Five winners for the first Luxembourg AI Excellence Awards

The first Luxembourg AI Excellence Awards ceremony, held as part of the NEXUS Luxembourg 2025 conference at Luxexpo The Box, recognised five projects from among the 55 submitted to the jury.

Initiated by FEDIL, in partnership with Luxinnovation and with the support of the Chamber of Commerce, this competition aims to celebrate excellence in artificial intelligence in Luxembourg. It honours bold innovative projects, significant technological breakthroughs and concrete applications of AI for the benefit of the economy, society or the environment.

"I can only congratulate and thank all the startups that applied for these very first awards. Their diversity, creativity, and exceptional quality fully demonstrate the dynamism of AI innovation in Luxembourg", notes Fateh Amroune, Luxembourg AI Factory Lead at Luxinnovation.

Neon Internet, Jury’s Coup de Cœur for the "LetzAI" project.The first Luxembourg AI Excellence Awards winners are:

• Fischer S.A. in the "AI Adoption" category for the project "AI-enhanced order management": The bakery company developed, in partnership with Resultance, an AI-based order recommendation system. This system predicts daily demand and recommends optimal order quantities for each product and each point of sale. Tested in 10 stores, the solution led to a 4% increase in sales and a 1.5% reduction in waste. It is currently being rolled out across the entire network, with an expected return on investment within three months. 
• Cebi International S.A. & DataThings S.A. in the "AI for Industry Excellence" category for the "Predictive" project: Cebi International, which develops and produces electromechanical components for the automotive and household appliance industries, has developed “Predictive”, its own operational digital twin based on AI, in partnership with DataThings and the SnT of the University of Luxembourg. It integrates real-time data from production, energy, maintenance, and quality, helping teams anticipate issues and optimise efficiency. This technology demonstrated rapid return on investment: up to 60% scrap reduction in just six months, 20% boost in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) within the first year, and significant manufacturing costs savings. 
• Luxscan Technologies S.à r.l. in the "AI for Sustainable Business" category for the project "AI vision systems for primary transformation in the wood industry": The transverse wood scanner project integrates advanced AI into a next-gen scanner to assess and classify timber in real-time during transversal transport. Combining traditional scanning hardware with deep learning models, it detects, segments, and classifies wood features with unprecedented speed and precision. Unlike longitudinal systems, this transverse scanner enables very high speeds. Trained on vast datasets, the AI makes real-time decisions on defect detection for sorting, cutting, or rerouting lumber, enhancing yield and quality. 
• Data Design Engineering S.à r.l. in the "AI Innovation Excellence" category for the project "Intelligence on Edge Device Offline AI Technology": An on edge device offline AI technology, embedding AI models within robots and unmanned equipment for autonomous operations even offline. Utilizing compressed Large Multi-Model (LMM) AI systems, it supports real-time decision-making, planning, and human interaction without cloud reliance. Core capabilities include SWARM AI, high AI model density integration, AI-driven sensor fusion, collision avoidance, offline SLAM, autonomous navigation, and domain-specific language models. 
• Neon Internet, Jury’s Coup de Cœur for the "LetzAI" project: a creative platform that allows generation of images simply by tagging it in a text. Users can personalise their experience by adding AI models to the community, including themselves, their products, or their unique artistic styles. An AI model acts as a digital clone, trained on your images to generate new pictures by tagging its unique name in prompts. Currently supporting image content, LetzAI's opt-in methodology can extend to video, audio, or voice.

"These innovative projects illustrate the ability of our companies to integrate artificial intelligence into their research, development and innovation processes. It is a key driver of competitiveness, helping to strengthen the Luxembourg economy," emphasised Elisabeth Margue, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister for Media and Connectivity, during the ceremony. 

A next edition is already planned for 2026.