Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Bloomberg technology helps drive the world’s financial markets. We provide communications platforms, data, analytics, trading platforms, news and information for the world’s leading financial market participants. We deliver through our unrivaled software, digital platforms, mobile applications and state of the art hardware developed by Bloomberg technologists for Bloomberg customers.

Our over 3,000 technologists work to define, architect, build and deploy complete systems and solutions that anticipate and fulfill our clients’ needs and market demands. As well, we are known for providing unique biometric security to our customers for over a decade enabling them to access their service securely from a desktop computer, mobile phone or tablet. We have provided communications platforms, true electronic social networking and workflow connectivity in the financial world for over two decades.

Electric Imp provides an innovative and powerful service platform that makes it simple to connect devices to the Internet. Our proven WiFi-enabled solution - featuring fully integrated hardware, software, OS, APIs and cloud services - dramatically decreases cost and time to market. The Electric Imp platform is reliable and secure, empowering businesses and developers to deploy, manage and quickly scale their connected products and services to millions of users.

GitHub is the best way to build software together. Whether it's your company's app, your favorite open source library, or a weekend side project, GitHub helps everyone work better by providing tools for easier collaboration and code sharing on any device. Start collaborating today—open source project hosting is free!

Highway 1 is a San Francisco based hardware accelerator, with a focus on helping startups make the difficult transition from prototype to manufacture-ready design. Highway1 offers $50,000 in seed capital, engineering support, prototyping facilities and a 10-day trip to Shenzhen in exchange for an equity stake of 4-7%. During the 16 week program teams use prototyping to explore and eliminate both technical and product risks. Frequently, small batches of products are hand-built and shipped to early customers. This process of refinement and risk elimination is especially critical for physical hardware products.

Vistaprint N.V. (Nasdaq:VPRT) empowers more than 16 million micro businesses and consumers annually with affordable, professional options to make an impression. With a unique business model supported by proprietary technologies, high-volume production facilities, and direct marketing expertise, Vistaprint offers a wide variety of products and services that micro businesses can use to expand their business. A global company, Vistaprint employs over 5,100 people, operates more than 30 localized websites globally and ships to more than 130 countries around the world. Vistaprint's broad range of products and services are easy to access online, 24 hours a day at www.vistaprint.com.

At The Hybrid Group, we are passionate about making useful things with technology. Based in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, our software developers & designers specialize in JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things, Application Design, and most importantly, helping you solve problems. Find out more at hybridgroup.com

Frustrated by the status quo, we started a company that respects your freedom to get the job done. From Fortune 500 companies and Ivy League schools to makers and hackers, people around the world rely on LulzBot 3D printers to get the job done. LulzBot is a product line of Aleph Objects, Inc., an Open Source Hardware company founded in January 2011 and headquartered in Loveland, Colorado, USA.

Intel® Services delivers API management and software platforms for the connections that share information and intelligence across people and devices, which result in business-changing opportunities.

For those who haven’t kept up with the wearables market over the last year or so, you may not be aware of Pebble. Pebble is the smartwatch that 68,000+ people brought to life, crowdfunding a record $10.3MM on Kickstarter, and put wearable technology on the map. With a vibrant developer community and thriving ecosystem, Pebble is the platform for the best and brightest wearable apps. Pebble SDK 2 invites developers to build unique, delightful, and practical apps that push the boundaries of what smartwatches can do.

Pinoccio is a complete ecosystem for the Internet of Things.

When we say “complete ecosystem” we mean that it is both hardware and software, built together with the goal of helping you create a web-enabled DIY project as quickly and as easily as possible. On the hardware side, Pinoccio is a wireless, web-ready microcontroller with WiFi, LiPo battery, and built-in radio. It’s also an API to get your board talking to the Web right out of the box.

Pololu is an electronics manufacturer and online retailer serving education, maker, and professional engineering industries with products ranging from sensors and motion control electronics to motors and wheels to complete robots. Pololu strives to offer well-engineered, quality products that enable customers to take their own projects from idea to reality.

Spark is helping people create a connected future that feels almost like magic. Start building that future with the Spark Core, a tiny Wi-Fi development kit ideal for prototyping, and use Spark OS, a complete open-source operating system to bring your cloud-connected product to the masses.

Apigee provides a leading technology platform for APIs and big data. Apigee customers include global enterprises such as Walgreens, eBay, Shell, Live Nation, Kaiser Permanente and Sears. Apigee is headquartered in San Jose, California and has about 500 employees worldwide.

Bitcraze AB was created in 2011 by the designers of the Crazyflie quadcopter. The purpose of the company is to finance the development and manufacturing of a Crazyflie kit and to make it available as an opensource development platform.

Tessel is a microcontroller that runs JavaScript. It's Node-compatible and ships with Wifi built in. With plug-and-play sensor and actuator modules and access to internet APIs, Tessel is hardware built for web developers.

Temboo is re-imagining programming for software and hardware developers. By offloading processing to the cloud, our code virtualization technology lets IoT programmers connect devices to a Library of 2000+ processes for 100+ APIs, databases, and code utilities. We’re making connected devices behave more intelligently and flexibly—visit Temboo.com/iot to learn more!

Dizmo is the Interface of Things. Our software platform turns any digital surface into an immersive platform. Dizmo seamlessly connects digital and physical objects in the home and at the workplace. It supports orchestration and collaboration in an unparalleled way enabling any data to instantaneously be accessed on any surface, anywhere and made interactive. Dizmo brings fantasies as seen in Sci-fi movies such as Iron Man and Minority Report, as well as in Corning’s video ‘A day made of glass’ to reality, revolutionising traditional methods of interacting with digital content and objects.