Upskill provides wearable technology to connect hands-on workers from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite. Its robust platform, Skylight, connects the industrial workforce with the people, processes, information, and equipment they need to do their jobs with greater efficiency and fewer errors, leaving them hands free to focus on their tasks at hand, and their tools. For organizations in the competitive global market looking to increase productivity, improve quality, reduce costs, train new workers, retain tribal knowledge, and provide a strong foundation for further investments, the future starts with Upskill.

Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group Co., Ltd is a leading company specializing in the design and development of ASIC and the provision of total solution in China. In July 1998, Fudan Microelectronics was jointly founded by by Fudan University State Key Laboratory of Application Specific Integrated Circuits and Systems, the Shanghai Commercial Investment Company and several entrepreneurs. Since its establishment, In 2000, Fudan Microelectronics was listed (stock code: 1385) in Hong Kong, has become the domestic IC design industry's first listed company. Today, Fudan Microelectronics has nearly 800 employees, with users around the world. In 2011 Fudan Microelectronics topped Forbes Asia's "Best Small listed companies" list.

Aptomar is a leading provider of Integrated Field Monitoring sensors, systems and services for the oil and gas industry. The company focuses on protecting the safety and integrity of people, the environment and assets by managing; 24/7 oil spill detection and combating, surveillance and security as well as search and rescue in close cooperation with Industry. Year founded: 2005

ei3 powers turnkey, premium machine-builder Industrial Internet programs with its scalable multi-tenant platform. We connect to thousands of industrial devices in more than 150 countries to gather data, compute analytics and deliver actionable information in a white-labeled user experience. ei3‘s solutions improve asset performance, increase yield, transform service business, predict maintenance, and reduce energy consumption.

Supercharge your workforce with Skylight Deliver higher productivity, higher quality, and reduced costs with wearable computing and Augmented Reality solutions. Easily and quickly deliver customized enterprise apps for smart glasses, smart phones, tablets, and Augmented Reality devices. Skylight abstracts the tedious plumbing and infrastructure required for app development, integration, deployment, and management.

Workers interact with a simple, intuitive software interface available directly in their line-of-sight via smart glasses, smartphones, tablets or Microsoft HoloLens.

Using proprietary technology and commercially available sensors, Aptomar merges remotely monitored sensor data into a single display and distributes it to create a real-time common operating picture. Experienced operators interpret the combined sensor data and intervene when necessary to alert and support the offshore operator in case of an incident. In 2014– as a response to numerous oil companies who want the industry to take a broader, more systematic approach to field monitoring – Aptomar established a new maritime control center in Trondheim, Norway. The center is called Aptomarin. Aptomarin combines 24/7 competence and monitoring capacity, with robust detection and an efficient and controlled emergency response management. Aptomarin consists of master mariners and professionals with extensive maritime and nautical competence.

ei3 develops and hosts an Internet of Things Platform-as-a-Service for global brand owners, manufacturers and machine builders to achieve savings by applying ei3‘s IoT technologies Founded in 1999 to deliver the Industrial Internet, ei3 delivers a mature line of solutions that create business value by improving asset utilization, powering service & aftermarket programs, saving energy and improving quality. A leader within the fields of the Industrial Internet, Industrie 4.0 and Machine-to-Machine communications, ei3 has been named by Gartner as a cool vendor in 2016, been on the M2M 100 every year published, and acknowledged by the US Department of Energy as an Energy Star Service Provider of Excellence.

Boeing, GE, Ryder, Merck, Accenture, Deloitte

BG Group, Eni Norge, Fafnir Offshore, O.M. Rønning

Bobst, Milacron, Lenze, Hilton Worldwide, B & W Megtec, Pro Mach, Graphic Packaging International, Sonoco, Amcor, Bemis, Klockner, Paperworks, Paceworx