The European ICT Prize is the EU's "Nobel Prize" for innovation in information and communication technologies, drawing focus on companies with the most innovative products and services in the field of ICT. The 20 prize winners were selected by the European Commission from a record number of 450 applicants, from 30 countries.
Out of the Top 20, it was great to see 50% were registered Microsoft partners and a number (such as Intrasense and VMscope) are actively engaged with our emerging business team. Here is a list of the Microsoft Partners:
· Grand Prize Winner: Treventus (Austria) – ScanRobot is a ground-breaking scanning concept, with distortion-free scanning and automatic page turning in both directions. Books can be scanned at the rate of 40 pages a minute, without manual intervention. The average book can be digitised in about six minutes. It represents a significant advance in getting Europe's cultural heritage online and accessible to all. Treventus, founded in 2006, is a spin-off of the Vienna University of Technology and is based in Austria.
· Byometric iris recognition (Germany) –Large-scale biometric identification solution based on iris-recognition.
· Digimind Finder (France) – Meta search engine which tackles the invisible web of currently non-indexed online information.
· Intrasense (France) – 3D studies, processed and reconstructed from diverse medical imaging systems such as CT and MRI scanning.
· Netviewer (Germany) – A virtual conferencing online platform for spontaneous or pre-planned meetings.
· Operax (Sweden) –Providing flexible standards-based Quality of Service for telecommunications network service providers.
· Ubitexx (Germany) – Allows secure management of company data over mobile devices.
· VMscope (Germany) – Image streaming and software solutions optimised for virtual microscopy of high-resolution images from scanned glass slides.
· VRmagic (Germany) – Virtual training for for student eye surgeons to practice cataract operations.
· X-aitment (Germany) – A modular Artificial Intelligence-Engine for games and simulations.
Congratulations to all the Top 20. And thanks to the 50% mentioned above for partnering with Microsoft!
