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Edwatec<\/a>, une spin-off de l’EPFL<\/a> d\u00e9veloppant des syst\u00e8mes photoniques pour l’infrastructure et les communications de l’IA de nouvelle g\u00e9n\u00e9ration, a remport\u00e9 le Grand Prix de CHF 150’000 lors de la finale >>venture>><\/a> 2026, organis\u00e9e au Swiss Tech Convention Center de l’EPFL \u00e0 Lausanne devant quelque 300 invit\u00e9s. L’entreprise vaudoise miniaturise l’amplification optique, composant cl\u00e9 des transcepteurs optiques haute performance dont les centres de donn\u00e9es ont besoin pour suivre la croissance exponentielle des donn\u00e9es port\u00e9e par l’IA. Son innovation int\u00e8gre la technologie Erbium Doped Waveguide Amplifier sur une puce photonique pour permettre une communication de donn\u00e9es optique rapide et peu \u00e9nergivore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edwatec s’est impos\u00e9e dans un peloton de six laur\u00e9ats de cat\u00e9gorie, dot\u00e9s chacun de CHF 50’000. Parmi eux, la Suisse occidentale \u00e9tait \u00e9galement repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par Actival<\/a>, une spin-off du CSEM<\/a> bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Neuch\u00e2tel, laur\u00e9at de la cat\u00e9gorie Medtech et Sant\u00e9 pour ses dispositifs dentaires actifs con\u00e7us pour lib\u00e9rer lentement des fluides b\u00e9n\u00e9fiques afin d’am\u00e9liorer la sant\u00e9 bucco-dentaire. Les autres laur\u00e9ats de cat\u00e9gorie venaient de toute la Suisse, couvrant la technologie r\u00e9glementaire, l’authentification grand public, les vaccins et la technologie agricole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soir\u00e9e a aussi marqu\u00e9 la premi\u00e8re \u00e9dition du Spotlight Award, dot\u00e9 de CHF 50’000, d\u00e9cern\u00e9 \u00e0 Noemon<\/a> pour l’utilisation la plus innovante d’Apertus, le mod\u00e8le d’IA suisse d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 en open source. L’entreprise d\u00e9veloppe une approche d’apprentissage continu destin\u00e9e \u00e0 rendre l’IA moins co\u00fbteuse \u00e0 entra\u00eener et plus simple \u00e0 d\u00e9ployer. Le Prix du public, dot\u00e9 de CHF 10’000, est revenu \u00e0 Cinder, une entreprise de wearables th\u00e9rapeutiques traitant les douleurs pelviennes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quatre des six laur\u00e9ats de cat\u00e9gorie reposant fortement sur l’intelligence artificielle, l’\u00e9dition 2026 a soulign\u00e9 \u00e0 la fois le r\u00f4le croissant de l’IA dans les start-ups suisses ainsi que la force de l’\u00e9cosyst\u00e8me deeptech de Suisse occidentale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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