Find out how investors will benefit from attending LEAP in Riyadh. Find your next investment, grow your knowledge, and build a powerful network of peer-investors and mentors.
Find out how your startup can benefit from the Startup Program at LEAP 2026 – from investor matchmaking to one-to-one mentoring, pitch masterclasses, and the chance to win a share of our $1 million Rocket Fuel Pitch Competition fund.
Smart tech is helping cities move towards regenerative urbanism – a model that actively restores ecosystems and reimagines city life through innovation and collaboration.
From Jane Jacobs' 1958 call for people-first urban design to today’s AI-powered smart cities, we explore how urban needs have stayed the same – even as the tools have transformed.
Explore key smart city market trends for 2025–2030, from EV infrastructure to AI-powered waste systems – backed by the latest industry report.
Learn how generative AI is unlocking the true potential of digital twins – to make smart cities more efficient, inclusive, and citizen-focused.
The smart cities of the future will use tech to lower emissions, cut urban temperatures, and improve quality of life in highly populated areas.
Discover the cities that rank highly for smart city preparedness, and learn why locally relevant innovation is more important than cutting-edge tech.
From a five-year-old scientist to a leader cutting edge longevity medicines, LEAP 2024 speaker Marco Quarta (Co-Founder and CEO at Rubedo Life Sciences) has dedicated his life to treating age-related disease. We asked him why reducing our biological age is so important, both for individuals’ health and for enabling sustainable
Space engineer Damien Garot (Co-Founder and CEO at Stellar) believes that the automotive and mobility sectors are the next mass market for satellite telecoms. And that’s why he’s solving the problem of internet connectivity on roads around the world – using space technology to provide a perfect connection. We
Reema Khan (CEO at Green Sands Equity) founded her boutique private equity investment firm in 2016. Currently based in Green Sands Equity’s San Francisco office, she is responsible for all aspects of the firm’s investment strategy – as well as the team and operations across its global network. With
How did we get here – and what’s the point in it all? Since 1984, the SETI Institute has been dedicated to its mission to explore, understand, and explain life in the universe. With more than 100 scientists exploring everything from exoplanets to communication between different animal species, the institute
“During my time there, I had a visceral connection with the world I was living in – I could feel the edges, breathe the oxygen supplied by the plants. At one point, I and the rest of the crew turned orange from eating so many sweet potatoes.” LEAP 2024 speaker Jane
He’s a gaming influencer who’s been sharing videos on YouTube since 2011 – with 15.3 million subscribers on that original channel. But Jordi van den Bussche (Founder and CEO at JVDB Studios) has taken content creation beyond the boundaries of simply producing videos. Jordi also created a successful
It’s not every day that you land on your next big idea while you’re trekking on horseback through Mongolia. But that’s exactly what happened for Jack Withinshaw (Founder and CEO at Airspeeder). Together with co-founder Matthew Pearson, Withinshaw is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in
Oscar Barranco Liébana (Integrated Operations Platform Director, FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022) undertook an immense technological challenge in 2022 – enabling the smooth running of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar through integrated technology systems that covered everything from entertainment and accommodation to transport, sustainability, and much more. The Integrated Operations
