The Austrian Retail Association / Handelsverband is the spokesman and partner of the Austrian retail companies since 1921 and is active as a political independent advocacy group and innovation platform in order to accompany its members in the context of changing market challenges.

In addition to its members, which generate more than 50 Billion Euros annually with more than 415.000 employees at 20.000 locations all over Austria, numerous companies of various specializations are associated with the Austrian Retails Association as partners.

Fintech Belgium is the first and biggest community of Fintechers in Belgium. It is a community for financial professionals, startup entrepreneurs and investors, who are interested in discovering and discussing disruptive business models and new technology for the financial services industry.

With a digital think tank made up of 135 scientists, Comma Soft operates at the interface between people and technology, the possible and the impossible, the new and the unprecedented. The profit is measurable - often after a few days or weeks. Find out how they were able to produce less scrap at a car manufacturer through data mining and AI and save € 40 million in a very short time. Or how they support research-based pharmaceutical companies. Or how an innovative bank with machine learning automatically takes over the savings for its customers.

Comma Soft doesn't see digitization as the sole solution to small or complex problems. Artificial intelligence and the sudden transparency of networked information and knowledge architectures accelerate processes and thus entire organizations. Smart technologies unleash fresh options for action, secure a sustainable lead and inspire new business areas. Comma Soft enables the controlled collision of business and research. The released energies materialize into something new: usable innovation.

OnlineMarketing.de is the leading, German-speaking portal for online marketing topics. With round about 240,000 visits a month this portal applies to be the signifier of the branche. Beside daily scoop, news, hints and expert interviews OnlineMarketing.de also provides an index of providers and a job exchange for the branche.

WELCOME TO ALD VACUUM TECHNOLOGIES. As the world’s leading manufacturer of vacuum equipment for vacuum metallurgy and heat treatment, they employ approx. 900 people in 10 countries. ALD sets standards through innovative products, state-of-the-art technology, comprehensive service and maximum flexibility. Integrated in a listed Group environment, they understand how to give their employees freedom, to transfer responsibility and to promote them.

ALD Vacuum Technologies supplies equipment and systems for thermal and thermo chemical treatment of metallic materials in solid and liquid form. The company`s competence consists on the one hand of its mastery in vacuum process technology and on the other hand of ist know-how in designing custom-tailored system solutions for use in this field.

ALD is noted for its superb know-how basis, high investments in research and development and its strategic alliances. Close collaborations with well-known manufacturers in operator companies have strengthened its position as a supplier of key technologies to major growth markets.

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Growing digital opportunities and volatility reinforce advertisers' need for control. Digital marketing players must be optimally positioned and pursue a concrete strategy, especially in the areas of ad tech infrastructure, privacy, data activation and ultimately also in operationalisation and campaign management.
PIA Media helps to transform our clients' marketing processes and successively build knowledge regarding new technologies and their targeted use for relevant customer communication in organisations - leading digital marketing, end-2-end, with the ability to scale quickly.

The unbelievable Machine Company is the specialist for Big Data / Data Science and Cloud Services. The ground­breaking solutions and services of the company have already garnered many awards. *um was the only European provider named by Gartner as Cool Vendor in the category of "Information Infrastructure and Big Data"​, and recently selected by the Experton Group as a "Big Data Leader"​ for the third consecutive year. They are self proclaimed technology freaks and they also solve the most difficult strategic challenges in business.

DocuMatrix was founded in 1999. As an innovative software company based in Lower Austria, the business areas are in the area of ​​output management and document composition.

The area of ​​activity extends from consulting and product sales to the implementation and maintenance of solutions that are based in the web and multichannel output area.

Our customers are represented nationally and internationally. In addition to large service providers such as insurance companies, banks or energy supply companies, the main sales sectors for our products are also industrial companies that benefit from our solutions.

Under the name IT-Schulungen.com, the Nuremberg-based New Elements GmbH has been operating one of the most prominent training centres in the German-speaking world for over two decades. The training centre is located in the renowned Nordostpark in Nuremberg, within the historically significant former Bell Laboratories premises of Alcatel-Lucent. The course offerings include traditional IT topics as well as innovative training in leadership, IT management, data science, big data analysis, business intelligence, machine learning, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence.

New Elements GmbH maintains training partnerships with leading international institutions such as LPI, Linux Foundation, EC-Council, ISC2, EXIN, and CompTIA, as well as with prominent companies like AWS, Microsoft, and Alibaba Cloud. With a pool of over 600 certified and qualified permanent trainers, the training centre covers a wide range of more than 2500 training topics. An overview of the training portfolio can be found here: https://www.it-schulungen.com/seminare/index.html.

Kodobe offers a set of tools and APIs that makes it easy for enterprises to apply gamification for rapid and sustainable growth in transactions and revenue.

With Kodobe gamification, our customers are able to attain up to 3X growth in their revenue. Our platform is suitable for large and medium B2C enterprises looking to leverage the techniques of gamification to drive real and fun engagements with their customers that will guarantee customers are always active and transacting.

Kodobe vision is to be the #1 provider of enterprise gamification services that is focused on transactions and revenue growth.

Kodobe is a team of experienced data scientists and software experts. The team works closely with their clients on every step of the way to ensure their business get maximum benefits from gamification. Their technical integration process is simple and quick from mapping out business KPIs to gamification efforts, to ensuring that all issues relating to customer data privacy and enterprise security is not compromised.

q.beyond AG stands for successful digitization. We support our customers in finding the best digital solutions for their business, implementing them, and operating them. Our strong team of 1,100 employees brings our medium-sized customers safely through the digital transformation, with extensive expertise in the areas of cloud, SAP, and SaaS.

q.beyond AG emerged from QSC AG in September 2020. The company has locations throughout Germany, has its own certified data centers, and is one of the leading IT service providers.

NTT Ltd. is a leading, global technology services company. We’re here to enable the connected future. We come together to make the world a better place, and every day we use the power of technology to make it happen. We employ curious people who are ready to change the world. Through the work we do with our clients and in our communities, we find ways that technology can make a positive impact. We call it technology for good. That’s our focus and it extends well beyond the bottom line. We believe in using technology for good. This means helping organizations and society transform and move into the future with a partner they can trust. At the heart of our business are relationships built on loyalty, commitment and a shared belief in what’s possible when we work together: a better world for us all to live in. Working with organizations around the world, we achieve business outcomes through intelligent technology solutions.

At Objectivity, they do more than just developing software. Objectivity helps their clients to solve their business challenges through digital transformation. They deliver a wide range of digital transformation solutions: web and desktop applications IoT, Big Data, Machine Learning, proactive maintenance and support.

Digitization is having an increasing impact on the relationship between customers and companies. Consumers expect individual advice in real time, individual offers and digital services that are available at all times. And a sustainable customer experience.

The software company SYNCPILOT offers digital industry solutions and products for sales and customer relationship management.

UXPressia is a CX platform for UX professionals that helps them create dynamic and highly visual customer journey maps and personas while dramatically saving their time.

Platform.sh is a unified, secure, enterprise-grade platform for building, running, and scaling fleets of websites and applications.

The mission is to enable forward-thinking, organizations to build, iterate, and responsibly scale amazing digital experiences—with zero time managing infrastructure.

The values:
- Striving for a positive impact
- Caring for each other and we are fair
- Aiming for the stars; we get there one step at a time

Syreta has already successfully accompanied a wide variety of well-known companies on their way into online business. When it comes to the interlinking of digital and stationary forms of distribution, the bundled competence of the Syreta specialists is required: technical know-how, comprehensive understanding of business processes and experience from numerous implemented e-commerce projects as well as the management of stationary sales areas. With Syreta uni retail technology gmbh, the experts from Wels have now also physically arrived at the stationary area with the integration of technologies. Syreta thus offers customers a 360-degree solution for retail.

Sitecore is the leading provider of end-to-end digital experience software. Our SaaS-enabled, composable platform empowers brands to deliver unforgettable customer interactions.

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Screevo is a voice assistant for Industry 4.0 capable of controlling any machine or software system via voice, without any necessary integration. Screevo eliminates on-screen interaction for data entry into the system, allowing operators and technicians to save up to 40% of their time.

iXtenso - the magazine for retailers focuses on current topics from industry and retail and informs about trends from the retail sector. Innovations, case studies and a comprehensive manufacturer and product directory complete the offered services.

t3n, the magazine of the digital economy, delivers current developments and trends in the internet industry online and in the quarterly print magazine. The editorial team provides well-founded and practical information about e-business, social media, web technology and design as well as digital future topics and provides all the relevant information for success in digital business. t3n offers useful content for a unique, dedicated community: web workers and creatives, startup founders and managers, marketers and media makers.

BAYOONET AG is a leading software development company founded in 2001. More than 130 employees at locations in Darmstadt, Munich and Berlin develop software applications in the medical and enterprise sectors - from mobile apps to platforms supported by CMS and e-commerce to digital transformation solutions.

Over 800 satisfied customers, primarily mid-sized corporation and large enterprises, benefit from almost 20 years of experience, a broad technological know-how and the expert knowledge of the BAYOONET team in a variety of industries.

The team at BAYOOTEC Enterprise Software (BAYOOTEC.COM) specializes in the development of CMS-based digital platforms, marketplaces, e-commerce portals and complex state-of-the-art business software solutions. We support large enterprises in the strategic and operational digitalization of their business models.

A management consultancy with a passion for the digitalisation of companies. They inspire medium-sized companies / medium-sized groups with the optimisation of processes and business models through data transparency and use.

The focus is on the company-wide implementation of digital solutions and the automation of processes; especially through individually programmed software using AI. The consultants of JUST EXPERTS take over the digital strategy development for the entire company or sub-areas (for example, production or administration) and the subsequent management of the experts (concept and implementation) as "bridge builders" and MAKERS.

The solutions are implemented professionally, sustainably and competently, up to the effective integration of technological progress in the company.

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We are in the business of custom software engineering.

We started out as a software product company and inherited the engineering culture of innovation. Our experience from having built product software and solutions for 6 of the 100 largest software firms in the world has helped us build software that is scalable, robust, secure, cloud native, and accessible across multiexperience environments. We deliver software solutions for leading enterprises and ISVs in the finance, healthcare, insurance, media, telecom, retail, and technology sectors.

Our purpose is to be relevant to our customers’ business needs and our associates’ aspirations. We strive to be relevant to our customers by staying ahead of the constantly changing business and technology landscape. We have and will always be relevant to our associates—to their aspirations, satisfaction and happiness.

We have a proud heritage of custom software engineering that is part of our DNA. For over 25 years, we have been engineering and delivering technology solutions that are relevant to our customers and winning their trust.

Starmind is the smartest, fastest and most intuitive way to connect employees to the expert knowledge they need. Its human-centric patented AI learns who knows what on any given topic and identifies the best colleague to help solve a problem, regardless of their title, department or location.

Some of the world`s largest organizations are currently using Starmind to boost productivity, break down silos, retain knowledge, and help new joiners get up to speed. With a 95% resolution rate, it puts a stop to endless searching, solves the problem of information overload and removes the need for inefficient knowledge management and sharing tools.

Starmind transforms the way the world works by freeing expert knowledge for everyone.