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SDC26 Educational Stand
Engineering students and factory trainees lack hands-on platforms to learn advanced Industry 4.0 automation. Universities often teach theoretical computer vision and manufacturing principles, but rarely provide physical equipment to practice integrating AI with mechanical systems. Consequently, graduates enter the workforce unprepared for zero-defect manufacturing. Simultaneously, industrial manufacturers face high training costs and defect risks when upskilling assembly operators directly on live production lines. There is a critical unmet need for a safe, practical training environment that bridges the gap between academic theory and the realities of modern AI-driven factory floors.
Nemean BioLabs B.V.
Bacteria colonise heat exchanger surfaces and form insulating biofilms. Fouled exchangers use up to 35% more energy, and fouling costs industry an estimated €200B a year. Operators fight it with copper biocides, dosed after fouling has started, or with PFAS coatings. Both are being regulated out by upcoming EU regulations.
ZICHTBAAR
Residents know their neighbourhood better than the people who plan it. They see the dark underpass, the overflowing bins and the broken bench every day, but one email to the municipality reads as one person’s opinion. Complaints stay scattered, so planners cannot tell which problems affect many people and which affect a few. Without a shared, visible record of what residents want fixed, decisions about public space rest on guesses, and residents often see no result from reporting.
Scea
Critical systems are built and changed by many hands: developers, AI agents, suppliers, factories. When a buyer, an auditor or a supervisor asks what is inside a system, what changed and who approved it, organisations answer with documents, logs and their own word. A drone buyer cannot check that the software and parts in a unit match the specification. An auditor cannot check that a log was never edited. The outside party has to trust, not verify. EU rules now ask for more: DORA for financial institutions, and from 2027 the Machinery Regulation for machines.
YUMIZ.
Young cosmopolitan snackers often face a trade-off when choosing snacks for busy everyday moments: convenient and tasty options tend to be less healthy, while healthier alternatives can be bland, expensive, or difficult to assess in terms of ingredients and nutritional value. Meanwhile, discovering authentic flavors from other food cultures is often associated with a more deliberate food experience rather than an accessible everyday snack.
TriCup
Billions of to-go coffees rely on separate plastic lids, used for minutes but persisting for centuries. Tightening single-use regulations push for change, yet reusable deposit systems struggle with low consumer adoption and high operational friction. The industry remains stuck between unsustainable habits and impractical alternatives.
The Easy Loop
Students often need a projector for one movie night, speakers for an event, or camping gear for a weekend. Buying these items can strain a limited budget and take up valuable space, while borrowing depends on knowing someone who owns them. Meanwhile, useful equipment sits unused nearby. The missing link is a convenient, trusted way to access it. Students need confidence that an item will be available and as described, while owners need reassurance that their belongings will be returned in good condition. Without that trust, sharing remains difficult and unnecessary purchases continue.
Logic Layer
Heavy-industry procurement is a time-sensitive race where the first supplier to deliver an accurate quote wins, as equipment downtime costs thousands every hour. However, technical sales teams are bogged down by multimodal data chaos, forced to manually piece together unstructured requests from blurred nameplate photos, old drawings, and messy emails. Highly paid engineers waste over twenty minutes per request on administrative data entry rather than selling. This manual bottleneck causes slow response times, lost deals, and operational friction compounded by a shrinking technical workforce.
BorderBloom
Thousands of students move abroad to study after being sold false hope. Many agents and consultancies earn commission per enrolment, so they push students towards whichever university pays most and promise easy jobs, high salaries and simple paths to residency. The reality is often different: students struggle to find work in their field, underestimate living costs, and end up in debt, while their families have invested their savings. Honest, independent information about study programmes, job prospects and real costs is hard to find, leaving students and parents to make one of the biggest decisions without the full picture.
Launch Data Films
AI and developer-tool startups publish real launch numbers, like benchmarks and usage growth, but they rarely show them well. Many post a screenshot of a table or a generic AI video with no sources. Readers can't tell whether the numbers are right, so strong results get less attention than they deserve. Making a clear, correct film takes a designer and days of work that a small team doesn't have.
