Jan Westerhues

iPRONICS disrupts data center management with a revolutionary optical networking engine. We have pioneered the field of software define photonics and present the first optical switch capable of offering all type of switching strategies and processing ensuring seamless AI cluster communication and future-proofing data center infrastructure. Founded in 2019 as a spinoff of Universitat Politècnica de València, it was the result of multiple years of research. The team has pioneered the field of programmable photonics and developed the first general-purpose photonic processor capable of programming high-speed light signals on-chip with unprecedented flexibility.

We develop ultra-high bandwidth, low latency optical interconnect transceivers used to reduce the infrastructure cost and energy consumption of generative AI, cellular, and strategic data transfer systems.

cylib GmbH is a research-based company for holistic battery recycling enabling the green energy transition by ensuring the supply of sustainable raw materials for the battery industry. cylibs proprietary end-to-end recycling process is characterized by an efficient, resource- and climate-friendly recovery of all raw materials in a battery, including lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt and manganese from battery packs, production scraps, or micromobility batteries. Founded in 2022 in Aachen, Germany, the company builds on nearly a decade of research by the founding team. cylib was founded by Dr. Lilian Schwich (Co-CEO), Paul Sabarny (Chief of Special Operations), and Dr. Gideon Schwich (Co-CEO), with the mission to create a true circular economy.

Quantum Motion is developing a revolutionary technology platform; not just a qubit, but a scalable array of qubits fabricated on silicon with a CMOS compatible process.

Scintil Photonics is a fabless company developing and commercializing silicon photonic integrated circuits with integrated lasers for AI datacenters. Based on the company’s disruptive SHIP™ process technology, Scintil enables optical interconnects to achieve low-latency, high-density, power-efficiency and ultra-high-speed. Scintil is an international company headquartered in France, with offices in Canada and the United States.

IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the forthcoming IonQ Tempo, will be the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, AstraZeneca, and NVIDIA achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance. Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Toronto, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Learn more at IonQ.com.

CropX is one of the worlds fastest-growing providers of AgTech solutions, deployed in over 50 countries and across all arable continents. Our flagship product, the CropX agronomic farm management system, synthesizes data from soil to sky to offer advanced soil and crop intelligence and a suite of digital agronomic decision and planning tools, all on an easy-to-use app capable of tracking multiple farms and fields. Since 2020, CropX has been consolidating world-class technology to provide an impactful, all-in-one and easy-to-use solution for the complicated challenges faced by farms today. These acquisitions take regional technology to a global scale and accelerate market reach for an urgent response to the climate crisis. Impact: Using the CropX system farms, advisors, and food companies can access data from soil, satellites, weather, crops, and much more. The system provides specific insights for irrigation, crop protection, nitrogen monitoring, and effluent irrigation. CropX also offers APIs for other AgTech providers. Farms optimize their water, chemical, and fertilizer use, ensuring they are maximizing yields while minimizing environmental impact. Agronomic advisors help their customers get the best results with confident, real-time-data-led decisions. Food companies connect with supplier farms, helping them achieve better outcomes, ensuring a more resilient supply chain and meeting their climate pledges. Investors and Partners: CropX is backed by the world’s leading agribusinesses and VCs, who recognize that CropX’s precision-ag technologies set new standards of best practices for environmental sustainability and greater farm productivity. Learn more at www.cropx.com CropX Technologies acquisitions: • 2020 – CropMetrics, United States (retired brand • 2020 – Regen Ag, New Zealand (retired brand) • 2021 – Dacom Farm Intelligence, Netherlands • 2023 – Tule Technologies, California USA • 2023 – Green Brain, Australia

Zimplistic’s vision is to accelerate the world’s transition to eating healthy at home through smart technology and robotics. It’s flagship product, Rotimatic, enables users to make flatbreads with a touch of a button in flat 90 seconds. Consumerism has led to a shift in the eating habits where people are more reliant on supermarkets and frozen food because it is convenient and easy. Busy lifestyles and lack of time has led to a generation of ‘instant food’ that is loaded with preservatives and additives. With a vision of seamlessly integrating consumer robotics with IoT, we are working to bring about a day when families can eat healthy homemade meals with just the touch of a button. Zimplistic’s flagship product, Rotimatic is the world’s first and only fully automated, IoT and AI enabled kitchen robot that measures, kneads, rolls, cooks and puffs perfectly round flatbreads, every single time. It takes away the hassle of making flatbreads with hands and allows users to get creative without compromising on health. Rotimatic has already touched lives of 70,000 families around the world and has been instrumental in reversing unhealthy eating habits, one roti at a time. Rotimatic is transforming home kitchens and revolutionizing the kitchen robotics segment.

GreenPeak has been acquired by Qorvo. Please start following the LinkedIn Qorvo page for posts about ultra-low power wireless communication chips for Smart Home application: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qorvo . GreenPeak is a leading fabless semiconductor company offering innovative ultra-low power wireless data communication controller chips for consumer electronics and wireless sense and control applications for Smart Home applications and the Internet of Things. GreenPeak’s award-winning, innovative technology is based on the IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee wireless networking standard. GreenPeak is located in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Korea, China, India and USA. => GreenPeak - Building the Smart Home! Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/QorvoInc

Robart GmbH, headquartered in Linz, Austria, develops and produces intelligent home robots with laser navigation, primarily robot vacuum cleaners and cleaning robots. Well-known manufacturers of household appliances, including BSH, Rowenta, Kärcher and Medion, count among its customers. Robart supplies its customers with complete household robots, develops individual navigation solutions and provides them with development services. Founded in 2009 by Harold Artés and Michael Schahpar, the company holds over 70 patents and employs an international team of more than 50 employees. Robart operates branches in China, Germany and the USA. Well-known investors, such as the Robert Bosch Venture Capital Group, Innovacom, CMC-IC and the SEB Alliance, support global market penetration.

ST Engineering, Aethon provides mobile robotics solutions to the healthcare and hospitality markets. We engineer, sell and support solutions to automate the transportation of goods and supplies. Our products and designed and built in Pittsburgh, PA and our people are passionate about using robotic technology to automate material movement and delivery to improve efficiency, labor utilization and safety. With operations in the US and Asia, Aethon autonomous mobile robot makes over 5 million deliveries annually in customer facilities around the globe. We have been featured in Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Inc., CNBC, 60 Minutes and Fox News. Our parent company, ST Engineering, is based in Singapore.

iPRONICS disrupts data center management with a revolutionary optical networking engine. We have pioneered the field of software define photonics and present the first optical switch capable of offering all type of switching strategies and processing ensuring seamless AI cluster communication and future-proofing data center infrastructure. Founded in 2019 as a spinoff of Universitat Politècnica de València, it was the result of multiple years of research. The team has pioneered the field of programmable photonics and developed the first general-purpose photonic processor capable of programming high-speed light signals on-chip with unprecedented flexibility.

We develop ultra-high bandwidth, low latency optical interconnect transceivers used to reduce the infrastructure cost and energy consumption of generative AI, cellular, and strategic data transfer systems.

cylib GmbH is a research-based company for holistic battery recycling enabling the green energy transition by ensuring the supply of sustainable raw materials for the battery industry. cylibs proprietary end-to-end recycling process is characterized by an efficient, resource- and climate-friendly recovery of all raw materials in a battery, including lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt and manganese from battery packs, production scraps, or micromobility batteries. Founded in 2022 in Aachen, Germany, the company builds on nearly a decade of research by the founding team. cylib was founded by Dr. Lilian Schwich (Co-CEO), Paul Sabarny (Chief of Special Operations), and Dr. Gideon Schwich (Co-CEO), with the mission to create a true circular economy.

Quantum Motion is developing a revolutionary technology platform; not just a qubit, but a scalable array of qubits fabricated on silicon with a CMOS compatible process.

Scintil Photonics is a fabless company developing and commercializing silicon photonic integrated circuits with integrated lasers for AI datacenters. Based on the company’s disruptive SHIP™ process technology, Scintil enables optical interconnects to achieve low-latency, high-density, power-efficiency and ultra-high-speed. Scintil is an international company headquartered in France, with offices in Canada and the United States.