Francesco Perticarari

Apollo brought light to humanity; we bring intelligence to dining. Creating the best restaurant experiences through vertically integrated hardware, software and AI. We opened Londons first robotics-powered restaurant "Common Room" as our "living laboratory" - enabling daily iterations of our hardware, software and marriage of hospitality + efficiency based on real customer feedback.

Our mission is to ensure high-speed transportation is sustainable and efficient using fully-electric Hyperloop pods, a breakthrough technology that allows for the scalable and fast travel between distant cities. We are currently safely building the most affordable and energy-efficient pods, and bringing together a strong team of multidisciplinary experts passionate about disrupting high-speed travel. Swisspod is an EPFL spinoff founded in 2019 by Hyperloop veterans and multiple award winners of the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition. The company is headquartered in Monthey, Switzerland, with U.S. offices in Miami Beach, Florida. This is the century of electric transportation.

Delivering ICENI, the first memory safe microprocessor family based on the revolutionary CHERIoT-Ibex core. Reach out to us today for more information

Based in Bristol, UK, Astral Systems was founded in 2021. Our Multi-State Fusion (MSF) reactor is a versatile, compact, and cost-effective solution for on-demand neutron production. We leverage cutting-edge fusion discoveries out of NASA and are continually advancing the effectiveness of our MSF technology. We offer high-flux neutron sources for decentralised and scale medical isotope production, nuclear power applications, and much more. Our first Mk1 product is now available for order with a fusion neutron performance that has a 10x higher output and over 10x longer lifetime than any compact neutron source on the planet.

Hippos is bringing symbiotic intelligence to the human body. We embed edge AI inside soft exoskeletons that continuously sense, predict, and respond to the bodys physical signals in real time. Proprietary high-frequency sensing fused with active intervention layers woven into textile, engineered to resist physical failure under extreme stress. We are a team of roboticists, biomechanists, and clinicians building the first AI that lives on the human body, learns from it, and augments it.

At Origin Robotics, we believe that addressing Europe’s growing security threats is a top priority. Drawing on decades of expertise in developing advanced unmanned aerial systems, we propel Europe and our NATO allies ahead in defense capabilities. By combining cost-efficient hardware with state-of-the-art software, we provide powerful solutions to deter and defend. We invest private capital in developing these systems, focusing on affordability and fast iteration cycles. This approach helps governments save money while responding effectively to the constantly shifting challenges of modern battlefields. As a founding member of the Military Technology, Drone, and Robotics Association—created in partnership with LMT Defence, Edge Autonomy, and led by former minister of defense Dr. Artis Pabriks—we’re committed to advancing military innovation in Latvia and beyond. Origin Robotics is also a proud member of the Drone Coalition, co-led by the UK and Latvia, alongside 14 other NATO countries. Supported by €600 million in funding, this coalition aims to enhance drone technology for defense. At Origin Robotics, we deliver cost-effective and future-proof solutions to ensure Europe and its allies are prepared for the challenges ahead.

To unlock the full potential of AI, we must make data centres more energy efficient. Data centres consume 2% of all global electricity – and powering sufficient compute is the single greatest challenge for AI today. At Finchetto, were on a mission to significantly reduce data centre energy use and accelerate cluster performance with the world’s first fully-optical passive network switch. Network switches are the workhorses of every data centre. And they are power hungry, accounting for 20% of a data centres total energy use. Compared to todays state-of-the-art switches, Finchetto reduces power requirement by up to 26x while reducing latency by up 40x. Super low power. Ultra low latency. Lightspeed packet switching. Massive throughput. Finchetto makes light work of AI.

Building the quantum networking technology to scale quantum computers. Stay Entangled!

The Future of Compute is Performant and it is Secure Accelerated and Secure Workload Computation VyperCore processor technology changes the performance and security paradigms for *existing* general-purpose compute-intense workloads. Memory security vulnerabilities are ruled out at gate-level in the silicon. Application throughput is increased by an order of magnitude. All of this, without changing a line of source code. Follow us and learn more as we come out of stealth mode.

Ephos is building the essential infrastructure for the future of computing. We design and manufacture glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices.

Our electric engines offer quiet, safe and efficient propulsion with the vision to accelerate the adoption of sustainable aviation

Archangel Lightworks is a laser communications company building high-volume, secure, wireless technology to create the space-enabled networks of the future. Today, space and terrestrial networks are not well-connected leading to insecure, insufficient, and vulnerable infrastructure. Nearly 3 billion people are unconnected and many more are under-connected. Subsea cables, which form the backbone of global network infrastructure, are at risk from climate disaster and bad actors. Links between satellites, which offer an opportunity for resilient connectivity, and the ground are reliant on radio, which is bandwidth constrained, finite and not secure. Archangel Lightworks was set up to solve the space-ground connectivity problem. Wireless laser communications (lasercom) technology offers new solutions; however, adoption of the technology has been slow due to availability concerns, lack of interoperability standards, difficulties associated with lasercom on the move, and high production costs. Our tech solves these problems. We are driving down the size, weight, power & cost (SWaP-C) of optical ground equipment to make space-ground lasercom available and affordable. Our core product, TERRA-M is a miniature optical ground station which is approximately the size of a mini fridge. Compared to traditional networks such as radio, the TERRA-M allows more licence-free data transferred at low probability of detection (LPD) and low probability of interception (LPI). TERRA-M brings deployable, resilient connectivity to wherever it is needed, solving some of Earth’s most critical problems from economic inclusion to climate change. Archangel Lightworks is based in Oxford, UK and Archangel Lightworks USA is based in Orlando, Florida.

Anaphite is a chemistry company developing enhanced cathode powders that can be used to produce dry coated electrodes for low-cost, high-performance Li-ion batteries. We believe this technology can enable no-compromise sustainable transportation for everyone by allowing dry-coated Li-ion battery electrodes to achieve electrochemical performance parity with wet coating.

Aegiq is a UK based full-stack photonic quantum computing company. We work with customers in a wide range of industries, including defence, aerospace, cybersecurity and AI, to solve their most demanding computational challenges. Our integrated photonic approach offers speed, compactness and modularity with a clear path towards the fault tolerant era of large scale quantum computers.

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Apollo brought light to humanity; we bring intelligence to dining. Creating the best restaurant experiences through vertically integrated hardware, software and AI. We opened Londons first robotics-powered restaurant "Common Room" as our "living laboratory" - enabling daily iterations of our hardware, software and marriage of hospitality + efficiency based on real customer feedback.

Our mission is to ensure high-speed transportation is sustainable and efficient using fully-electric Hyperloop pods, a breakthrough technology that allows for the scalable and fast travel between distant cities. We are currently safely building the most affordable and energy-efficient pods, and bringing together a strong team of multidisciplinary experts passionate about disrupting high-speed travel. Swisspod is an EPFL spinoff founded in 2019 by Hyperloop veterans and multiple award winners of the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition. The company is headquartered in Monthey, Switzerland, with U.S. offices in Miami Beach, Florida. This is the century of electric transportation.

Delivering ICENI, the first memory safe microprocessor family based on the revolutionary CHERIoT-Ibex core. Reach out to us today for more information

Based in Bristol, UK, Astral Systems was founded in 2021. Our Multi-State Fusion (MSF) reactor is a versatile, compact, and cost-effective solution for on-demand neutron production. We leverage cutting-edge fusion discoveries out of NASA and are continually advancing the effectiveness of our MSF technology. We offer high-flux neutron sources for decentralised and scale medical isotope production, nuclear power applications, and much more. Our first Mk1 product is now available for order with a fusion neutron performance that has a 10x higher output and over 10x longer lifetime than any compact neutron source on the planet.

Hippos is bringing symbiotic intelligence to the human body. We embed edge AI inside soft exoskeletons that continuously sense, predict, and respond to the bodys physical signals in real time. Proprietary high-frequency sensing fused with active intervention layers woven into textile, engineered to resist physical failure under extreme stress. We are a team of roboticists, biomechanists, and clinicians building the first AI that lives on the human body, learns from it, and augments it.