The #AI4Belgium and Datascience community have facilitated the nomination of some of the best #AI companies in Belgium. We are starting the recording of the video interviews this week in order to allow the community members to learn more about the projects that were delivered in the past few years. All members will be asked to vote.

For you it is high time to get your favourite company on this list. You can nominate them on https://disummit.org/ai-awards/ .

1. Amethix Technologies – they design and build data analytics engines to augment human capital and empower organizations like never before
2. AMIA Systems – @ULBruxelles spin-off providing innovative #tech allowing to Visualize, Quantify & Optimize factory layouts
3. Boobook – With their deep expertise in advanced analytics and data visualisation, we give businesses the required insights to underpin their decisions
4. BrainJar – They solve business challenges with AI and build brains for your business needs
5. Chatlayer – builds conversational agents your customers like on a AI driven platform
6. Citizenlab – A citizen engagement platform for local governments. Reach more citizens, manage their ideas efficiently, and make decisions based on real-time data.
7. Complidata – develops A.I.-driven Process Automation Solutions to streamline and optimise Compliance processes
8. Crunch Analytics – Impact through data
9. Cumul.io – Powerful dashboards
10. Daltix – provides real-time retail insights to support your commercial decision making
11. Data.be – business info
12. Dataminded – Better data engineering
13. Dataroots – Experts in Datascience
14. DataSense – Because your data makes sense!
15. DataShift – Always on the hunt to make sense out of data
16. DataStories – an augmented analytics software partner for industrial businesses with complex R&D or manufacturing processes
17. Datylon – They design, engineer and host digital solutions that turn data into compelling visualizations, driving better decision making
18. Depthen – They organize and enrich your media content and meta-data
19. Digazu –  created by EURA NOVA to leverage the maximum value of each data-driven business case while turning the whole company data-centric
20. Faktion – Faktion is an applied AI engineering service provider
21. Find Me – They find the best deal for you in no time
22. Fourcast – Google cloud solution provider
23. Geckomatics – lean mobile mapping
24. Hozint – a Threat Intelligence Platform HORIZON that provides near-realtime alerts, including #BreakingNews and #TravelWarnings
25. Icometrix –  Transforming patient care through imaging AI
26. Image Forgery Detector – provides an anti-fraud platform that identifies misuse of identity via tampering of digital image or document to the organizations
27. In The Pocket – creates digital products that make people happy and businesses grow
28. Infofarm – The Data Science Company
29. JetPack – Operational Analytics
30. Juyo Analytics – Hotel Analytics
31. Kantify – They create cutting edge artificial intelligence solutions that you can implement today
32. Keyrock – combines in-house algorithmic trading bots, high frequency trading infrastructure and industry expertise to supply market making and liquidity services to the cryptocurrency ecosystem
33. Klarrio – one-stop shop for IoT & Analytics
34. Lantana – They bring valued solutions with a focus on Artificial intelligence & Blockchain
35. Lawbox – Smart law for smart people
36. Lex.be – disrupting the legal information world and bringing innovation to legal professionals
37. LynxCare – The AI powered outcome data platform. Supported by @AlchemistAccelerator (San Francisco ) @imecVentures (Brussels)
38. Macty – Artificial intelligence for the fashion industry
39. MeetMatch – Revolutionary networking at your event
40. MultiMinds – Discover and activate your underlying business potential
41. Noisy Channels – they use cognitive technologies to make knowledge-intensive processes smarter, faster and better
42. One Datapartner – Inspires companies and helps them exploit the full potential of their data
43. Omina Technologies – it is all about 360° Artificial Intelligence solutions to fit your needs…
44. Parcify – Get things moving
45. Pick It – Robot vision made easy
46. Predicube – Big Data Analytics spinoff from Univ. of Antwerp and iMinds, focusing on efficient marketing and risk management practices
47. Qualifio – Interactive Marketing & Data Collection Platform
48. Radix.ai – They accelerate the pace at which Machine Learning innovations are turned into reality.
49. ReImagine – Reimagine your organization by leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Robotic solutions
50. RetViews – Fashion analytics on competitive brands
51. RoboVision – Deep Learning Applied
52. Scriptbook – Artificially intelligent screenplay analysis & Automated story generation
53. Sket – Legaltech as a service
54. Shape – data monitoring for data science and data management
55. Tengu – Your DataOps Interface! From Your First Data Training Wheels To Data Professional At Full Speed
56. Trade Pharma Network – platform for buyers & sellers performing routine transactions of medicines
57. Trigghr – Our bidirectional match enables companies to discover unexpected and really motivated talents!
58. WeGroup – InsurTech startup that enables insurance providers to connect with their customers in a digital world
59. Xplodata – from data to insights
60. Yields – the first FinTech platform that uses AI for automated model validation and real-time monitoring on an enterprise-wide scale
61. Zora Robotics – ZoraBots is an interactive and caring platform solution which runs on the world’s most popular humanoid robots
62. and many more to come that can be nominated by you

Some Scale Ups worth mentioning:

1. Collibra – Find, understand, and trust your data
2. DataCamp – The smartest way to learn datascience online
3. Ontoforce – Their semantic linked data and visualization platform DISQOVER powers citizen data science
4. Riaktr – Formerly Real Impact Analytics. They transform telecom data into action.
5. Rombit – Improve efficiency, worker safety and security. Rombit connects people, assets and devices in user-friendly software
6. Sentiance –  is a data science company turning IOT sensor data into rich insights about people’s behavior and real-time context
7. SoftKinetic – Sony Depthsensing solutions is a Leading 3D Vision and Gesture Recognition technology provider
8. Sortlist – Find and contact #agencies through the people you already trust
9. Timi – Belgian’s most powerful framework to push the barriers of analytics and predictive analytics, while offering a helpful, fast and friendly environment
10. Ugentec – Automated analysis of raw PCR data, automated interpretation of multiplex assays, automated QC workflow, automated LIMS transfer, automated audit trail
11. and many more to come that can be nominated by you

Nominated  AI Project of the Year​:

1. AI4Belgium
2. #data4betterhealth 
3. VDAB AI project
4. HIVHACK.org
5. Hack Belgium
6. Riaktr Model Factory
7. Waizu Software by ML6

Nominated  AI Personalities of the Year​:

• Wim Van Hecke from Icometrix
• Thierry Geerts pour son livre témoignage, Digitalis
• Alexander De Croo, Philippe de Backer for AI4Belgium Initiative
• Maggie De Block for #DataForBetterHealth
• Ségolène Martin for launching the Belgian chapter for Women in AI
• Fons Leroy for introducing AI within the VDAB
• Hughes Bersini for driving AI in Belgium even before the Hype
• Luc Steels for driving the VUB  artificial Intelligence Lab
• Philippe Van Impe for driving the DataScience Community since 2014
• Philippe Muyters for allowing Flandrers to pomp 30 million € in AI
• Filip Maertens for driving different AI-startups
• Kris Peeters for his work in data engineering and commitment towards the datascience community
• Frank Vanden Berghen for creating the first Belgian framework to push the barriers of analytics called Timi.
•  and many more to come that can be nominated by you

If you have any comments about this first list, please send your message to info@disummit.org .