five business areas: Trelleborg Coated Systems, Trelleborg Industrial Solutions, Trelleborg Offshore & Construction, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions and Trelleborg Wheel Systems, and the operations of Rubena and Savatech. The Trelleborg share has been listed on the Stock Exchange since 1964 and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, Large Cap.
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions is a leading global supplier of sealing solutions. Our range of products includes O-Rings , hydraulic seals, rotary shaft seals , oil seals , static seals , pneumatic seals , mechanical face seals and many more.’
Company Facts
- A Business Area of Trelleborg Group5,800 employees
- 9 research and development centers in Europe and America
- 28 manufacturing plants worldwide
- 53 marketing companies offering global engineering support
- ISO 9001:2008 and ISO/TS 16949:2009 quality certifications
- In-house elastomer, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and polyurethane (PU) development
- More than 2,000 proprietary materials engineered for specific industry requirements
- Wide range of patented product designs for static and dynamic sealing applications
- Worldwide Supply Chain Management (SCM) Network
Shape Robotics
Shape Robotics had the vision to develop a robot system, extremely easy-to-use, even for younger school pupils. The developers Moises and David were inspired by previous projects with modular robots that could repair themselves, as well as a project they had in progress with LEGO® to develop new digital products. The project became Moises’ Ph.D. project, and as the years passed interest in using Fable grew ever greater. Therefore, at the end of 2015, David, Moises and Helene Christensen, a project manager, set up the spin-out company Shape Robotics. Their mission is to make Fable as widely available as possible, and with funding from the Technical University of Denmark and the Danish Ministry of Education, they are well on the way.
Aalborg University
Aalborg University (AAU) has been providing students with academic excellence, cultural engagement and personal development since its inception in 1974. It offers education and research within the fields of natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, technical and health sciences.
AAU currently consolidates and further develops its profile as a dynamic and innovative research and educational institution oriented towards the surrounding world. Over the past three years the university has experienced a 50% increase in earnings from the university’s cooperation with external partners. In 2013 Aalborg University received external funding well above 100,000,000 Euro, which was approx. 22% of the university’s total income.
AAU is characterised by combining a keen engagement in local, regional, and national issues with an active commitment to international collaboration. With a persistent dedication to the pursuit of excellence, Aalborg University offers supreme educational experiences across a broad spectrum of academic fields.
RANKING
Despite the fact that AAU is a fairly young university, it is already ranking amongst the best and most acknowledged international universities in the world. Aalborg University strives to better its position for the future by constantly raising the bar in order to maintain a strong learning curve. In recent years Aalborg University has risen up the international lists of university rankings. The great majority of ranking lists name Aalborg University, and AAU is thus in the top 2% the world’s 17,000 universities. STUDENT FACTS AND FIGURES
Aalborg University awards Bachelors, Master’s, Ph.D. and Doctoral degrees in various fields within the different programmes, institutes and centres. In 2013 180 students received a Ph.D. degree.
More than 19.000 students are enrolled at Aalborg University, ranging from students at preparatory courses through doctoral-level candidates. Approximately 4.900 students are enrolled at the Faculty of Humanities, 5.577 students at the Faculty of Social Sciences and 8.600 at the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Medicine.
13% of the total number of enrolled students are international students. 61,1 % are from European countries, 14,7 % from the Nordic countries and 9,4 % from Asia.
Headai
Extensive research work in cognitive science and AI combined with executive level business intelligence has established the corner stone of Headai business. The company´s main focus is on building groundbreaking software robots for different kinds of intellectual tasks. The target market is in corporate learning and also in automating various types of repetitive business processes. Headai Ltd was founded by Harri Ketamo and Marko Laiho in 2015.
Headai produces highly versatile artificial labour. One bot can help a company in discovering and gaining valuable insight from data. Another one can work as a personal assistant, visualizing competences and learning on a subject chosen by its owner. The bots use self-organizing semantic networks to collect insight from data. The user can teach them to take care of several intellectual jobs. Our vision is to grow Headai solution to cover multiple industries and automate one billion tasks in next five years.
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark’s first polytechnic and is today ranked among Europe’s leading with the mission of creating value for the benefit of society, DTU is an international elite technical university where education, scientific advice, and innovation rest on a solid foundation of world-class research.
The University is at the academic and multidisciplinary forefront of the technical and the natural sciences—with new initiatives in a number of demanding engineering disciplines, including sustainable energy technology and life science.
DTU
Anker Engelunds Vej 1 Building 101A 2800 Kgs. Lyngby Denmark
Keystones
Keystones is a private member network with the purpose of making entrepreneurship available for many. We are a network of commercial people who love to create business and companies. Member are investors, serial entrepreneurs and experienced business leaders.
Airo
Airo Island is an active innovation hub promoting robotics, artificial intelligence and automaton in Finland. Airo wants to see these fields develop, grow and flourish.
It is important to raise awareness of robotics and artificial intelligence. One of Airo´s goals it to promote start-ups and help them grow. Airo wants to create networks and business ecosystem for the companies and start-ups.
To promote artificial intelligence and robotics, Airo arrange different events, take part in innovative projects and create discussion. They also offer their members benefits and support start-ups working with robotics, automation and artificial intelligence.
Acoplastic A/S
From initial advice to finished item
Dialogue and sparring leads to new possibilities and more effective solutions. Acoplastic’s goal is to add value to your production through competent engineering, consulting, machining and final manufacture. You can draw on our specific skills in the field of PTFE and high-tech plastics from the initial engineering phase to the delivery of the finished item…
Århus Universitet
Sintef
SINTEF (Norwegian: Stiftelsen for industriell og teknisk forskning), headquartered I Trondheim/ Norway, is an independent research organisation founded in 1950 that conducts contract research and development projects. SINTEF has 2000 employees from 75 countries and annual revenues of three billion Norwegian kroner.
