When people think of a deep tech summit, they picture keynotes and pitch competitions. But the most consequential conversations at the Hello Tomorrow Summit happen face-to-face on the exhibition floor, and this year, those conversations will be shaped by something bigger than any single startup: sovereign strategy.
For the first time at this scale, the 2026 Hello Tomorrow Summit brings together over 125 exhibitors, and more than 10 national delegations and regional consortiums, each arriving with a curated cohort of founders, ecosystem builders, and cross-border opportunities. Together, they turn the exhibition floor into a live map of how the world’s most ambitious nations are betting on deep tech to drive industrial resilience, economic sovereignty, and long-term competitiveness.
“The most resilient ecosystems are the ones that build bridges before they need them.”
Why national delegations matter
Collaborative Resilience Starts on the Exhibition Floor
The deep tech ecosystem is global in ambition but fragile in isolation. Semiconductor supply chains, climate technology deployment, biotech clinical pathways, quantum hardware development, none of these challenges respect national borders. And yet, the capital, the regulation, the talent pipelines, and the industrial partners that de-risk them are fiercely local.
National delegations exist at exactly this intersection, as they are the institutional infrastructure that connects a founder in Helsinki to a corporate partner in Eindhoven, or a biotech lab in São Paulo to a clinical network in Lyon. When they arrive at the Hello Tomorrow Summit with their best founders in tow, beyond simply representing their country’s ambition, they open doors that would otherwise take years to unlock.
For investors, a delegation booth is a curated pipeline with context, because you’re meeting one that has been selected, supported, and endorsed by a national ecosystem that has skin in the game. For corporates, it’s an invitation to co-develop and co-invest with institutional backing already in place. For founders, it’s a shortcut across borders, a chance to access soft-landing programmes, bilateral partnership frameworks, and sovereign capital that you’d otherwise never know existed.
Meet the Nations on the Floor at the 2026 Hello Tomorrow Summit
Each delegation brings its own strategic identity, its own ecosystem strengths, and its own roster of founders who have earned their place at the summit. Here is who is coming, and why it matters.
🇫🇮Finland
Nordic Deep Tech · Quantum · Cleantech
Finland arrives as one of Europe’s most quietly formidable deep tech nations, home to world-class quantum research (IQM, VTT), a cleantech cluster that punches above its weight, and a startup culture that consistently produces capital-efficient, technically rigorous companies. The Finnish delegation brings founders operating at the frontier of quantum hardware, sustainable materials, and digital health, backed by a national innovation system that prioritises long-term science over short-term hype. For attendees, Finland is the delegation to meet if you’re building in quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, or climate tech infrastructure.
🇱🇻Latvia
Baltic Innovation · Deep Tech Scale-Up
Latvia represents one of the Baltic region’s most dynamic emerging deep tech ecosystems, shaped by strong engineering education, strategic location on Europe’s eastern frontier, and a startup community that has learned to build lean and scale fast. The Latvian cohort at Amsterdam includes companies in advanced electronics, cybersecurity, and medtech, sectors where Baltic founders have a demonstrated track record of global commercialisation. Latvia’s presence signals the maturation of the Baltic corridor as a serious destination for deep tech investment and partnership.
🇪🇪Startup Estonia
Digital-First Economy · AI · Deeptech Policy
Estonia’s story is one of the most instructive in deep tech: a nation of 1.3 million that built Skype, Transferwise, and Bolt—and is now directing that same digital ambition into AI, cybersecurity, and sovereign infrastructure. Startup Estonia arrives at the summit not just as a delegation, but as a living proof of concept for what policy-enabled ecosystems can achieve. Their founders are building in AI infrastructure, govtech, and advanced computing, supported by one of the most digitally literate regulatory environments in the world.
🇫🇷 French Deeptech Delegation
Europe’s Largest Deep Tech Ecosystem
France is Europe’s deepest deep tech nation by almost any measure, the largest number of deep tech startups on the continent, Bpifrance’s vast co-investment infrastructure, CNRS Innovation’s IP commercialisation pipeline, and a France 2030 industrial strategy that has pumped billions into quantum, biotech, space, and nuclear innovation. The French delegation at Amsterdam reflects the full breadth of this ambition: founders from Station F and beyond, ecosystem builders from Bpifrance and CNRS, and a government genuinely committed to making French deep tech the industrial backbone of European sovereignty. If you are building in any hardware-intensive sector, the French delegation is essential to meet.
🇳🇱Discover Dutch Deeptech
Host Nation · Semiconductor · Photonics · Water
As the host nation, the Netherlands brings an unmatched concentration of deep tech excellence to its home floor. The Dutch ecosystem, anchored by ASML, imec Netherlands, Philips spin-offs, TNO, and the Brainport Eindhoven cluster, is among the most sophisticated technology manufacturing ecosystems in the world. Discover Dutch Deeptech showcases the breadth of that ecosystem: from semiconductor and photonics innovation to AgriTech, water technology, and advanced materials. Invest-NL‘s Deep Tech Fund adds institutional co-investment depth. For any attendee operating in hardware, semiconductors, or industrial technology, the Dutch delegation is an important stop on the floor.
🇧🇪Flanders
Life Sciences · Semiconductors · imec
Flanders is the beating heart of European semiconductor research, home to imec, the world’s leading independent R&D centre in nanoelectronics, and a life sciences corridor centered on Ghent and Leuven that consistently produces globally competitive biotech companies. The Flemish delegation brings founders from this extraordinarily dense innovation triangle, alongside ecosystem builders who understand how to translate academic breakthroughs into investable companies. Flanders represents the kind of deep tech that takes decades to build: patient, rigorous, and globally consequential. Conversations here often begin with IP and end with partnerships that last a decade.
🇬🇧United Kingdom- Department for Business & Trade (DBT)
Global Capital · AI · Life Sciences · Quantum
The UK’s presence at Amsterdam, led by the Department for Business and Trade, signals the country’s post-Brexit intent to remain a central node in the European deep tech ecosystem, regardless of formal structural ties. London’s capital markets, Oxford and Cambridge’s research pipelines, and the UK’s sovereign investment in AI, quantum, and life sciences make this delegation one of the most strategically significant on the floor. UK-backed founders are building companies in synthetic biology, advanced computing, and materials science; they are looking for European co-investors, clinical partners, and industrial collaborators. For any attendee with a cross-channel ambition, the UK booth is where that conversation starts.
🇸🇪 Team Sweden Tech (including Vinnova, SISP, the Energy Agency, KTH, Goteburg )
Hardware · Semiconductors · Industrial Deep Tech
Team Sweden Tech (including Vinnova, SISP, the Swedish Energy Agency, KTH, and Gothenburg) reflects a nation that has consistently produced hardware-intensive, globally scalable deep tech companies, from Ericsson and Volvo to newer-generation companies like AlixLabs, which recently closed a €15M Series A to scale atomic-level etching technology for the semiconductor industry. Sweden’s delegation brings founders working across semiconductor process innovation, advanced manufacturing, and industrial AI, supported by a venture ecosystem that understands long development cycles and patient capital. Sweden is also a strategic partner in Nordic–Baltic deep tech collaboration, making its presence on the floor a gateway to an entire corridor of northern European innovation.
🇯🇵Hello Tomorrow Japan – JETRO
Asia-Europe Bridge · Semiconductors · Advanced Materials · Longevity
Japan’s presence at the Hello Tomorrow Summit, coordinated through the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), is one of the most symbolically and practically significant of the year. Japan brings a deep tech tradition rooted in precision manufacturing, materials science, semiconductor process technology, and an increasingly active longevity and biotech sector. Japanese founders have historically struggled with Europe market access; the JETRO delegation at Amsterdam is a deliberate intervention to change that. Attendees who meet the Japanese cohort will find companies with extraordinary technical depth, long research horizons, and a genuine appetite for European co-development and pilot partnerships. JETRO also opens the door in the other direction: for European founders seeking a route into Japan’s industrial supply chains, pharmaceutical networks, and sovereign procurement, this delegation is the most efficient entry point available at the summit.
The Japan booth will feature live pitches and structured 1-to-1 meeting opportunities, don’t miss it.
🇧🇷 Brazil
LatAm · Agritech · Climate · Bioeconomy
Brazil’s debut as a delegation at the Hello Tomorrow Summit signals the growing confidence of Latin America’s deep tech ambition on the global stage. Brazil Station brings founders from one of the world’s most biodiverse nations, and one with an extraordinary strategic position in the global bioeconomy, sustainable agriculture, and climate technology. Brazilian deep tech is underpinned by world-class agricultural research (Embrapa), a growing quantum and semiconductor research base, and a startup ecosystem in São Paulo and beyond that is increasingly attracting global venture capital. For European investors and corporates, Brazil offers something rare: access to emerging markets at scale, with deep tech solutions tailored to resource-intensive and climate-critical sectors.
🌐Brain OST – Cross-Border Innovation · Diaspora Networks
Brain OST represents a new category of delegation entirely: a transnational network that connects deep tech talent and founders across borders, building resilience through diaspora networks and cross-cultural collaboration. BRAIN (Bridging Research and Innovation), is a program that aims to build the foundation of #deeptech in Africa, and that targets researchers and scientists that are using deep tech to pursue a one-of-a-kind entrepreneurial journey. In a world where geopolitical fragmentation is pushing ecosystems apart, Brain OST takes the opposite approach, deliberately bridging founders, investors, and ecosystem builders who operate across multiple national contexts. Their presence at the summit is a reminder that the deepest tech collaborations often begin not with national strategy, but with shared scientific curiosity and human trust.
Brain OST is the delegation for founders who don’t fit neatly into a single national box, and for investors who understand that the next generation of deep tech breakthroughs may come from precisely those people.
🇨🇴Colombia (Exhibition floor)
Bioeconomy · Biotech · Mining tech · Digital health
Colombia arrives at Amsterdam as the largest Latin American delegation at the summit, a statement of intent from a country that is rapidly positioning itself as the bioeconomy capital of the southern hemisphere. Colombia’s extraordinary biodiversity, its strategic natural resources, and a growing cohort of technically rigorous founders in biotech, digital health, and sustainable mining technology make this one of the most genuinely differentiated delegations on the floor. The Colombian cohort reflects a national bet on turning ecological wealth into scientific and commercial advantage: founders are working on novel therapeutics derived from native ecosystems, precision agriculture adapted to tropical climates, and resource extraction technologies that address both economic and environmental imperatives. For investors, Colombia offers a pipeline of companies with proprietary biological IP and access to natural substrates that simply don’t exist in Europe. For European corporates in pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and materials, the Colombian delegation is an invitation to explore co-development in conditions of unique biological richness. For anyone tracking the global expansion of deep tech beyond its traditional Atlantic-corridor hubs, Colombia’s scale of presence here is the signal to pay attention.
🇦🇺Australia — Austrade (Exhibition floor)
Critical minerals · Space · Quantum · AgriTech
Australia’s delegation, coordinated by Austrade, the government’s trade and investment agency, represents a deep tech ecosystem that is increasingly punching far above its weight on the global stage. Australia has world-class strengths in quantum computing (anchored by Silicon Quantum Computing and the Sydney Quantum Academy), critical minerals processing that is strategically essential to the global energy transition, space technology, and agrifood innovation at scale. The Austrade booth is the gateway into an ecosystem defined by geographic isolation-turned-competitive-advantage: Australian founders have learned to build globally from day one, and they arrive in Amsterdam with international commercial ambitions already baked in. For European investors, Australia offers access to critical mineral supply chains that the EU is actively seeking to diversify. For deep tech founders, the Austrade delegation is the starting point for bilateral partnerships, landing programs, and sovereign co-investment frameworks across the Indo-Pacific.
🇮🇱Israel
Cybersecurity · AgriTech · Medical devices · Deep tech spinouts
Israel’s presence at the Hello Tomorrow Summit reflects an ecosystem that has produced more deep tech companies per capita than virtually any other nation, and has done so through a combination of world-class universities, and a venture capital culture comfortable with genuinely difficult technical problems. Israeli founders on the floor are building across cybersecurity, advanced medical devices, precision agriculture, semiconductor design, and AI infrastructure, sectors where Israel has a multi-decade track record of global commercialisation.
🇩🇪 Germany – Startup Germany & SPRIND (Side Event)
Industrial Deep Tech · Quantum Sensing · Advanced Manufacturing
Germany’s side event at the summit is a deep dive into Europe’s most formidable industrial deep tech ecosystem, and into the federal innovation machinery that is actively reshaping it. Startup Germany and SPRIN-D (the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation) bring to Amsterdam a cohort of founders operating at the intersection of quantum sensing, advanced manufacturing, energy systems, and biotech, all sectors where Germany’s Fraunhofer network, its Mittelstand industrial base, and its sovereign investment capacity create genuinely unique conditions for deep tech development. SPRIND’s model offers a distinct proposition: funding for breakthroughs that are too uncertain for conventional VC and too important for markets to ignore. For anyone building in hardware-intensive deep tech, Germany’s side event is a rare window into how Europe’s largest economy is structuring its bet on the future.
🇱🇹Lithuania (Side event)
Laser Technology · Photonics · Life Sciences · FinTech
Lithuania’s side event in Amsterdam offers a chance to discover one of Europe’s best-kept deep tech secrets. Vilnius has quietly developed a world-leading cluster of laser and photonics technology — the kind of precision optics and ultrashort-pulse laser systems that are essential for semiconductor manufacturing, medical diagnostics and scientific instrumentation around the world. Companies such as Ekspla and Light Conversion have established Lithuania’s presence on the global photonics stage, and the next generation of entrepreneurs is now expanding upon this foundation in the fields of biomedical imaging, advanced sensing, and quantum optics. Lithuania also operates one of the EU’s most agile regulatory sandbox environments for fintech and digital infrastructure. For photonics, quantum and precision optics experts, as well as investors who recognise the long-term value of hardware innovation, Lithuania’s side event is a must.
🇺🇦Ukraine (Side event)
Tech Resilience · Defence Tech · Software · Drone Systems
Ukraine’s side event at the Hello Tomorrow Summit carries a weight that goes far beyond the commercial. In the three years since the full-scale invasion, Ukraine’s tech ecosystem has demonstrated something the deep tech world talks about but rarely witnesses in real time: innovation under existential pressure. Ukrainian founders have built drone systems, battlefield AI, logistics platforms, cybersecurity infrastructure, and medical technology in conditions of extraordinary difficulty, and they have done so at a speed and intensity that has fundamentally reshaped what is possible in deep tech development. The Ukrainian delegation brings founders who understand resilience not as a buzzword but as a survival requirement. Their presence at Amsterdam is an invitation to invest, partner, and build alongside an ecosystem that has earned its seat at the table through the hardest kind of validation. For the broader deep tech community, Ukraine represents the clearest answer yet to the question of what collaborative resilience actually means.
🇨🇾 Cyprus Delegation
Maritime Tech · Energy · Mediterranean Biotech
Cyprus arrives in Amsterdam as a small island nation with an outsized strategic position: a gateway between Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It is also an EU member with a distinct identity in the fields of maritime technology, energy systems and emerging biotech. Although the Cypriot ecosystem is small, it is highly focused and has competitive strengths in offshore energy, marine biotechnology and digital services, which are anchored by a growing university research base and an international business environment that attracts founders from across the eastern Mediterranean. Unlike larger delegations, the Cypriot delegation offers attendees direct access to a jurisdiction at the intersection of three continents, with the regulatory frameworks of Europe and the commercial networks of a truly international crossroads.
🇨🇿 Czechia Delegation
Advanced Engineering · Robotics · Cybersecurity · Quantum
Czechia will bring an engineering tradition stretching from the Škoda industrial heritage to a contemporary wave of deep tech start-ups specialising in robotics, cybersecurity, advanced materials and quantum technology to the summit. Prague has emerged as one of the most dynamic tech hubs in Central Europe, with a startup ecosystem supported by CzechInvest and a growing network of research institutions that convert academic output into investable companies. At the Amsterdam show, the Czech delegation will showcase founders who combine Central European engineering rigour with an increasingly global commercial orientation, particularly in industrial automation, AI-driven sensing systems and the kind of precision hardware that European manufacturers urgently need to bring production back home. For investors looking to build exposure in Central Europe and for corporates seeking deep tech partnerships close to their supply chains, the Czech delegation is a valuable contact.
🇨🇱 Chile Delegation
Mining Tech · Green Hydrogen · Lithium · Climate
Chile occupies a unique position in the global deep tech economy. It has the world’s largest lithium reserves and the driest desert (ideal for solar and green hydrogen production), as well as a copper mining industry that is increasingly turning to technology to reduce its environmental impact and maximise its resource life. The Chilean delegation in Amsterdam comprises founders who are developing technology based on this extraordinary natural endowment, including advanced mining robotics, green hydrogen production systems, climate-adaptive water management and materials science oriented towards the energy transition. Chile’s ProChile and CORFO ecosystem builders are active participants, opening bilateral pathways for European companies seeking access to critical mineral supply chains and green energy partnerships. This is crucial for addressing the deep tech community’s most pressing challenge: decarbonising heavy industry at scale.
The bigger picture
The delegations gathering in Amsterdam on 11 June have more in common than just geography; they all believe that deep tech is now more than just a commercial endeavour. It is also a geopolitical one. Semiconductor supply chains, quantum communication networks, biotech manufacturing capacity, and advanced materials for the energy transition are the infrastructure that will determine national and regional resilience over the next fifty years. The presence of 10+ delegations at this year’s summit reflects that shift. Nations are sending their startups to Amsterdam to find each other, to build the cross-border partnerships, the joint development programmes, and the mutual trust that will allow deep tech to scale in ways that no single country can achieve alone.
This is what we mean by ‘collaborative resilience‘: the ability of the deep tech ecosystem to withstand shocks, navigate geopolitical complexity and continue innovating, precisely because it is built on a foundation of genuine international partnerships. The exhibition floor at the Hello Tomorrow Summit is where this foundation is built, one conversation at a time.
If you are attending the summit, don’t treat the exhibition area as a side attraction, but instead treat it as the strategic core of your two days. Every conversation you have there is about the architecture of the future.
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Here’s what you gain:
For investors: The exhibition is where your next decade of deal flow walks through the door. Deep Tech Pioneers pitch on stage, then stand at their booths, meaning you can move from watching a five-minute pitch to a 30-minute technical conversation in the same afternoon.
For founders: You’ll have access to ecosystems. A conversation at the Japan, Sweden, or Germany booth can unlock partnerships, soft-landing programmes, and regulatory intelligence you’d otherwise spend months chasing. And seeing how research institutions like imec or Fraunhofer support spin-offs could reshape how you think about your own IP strategy.
For corporate innovators: The exhibition floor is the most efficient open innovation scan you’ll get anywhere in Europe this year. One walk-through and you’ll have touched AI hardware, novel biologics, advanced semiconductors, and next-generation energy storage before your competitors have scheduled their first scouting call.
For policymakers and ecosystem builders: The national delegations are a masterclass in how countries are turning deep tech into strategic advantage.
The Hello Tomorrow Summit has been connecting deep tech science with capital and industry since 2011. This year, with 125+ exhibitors across a truly global mix of startups, research giants, national delegations, and corporate partners, the exhibition floor may be the most important two days of your professional year.
