Elisabeth Margue, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister for Media and Connectivity;
Credit: Steven Miller, Chronicle.lu
On Tuesday 17 June 2025, the first Luxembourg AI Excellence Awards ceremony took place as part of the NEXUS Luxembourg 2025 conference at Luxexpo The Box in Luxembourg-Kirchberg.
The event, attended by Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister for Media and Connectivity, Elisabeth Margue, attracted over 250 attendees and saw prizes awarded to five Luxembourg-based businesses for their breakthroughs and application of artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.
According to the organisers, the aim of the competition was to “celebrate excellence in artificial intelligence in Luxembourg” and to “honour bold innovative projects, significant technological breakthroughs and concrete applications of AI for the benefit of the economy, society or the environment”. In total, 55 projects were submitted for consideration by a jury which consisted of experts from the public and private sectors.
Minister Margue addressed the audience and spoke of the Luxembourg government’s recently announced strategy on AI. She said: “It is not always about infrastructure but also about the landscape and … the regulatory landscape. We need to make sure and this is our goal also as a government, that it is easy for businesses to follow the rules and we need to make sure that we strike the right balance between regulation on the one hand and innovation on the other hand.”
The minister then noted the effect of AI on industry and everyday life in Luxembourg. She remarked: “People compare the impact of AI to the impact of electricity or internet [back] in the day. Any grocery store, any bank or pharmacist benefited at the time from such evolutions and so will they eventually from AI.” She added: “It will not happen all at once but it will happen slowly and steadily and it will be transforming for all kinds of sectors. This is why the awards … today are so important.”
Before the winners were announced, Co-founder of the Hub Institute and expert in Digital Transformation, Emmanuel Vivier, spoke to the audience about the applications made to the competition. He said: “I think we were not surprised but amazed by the quality and the diversity of all the applicants. From industry to sustainability, from creativity to work efficiency, I think it really shows the quality and richness of what is happening in Luxembourg.”
The winners in each category were then invited on to the stage and presented with their award by Minister Margue and Vice-President at FEDIL, Jean-Louis Schlitz.
Prizes were awarded in the categories of “AI Adoption”, “AI for Industry Excellence”, “AI for Sustainable Business” and “AI Innovation Excellence”, along with an additional prize, “Coup de Coeur” (Jury’s Favourite).
Luxembourg AI Excellence Award 2025 Prize Winners:
• AI Adoption: Fischer SA for the project "AI-enhanced order management”;
• AI for Industry Excellence: Cebi International SA and DataThings SA for the "Predictive" project;
• AI for Sustainable Business: Luxscan Technologies Sàrl for the project "AI vision systems for primary transformation in the wood industry”;
• AI Innovation Excellence: Data Design Engineering Sàrl for the project "Intelligence on Edge Device Offline AI Technology”;
• Jury’s Coup de Coeur: Neon Internet for the "LetzAI" project.
Organisers noted that the winning projects were selected on the basis of “their innovative and original nature, their demonstrated use of AI technologies, their effective implementation and their potential impact, whether economic, societal or environmental”.
FEDIL, Luxinnovation and the Chamber of Commerce have announced that due to the success of the competition another edition is planned for 2026.
