European Innovation Council pavilion highlights advances spanning sovereign AI infrastructure, quantum computing and cyber resilience at GITEX AI Europe
Fifteen companies backed by the European Innovation Council (EIC) will take part in GITEX AI Europe 2026 in Berlin tomorrow, exhibiting within a dedicated pavilion that gathers European deep-tech startups and scaleups for the event’s second edition.
GITEX AI Europe 2026 takes place over two days, 30 June to 1 July, at Messe Berlin, drawing more than 950 enterprise tech exhibitors and startups. The EIC, overseeing a €10.1 billion programme that backs high-potential European companies, is taking part through its International Trade Fairs Programme 3.0. Companies on the exhibitor list include Astrape Networks, CH-Bioforce, Classiq, Dronamics, Enersens, everox, Innatera, Invoier, Oledcomm, OniO and SpiNNcloud, among others.
The pavilion’s presence comes shortly after an EIC Accelerator funding round selected 38 European start-ups and SMEs for support, with combined proposed grant funding reaching €90 million.
Momchil Sabev, Director, EISMEA, EIC, said: “The EIC’s objective is to connect Europe’s most innovative companies with global markets and investors. We’re happy to return to GITEX AI EUROPE to do exactly this, as part of our long‑standing strategic partnership.”
From quantum ambitions to physical AI
Among the exhibitors is SemiQon, a Finnish firm building cryo-optimised CMOS electronics to address one of quantum computing’s most persistent technical hurdles: scalability. The company designs electronics built to function within cryogenic conditions, an approach it says cuts system complexity, power consumption and cost relative to conventional methods.
“Quantum computers have the potential to transform our world, from simulating new medicines and modelling climate systems to optimising energy grids and securing communications. But today’s quantum computers are not yet powerful enough to deliver on this promise, and a key barrier is scalability,” said Yukihisa Tsuruta, Business Development Director at SemiQon.
Belgium’s VoxelSensors builds perception technology for robotics and Extended Reality applications. Its LyraCam/P platform combines several sensing modalities within a single multimodal unit, built to enhance how machines interpret and move through physical space. The system has already reached customer pilot stage and is both designed and manufactured in Europe.
“At GITEX AI EUROPE, we are demonstrating that the next generation of Physical AI begins with superior data acquisition,” said Andre Miodezky, CGO and President, VoxelSensors. “We aren’t just capturing environments; we are giving Physical AI the real-time sight it needs to safely navigate in the physical world.”
Cybersecurity and AI infrastructure
Spain’s Alias Robotics, a returning exhibitor from GITEX AI EUROPE 2025, will bring cybersecurity solutions built for robots and autonomous machines, an area the firm sees as growing in importance as autonomous systems take on larger roles within critical infrastructure and industrial settings.
Endika Gil-Uriarte, CEO, Alias Robotics, said: “AI for cybersecurity is rapidly becoming a strategic capability and technological enabler for security teams in NIS2 sectors. Alias Robotics is the ‘European champion at sovereign AI for cybersecurity,’ designed to give organisations greater control, resilience, and technological advantage against an AI-driven threat landscape.”
French semiconductor firm VSORA will introduce Jotunn8, an AI inference processor the company describes as offering stronger performance alongside reduced energy use and lower total cost of ownership versus existing alternatives.
Jan Pantzar, VP Sales and Marketing, VSORA, said: “As Europe strengthens its position in deep tech and AI infrastructure, VSORA is contributing by building scalable and energy-efficient AI inference technology designed for the next generation of AI workloads.”
Innovation World Cup and European Night
On day one of the event, the EIC will host the Innovation World Cup pitch competition on the Main Stage (16:20–17:05), where European deep-tech startups will each deliver 90-second pitches before an audience of investors and industry leaders. Alongside this, the invite-only European Night reception will bring together investors, venture capitalists and business leaders from across Europe for networking and dealmaking on the event’s sidelines.
Europe’s innovation ecosystem
The EIC Pavilion at GITEX AI Europe 2026 covers quantum computing, AI infrastructure, cyber resilience and autonomous systems — areas where European companies are vying for position within a global market increasingly defined by considerations of sovereign technology.
GITEX AI Europe is run by inD, the newly established joint venture between Dubai World Trade Centre and Informa, which also organises GITEX, the world’s largest network of tech and AI events. The two-day annual event receives backing from the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises and Berlin Partner for Business and Technology.
