Partners and Sponsors

Byte is a Dutch webhosting company with a strong focus on clustering, performance and security. Byte has a broad customer base in the Dutch open source community and is the number one hosting provider for the popular Joomla CMS and the Magento e-commerce software. Byte operates more than 22.000 domains.

Brennels was founded by the entrepreneurial family Crébas-Wobma. During the 80’s, Bob Crébas and Carla Wobma were involved in the foundation of the Goedzooi recycling store. In the early 90’s this evolved into Het Goed, a chain of 17 recycling stores spread about the Netherlands. At the end of the 90’s they became involved in Marktplaats.nl, the largest auction site in the Netherlands. Bob and Carla’s children, Frank and Robin, also started working at Marktplaats.nl and Het Goed. In 2004 Markplaats.nl was sold to Ebay and Het Goed was sold to the Management team at that time. In 2004 the family recognized the environmentally friendly promise of nettles and decided to start the Brennels company.

Lankhorst Ropes is the trade name of the registered company Lankhorst Touwfabrieken bv, which is a part of the Maritime & Offshore Rope Division within the Royal Lankhorst Euronete Group bv. Lankhorst Ropes combine more than two centuries of experience with a strong innovative ability and technical production techniques. We focus especially on specialized fibre ropes made from mixes of raw materials in order to create rope products that have an added value with regards to breaking strength, life-time, safety and user friendliness.

Royal DSM N.V. is a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials. By connecting its unique competences in Life Sciences and Materials Sciences DSM is driving economic prosperity, environmental progress and social advances to create sustainable value for all stakeholders. DSM delivers innovative solutions that nourish, protect and improve performance in global markets such as food and dietary supplements, personal care, feed, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, automotive, paints, electrical and electronics, life protection, alternative energy and bio-based materials.

The TU Delft faculty of aerospace engineering strives to be the best aerospace engineering faculty in the world that inspires students, staff and society with ambitious research and modern education of the highest quality for the future of aerospace. It employs around 300 staff members and 2000 MSc and BSc students are enrolled in the faculty.

The KU Leuven Optimization in Engineering Center (OPTEC) is a center of interdisciplinary research on engineering applications of mathematical optimization, emerging from four different engineering fields: computer science, as well as chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering. The kite energy research at OPTEC is centered around the optimization and control aspects of Airborne Wind Energy technology.