Innovation Bay Göteborg

Zerolab is a platform to create tests for electronics for labs and production quickly and easily. A bit like home automation for the lab. Instead of measurement equipment primarily saving measurements or displaying them on a screen, they publish their measurements on the network. Consumers of measurement data can either beforehand or afterwards label the data and specify how it should be used. This cluster of measurement instruments enables completely new tracking of data, and the structure is well suited.

Target Audience:

Companies, international. Small to medium-sized businesses with testing needs, both during development and production.

Business Model:

The parts that make a "dumb" measurement instrument smart will be Open Source. Initially, ZeroLab will focus on integrating ZeroLab drivers for existing hardware.

In its basic version, this enables developers, test managers, and production staff to easily create their own testing tools.

A few revenue streams are possible:

Hosting. Zerolab servers will be hosted in the cloud with a monthly subscription model.

Affiliated kickbacks from hardware vendors. We’ll have a list of “ZeroLab compatible” devices on our website and make deals with those to effectively become a reseller.

On-demand driver development: When the customer needs an unsupported device to connect to Zerolab, we’ll be adding that driver as a paid service.

Extra analytics: AI-generated measurement reports, diagnostic tools based on deep data analysis, and gradually getting users of the open part of ZeroLab to use the paid services that save customers (i.e., data consumers) time.

Configuration management. An intelligent web configuration system directly generates a ready shopping cart with all the parts customers need to carry out a specific test. They can fill in the measurement equipment they already have, and we suggest the missing parts to make their ZeroLab seamless, plug-and-play.

Current Status:

Working on a proof-of-concept.

Challenges:

Uncertain about the scope for production and how easy it will be to sell it. What is the MVP?

Help Sought at Innovation Bay:

Want to hear critical voices, maybe we missed something vital. Also would like to get more people on board.

// Vertikal expansion ….

In the longer term, there are plans to develop our measurement instruments directly optimized for use through ZeroLab where the margins will be higher. By comparing the prices of Chinese and European measurement instruments, it is clear that European suppliers maintain very high margins. This is an area we believe a more niche player can break into. A number of smaller companies have started to challenge this, such as Scalea, Pico Technology, and XXX, but they lack the broad platform and integration between measurement instruments that Zerolab will enable.

 "Tailor-made Security" Service Overview NCS Consulting AB specializes in delivering customized cybersecurity solutions that help organizations strengthen their security posture, ensure regulatory compliance, and manage risks effectively. We focus on governance, risk management, compliance, and security process optimization, ensuring that businesses can confidently navigate the evolving cybersecurity landscape.

Our Services Include:

Information Security Governance & Compliance

– Establish and maintain Information security management system (ISMS) aligned with industry standards ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, PCI-DSS and regulations such as NIS2 and DORA.
-Risk Management – Identify, assess, and mitigate cyber risks, ensuring business resilience and regulatory alignment.
-Security Strategy & Program Development – Design tailor-made security programs that integrate seamlessly with business operations.
-Regulatory Advisory & Compliance Support – Help organizations interpret and implement security controls based on regulatory requirements.
-Security Awareness & Training – Equip teams with the knowledge and tools to recognize threats and maintain compliance.
-Business Process Optimization – Align security processes with business goals for improved efficiency and risk mitigation.
-Security Audit & Assessment – Conduct gap analyses, audits, and security maturity assessments to identify vulnerabilities and recommend improvements.

Target Group / Our focus:

-Regulated industries (Banking and Finance, Healthcare, Tech, Manufacturing) needing compliance-driven security frameworks.
-Organizations seeking governance and risk management expertise to strengthen their cybersecurity strategy.
-Businesses operating in Sweden & the Nordics that must comply with regulations like NIS2 and DORA.
-SMBs, freelancers, and subcontractors working with large enterprises that require compliance with NIS2 & DORA.
-Startups and scale-ups needing structured security governance frameworks from day one.

Current Status & Focus Areas

-Active and growing – delivering security consulting services to clients in multiple industries.
-Enhancing regulatory advisory services to help businesses navigate evolving cybersecurity laws.
-Expanding partnerships with key industry players to support clients in implementing tailored security frameworks.

Key Asks from the Innovation Bay Network

-Feedback on service positioning & industry needs.
-Networking with businesses in need of cybersecurity expertise.
-Collaboration opportunities with legal, compliance, and risk management professionals.

Imagine a world where cloud infrastructure is as fluid and accessible as electricity. A future in which consumers can run their workloads anywhere — without vendor lock-in — and where existing hardware can be fully utilized.

My vision for an open-source, hyperscaler could turn cloud infrastructure into a true free market, enabling price discovery and seamless workload portability.

Just as Kubernetes revolutionized container orchestration, let us revolutionize cloud compute.

The project will create a task force for technical standards for a ubiquitous cloud hyper scaler, with the aim to be able to provide and consume cloud compute, virtualization, virtual networking, etc. in a secure and easy to adopt way.

The end goal of this effort is to enable an open market of cloudservices, a simpler interface for its consumers, and the ability for cloud vendors and other providers to sell excess capacity. The task force should develop open source code for a platform that initially can demonstrate:
1. A consumer requesting the execution of a workload.
2. A vendor offering to run workloads that fit their hardware.
3. A recording of the transaction, similar to trading of shares on an exchange.

Targetgroup

The idea will only work if the end product - a secure cloud platform in Sweden andEurope - is attractive enough even if it can’t initially match the price of Azure, AWS, orGCP. Data sovereignty and the ability to set the rules of the game directly are key.Starting with Sweden, I imagine the public sector providing the way they want to interact with the service as consumers, while committing time and effort of their engineers as well as subsidising private vendors to spark interest in providing on the platform.

The goal is to make price discovery of these services possible and reduce government spending. For larger vendors there is an incentive to help shape the narrative and to get in early on a growth ofEuropean cloud infrastructure.

Focus

So far this is just a vision and a thought experiment. There are no real technical limitations, everythingis an exercise in collaboration. The goal of this first phase, in which this presentation is part, is to getthe ball rolling, get public sector actors involved and commit their time and effort to start prototypingpractical implementations. Compared to previous stalling or failed efforts like Gaia-X, other expensive but non-agile efforts like 8ra from IPCEI cloud, I purpose not just sponsoring projects and showing power points but working lean, agile, and showing code.

Challenges

There are a lot of projects in the EU claiming to staff thousands of people but there is very little to show for it other than big brands claiming to cooperate. Being able to shape a convincing argument to work in an agile way, and to get the public sector to commit not just money but time and effort, can feel like a monumental task.

Help sought from Innovation Bay 

Create isolated and testable use cases for workloads such as spark jobs, ci/cd pipelines, static front-end sites etc. Contribute in discussions with customers in the public sector in regards to accountability on cloud costs and which vendors benefit.