Combient

Combient works with companies in the Nordics in order to develop digital transformation across industries. The company offers a range of IT services to solve real AI problems by democratizing data science for industrial products, automation in manufacturing, factory optimization, and conditional monitoring.

The companies that work with Combient and the company's network collaborate under a joint non-disclosure agreement across boards, management, and business units. Together with Combient's team, the ecosystem the company is developing works with universities and startups with the intention to create a space for shared assets and rapid growth. The companies that work with Combient include:

• Assa Abloy
• Ericsson
• Electrolux
• H&M
• Husqvarna Group
• KONE
• SAAB
• SAS
• Scania

Combient works to help companies integrate AI and automation services and to solve problems in the AI and automation services for partner companies. This includes AI and automation solutions to solve the following challenges for different industries:

• Predictive maintenance
• Image analysis
• Recommender systems
• Factory optimization
• Churn analysis
• Text analysis
• Dynamic pricing and forecasting

Combient also works to offer partner organization workforce transition services, to help organizations offer professional development in the workplace. As well, Combient offers executive conferences in order to exchange knowledge. This includes other specialist forums for different technology areas or disciplines. These cover the following:

• HR
• Security
• Analytics
• Open innovation
• Smart production
• Legal

In order to help partner companies develop these services, develop their business, and attract new businesses to the overall network, Combient offers different programs across the larger group. These include Foundry, Spark, Mix, and Collegial.

Combient's Foundry program is a venture client alliance that helps match industry needs with startups. Foundry runs three global cycles a year, plus two China-specific cycles. The company says this has included over 3500 startup submissions, over 10 joint ventures and investments, and 28 of 40 commercial projects to implementation.

Combien's Spark is a partner program for early-stage Nordic startups that Combient believes to be competitive. The program works to build long-term partnerships with emerging technology companies. The program has produced early-stage startup partners, worked to explore different technology areas, and worked to perform five pilots. The Spark program also offers advisory services for the startups, as well as access to the group of companies working in the Combient network, giving both existing partners and startups access to the other companies' services and products and building new business partnerships.

Combient's Mix program is a data science and analytics program that works to bring automation services to partner companies within the Combient network. Part of the program works to develop responsible approaches to AI and automation services. These services include industrial machine learning, consumer and customer analytics, business support, and data science campuses.

Collegial is Combient's Stockholm-based education technology program that is developing a learning experience platform to help organizations drive continuous professional development in the workplace.