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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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ADLC provides drone transportation services while ensuring safety and integrating into companies' business activities. As a drone operator, ADLC manages a complex ecosystem in order to offer a high-end service that eases companies' transition to Industry 4.0 and smart logistics.

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Aloxy offers reliable industrial Internet of Things solutions tailored to the needs of the chemical, oil and gas and other process industries. Our technology makes assets smart and allows to automate processes further and deliver actionable insights into industrial operations.
Our unique valve position sensor is an immediate succes as it helps (petro)chemical plants become safer and more efficient by reducing downtime related to unplanned manual valve operations.

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Optimalisation of empty container equipment.

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Basil is specialized in the continuous, automated collection of data from different sources, even outside the organization.

Instead of big bang IT projects, Basil enhances proven processes, with reduced risk, lower cost and quicker results.

Moreover, Basil also builds BI dashboards, develops custom analyses and connects new sources to existing applications.

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Bubblydoo makes real-life family fun thanks to fully personalized children’s books. Their personalized products for children have over 100.000 personalization options which make it the most inclusive books in Belgium. They deliver in Germany, Flanders and The Netherlands.

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We help companies digitalize their transport activities and share transport management on a unique platform. Think Google Drive for transports!

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Dockflow reinvents trade for the digital era. They strive for a transition from traditional supply chains to interconnected sets of agile and dynamic trade networks.

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Eos is a journalistic multimedia platform that translates and disseminates scientific knowledge to a Dutch-speaking audience with an interest and curiosity in technology and science, aiming to better understand, admire, and improve the world around them.

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Fire Engineered Solutions Ghent is an independent fire safety consultancy that offers ready-to-use technical solutions. FESG is a spin-off from UGent and specialises in buildings, car parks, industry, tunnels and training.

FESG audits, checks building plans, risk analysis, design, detailed design, cost-benefit optimisations, and follow-up of the works up to completion and certification.

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Future Marketing Agency has the necessary technological and strategic expertise to bring companies to a higher level regarding data-driven automation related to sales & marketing. We build databases for organizations related to sales activities and thrive smart marketing follow-up automation procedures. We personalize, educate and innovate to help companies work more efficiently to make more money.

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Helicus enables demanding automated drone missions

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How will you make a difference?
This is the question we ask every KdG student.
What would you like to achieve? Where do you want to be?
And how do you want to contribute to the world?

Inspired and fuelled by the vibrant economic, cultural and diverse environment of Antwerp, we look beyond. We challenge our students and staff to learn from each other in a globalised world. In doing so KdG sets the tone for the future, KdG looks forward, with daring and with a view to innovation.

KdG offers everyone the opportunity to grow and make a difference.
With our highly diverse community, KdG offers a welcoming living, learning and working environment. Everyone can play their part and be heard, respected and valued. We are accessible and recognisable. And you can see and feel that in everything we do: respect for everyone, regardless of age, social class, heritage or gender. Diversity is a fact, inclusiveness is our choice.

Over 14.500 students across 7 campuses around Antwerp are part of the KdG community.

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Lanark – Digital Supply Chain Engineers develop and continuously re-engineer the supply chains of the future. Digital is what drives them in their work towards a fully integrated, smart network of digitised supply chains.

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We empower engineers in making data-driven decisions. We create a data analysis platform for engineering teams that deal with test- and measurement data.

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Mosmuur specialises in unique creations executed with mosses and natural materials. The team combines knowledge and passion for nature, botany, ecology and art to create exceptional projects. There are 6 low-maintenance moss wall types, all composed of a combination of reindeer moss or lichen, spherical moss, rag moss and stabilized plants. A project employee from Mosmuur will visit you on request to look at the ideal dimensions to obtain a maximum effect.

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NxtPort is a Data Utility Platform which collects and pools data from various stages in the supply chain.

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Climate adaptation, drought, flooding, urbanisation, mobility, circular economy and infrastructure management are the challenges they face. Their work revolves around knowledge: objectification of the available data, proactive management by bringing together the right knowledge and the realisation of synergy in implementation. In this way, they arrive at sustainable, future proof & cost-efficient solutions.

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Orange Belgium provides mobile telecommunication services, internet and TV to private clients, as well as innovative mobile and fixed-line services to businesses.

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Portilog is the leading specialist in training for the port and logistics sector. With a wide range of hands-on courses and training programmes in shipping, forwarding, logistics and customs, Portilog helps professionals deepen their knowledge and strengthen their expertise within this dynamic industry.

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SINC aims to inspire, inform and activate students to have a more entrepreneurial mindset. SINC wants to make students seize every opportunity they are presented with, and help them build their network and knowledge during their studies. We provide them with the necessary inspiration, the right tools to get started and the best network possible to aid in this entrepreneurial journey.

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Property Owners.
World-wide, infrastructure companies and mobile operators have leased millions of greenfield, rooftop and structure sites just like yours. Like you, these property owners face a question: should I continue to collect rent independently, or partner with experts and perhaps monetize part or all of the lease?

For property owners, we do what any good investment bank does:
We minimise risk.
We maximise return.

Telecom operators and infrastructure companies

Our management team has amassed portfolios of thousands of leases in 20 countries. Our deep experience and efficient processes make TIP an attractive, professional counterparty for mobile operators and infrastructure companies alike. We seek long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with mobile operators and infrastructure companies and are willing to offer long-term predictability, including:

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The Argonauts help companies innovate and transform digitally through various processes. In this way, companies can remain meaningful in these fast-moving times. They provide innovation-as-a-service by facilitating innovation challenges, workshops and training. They do innovation journeys, labs & keynotes, business modelling & strategy and training.

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Based in Antwerp, T-Mining makes maritime logistics processes like Secure Container Release more secure and efficient. Every day, more than 1.000 companies in over 20 different countries use our solution and infrastructure.

By using decentralized technologies such as blockchain and implementing concepts like Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) and Commercial Privacy, we provide the industry with easy-to-use instruments to remain in control of their data.

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With Toolsquare, you get full control over what happens in the lab. You can regulate machine access and get exact data on the usage of all machines.
So you can implement targeted policies. Toolsquare will reduce costs, allow you to rationalise the machine park and at the same time increase availability for users.

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We are an infection prevention company. The entire purpose of our business is to prevent the transmission of microbes from one object or person to another. We achieve our mission by applying a very powerful biocidal chemistry – chlorine dioxide – to the target environmental surface or medical device. We are one of a very few companies worldwide that can legitimately claim to be exclusively an infection prevention business.

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Vision On Safety enhances safety on the workplace by delivering the necessary information directly to employees through interactive communication tools. Their innovative Safety Communication Towers provide engaging content to ensure all onsite staff, including subcontractors and visitors, are well-informed about essential safety topics. Additionally, their expert consultants offer strategic, tactical, and operational safety advice across various industries.

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We color-up your outfit through uniquely crafted, maritime-inspired accessories that blend elegance with a bold touch

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At Zeus IT, we believe technology should empower people, not complicate their work. Our mission is simple: make technology work for you, not the other way around.

As certified Odoo implementation experts, we specialize in transforming complex business processes into streamlined, efficient workflows. Odoo brings everything together in one powerful, integrated platform.
From initial analysis to setup, training, and long-term support, we guide you through every step of your digital transformation journey.

But we go beyond standard ERP implementation.
Recognizing the specific needs of the logistics industry, we developed Hermes, a smart application designed especially for Freight Forwarders. Hermes helps you manage your daily administrative and operational processes with ease — from shipment tracking and documentation to communication and billing. It reduces repetitive tasks, increases accuracy, and gives you a clear overview of your logistics operations in real time.

By combining Odoo and Hermes, Zeus IT delivers an end-to-end solution that connects business management with logistics excellence.

We speak your language, we believe in open communication and long-term partnerships based on trust. Every project starts with a clear understanding of your goals and challenges. From there, we implement systems that make a measurable difference to your operations.

We are your strategic partner — thinking along with you, solving problems before they arise, and ensuring your digital tools truly work for you. Our implementations are flexible, modular, and built to grow with you. With our expertise in Odoo, we create a solid digital foundation; with Hermes, we add specialized tools that bring logistics and administration together in one smooth flow.

With Zeus IT, you can count on a partner who understands both business logic and human needs. We bridge the gap between technology and people, helping you turn complex systems into practical solutions that drive success.

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