Sponsors

DSO National Laboratories (DSO) is Singapore’s largest defence research and development (R&D) organisation. It undertakes indigenous development of advanced defence and weapon systems that provide the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) with the superior technological edge in the battlefield. While its primary focus is to support the SAF, DSO also extends its defence R&D capabilities to support homeland security. With more than 1,800 technical staff, DSO investigates emerging technologies, matures promising ones and integrates them into innovative system concepts to meet Singapore’s defence and security needs. For more information, please visit www.dso.org.sg

ATLANT 3D is a deep-tech company pioneering atomic-scale manufacturing with its Direct Atomic Layer Processing (DALP®) technology, enabling rapid materials discovery and seamless scale-up from lab to production. By digitising materials innovation, the platform allows researchers and industry to develop, test, and integrate new materials significantly faster than traditional methods. ATLANT 3D supports breakthroughs across semiconductors, advanced packaging, energy, and space, while reducing reliance on complex supply chains and enabling more sustainable, localised manufacturing.

At Tecan we are driven to improve people’s lives and health. We do this by empowering our customers to scale healthcare innovation globally from life science to the clinic. We collaborate with our customers in healthcare and the life sciences, from early-stage innovation through project implementation and beyond. We deliver the products, services and solutions that make lab processes and medical procedures precise, reproducible and compliant. This leads to scalable outcomes that are further reaching and ever more valuable to humankind.

b12 Labs is building a full-stack AI platform for pharmaceutical R&D. Their agents plan synthesis routes, design experiments, and control automated lab robots, cutting early-stage chemistry timelines from 4 years to months.The company was founded by Andres Bran and Zlatko Jončev, whose research at EPFL produced the first AI agent to autonomously make molecules in a robotic lab. b12 is backed by Y Combinator and running paid pilots with major pharma companies.

We’re all about helping biologics and gene therapy researchers break free from tools that just don’t cut it. Unleashing problem-tackling solutions and AI-driven automation that make a huge difference in the real science they do every day. That’s our mantra, our promise and we own it.

IOP Publishing is one of the world’s leading learned society physics publishers. Combining the values of a scholarly society with the expertise and efficiency of a global publisher, IOPP delivers impact, recognition, and value to the scientific community. IOPP’s Machine Learning series™ is the world’s first open access journal series dedicated to the application and development of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) for the sciences. The series offers an evolving network of open access journals and builds on the success of Machine Learning: Science and Technology with the same high publishing standards and innovations.

Sea Limited is a global technology company founded in Singapore in 2009. Its mission is to better the lives of consumers and small businesses with technology. Sea operates three core businesses across digital entertainment, e-commerce, as well as digital payments and financial services, known as Garena, Shopee and Monee, respectively. Garena is a leading global online games developer and publisher. Shopee is the largest pan-regional e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and Brazil. Monee is a leading digital payments and financial services provider in Southeast Asia, with a growing presence in Latin America.

The IMDA develops and regulates the infocomm and media sectors to create a dynamic, holistic and exciting ecosystem filled with growth opportunities through talent, research, innovation and enterprise. Singapore has laid the foundation for a thriving ecosystem. As Architects of Singapore’s Digital Future, we strive to ensure businesses, the workforce and the public are ready for a future enabled by infocomm and digital media. As a statutory board in the Singapore government, we seek to deepen regulatory capabilities for a converged infocomm media sector to safeguard the interests of consumers and foster pro-enterprise regulations. Amid the growing use of data, we will also continue to support data protection and innovation in Singapore through our Personal Data Protection Commission to boost public confidence in how personal data is used in the private sector.

QpiAI is a Bangalore-based deep-tech startup pioneering the convergence of Artifi cial Intelligence and Quantum Computing to solve some of the world’s most complex industrial and scientifi c challenges. Recognized under India’s National Quantum Mission and with global centers in Finland and California, QpiAI has developed India’s largest superconducting quantum computer (25 qubits) and integrated it into a high-performance computing (HPC) environment creating a scalable, future-ready quantum data center infrastructure

"JEOL is a leading global supplier of scientific instruments used for research and development in the fields of nanotechnology, life sciences, optical communication, forensics, biotechnology etc. Utilizing its unique technologies, products, services and knowledge, JEOL helps its customers make significant breakthrough in product development and scientific research. JEOL products include scientific instrumentation and industrial equipment, based on five major product groups: Electron Optics, Analytical Instruments, Semiconductor Equipment, Thin Film Coating Systems, and Medical Equipment"

PRX Intelligence is a highly selective, fully open access journal for impactful research in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) that advances the physical sciences and related fields.

The Institut Courtois was established in 2023 by Université de Montréal through an exceptional gift from the Courtois Foundation and is a unique Quebec research institute dedicated to advanced materials. Its mission is to design and understand novel materials through fundamental research, fully integrating artificial intelligence and advanced scientific computing to accelerate discovery. Bringing together leading researchers in chemistry, physics, computer science, and mathematics, the Institute spans the full materials discovery pipeline. Its research targets four transformative areas: quantum technologies, energy transition, environmental sustainability, and smart society technologies, supported by cross-cutting strengths in artificial intelligence, simulation, automation, and data-driven experimentation, and interdisciplinary scientific collaboration.

The AI Robot-Driven Science Initiative (AIRDS) is a Japanese non-profit general incorporated association established to redefine and accelerate scientific research through AI and robotics. It aims to build international networks of researchers, engineers, and companies across academia, industry, and government, promoting co-creation that transcends disciplinary and organizational boundaries. Its activities include community building through regular workshops and annual symposia, research infrastructure development, international collaboration, and policy advocacy.

Digital Discovery is an open access journal that publishes both theoretical and experimental research at the intersection of chemistry, materials science and biotechnology. We focus on the development and application of machine learning, AI and automation tools to unravel scientific problems, and we put data first to ensure reproducibility and faster progress for everyone. Chemists, biologists, engineers, physicists – if your work is driving digital transformation, you are home.”