Eurotech is a global company focusing on embedded computers and Pervasive Computing, which combines three key factors: the miniaturisation of computers capable of processing information; their spread in the real world - in buildings and machinery, on board vehicles, on persons and in the environment; and their ability to network and communicate. Year founded: 1992 Revenue: $69 million (2014) BIT: ETH

SECO, world-leading company in electronic embedded solutions, over its 30 years of experience has shown the ability to adapt its know-how to new, challenging customers’ needs, and to provide cutting edge solutions to its partners. On the strength of its know-how and in contrast with recent outsourcing policy, SECO has alwaysset the entire production cycle in Italy, from the development stage to mass distribution.Thanks to new, innovative solutions and great research and design activities together with the partnership with major scientific Universities and worldwide leading companies, SECO went International becoming a global market-leading company providing solutions to modern challenges.

Endian is the leading provider of open source Network Security and remote connectivity solutions. Founded in Appiano, Italy in 2003 by a team of experienced network specialists and security enthusiasts. Endian’s goal is clear: Develop the world’s most powerful and easy-to-use Open Source Unified Threat Management system. With over 1.7 million users of the Community Edition and 50,000 installations of the professional product in over 50 countries, Endian continues to deliver on its mission!

Alleantia supports machinery manufacturers and large enterprises with the most demanding needs using Internet of Things (IoT) turnkey solutions encompassing device integration to enterprise applications, remote surveillance and control, machines data analytics. Year founded: 2011 Revenue: $1 - 10 million (2014 est.)

Inglobe Technologies is a leading company specializing in the development of Augmented Reality solutions and Perceptual Computing systems.Established in 2008 with the aim of creating a platform that enables the deployment of different solutions to different industries, Inglobe is now one of the most trusted and innovative Augmented Reality providers worldwide.Inglobe develops Perceptual Computing Systems, Augmented Reality solutions and software, Wireless Sensor Network applications and new generation intelligent systems. The company provides developer tools, end-user products and customized solutions that scale up to the enterprise level.

Founded in 1985, Unidata is a leader in the telecommunications sector, with over 30 years of experience in Information and Communication Technology. Initially focused on hardware (PCs and Servers), became rapidly one of the first Italian Internet Service Provider and in 2004 it also became a Telco Company. Leveraging on the open-standard technology LoRa and LoRaWAN, the R&D department of Unidata has developed UniOrchestra, a connectivity platform, heart of all IoT solutions of the company and in 2016 Unidata became one of the first Italian IoT Service Provider.

Datalogic is a global technology leader in the Automatic Data Capture and Industrial Automation markets. They are a world-class manufacturer of bar code readers, mobile computers, sensors, vision systems, and laser marking systems delivering innovative solutions for a wide range of applications in retail, transportation & logistics, manufacturing and healthcare. Datalogic innovation sets the standard in multiple industries.

RushUp is an italian company that creates IoT products.Our solutions are embedded Edge Computing devices that enable the Digital Transformation process and make IoT possible.

AME Srl is a hi-tech company based in Florence, founded in 1999 by two visionary entrepreneurs, Claudio Salvador and Filippo Bonifacio. Since its very start, AME has been ahead of times, making safety at work its ultimate goal and building it as a specific and well defined product category. After many years of Research and Development of integrated solutions of Safety & Security for Infralogistics and Industry, AME has become a brand highly appreciated, both nationally and worldwide, for its Style made of vertical experience - customer centric approach – cutting-edge technology EGOpro Active Safety solutions, based on proprietary technology, allow the highest levels of safety for workers to be achieved whilst maintaining - or in some cases even increasing - operational efficiency, without any impact on corporate infrastructure.

Alascom has been operating for over 20 years as a system integrator and supplier of technical consulting services in the ICT sector, with particular focus on telecommunication networks and IP technologies. In this context, Alascom's offer also includes after-market services such as the outsourced management of network and system administration and the network operations center (NOC). Anticipating the trend of radical and pervasive digital transformation, the company has undertaken a significant investment policy in technologies with a high impact of innovation, expanding its offer in the areas of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber security, this domain the latter extending across legacy infrastructures and new digitization services. Alascom has also invested in the Research and Development sector in order to offer its customers solutions with high engineering and technological value based on collaborative robots (co-bots), augmented reality, predictive maintenance and the digital twin of the product.

Comau, a member of Stellantis, is a worldwide leader in delivering advanced industrial automation products and systems. Its portfolio includes technology and systems for electric, hybrid and traditional vehicle manufacturing, industrial robots, collaborative and wearable robotics, autonomous logistics, dedicated machining centers and interconnected digital services and products able to transmit, elaborate and analyze machine and process data.over 45 years of experience and a strong presence within every major industrial country, Comau is helping manufacturers of all sizes in almost any industry experience higher quality, increased productivity, faster time-to-market and lower overall costs. The company’s offering also extends to project management and consultancy, as well as maintenance and training for a wide range of industrial segments. Headquartered in Turin, Italy, Comau has an international network of 6 innovation centers, 5 digital hubs, 9 manufacturing plants that span 13 countries and employ 4,000 people. A global network of distributors and partners allows the company to respond quickly to the needs of customers, no matter where they are located throughout the world. Through the training activities organized by its Academy, Comau is also committed to developing the technical and managerial knowledge necessary for companies to face the challenges and opportunities of Industry 4.0.

D-Orbit is the global market leader in the space logistics and transportation service industries with a track record of space-proven technologies, successful missions, and customer outcomes. The company has developed proprietary space logistics technology and transportation solutions to accelerate the growth and development of a trillion-dollar space economy through an incremental strategic approach to the space marketplace to deliver successful customer outcomes today while developing advanced products and services for the needs of tomorrow.

"Software, hardware and human factors are the elements of an innovative system that allows anyone to create, distribute and make use of digital contents. DQuid connects whole consumer and industrial sectors by enabling the Internet of Things.

ELSE Corp is an Italian startup that offers technological solutions for 3D based Mass Customization such as Virtual Retail and Cloud Manufacturing to fashion brands, retailers, manufacturers and designers; using E.L.S.E., a Cloud API Platform, powered with AI, Machine Learning and deep learning, puts together the front-end retail processes such as 3D product personalization and virtual commerce, with a cloud-based back-end processes like virtual fitting and order generation for smart hybrid manufacturing. The startup is committed to creating value not only for the market but also for society by redefining the Value Chain for the fashion industry through Applied Research. ELSE CORP relies in open innovation and collaboration with industry leaders to develop innovative sustainable, transparent and traceable business processes and Distribution Models through market trials. Their services, named “Virtual Retail”, aims to accelerate the transformation of the industry towards a personalized, direct to consumer, customer-pull approach, enhancing the customer’s virtual shopping experience and optimizing the Virtual Retail value and service delivery chain.

InnovActive is a leading Italian company in the development of professional solutions based on Microsoft .NET Micro Framework (NETMF), the platform developed by Microsoft for creating Embedded Firmware within .NET ecosystem.

A SWAT team, complete, expert, and close-knit, realizing IoT solutions: IoT Designer & Maker; Microservices Specialist; User-centered Systems Specialist; Project Manager.Seniority, professionality and competence.

At Medical Microinstruments (MMI) we are innovating wristed microinstruments and their fabrication process, stretching the physical limits of material properties. We are a robotics startup dedicated to advancing the future of microsurgery. MMI's proprietary robotic platform and wristed microinstruments simplify, among others, reconstruction procedures after traumatic injuries as well as after tumor removal in breast, head and bones. The Company's mission is to help more surgeons around the world to offer more advanced procedures, while reducing costs for patients, hospitals and for society at large.

New Generation Sensors S.r.l. (NGS) is an Italian start-up company established in 2015, spin-off of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA). NGS has strong expertise in the development of advanced wireless systems following the Internet of Things vision. NGS is currently focusing its efforts on the development of smart solution toward the Factory 4.0, continuing the path started with the ENEL Smart Plant order that has permitted the deployment of 100 NGS sensors within the Federico II power plant in Brindisi (Italy). Finally, NGS is working on different scenarios: Smart Agriculture (shown at the Ericsson Innovation Day), Smart City and ITSs (a prototype of the proposed Logistics 4.0 experiment was shown at the 2016 ETSI plugtest in Livorno).

Prysmian Group is the world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry. With over 130 years experience and a presence in more than 50 countries around the world, and with 20,000 people and 91 plants, the Group is strongly positioned at the high-tech end of the energy and telecom cable sectors. The Group was created through the union of Prysmian and Draka, already leaders in their markets for innovation and technological know-how.

RELOC provides customers with a full spectrum of engineering services in order to build cutting-edge, robust Internet-of-Things (IoT) consumer products and secure industrial machine-to-machine (M2M) applications.Depending on the customer specific needs, RELOC builds vertical IoT solutions, starting with the analysis of requirements, identifying the best technologies for the project, developing custom hardware or integrating existing components, creating wireless infrastructures based on the most suitable communication protocols, developing Firmware and software components, manufacturing complex prototypes based on different technologies, gathering data on Cloud platforms for further analysis and, eventually, presenting contents via responsive web interfaces and mobile APPs.

Founded in 1979 and located in Italy, SECO’s attention is focused on developing innovative, high performance, cost-effective products with low power consumption, a wide range of features and thermal dissipaters and the objective of a short time-to-market. SECO products are optimized for a wide range of OEM applications, such as control and monitoring of industrial processes, medical devices, automotive, telecommunications, embedded and military applications. SECO offers a complete lifecycle management: from Hardware and Software development to highly reliable industrial production using the latest manufacturing and testing equipment. An experienced team of senior design engineers and hi-tech equipment used for development and simulations allow the design of innovative products based on the latest technology. Particular attention is dedicated to the quality, both at the company and product level, where severe mechanical, functional burn-in and pre-compliance EMC tests are performed, with the goal of providing highly reliable products. By designing its entire product line in house, SECO is able to offer a wide range of services: from a simple suggestion of new solutions to high quality technical support. The Company guarantees long-term availability by fit and function compatible scalable products. SECO is a hands-on partner from design start to finish. SECO's mission is to provide high quality and reliable solutions for embedded applications. We measure success by the success of our customers in implementing our products in end-user applications. Our technology offers our customers the best competitive advantage through an optimum balance between price and performance. SECO understands that the ability to deliver innovative embedded solutions depends not just on having the right product, but also by providing an excellent technical and marketing support, as well as sales and service.

Simevo is a young startup with the mission to provide flexible technologies for the simulation of industrial continuous processes and of financial cash flow, that can be used to implement smart forecasting solutions. Tired of simulation technology which is inaccessible, expensive and obsolete? simevo is a lean supplier of innovative simulation technology that will help you face the challenges of the evolving business environment.

smartFAB has created an automated analytics engine for Smart Factory management that enables manufacturers to extract value from their data sets and makes analytics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.

SMARTHESIA is a young creative dynamic company backed by many years of experience and success in the field of Information Technology and Software development on Cloud Platform.Founded in 2015, by a «core» team composed of expert professionals coming only from ICT market of International Corporates.Thanks to a strong background in IT, the expertise in the development and management of products and complex solutions for large international companies, and the continuous adoption of new technologies, SMARTHESIA fits into the Italian market IoT with services, products and innovative solutions.

Located in North East of Italy, Tempestive is a company specialised in IT System Integration, Enterprise Asset Management, and added value solutions for the Internet of Things.Tempestive NUBOJ Internet of Things platform is the most powerful solution to easily and rapidly collect a large variety of information from a variety of sources from the field while, at same time, implementing analytics and Machine Learning techniques.Tempestive System Integration experience allows for the fast and personalised development of SAAS solutions to help Italian and International organisations to deliver personalised IT projects and to help them optimise their operational processes.Tempestive Enterprise Asset Management solution takes the power, performance and possibilities of enterprise asset management to an entirely new level. In this context, Tempestive REAMPLIA Augmented Reality (AR) platform offers an excellent solution to allow a skilled operator to communicate to an unskilled one the steps to follow to perform maintenance tasks, by directly superimposing the instructions onto the system. Tempestive invests around 10% of its annual revenue in research and development activities in the three areas of operation, creating the conditions to constantly propose the latest state of the art technologies to its customers.

Vision Lab Apps is a software house specialized in developing enterprise software solutions for AR, Machine Learning solutions and wearable technologies. Our mission is to support and empower industrial operators through significantly improving their productivity and security. Our vision is to be a central force in driving the Industry 4.0 revolution.The company has developed ERA - its Augmented Reality software platform for the industrial workforce. ERA has been tested and validated through several pilots. It is currently in use within clients’ facilities that successfully tested it and acknowledged the benefits of adopting ERA. In particular, the areas chosen to deploy ERA are remote technical assistance and maintenance, training and after-sales services.The company is entering the scale-up phase after successfully testing the adoption of ERA and validating its business model. Therefore, the next step is to enter international markets.

Waterstream is the first and the only MQTT platform on the market leveraging Apache Kafka as its own storage and distribution engine. Every incoming MQTT message is immediately available in your Microservices architecture or your analytics platform without any further processing. Vice-versa, every message written on a Kafka topic it’s sent to MQTT clients. All the necessary MQTT state, like subscriptions and QoS message status is also stored in Kafka—no need for additional storage.

Wear offers Augmented Reality applications that aim to improve industrial processes through smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices.Industry 4.0 indicates a series of processes bringing traditional industrial automation to a form of digital integration of all its components.The gap between the real and digital worlds limits our ability to take advantage of the incredible amount of data and insights produced by billions of smart, connected products worldwide.Augmented and mixed reality, and all overlay-technologies that superimposes digital data on the physical world, are able to fill this gap producing a supersight in an user. AR/MR will be used in companies in every industry and many other types of organizations, from school to universities to social enterprises. In the coming months and years, AR/MR tech will transform how we learn, make decisions, and interact with the real world.