Fedil has placed AI at the heart of its strategy, viewing it as a driver of competitiveness and economic transformation; a catalyst for growth, excellence and sovereignty. For the Federation of Industrialists, promoting it is an economic necessity. , CEO of LuxConnect – a member company of Fedil – highlighted the growing importance of artificial intelligence within Luxembourg’s industrial landscape and sees the Luxembourg Excellence Awards as a showcase for the creativity and technological responsibility of local businesses.
Addressing the Minister of state for media and connectivity having come to preside over the awards ceremony, he called for European regulations that simplify and harmonise existing rules rather than adding to their complexity. “Europe must regulate better, not more.”
The minister highlighted several points regarding the regulation of artificial intelligence in Luxembourg. She stated that she was listening to stakeholders in the sector and expressed a clear commitment to ensuring that regulatory processes are simplified. The government’s aim is to promote the rapid yet responsible adoption of AI within the country, notably through the “AI for Lux” initiative. She has committed to accelerating the roll-out of both the regulatory and technological aspects of the AI Act.
A sign of the economy’s growing maturity
Launched in 2025 by Fedil, in partnership with Luxinnovation and with the support of the Chamber of commerce, the Luxembourg AI Excellence Awards aim to promote and recognise excellence in artificial intelligence in Luxembourg. For the second edition, 47 entries were submitted. According to Sophie Klecker, chair of the jury and project leader for AI & innovation at the Ministry of the economy, these entries “stood out for their diversity in terms of technologies and use cases, reflecting the ecosystem’s growing maturity. They reflect an increase in the adoption of AI across various sectors, with projects based on concrete applications and rooted in operational realities.”
And the winner is…
In the category “AI for Sustainability”, the prize went to “Mobile AI Waste Scanner (quality control in a box – QCB)” de CRAB traceability systems. This Luxembourg-based start-up, which specialises in artificial intelligence applied to the circular economy, has developed the Mobile AI Waste Scanner (quality control in a box – QCB), a portable and fully autonomous solution designed to transform quality control in waste streams.
In the category “AI for Finance”, the prize went to “Third party provider management oversight” of Plenty, an artificial intelligence platform dedicated to the supervision of third-party service providers for regulated financial institutions. Fundvis’s RegTech solution places AI at the heart of the compliance framework by structuring the entire lifecycle of third-party service providers – including onboarding, due diligence, risk assessment, continuous monitoring and regulatory reporting – within a single, audit-ready environment.
In the category “AI Adoption”, the prize went to CargoLux Airlines International for its analytical tool, the “Cargolux AI Email Sales Parser”. Designed for sales teams, this agent-based artificial intelligence solution transforms unstructured customer emails into structured quotes in a matter of seconds, which can then be used directly by internal systems. Unlike traditional automation solutions, this approach relies on semantic reasoning to interpret complex and heterogeneous data, whilst directly integrating AI into a revenue-generating process.
In the category “AI for Health”, the prize went to the company Techcyte Europe for the development of Techcyte Fusion, a digital medical diagnostics platform based on artificial intelligence, designed to improve the detection of cancer, infectious diseases and a wide range of clinically significant conditions in pathological anatomy and cytology, particularly in parasitology, bacteriology, cytology and haematology. Initially developed in the United States, the platform is now based in Luxembourg, where Techcyte has had its key European functions in regulation, quality assurance, implementation and operations since 2017.
In the category “AI Productivity”, the company Younea has been recognised for its “LuxAIaaS – Luxembourg’s AI-as-a-Service – All-in-one AI Platform”. This sovereign artificial intelligence platform is designed to automate customer and administrative communications at scale in multilingual and regulated environments. Requiring no technical expertise to deploy, the solution enables organisations to launch AI agents on the phone, chat and messaging platforms in a matter of minutes.
See you in a year’s time
Following the awards ceremony, Elisabeth Margue stated that “Luxembourg is equipping itself to make artificial intelligence a driver of positive transformation. “In their various categories, the winners have demonstrated that they are innovating rapidly to deliver services and products based on sustainable, human-centred growth. These successes highlight the AI expertise that already exists in Luxembourg.”
Fedil, Luxinnovation and the Chamber of commerce have confirmed that there will be a third edition of the Luxembourg AI Excellence Awards.