Carl Smets

Nikon Metrology NV develops metrology solutions. It offer services for automotive, aerospace, telecommunication/satellites, energy, consumer goods/white goods/household, medical, electronics, universities/research, and manufacturing markets. The firm’s products include laser scanners; coordinate measuring machines; portable measuring solutions; and in-process measurement, video and microscope measuring, X-ray and computed tomography (CT) inspection, large scale measurement, microscope and semiconductor systems. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

Easics NV provides system-on-chip design services for telecom and consumer electronics applications. The firm offers ASIC design services, FPGA design services, Internet Protocol (IP) licensing, and Freesics. It also specializes in complex digital design, silicon technology independent design, hardware-software trade-offs, analog integration, design for test, and fault tolerant design. The company was founded by Dirk Callaerts, Jan Decaluwe, Ivo Vandeweerd, and Jan Zegers on July 1, 1991 and is headquarters in Leuven, Belgium.

IMEC VZW (Private Equity) (IMEC) is a operating division of Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum VZW founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

Medicim NV conducts medical imaging services to support diagnosis therapy and surgery solutions. Its products include Nobelclinician, NobelDesign and IPS CaseDesigner. The firm’s service include computer aided surgery, image analysis and custom solutions. The company was founded by André Oosterlinck in 2002 and is headquartered in Mechelen, Belgium.

Future Waves is a cutting edge fables Semiconductor Company which designs chipsets with high sensitivity and compelling performance. The first product is the RF tuner, FENIX14701, followed by FENIX2, a multi-standard RF tuner newly launched in Sep., 2008. Future Waves collaborates with industrial partners to deliver total receiver solutions which enable its customers to timely launch next generation products for digital broadcasting markets including DAB, DAB+, T-DMB, DVB-H, DVB-T, ISDB-T One-Seg, DMB-T and CMMB. To provide efficient and effective services, Future Waves has offices in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea and the UK to support its partners and customers through local proficient designing teams. The company is incorporated by top designers who have extensive experience in radio frequency design, digital broadcasting technology and system integration etc. Future Waves commits to continuously develop low power, highly integrated and cost-effective solutions for digital broadcasting applications including mobile phones, laptops, Portable Multimedia Player (PMP), Global Navigation System (GPS), Digital Photo Frame and other hand-held devices.

Part of Huawei Investment & Holding Co. Ltd. Trade Union Committee, M4S NV is a Belgian company that manufactures semiconductor devices for wireless technology. The company is based in Leuven, Belgium. The company was founded by Peter Vanbekbergen. M4S was acquired by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. from Option NV on October 27, 2010 for $11.09 million.

Essensium NV develops hardware and software products for wireless sensor networks. It offers evaluation kit, people and vehicle tag, indoor reference and gateway node, and tracker server engine. Its services include embedded software, application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design, and system on chip (SoC) and system in package (SiP) design. The company was founded by Johan M. R. Danneels, Frederic Stubbe, Edmond Janssens and Patrick Vankwikelberge in March 2005 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum VZW, also known as Imec, is a Belgian business accelerator. The non-profit company is based in Leuven, BE and has subsidiaries in the United States, Taiwan, India, Netherlands, and Belgium. Imec.istart is their main program, which helps startups grow and succeed. The Belgian company was founded in 1984 and has been led by CEO Luc van den Hove since then.

icometrix NV provides software as a service for medical image analysis. It engages in the advanced quantitative image processing of human as well as animal data sets, including multi-modal and multi-subject image registration (PET/CT, PET/MR, and CT/MR), volumetric measurements, group analysis of diffusion weighted and tensor images, functional MRI, perfusion MRI, MR spectroscopy, atrophy measurement, automatic and semi-automatic tissue segmentation. The company was founded by Dirk Loeckx, Wim Van Hecke, Paul Suetens, Stefan Sunaert, Paul M. Parizel, Frederik Maes and Jan Sijbers in 2011 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

Morrow NV develops researching technology for digital lenses. It provides eyecare services. The company was founded by Jelle de Smet and Paul Marchal and is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Netherlands.

SNPS Belgium BV hosts conferences, seminars, training, and information for nursing assistants who work in the field of mental health.

VoxelSensors SRL is a Belgian company that specializes in 3D perception technology. The company is based in Vorst, Belgium. The company's patented Switching Pixels® Active Event Sensor (SPAES) technology provides efficient 3D perception systems with low latency and ultra-low power consumption.