Netherlands in the USA

The Netherlands is home to ninja innovators across sectors — entrepreneurs and creative thinkers that are solving some of the world’s toughest challenges. As one of CTA’s International Innovation Champions, we’re thrilled to welcome them back to CES to share their ideas with a global audience.

AMSTERDAM and SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB)
December 15, 2020

The Kingdom of the Netherlands today announced the 80+ delegation of startups and scale-ups that will take part January 11 – 14 in the Netherlands Pavilion at the all-digital CES 2021, the global stage for innovation. For the fifth consecutive year, the Netherlands will showcase its tech solutions aimed at solving global challenges. Preview the CES 2021 Netherlands delegation here.

“The Netherlands is home to ninja innovators across sectors — entrepreneurs and creative thinkers that are solving some of the world’s toughest challenges,” said Gary Shapiro, Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® president and CEO. “As one of CTA’s International Innovation Champions, we’re thrilled to welcome them back to CES to share their ideas with a global audience.”

The Dutch technology solutions on display this year at CES 2021 include:

Advanced Materials

• Eurekite: Materials for the products of tomorrow, including Flexiramics®, a flexible, ceramic, fiber-based technology.
• IME Medical Electrospinning: Revolutionizing medical devices using nanotechnology that helps the body to heal itself.
• MantiSpectra: The power of NIR (near infrared) spectroscopy on-a-chip: we produce spectral sensors capable of understanding the composition of materials using just light.
• Simbeyond: Accelerates development of advanced materials and high-tech devices such as OLED displays with high-performance simulation software.

Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Quantum Computing

• Amberscript: Provides transcription and subtitling services powered by automatic speech-to-text engines with the highest accuracy in the market.
• Braincreators: Delivers digital inspectors for the construction, manufacturing and infrastructure sectors that automate repetitive tasks so you can scale your business more effectively and cost-efficiently.
• Delft Circuits: Hardware for quantum engineers.
• Experience Data: Humanized AI solutions for better operational decision making by experts.
• Lalaland.ai: AI-generated human models for eCommerce fashion and apparel webshops.
• Orange Quantum Systems: Helps R&D labs accelerate their research into quantum computing.
• Qblox: Pushing quantum technology to support scientists and institutions worldwide with scalable, low-latency qubit control equipment.
• Quantum Delta: a fully functional national ecosystem for excellence in quantum innovation, for highly talented professionals to bring quantum computers, quantum networks and quantum sensors to the market.
• Quantum Inspire: The multi-hardware quantum technology platform.
• RetinaScope: Ophthalmological solutions for screening and telemedicine in combination with AI and big data.
• RosemanLabs: Creates new data business models that transform how organizations handle sensitive data, with unprecedented compliance, privacy and rapid deployment.
• Semiotic Labs: Eliminate unplanned downtime and energy waste at industry leaders worldwide.

Energy/Power and Climate Change

• Carbyon: Helps to reverse climate change through a uniquely efficient carbon dioxide removal technology.
• Carver: A 100% electric-powered urban vehicle.
• Incooling: Cooling down the planet, one server at a time.
• ISISpace Group: Global emission monitoring from space.
• Leyden Jar Technologies: Boosting battery energy by more than 70% with pure silicon anodes for consumer electronics, electric vehicles and residential energy storage.
• Lightyear: World’s first ultra-energy efficient, long-range solar powered, electric car.
• Micro Turbine Technology: Accelerating the energy transition for historical buildings.
• Squad Mobility: An affordable, solar-electric two-seater urban vehicle.
• Skoon Energy: Clean Energy on Demand: making mobile energy clean, accessible and affordable with our SaaS-Enabled Marketplace.
• SoundEnergy: Converts waste heat into usable cooling via soundwaves.
• Urban Mobility Systems: Develops and manufactures BEVs (battery electric vehicles) and electrification systems for construction equipment enabling zero-emission transport and construction.

Enterprise Solutions

• DAN.com: Blockchain-powered Domain Automation Network that makes unused domains accessible for all.
• Dimenco: Simulated Reality – interacting with 3D objects in a virtual environment, without the need of any wearables.
• DeltaProto: Builders of the best pick-and-place cobot (collaborative robot) for proto PCB assembly in the world.
• Expivi: Interactive 3D and AR for personalized e-commerce.
• Quant Base: Software tooling to visualize, analyze and communicate data.
• Tapp: 100% recyclable smart paper embedded with added intelligence (microchips, sensors, printed circuits and printed batteries) that measures, remembers and transmits temperature data throughout the entire supply chain by simply holding a smartphone next to it — with no additional hardware or apps required.
• WeHardware: Provides hardware CTO services for product realization and supply chain management.

Robotics and Future of Work

• DialogueTrainer: An online platform for communication skills training.
• Knowtice: Helps build resilient organizations; the first automated, self-service and most user-friendly solution ever for (e)valuating the knowledge capital of organizations.
• Meeting Select: The global meeting management platform to book all-sized meetings real-time worldwide.
• SenseGlove: Develops force and haptic feedback gloves that enable professionals to feel and interact with virtual objects for VR training and research purposes.
• SwipeGuide: Eliminates useless instructions and delivers the most intuitive way to standardize work in the manufacturing industry.

Digital Health and Wellness Technologies

• Absolute Audio Labs: Powering high-definition audio hearing aids.
• AlphaBeats: An app that turns your smartphone or wearable device into a biosensor; AI-powered biofeedback signals enhance your favorite music — as you relax, music fidelity increases.
• Breath In Balanz: A unique breathing, coaching and feedback system that improves or restores your breathing pattern using the BreathBalanz app, sensor and belt.
• Clementine: The most user-friendly and effective awareness solutions for hearing care.
• CRDL: An interactive ‘instrument’ that enables a new form of non-verbal communication for those with dementia, autism or learning disabilities.
• Delta Diagnostics: The optical biosensing company that uses its novel photonic chip technology to enable fast and inexpensive development of new diagnostic tests.
• ECG-Excellence: Changing the landscape of noninvasive cardiac diagnostics (again).
• Hable One: Accessible computer interfaces for the blind and visually impaired.
• LipoCoat: Bio-inspired coatings for infection control of medical devices
• Neurocast: True passive patient monitoring.
• Surfix: Photonic biosensor for detecting COVID-19 antibodies.
• TNO Holst Centre: Flexible electronics innovations to respond to the global societal challenges of tomorrow.
• Tover: Evidence-based game-system that improves the quality of life of dementia patients.

Cybersecurity and Resilience

• DEN Smart Home: Turn your house into a smart home with our locking system. Connect DEN to your smartphone to unlock your door remotely. Safety with ease, everywhere.
• Didux: We protect your privacy with blockchain technology.
• Dynaxion: Identifies explosives and drugs in parcels and suitcases. For a safer and healthier world.
• Oddity: First company to develop a commercial violence recognition algorithm using advanced deep learning techniques.
• OPNT: OPNT’s Timing-as-a-Service delivers subnanosecond secured timing as a reliable alternative for GPS signals.
• Pandora Intelligence: Advanced data analytics to predict future behavior.
• X-SYSTEMS: High assurance secure mobile IoT for governments (defense departments) and large enterprises; delivers secure mobile and IoT solutions to protect critical information and communication on end-points and throughout the end-to-end process.

Smart Cities and Smart Mobility

• AurAir: Practical solutions for indoor air quality monitoring.
• CASTODIAN: A one-of-a-kind, intelligent, multi-sensor device for motorcycle helmets that provides motorcyclists with unparalleled, life-saving information, insights and advice.                    
• Citybeacon: Telco-grade intelligent infrastructure that transforms cities into hyperconnected, data-driven environments that enable cities, citizens and IoT devices to deliver relevant experiences, services and functions in beautiful form factors.
• CopSonic: Contactless communication technology achieved through microphones and speakers that allows highly secure communication and interaction between two smartphones via sound waves — with no internet connection required.
• EDGE Next: Uses data to make smarter, healthier and more sustainable buildings.
• Hardt Hyperloop: A world where distance does not matter — a 10,000 kilometer hyperloop network crossing national borders.
• PAL-V: The world’s first commercial flying car, PAL-V Liberty is on the forefront of future mobility by using existing regulations and infrastructure.
• TRIBUS: Makers of Movitas, the highly agile and efficient, zero-emission city bus of the future.
• VTEC Lasers & Sensors: Technology and products for creating, transporting, bundling and analyzing data.
• Ximedes: We help our customers to develop their ideas into software, to stay ahead of their competition.

Sustainability and Circularity

• Aectual: The easy-to-use 3D print design-to-delivery platform that enables rapid, high-quality customized production of 3D printed architectural products at industrial scale; Faster, circular, 50% more affordable and 100% sustainable.
• Birds.ai: Bringing new insights to asset managers through data and AI.
• Circularise: Using blockchain to drive supply chain transparency.
• Closing the Loop: Pragmatic sustainability for IT.
• D2D Water Solutions: Develop, produce and supply smart purification systems for water to use at home, in offices, schools or wherever clean water is needed.
• Follow: Where transformation starts; a social network that makes sense.
• Hydraloop Systems: Award-winning smart, decentralized, self-cleaning graywater recycling products for homes, office buildings, hotels, student housing, sports clubs and more.

5G Technologies, IoT/Sensors, Photonics and Nanotech

• Aircision: Empowering the high-speed connected world.
• AlarmSecur.com: An IoT platform that integrates any sensor-triggered device (i.e. alarm system) with CCTV and sends push notifications to your phone.
• Hiber: IoT solution by satellite.
• i4Things: Smart home made easy; removes the complexity of multiple, incompatible apps.
• Morphotonics: Develops and sells roll-to-plate (R2P) OEM production technology for imprinting nano- or microstructures on extremely large area substrates.
• Olisto: Making connected devices and digital services work together, following rules you set yourself.
• Photon Delta: An ecosystem to accelerate integrated photonics solutions.

The Netherlands CES mission will kick-off on January 11, 2021 with a virtual round table with Silicon Valley Bank Executives and US-based Venture Capitalists. The Netherlands will engage its worldwide Innovation Attaché Network to help generate leads for the Dutch exhibitors at CES. A Netherlands CES Innovation RoadShow will make virtual stops at innovation hubs in Tokyo, Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul, Singapore, New Delhi, Istanbul, Tel-Aviv, Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, London and Boston.

Contact NLatCES2021@wearemgp.com to set up a meeting with the Netherlands companies for CES 2021. Access the press kit here.

About The Netherlands in the USA

The Netherlands ranks fourth on the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Index and has continuously ranked as one of the top four foreign investors in the US for multiple years. More than 825K jobs in the United States are the result of the strong economic relations with the Netherlands. Through Holland in the Valley, the Dutch ecosystem in the Bay Area, the Consulate General of the Netherlands in San Francisco empowers Dutch entrepreneurs and talent to innovate and scale in the US by offering a network, content and programs. Learn more at https://nlintheusa.com.    

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Waggl is the recipient of a Gold Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Award for Best Advance in Employee Engagement Technology

“HR professionals understand the value of Employee Voice, and are ready to utilize it as a tool for boosting engagement,” said Michael Papay, Co-founder and CEO, Waggl. “And with many organizations still operating remotely, engagement is becoming even more critical to achieving ongoing success.”

SAUSALITO, Calif. (PRWEB)
December 10, 2020

Waggl, the most powerful Employee Voice platform for strategic HR and organizational leaders, today announced that it is the recipient of two Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards: A Gold Award for Best Advance in Employee Engagement Technology and a Silver Award for Best Technology Innovation for the Remote Workforce.

Brandon Hall’s Excellence in Technology Awards Program emphasizes the value of collaboration between HCM leaders, business leaders and technology developers. A panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, and Brandon Hall Group senior analysts and executives evaluated the entries. Winners must meet the needs of all stakeholders, especially the end-users.

“We are honored to receive these two highly esteemed accolades from Brandon Hall, and believe that they serve as a significant validation in the importance of Employee Voice,” said Michael Papay, Co-founder and CEO, Waggl. “HR professionals understand the value of Employee Voice, and are ready to utilize it as a tool for boosting engagement. And with many organizations still operating remotely, engagement is becoming even more critical to achieving ongoing success.”

Waggl is an Employee Voice platform that helps organizations measure and improve engagement through simple data visualizations and meaningful crowdsourced dialogue between managers, leaders and teams. Over the past six years, Waggl has evolved its platform from a lightweight, consumer-driven app to a robust Enterprise Platform capable of supporting organizations with many thousands of employees. The company has also rebuilt its foundation/underlying architecture to better support and scale with the organizations whose leaders, managers, and employees depend on it as their Employee Voice Platform. In tandem with that, Waggl undertook an audit to attain SOC 2 Type II Compliance, a premiere designation that marks the company’s commitment to data integrity and ensures that it meets best-in-class security standards.

Developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), SOC 2 is an auditing procedure that ensures 3rd party service providers are securely managing data to protect the interests of customers and the privacy of their clients. SOC 2 defines criteria for managing customer data based on five “trust service principles”—security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy. The Type II SOC Report details the operational effectiveness of a vendor’s systems and certifies that they meet relevant trust principles.

“Waggl has always maintained the strongest commitment to the information security and data integrity of its clients,” said Drew Batshaw, Co-founder and CTO, Waggl. “Our SOC 2 Type II Compliance will help to reassure our customers that we are taking all of the steps necessary to keep their data safe. The rigorous process of the SOC 2 audit helped us further codify and strengthen our security and data protection practices.”

In addition to its SOC 2 Type II compliance, Waggl continues to add new features and functionality designed to enhance safety and make the platform more collaborative:

• Crowd Flagging. Waggl’s crowd moderation tool is a safety feature that allows employees to bring posts that they feel are inappropriate to the moderator’s attention.
• Redesigned Pulse Creation. Waggl’s new pulse creation process is easier to use, and offers the ability to save drafts and edits.
• Enterprise Reporting Capabilities. Waggl has upgraded its reporting solutions to include enhanced, interactive results for managers and a suite of exportable spreadsheet-based reports for advanced analysis.
• Multi-Language Pulsing. This capability enables many of Waggl’s partners to deliver a more inclusive solution to their diverse multi-lingual employee populations.

In the past few months, Waggl has been repeatedly honored for its product innovation and technology advancements. Lighthouse Research and Advisory named the Waggl Engagement (WE) Solution as the “Best Innovative or Emerging Tech Solution” in Talent Management; the 2020 CEO World Awards recognized Waggl with a Silver Award for Best New Product in the category of “Technology Software”; and Inspiring Workplaces, commended the company as “Vendor of the Year” for the second consecutive year. Waggl is also the recipient of a Bronze Golden Bridge Award in the category of “Best Technology To Combat and Reduce the Impact of COVID-19” for its “Putting People First” initiative and earned a 2020 Stevie® Award for Great Employers in the category of “Most Innovative Use of HR Technology During the Pandemic.” In addition, Waggl earned several Fall 2020 G2 awards, including “High Performer,” Easiest to do Business With,” and “Best Support.”

To learn more about Waggl, please visit https://www.waggl.com/.

About Waggl

Waggl is an Employee Voice platform that helps organizations measure and improve engagement through simple data visualizations and meaningful crowdsourced dialogue between managers, leaders and teams. Inspired by the waggle dance honeybees do to communicate vital information, Waggl believes every voice matters. Unlike heavy surveys or basic pulse tools, Waggl is a dialogue-first approach to engagement that creates shared ownership through inclusive team-based action planning.

With a seasoned Executive Team and premiere customers including Freddie Mac, Paychex, Heineken, 3M, Mastercard, UCSF Medical Center, McGraw Hill, Taylor Morrison and Parsons, Waggl partners with leading enterprises to harness the collective intelligence of their people. For more information and an expanded customer list, please visit https://www.waggl.com.

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