Cutting-edge tech solutions are the backbone of smart cities, driving innovation in AI, IoT, and digital infrastructures. Visit our pavilion to explore how Belgian exhibitors can empower your city with the latest advancements in technology.
Name: Francesca LIVRAGHI
Job Title: International Sales Director
Mobile: +39 340 09 14 363
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
Enable public and private customers to digitalize and manage water and energy infrastructures, thanks to useful, robust and secured connected technologies.
Range of Products or SolutionsSmart mobility:
Solutions and equipment for optimizing and digitalizing cities and regions based on three pillars: STREET LIGHTING, WATER, and ENERGY.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Thanks to its strong knowledge of markets and ecosystems, LACROIX brings a “smart tech” expertise integrated in complete and ergonomic solutions. To meet the challenges of global competitiveness, LACROIX relies on its design and manufacturing capacity to provide industrial and robust offers to customers.
Main References
Oslo City and Belgium.
Certifications
LACROIX is certified ISO 14001. We are part of the TALQ Consortium as a regular member. Tegis & SmartNodes products are TALQ certified and SOFREL S4W is certified in cybersecurity by the ANSSI (French Agency for Cybersecurity).
Name : Tom Van Hecke
Job Title : CEO
Mobile : +32 474792580
E-mail : [email protected]
Company Background:
Fairville is an IT company located in East Flanders that develops digital solutions to promote sustainable mobility, reduce waste consumption, boost the local economy, and reward neighbourhood care or mutual aid.
Range of Products or Solutions
City Rewards (Local currency wallet-app)
Cirklo (Digital Local voucher system)
Buck-e (Bike rewarding platform)
MyWaste (Reduce waste by rewarding recycling or producing less waste then average)
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
10 years of experience in innovating digital products for the public sector (cities & municipalities)
200 cities in Flanders are working with our solutions.
Endorse local economy
Engage your citizens
Reward good behaviour
Main References
City of Hasselt = CITY APP
City of Mechelen = CIRKLO DIGITAL LOCAL VOUCHER SYSTEM
Miwa (intermunicipal waste) = MYWASTE
City of GENK = BUCKE
Region of Flanders = Partner in enrolling city-apps for each city and municipality in Flanders
Product IMPACT
45.000.000€ spent with local vouchers
200 customers
25.000 merchants,
1.250.000 users,
400 ton CO2 REDUCED,
50 times biked around the world with 30.000 pupils in 500 schools
Name: Lefèvre Olivier
Job Title: Consultant SmartCity
Mobile: +32 478 32 27 26
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Philippe Baijot
Job Title: Administrateur Délégué D2D3
E-mail: philippe.baijot@ juleslesmart.com
Name: Jean Chapelle
Job Title: Fondateur de BeKid
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Anne Mathieu
Job Title: Directrice Communication et marketing
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
We have developed an ecosystem where innovative solutions work together to create the smart cities of tomorrow. We facilitate collaboration between diverse technological solutions and public stakeholders, promoting interoperability and fostering a pragmatic approach tailored to the unique needs of each city or municipality.
Range of Products or Solutions
As local authorities, through the adventures of Jules Lesmart, you can discover how to address sensitive and complex issues such as inner-city depopulation, intergenerational cohabitation, inner-city pollution or the involvement of citizens in the public debate by linking the information and solutions of various partners.
We develop pragmatic solutions to respond to your specific needs thanks to our ecosystem of companies offering smart city solutions.
Jules has also developed its own collective intelligence application. This revolutionary solution promotes collaboration between all the players in an area. It creates fluid connections and optimises interactions between public authorities, service providers, investors, academic institutions and citizens.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
The Jules ecosystem brings together companies offering smart city solutions that are ideal for local authorities. Its aim is to encourage collaboration between the various parties to develop tailor-made solutions that respond pragmatically to the specific needs of towns and cities.
Main References
Digital Wallonia and Bertix app with the gamification of zero waste
Name: Dimitri Gielis
Job Title: CEO
Mobile: +32 473 81 40 97
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Kevin Coorens
Job Title: SmartBuilding Platform Lead
Mobile: +32 491 11 91 11
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
Known for its strong technical knowledge in the Oracle world, United Codes wants to accelerate smart cities through its own smart building & smart city platform.
Range of Products or Solutions
UC Smart Building kit: make your home smart with this intelligent brain
UC Smart Building platform: get insights into your building through this web application
UC Smart City platform: connect your smart building with others and enable the city to become smart
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
The UC smart brain can connect to any existing sensor or you can buy a package from us.
The Smart Platform is the next-generation platform to make your house a house of the future. Through our own United Codes building we showcase the endless possibilities.
Main References
United Codes house of the future (Smart Building)
Leuven Smart City
Name : Liselotte Erauw
Job Title : Business Unit Manager Geo-ICT
Mobile : +32 479 27 04 30
E-mail : [email protected]
Name : Bram Van Londersele
Job Title : Commercial Director
Mobile : +32 485 98 70 53
E-mail : [email protected]
Company Background
MEET HET was founded out of the need to provide high-quality surveying services, monitoring (static and mobile) and geodata solutions across various sectors, with a focus on precision and innovation.
Range of Products or Solutions
MEET HET offers advanced products and solutions in the field of land surveying and Geo-ICT. We provide services such as data acquisition, 3D modelling/BIM, digital twins, monitoring (static and mobile), and Smart City projects. Our expertise also includes GeoBIM integration and precision solutions with drones and GNSS systems.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
One-stop-shop
Independent
Complete project realization
100% Geo-expertise
Main References
Monitoring the most important traffic tunnel in Belgium for potential deformations in the structure
Measuring buildings (such as a movietheater) using photos and point clouds from a LIDAR camera device and visualizing this in 3D
Name: Gert De tant
Job Title: CEO
Mobile: +32 473 98 27 75
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Jens Rappé
Job Title: Project Manager
Mobile: +32 473 98 27 75
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Justien De Roose
Job Title: Sales manager
Mobile: +32 494 31 40 51
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Greet Brosens
Job Title: Enterprise architect
Mobile: +32 499 85 84 39
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
Sirus is a software consultancy partner from Ghent, Belgium. We are specialized in data platforms, data spaces and interoperability frameworks for cities and local gov; and have 12+ years of experience working with public institutions.
Range of Products or Solutions
Sirus offers consultancy services ranging from modern workplace to data engineering services to all kinds of industries, but with a very specific focus on Smart cities and communities. We are experts in Data Spaces with some very interesting first cases in Mobility, Water and Urban Data Platforms.
Next to that we offer the Urban Sense data platform (www.urbansense.be), a data platform for and by cities.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Open & sharing mindset
Flexible and agile organization
High level of expertise
Customer oriented
Main References
Urban Sense data platform for cities
Aquafin Blue Portal; Water Data Space
Name: Leo EVERAERT
Job Title: International Sales Director
Mobile: + 32 484 400 565
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
The Belgian family-owned company General Floating Equipment (GFE) is based in the port city of Antwerp.
GFE has been producing high-quality and UV-resistant water safety systems since the 1980s.
Range of Products or Solutions
Our portfolio includes a wide range of products, including lifebuoy housings, lifebuoys, various water rescue equipment, digital warning systems and mounting systems for lifebuoy housings.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
General Floating Equipments main targets:
Be the reference regarding safety along the water
Prevent drowning
Creating a safe and secure environment
Main References
We have been a supplier for many years to several ports and seaports in Europe, infrastructure constructors of waterways,
harbors, and shipyards as well, we also have multiple cooperation agreements with government agencies responsible for ports and waterways.
We therefore believe that we strongly contribute to a safer environment with our GFE products in terms of safety, rescue, and prevention policy.
Name: Brecht Lootens
Job Title: project manager
Mobile: +32485928755
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
ORG is a design firm tackling the pressing challenges of today by driving transformational projects across scales of infrastructure, urbanism and architecture.
Range of Products or Solutions :
ORG specializes in a systems approach with expert interdisciplinary teams, combining design, advanced analytics and implementation management. We arrive at our people, nature and data-driven designs through our tailor-made machine learning tools and our innovative co-creation process to ensure comprehensive project success.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
ORG’s strength lies in its rapid integration of design, co-creation processes and analytics, ensuring high success rates for complex design projects. By incorporating internal feedback cycles, ORG delivers large-scale or scalable transition projects, such as water, energy, mobility, climate, and urban infrastructure, in an accelerated fashion.
Main References
The Antwerp Capping Initiative transforms a highway into a new mobility network with large parks through a large-scale co-creation process with stakeholders.
Modal Shift, a tailor-made tool used in over four regions, models and predicts behavior inform infrastructure investment decisions that will aid in the transition from car-centric travel to sustainable transit.
Name: Anthony Simonofski
Job Title: Professor of Digital Transformation
Mobile: 0032476867357
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Nicolas Bono Rossello
Job Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Mobile: 0034679423265
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
Grouping six research centers from various disciplines, the Namur Digital Research Institute offers a unique multidisciplinary expertise in all areas of informatics, its applications and its social impact.
Range of Products or Solutions
Among its main competences are formal methods, man-machine interface, requirement engineering, modeling techniques to reason and design complex software systems, testing, quality insurance, software product lines, data bases, big data, machine learning and more generally artificial intelligence, security, privacy, ethics by design, technology assessment and legal reasoning.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
NADI currently brings together about 150 researchers and works on many research projects at the Regional, Belgian and European levels.
Name: Lieven Raes
Job Title: COMPAIR consortium coordinator
Mobile: +32/499 59 36 02
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Tom Callens
Job Title: COMPAIR project manager
Mobile: +32/475 40 22 24
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
COMPAIR is an EU Horizon 2020 funded project to help cities and regions improve air quality by raising the quality of citizen science data for decision making
Range of Products or Solutions
Equipping citizens with easy-to-use sensors, apps and data dashboards we supplement gaps in official data to help drive the necessary personal and policy changes needed for a sustainable future.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Using citizen sensors to improve urban air quality
Main References
Region of Flanders, Berlin, Sofia, Plovdiv and Athens
Certifications
Our project results follow international standards on interoperability
Name : Sébastien Nahon
Job Title : Director of the Media Innovation & Intelligibility Lab (University of Louvain)
E-mail : [email protected]
Company Background
Strategic Innovation Initiative part of the European S3 strategy of Wallonia
Foster immersive technology excellence to energize Wallonia’s economy
Range of Products or Solutions
Hyperrealistic Virtual World & Metahuman
Simulating interactions in a vehicle (Autonomous)
Augmented Operator
Digital Twins
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Phygital experience
Capability and maturity models
UX tools and methods
Main References
Aisin, SNCB, Ville de Namur, Bruxelles-Mobilité
Name: Ben Bellekens
Job Title: Co-founder & CTO
Mobile: +32 (0)498294690
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Anton Dierickx
Job Title: Co-founder & COO
Mobile: +32 (0)475602410
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
CrowdScan, a spin-off of IMEC and the University of Antwerp (UAntwerp) has developed a patented solution for measuring crowd density in real-time using a wireless sensor network.
Range of Products or Solutions
CrowdScan provides accurate real-time crowd measurements, enabling quick, informed decisions for effective crowd management or an optimal passenger flow. Tailored for industries like public transportation, airports, smart cities, and events, we focus on seamless integration with other data sources, ensuring our customers have all the insights they need.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Cost-effective and easy-to-install technology (no cabling needed)
Real-time and 100% GDPR proof data (no use of cameras or smartphones)
Easy integrations using API or MQTT
Main References
Cities: Bruges, Antwerp, Ghent, Alkmaar, The Hague, Tilburg…
Public Transport: Tram Barcelona, Dutch Railways, Seattle International Airport
Integrations: Schréder (Adaptive Public Lighting), Milestone (VMS systems)
Certifications
CEE/FCC certified
Europe & US patent
Microsoft ISV Partner
Name: Ken Casier
Job Title: Business unit manager Smart Cities
Mobile: +32 479 23 94 13
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Glenn Homblé
Job Title: Business development manager Smart Cities
Mobile: +32 493 36 15 02
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
Cegeka is a global IT integrator that can bring a broad range of services to customers, working together with them in close cooperation to bring maximum value.
Range of Products or Solutions
Mobilize: Urban Digital Twin
Milo: Your cities virtual assistant
Urban Sense: Your IoT dataplatform
Sense: Safety drones
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
We believe strongly in the trinity of innovation, where 5G, AI and Cloud computing come together to create endless possibilities for our clients. We can offer expertise on all domains, bringing end-to-end solutions. Within our Smart Cities department we bring a mix of products and services to make your city a smart city.
Main References
Ranging from the smallest municipality to regional governments and European institutions. Cities of Bruges, Roeselare, Leuven, Gent, …
Name: Bram Goeminne
Job Title: CCO
Mobile: +32477279886
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Thomas Weyn
Job Title: CEO
Mobile: +32468143656
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
As a leading expert in sound analysis and recognition ASAsense provides smart sensing technology for capturing the surroundings by registering and understanding the soundscape.
Range of Products or Solutions
ASAsense delivers smart sensing IoT sensor networks which capture and recognize sounds, localize and identify sources, and provides a sound-analysis based digital twin of the surroundings. This provides comprehensive noise monitoring and soundscape analysis. The XenomatiX 360° LiDAR mobile mapping delivers detailed geo-spatial data of road-side assets.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
The ASAsense AMBIsense cloud-based multi-array IoT sensor nodes offer multi-classification sound monitoring and identification, while localizing and tracking of the sound source, mimicking the human ability to capture and understand the environmental soundscape. The GPC360 LiDAR maps the surroundings in spatial 3D with precise location, dimensions and object identification.
Main References
Noise nuisance project city of Antwerp
AWV 3D measurement of a newly paved road
Name: Jonathan Budai
Job Title: Benelux Smart City Expert
Phone: +32 3 890 66 66
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Pierre LECHAT
Job Title: Sales Director- Wallonie-Bruxelles | Schréder BE
Phone: +32 472 56 39 61
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Niko SMETS
Job Title: Sales Director – Vlaanderen | Schréder BE
Phone: +32 475 962609
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
The leading independent smart outdoor lighting solution provider worldwide, we propose infrastructure that plays a pivotal role in building Smart Cities and future communication networks.
Range of Products or Solutions
We have a wide range of low-energy LED street lights to meet the various needs of public realms. All of them can be controlled by our Schréder EXEDRA lighting management system to adapt the light to real needs. Our SHUFFLE smart pole can integrate light, control systems, CCTV, WiFi, EV chargers, intercoms and many more features to meet the daily needs of citizens in a sustainable manner.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
We provide smart lighting solutions that enable cities worldwide to better manage their assets, reduce costs, protect the environment and deliver a better people-centered experience. Over a century of expertise has given us insights to transform street lighting upgrades into the foundation of smart city eco-systems. Our systems are open and interoperable to seamlessly interact with devices deployed throughout public spaces and to solve existing and future needs.
Main References
Bruges, Antwerp, Liège, Mons, Brussels are a few cities in Belgium. Worldwide, we work with Valencia, Paris, Heidelberg, Queensland & San José. See more: www.schreder.com/projects
Certifications
Schréder EXEDRA is certified ISO 27001 and based on Microsoft Azure technology.Member of Zhaga Consortium, TALQ and uCiFi
Name : Aline Muylaert
Job Title : Co-Founder
Mobile : +32 484 072 464
E-mail : [email protected]
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/govocalco
Twitter : http://www.twitter.com/govocalco
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/govocal/
Company Background
Go Vocal is a certified B Corp on a mission to make public decision-making more inclusive, participatory, and responsive.
Range of Products or Solutions
Go Vocal empowers public servants to cultivate a true culture of engagement with our comprehensive engagement platform and strategic guidance. We maximize engagement by delivering on an exceptional resident experience while providing the tools to work efficiently and autonomously, backed by AI.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
We have worked with over 500 governments globally, help amplify the voices of community members, streamline the engagement process, and unlock deeper insights for more informed decision-making.
Main References
We partner with +500 local governments in over 20 countries including the cities of Copenhagen, Vienna, Dublin, and Seattle.
Certifications
Go Vocal has obtained certifications as a B Corp and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification.
Name: Joris Voets
Job Title: Sta(d/f)medewerker
Mobile: +32 485 02 48 16
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
The Knowledge Center for Flemish Cities is an interlocal association established by the 13 Flemish Central Cities. At the SCEWC, we present a large number of Smart City showcases from Flemish local governments, interlocal associations, and provinces.
Range of Products or Solutions
We will be presenting a large number of Smart City showcases from Flemish local governments, interlocal associations, and provinces
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Inspiration for other local governments on various Smart City projects in Flanders.
Name : Kris De Pril
Job Title : CEO
Mobile : +32 477 47 37 16
E-mail : [email protected]
Company Background
Geosparc is a Belgian technology company with proven expertise in integrating geospatial technology with cutting-edge platform technology. We make the impact of our client’s policies predictable.
Range of Products or Solutions
The Parktrack software platform is the centerpiece of our data driven solutions. We collect and store, clean, aggregate and make the data from diverse IoT devices actionable for our customers. This enables diverse use cases ranging from smart parking solutions to algorithmic enforcement route planning, to automation of processes such as the management of intakes of public domain.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Main References
Geosparc is a popular and trusted partner for businesses and government institutions in the collaborative goal of improving services through digital automation. Examples are P&G, TotalEnergies, OPC, APCOA, Seris, Trafiroad, Yunex, cities of Breda, Mechelen, Leuven, Hasselt, Kortrijk, Antwerp, Sint-Truiden, and many others.
Name: Jennick Scheerlinck
Job Title: Founder, CEO
Mobile: +32 485 51 33 84
E-mail: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hoplr
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hoplr
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/worklifeathoplr
Company Background
Hoplr – pronounced «hopler» – was founded by Jennick Scheerlinck and Jonas Heirwegh, back in 2014. Hoplr connects neighbours and stimulates social cohesion through offline engagement.
Range of Products or Solutions:
Informal community care
Neighbourhood oriented communication
Inclusive citizen participation
Neighbourhood analysis
Aging in place
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Hoplr boosts citizen engagement by combining the power of a social network for local communities with participation tools for local governments and the public sector.
Main References
City of The Hague, City of Izmir, Villle de Luxembourg, Antwerp District of Berchem, City of Bruges and +250 municipalities in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Türkiye.
Certifications
Seal of Excellence from the European Commission
GDPR compliant
Winner World Summit Awards in Citizen Engagement
Winner European Social Services Award for Best Social Technology.
Name : François Libeau
Job Title : General Manager
E-mail: [email protected]
Name : Artem Rudkovskiy
Job Title : Coordinator of the Network of Experts
Mobile : +352 671 105 589
E-mail : [email protected]
Company Background
Solutions for regional studies, statistics, modelling, forecasting and decision making. The company is capacity building-oriented: with the revolutionary frameworks of Hendyplan International, you will get trained and coached on all segments of specialization and methodologies along the pyramid from data to decision.
Range of Products or Solutions
Solutions for regional studies, statistics, modelling, forecasting and decision making. The company is capacity building-oriented: with the revolutionary frameworks of Hendyplan International, you will get trained and coached on all segments of specialization and methodologies along the pyramid from data to decision.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
The products and services of Hendyplan International are making your data visible, understandable for better policies, better communication to the citizens. They are productivity boosters. Our approach makes your team of specialists growing in knowledge and experience in a virtuous circle.
Main References
United Nations, IMF, European Commission, City of Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Ministry of Economy and Tourism (Dubai)
Certifications
Standard Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX).
Hendyplan International is a world-class company for data compilation and modelling. At this purpose, SUT-Equalizer is one of its products: it is an environment supporting the calculation of the GDP of a territory in the state-of-the-art methodologies. It has been recently referenced officially by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in the top-5 systems worldwide of its category
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/capdev/resources/?resourceType=compilation&FromFlag=link
Name: François NARBONNEAU
Job Title: Head of Department “Innovation & Partnership”
Mobile: +32 476 97 17 28
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
For 25 years, Multitel (RTO) has been the partner of choice for companies willing to develop and integrate cutting-edge technologies.
Range of Products or Solutions
Multitel supports the twin transition and contributes to the digital maturities of companies thanks to its strong expertise in: Applied photonics, Network Engineering, IoT & Embedded Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Railway Certification.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Multitel develops innovative engineering solutions using the latest innovations in science and technology, in various domains such as smart cities, transport and logistics, industry 4.0, healthtech, aeronautics and space, security and agrotech.
Name: Nick De Beer
Job Title: Head of Global Business Development & Strategy
Mobile: +32 (0) 478 06 59 70
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
xyzt.ai is a high-tech location intelligence company that brings its users actionable business insights through a no-code geospatial platform for visualizing and analyzing big movement data from any moving assets, such as vehicles or vessels, or time series data from non-moving sensors, such as cameras, air quality and noise pollution sensors.
Range of Products or Solutions
A no-code geospatial platform that empowers analysts with insights from vast amounts of data.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Customer setup takes less than a day, there is no custom development needed, and insights can be obtained interactively, even for billions of location records.
Main References
xyzt.ai is the winner of the Maritime Innovation Challenge by INEOS and Port of Antwerp-Bruges, and is used by companies like Strassen.NRW, City of Hamburg, and City of Helsinki.
Certifications
xyzt.ai is a member of the Open Geospatial Consortium, is named an IDC Innovator, and is part of the Global Top 100 Geospatial Companies selected by Geoawesomeness.
