‘Young companies with a pioneering spirit, new ideas and unusual solutions’ will champion themselves as part of VISION 2024’s BMWK Joint Pavilion, while the event’s Start-up World will become a springboard for fresh innovation.
As one of the biggest events on the machine vision calendar, with more than 450 exhibitors expected at the annual event in 2024, VISION provides an unmissable opportunity for industry networking. And that possibility is never more valuable in the lifetime of a company or a career than during its earliest days. Now entering its third year, Start-up World gives the youngest and freshest minds in the sector a chance to rub shoulders with some of the sector’s more seasoned players.
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VISION Start-up World
Over 30 newcomers will present themselves and their innovative developments in state-of-the-art camera technology, artificial intelligence software and ground-breaking machine vision systems to potential business partners and new customers. “We’ll be presenting a new solution for real-time image processing that boasts impressive speed and precision,” says Alexandra Schmidt, managing partner of Mobile Vision Technology, who will be one of the companies featured at Start-up World. “The USP is seamless integration into existing systems, facilitating the design of production processes that are more cost-efficient and cost-effective. Our solution uses commercial hardware such as mobile phones and computers directly ‘on the edge’ – leading to superb improvements in speed and a reduction in the complexity of the system.
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A pitch tells a thousand words
Held on the nearby Forum stage, Pitch Sessions will give these young companies an opportunity to raise their profile in the sector. Each day, a Start-up of the Day will be selected before a jury announces a single winner at the end of the week to take home the coveted ‘VISION Start-up 2024’ title.
Start-ups from across the globe and a range of machine vision disciplines are excited to share their emerging technology innovations with the world as part of the event. Israeli start-up, PxE Holographic Imaging, for example, will share their holographic imaging 2D camera: “After years of development, we’re now ready to bring our technology to market,” said Noga Barpal, PxE’s VP of business development. “It makes it possible to acquire natively-fused high-resolution colour images, infrared images and pixel-level depth maps, all at once using a standard 2D camera.”
Meanwhile, Henrik Andersen, chief marketing officer of Spectricity, describes a multispectral image (MSI) sensor the company will introduce at the event as “the world’s first truly miniaturised, mass-manufacturable mobile spectral image sensor,” and QDI Systems’ chief business officer Juul Gielens is excited to present a quantum dot platform technology developed for image sensors. “The material is solution-processable and very versatile in terms of application possibilities in various sectors.
As well as impressing the industry with fresh new ideas and innovations, VISION is also attended by many companies looking to engage in conversations going the other way. Maximilian Gray, co-founder and managing director of Medabsy, for example, says “We’re looking forward to making many new contacts at VISION, particularly with [the] decision-makers involved in the planning and implementation of inspection systems, so we can better understand their needs and the market.”
