NL Tech Pavilions Open at CES 2023 with Responsible Tech, a Philosophizing Digital Quantum Cat and Letters from Nature

2023 CES delegation features record number of CES Innovation Award winners and two ChatGPT-powered art installations that inspire the public to rethink their connection with the environment and technology

LAS VEGAS and THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Marking its seventh consecutive year, The Kingdom of the Netherlands, today announced the opening of the NL Tech Pavilions at CES 2023, alongside two tech-driven, AI-powered art installations — Letters from Nature and Quantum Cat — which highlight the NL Tech Pavilions' theme of Tech for a Responsible Future. The two installations utilize OpenAI's ChatGPT to reflect on some of the most important — and polarizing — ethical issues of our time. View a short video about Letters from Nature and Quantum Cat.

The NL Tech Pavilions feature 40 Dutch startups and 30 scale-ups working to solve global challenges across a wide berth of tech sectors that will define future economies, including sustainability, quantum computing, health and wellness, smart cities and smart homes, smart mobility and vehicle tech, AR/VR, robotics and more — and includes 13 CES 2023 Innovation Award winners. The NL Tech Square Pavilion features startups and is located in the Venetian Expo, downstairs in Eureka Park (Hall G, Booth 62100). The NL Next Level Innovations Pavilion features scale-ups and is located upstairs in the Venetian Expo (Halls A-C, Booth 55320). View the full list of CES 2023 NL Tech Pavilion companies here.

"Our CES 2023 delegation features companies committed to tackling major societal challenges as well as a record number of Dutch CES Innovation award winners," said HRH Prince Constantijn van Oranje, Special Envoy to Techleap.nl and the Netherlands, who will read one of the AI-generated Letters from Nature selections in his opening remarks. "I'm particularly proud of how many companies are developing tech to help those with challenges and disabilities. The CES 2023 NL Tech Pavilions show how the government of the Netherlands supports innovative tech ventures as the most important driver of positive societal change."

The AI-powered art installations complement a delegation committed to making a planetary difference. Created by Jeroen van der Most and Peter van der Putten, the Letters from Nature project uses an AI program to write letters on behalf of ecological landmarks under threat, including ice caps, islands and coral reefs. The program utilizes ChatGPT, the latest AI that uses deep learning to create human-like text and generates letters based on text openings. Letters from Nature will be generated live during the opening of the NL Tech Pavilions and throughout the week, filling the space with messages from nature focused on climate change and aimed at world leaders and CES visitors.

The Quantum Cat installation by van der Most and several contributors features a digital feline that speculates on ethical issues using AI and quantum data and is based on Schrödinger's cat. Quantum Cat reflects on topics triggered by a system that monitors Dutch Twitter discussions. When freedom of speech is discussed on Twitter, for example, the digital cat will give ethical reflections on the subject and also bring forward texts written by GPT-3.

"CES often showcases the consumer side of tech, but there is a much more human side to technology, which my work explores," said van der Most, creator of both the Letters from Nature and Quantum Cat installations. "The installations both use AI, but they are ultimately about human concerns, like what happens when our planet is at risk or what is required for engaged thinking about issues. I'm delighted that the NL Tech Pavilions is showcasing my work alongside companies who utilize tech as a ladder to build a better future for people worldwide."

The 70 Dutch technology companies and their solutions featured at CES 2023 include:

SUSTAINABILITY AND CIRCULARITY:

• AgXeed: Designs, builds and delivers autonomous units for agriculture. (Startup)
• CarbonX: New carbon material that helps tire makers meet the increasing demand for sustainability, safety and performance. (Startup)
• Dayrize: The global leader for rapid climate impact assessment of consumer products. (Startup)
• eLstar Dynamics: Patented technology for manufacturing the world's most effective, versatile, attainable dynamic glass. (Startup)
• Greenswapp: a big data platform for supermarkets and food platforms to track product (SKU) and recipe-wise carbon footprints. This allows them to report their Scope-3 emissions easily, identify high-impact suppliers & products and work to reduce their impact, and communicate it with their customers. (Startup)
• GSES: One-stop sustainability platform, translating over 550 existing international sustainability standards into a universal score and explanation. (Scale-up)
• iTapToo: A zero-waste solution to refill bottles with a healthy & delicious alternative to traditional sodas. (Startup)
• Leadax: Manufacturers of highly circular and sustainable flat roofing made from unusable plastic waste. (Scale-up)
• OneThird: Predicts shelf-life of fresh produce, enabling real-time decisions in the food supply chain and prevents food waste. (Startup and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• Orbisk: Monitors and reduces food waste in professional kitchens by employing progressive AI technology that improves sustainability and profitability. (Startup)
• RanMarine: Developer of the patented WasteShark, the world's first autonomous aquadrone that cleans pollution from waterways and collects data about water quality. (Scale-up)
• Steambox Self-heating, rechargeable lunch box that allows you to enjoy a hot meal anywhere, anytime. (Startup)
• Wastewatchers: AI-driven forecasting and food waste monitoring for food service companies. (Startup)

ENERGY TRANSITION AND BATTERY TECHNOLOGY:

• Advanced Climate Systems: Next-gen building intelligence for installation and property management. (Scale-up and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• Greener Power Solutions: Reduces the CO2 footprint of temporary power markets by using its own fleet of large batteries and in-house energy management software. (Scale-up)
• Ixora: Manufacturer of future generation electronic and immersion cooling technologies that contribute to the energy transition. (Scale-up)
• LeydenJar: Creator of a sustainable super battery that uses ultra-thin pure silicon battery anodes to produce Li-Ion batteries that possess 70% more energy density than current battery designs, and produce a lower CO2 footprint with significant cost savings. (Scale-up and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• Nowi: A semiconductor company that specializes in the development of energy-harvesting power management technology for consumer electronics and IoT devices. (Scale-up)
• Supersola: Plug-and-play solar panels. Works on wall sockets worldwide. (Scale-up and CES Innovation Award Honoree).

HEALTH, SPORTS AND SAFETY:

• Alphabeats: EEG-based mental training that uses music and neurofeedback to improve performance in elite athletes. (Startup and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• Absolute Audio Labs (AAL): Audio software for the hearing impaired. (Scale-up)
• AYAVAYA: A "magic cabin" that uses patented, scientifically-tested technology to reduce stress and recharge the user's energy, focus and mental balance within 20 minutes. (Startup)
• ChatLicense: AI-powered gamified platform to make a diploma part of owning a smartphone. (Startup)
• Crdl: Human-centered interaction design to create meaningful connections between people with physical or cognitive impairment and their caregivers. (Startup and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• Kepler Vision Technologies: AI-powered sensor technology that recognizes falls in elderly care within less than one minute; the most reliable fall detection technology in healthcare. (Scale-up)
• Moovd: Bridges the gap between the growing (digital) healthcare needs of patients who don't have therapists and the lack of psychologists. (Startup)
• Neurocast: True, passive patient monitoring that provides doctors and researchers with 24/7 digital biomarkers for measuring patient performance based on real-world evidence. GDPR and HIPAA compliant and ISO 27001 certified. (Startup)
• Nostics: Instant, accessible, reliable testing for viruses and bacteria, including the world's smallest portable bacteria identification lab that uses cloud-based, machine learning algorithms to identify bacterial species in five minutes, without the need for expert users or expensive lab infrastructure. (Startup)
• NOWATCH: The world's first 'awareable' – a screenless, designer watch and app that combines bio-tracking with mindfulness and real-time feedback about movement, sleep, stress and recovery tools to restore balance faster and help users live in the NOW. (Startup)
• Occam Dx: A disruptive, real-time, accurate diagnostic platform using simple nanoelectronics that can detect a single virus particle. (Startup)
• SmartQare: Medical 24/7 monitoring solution for data-driven clinical decision support in remote patient care. (Startup)
• SOVN: In-ear wearable that detects and reduces excessive teeth grinding and clenching. (Startup and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• TrueKinetix: Invented and launched the world's first robotic smart bike. (Scale-up and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• VRelax: Scientifically-validated virtual reality app to relieve stress and improve mental health. (Startup)

SMART CITIES AND SMART MOBILITY:

• Hydraloop: Integrating clean tech, decentralized water recycling solutions in residential and commercial real estate to solve a growing worldwide scarcity of freshwater supply. (Scale-up and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• Scantinel: Founded in 2019, Scantinel Photonics is a leading FMCW sensing technology company offering next-generation LiDAR solutions for autonomous mobility (startup).
• Squad Mobility: The world's first Solar City Car for sharing and private use. The ultimate smart urban mobility solution for emissions, congestion and parking. (Scale-up)

AR/VR:

• Dimenco: Simulated Reality (SR) display technology that allows you to experience virtual 3D objects in your own environment — without the use of glasses or other wearables. (Scale-up)

5G, IOT, COMMUNICATIONS AND SPACE:

• Capestone: One-stop-shop distributor and service provider of 5G, IoT and AR hardware and connectivity. (Scale-up)
• Homey: Unifies all smart home products in a single smart home hub. (Scale-up)
• InPhocal: A unique, concentric laser beam that reduces the need for ink and is 2.5 times faster than printing. (Startup)
• Livery Video: an irresistibly fun, shoppable and engaging video platform for businesses, media and influencers. (Startup)
• Nuwa: A magical new way to write digitally. Groundbreaking camera system for stunning details. Powered by the world's most efficient 5 mm chip. (Startup)
• SODAQ: Durable tracking and sensing solutions, producing solar-powered IoT hardware for enterprise-sized deployments. (Scale-up)
• Tradecast: The Tradecast Video Management System brings industry-leading tools to every content owner looking to become an independent broadcaster. (Scale-up)
• Whispp: AI-powered speech technology that converts whispered speech into the person's natural voice, wíth the intonation and emotion you intended, in real time. (Startup)

NANOTECHNOLOGY, SENSORS, DRONES AND ROBOTS:

• Addoptics: Scale prototyping and production with affordable, industrial-quality optics. (Scale-up)
• MantiSpectra: NIR (Near Infrared) spectroscopy on a miniaturized spectral chip that can accurately measure material properties in real-time using just light. Enables portable NIR spectroscopy. (Startup)
• Morphotonics: Nanotechnology for micro and nano-scale surfaces for nextgen mobile device screens, immersive AR glasses, higher efficiency solar panels and high-accuracy sensors. (Scale-up)
• Sorama: Ground-breaking acoustic cameras used globally within OEM and R&D acoustic, design departments, noise reduction, smart cities, smart stadiums and industrial inspection. (Scale-up)
• Starnus Technology: Developers of a highly flexible autonomous mobile robot (AMR) solution, which allows third-party logistics (3PL) companies to deal with their rapidly changing operations. (Startup)

AI, BIG DATA, BLOCKCHAIN AND SECURITY:

• Axelera.ai: Creator of the world's most powerful and advanced solutions for AI at the edge. Its game-changing hardware and software platform concentrates the AI computational power of an entire server into a single chip at a fraction of the power consumption and price of AI hardware today.
• BrainCreators: AI-powered digital inspector. (Scale-up)
• Bubl Cloud: Restarting privacy safe innovation on personal data, by enabling innovators to create privacy-safe services in the cloud. (Startup)
• IntrinsicID: Provider of security IP for embedded systems based on Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF) technology. (Scale-up)
• Naya: Develops an ecosystem that empowers digital creators. Naya Create is a modular keyboard that increases efficiency, flexibility and health. (Startup and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• TokenMe: Breakthrough construction-monitoring solution, improving productivity, safety and security using mobile sensors, AI and real-time dashboard. (Startup and CES Innovation Award Honoree)

QUANTUM COMPUTING AND INTEGRATED PHOTONICS:

• Quix Quantum: The world's most powerful Quantum Photonic Processor for photonic quantum computing and information processing. (Scale-up)
• Sencure: Medical device company that develops high-end chips and medical wearables to accelerate and improve remote-patient monitoring. (Startup)

ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS and FUTURE OF WORK:

• BUBTY: Flexible workforce management in a single system. (Startup)
• Budget2Pay: A B2B digital platform that connects supply and demand together in a paperless world. (Startup)
• DialogueTrainer: Nextgen simulation platform for conversation training. (Scale-up and CES Innovation Award Honoree)
• EZ Factory: SaaS-based platform for optimizing operational effectiveness and efficiency of factory floor operations. (Scale-up)
• Headroom Assistance: Headroom Assistance is a global software- and services platform that educates and manages remote executive assistants for C-suite executives and founders. (Scale-up)
• RobotWise: Interactive, gamified programs for talent development with social robots as a tool, for schools and organizations. (Startup)
• UpMarqt: Accurately matches businesses with freelance talent within minutes. (Startup)
• WorkBoost: WorkBoost app and dashboard are a micro-activation and feedback software system designed to provide managers, consultants and coaches the necessary insights to maximize engagement. (Startup and CES Innovation Award Honoree)

About The Kingdom of the Netherlands The Netherlands strives to solve societal and economic challenges with local and international partners. The country ranks sixth on the Global Innovation Index, and Amsterdam is one of the fastest growing ecosystems in Europe. As a trading nation, the Netherlands has continuously ranked as one of the top five foreign investors in the U.S. for multiple years, making the Netherlands the number one country with which the U.S. maintains a trade surplus. More than 955K jobs in the United States are the result of the strong economic relations with the Netherlands.

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