 
            Liquidity, Leadership and the New VC Reality
2025’s VC landscape demands sharper targeting, smarter liquidity, and stronger leadership. Discover how investors are adapting – and why LEAP 2026 is where the next moves will be made.
 
 
            2025’s VC landscape demands sharper targeting, smarter liquidity, and stronger leadership. Discover how investors are adapting – and why LEAP 2026 is where the next moves will be made.
 
            Find out why four days at LEAP can redefine your deal flow and your investor brand.
 
            Find out why leading with curiosity enables tech leaders to strengthen cybersecurity culture and build resilient teams.
 
            Critical industries are supported by an invisible architecture – energy, finance, and logistics now depend on AI systems that make decisions faster than humans can react. And building resilience into that architecture is becoming one of the tech industry’s most urgent challenges. The team over at Black Hat MEA recently
 
            Research shows moderate constraints boost creativity. See how cybersecurity can act as a design partner for tech innovation, offering the ideal conditions for growth.
 
            Breaches cost millions and destroy trust. Learn why building security into innovation from day one saves money, culture, and growth.
 
            People are everything in tech and security. Culture and communication are essential for developing tech that has a positive impact, and for building cybersecurity resilience.
 
            Curiosity drives change, growth, and resilience. Learn how adopting the hacker mindset can help you achieve your ambitions in tech.
 
            By Annabelle Mander, Senior Vice President of Tahaluf Big changes are coming for LEAP 2025, and we’re eager to share why. When we launched LEAP back in 2021, we made history with 104,000 attendees — the largest debut for a tech event… ever. Fast forward to 2024, and LEAP
 
            In a recent conversation with Richard McKeon, our own Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Tahaluf, he said that having trusted advisors has been critical to his own career path to date. “When I think about how I’ve navigated the twists and turns of my marketing career so
 
            Founder-led marketing has become a big deal in 2024. Across the tech industry, founders are stepping up to take centre stage in their company’s marketing strategy – posting on LinkedIn, authoring blog posts, engaging with PR opportunities, and giving customers a closer look at the inner workings of their business.
 
            Programming puzzles are short programming challenges designed to help developers improve and evaluate their skills. If you’re a developer, programming puzzles are a valuable resource at any stage in your career – but they’re particularly useful for newer coders who are actively building their skill sets. Often written in
 
            Leon Winkler (Senior Director of International Events at Ubisoft HQ) has been with his company for nearly 20 years. In the wider tech industry talent retention is a major challenge, with the average employee tenure estimated to be around three years. So when we speak with a tech leader who’
 
            Every tech entrepreneur has experienced the rush of a new idea. Sometimes it happens suddenly: you’re just going about your daily life and it hits you. And sometimes it’s a slower, quieter process; the idea develops gradually, inspired by your experiences in life and work, and your confidence
 
            According to research by Morgan Stanley, the tech IPO market is seeing a resurgence this year – with up to 15 deals expected by the end of 2024. Companies leveraging AI are particularly ripe to go public; and as large private companies experience an increase in financing needs, they’ll turn
 
            Product-market fit (PMF) is a scenario in which a product is in strong demand within its target market. Customers buy it, use it, and tell their friends about it – because it’s exactly what they need or want. We asked Damien Garot (Co-Founder and CEO at Stellar) if there’s