PRIME Aerostructures is an Austrian engineering company with a strong focus on the design, simulation and fabrication of state-of-the-art aviation and aerospace components. www.primeaero.at

Schuster + Schuster Traffic Infrastructure Consulting GmbH is an Austrian engineering consulting company for railway infrastructure technology. With our expertise in this industry, as well as in the area of event and marketing management, we organize conferences and seminars for the railway industry. Since 2015, we conduct these seminars at IST Austria. Further, we render services in the area of market, motive and opinion research for public transport authorities in Austria. schuster2-consulting.at

Heinrich-Kalmbach & Partner develops, supports and advises executives and their teams, across industries, topics and companies. Based on three offices in Austria-Germany-Switzerland, we support our customers with a focus on the EU and the USA. We focus on coaching-consulting-training-workshop-moderation-keynotes. The customer base ranges from start-ups/spin-offs to retail chains, industrial companies (listed and owner-managed), online business and omni-channel companies. heinrich-kalmbach.com

As an IT security company, fragmentiX Storage Solutions has been dedicated to the development of quantum computer secure storage appliances since its foundation in July 2018.

With technical tools for digital self-defence and digital sovereignty, fragmentiX strengthens companies and authorities of all sizes as well as individuals in their ability to safely store their data. Internet giants, hackers and criminals cannot get access to any useful data anymore.

Products have been developed in close cooperation with AIT Austrian Institute of Technology.

NVIDIA is known for graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming and professional markets, as well as system on a chip units for the mobile computing and automotive market. Since 2014 NVIDIA has shifted to become a platform company focused on four markets – gaming, professional visualization, data centers and auto. NVIDIA now also focuses on artificial intelligence.

In addition, NVIDIA provides parallel processing capabilities to researchers and scientists that allow them to efficiently run high-performance applications. They are deployed in supercomputing sites around the world.

VALANX Biotech develops a novel site-specific protein conjugation platform to enable a fast and cost-effective creation of antibody drug conjugates, as well as peptide conjugates and oriented immobilisation for biosensors. VALANX Biotech will receive hands-on support by the newly-established IST CUBE incubator, and has recently moved to a lab bench in the Bertalanffy Foundation building. Additionally, VALANX is among the top 10 selected nominees for the Best of Biotech 2017 award. www.valanx.bio

Ribbon Synthetic Biolabs aims to deliver purpose-built genetic solutions for the current and upcoming synthetic biology challenges. We overcome the limitations faced by DNA chemical synthesis and conventional cloning providing customized, agile, top-notch solutions that cover high-throughput requirements in synthetic DNA. Our approach defines new standards of molecular biology making some existing technologies obsolete. www.ribbonbiolabs.com