Sponsors

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.

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.

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.

JEOL is a leading global supplier of scientific instruments used for research and development in nanotechnology, life sciences, optical communication, forensics, biotechnology, and related fields. Utilizing its unique technologies, products, services, and knowledge, JEOL helps its customers make significant breakthroughs 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 strengths in artificial intelligence, simulation, automation, data-driven experimentation, and interdisciplinary scientific collaboration.