Powerful perspectives from the LEAP community
Discover four powerful perspectives from LEAP 2025 speakers on creativity, clean mobility, education, and personal branding to guide your strategy for 2026.
Discover four powerful perspectives from LEAP 2025 speakers on creativity, clean mobility, education, and personal branding to guide your strategy for 2026.
Discover four unexpected insights from LEAP speakers – on tech, leadership, investment, and innovation – that challenge assumptions and inspire new ways of thinking.
The global space sector is hiring faster than universities can produce graduates. If you’re an early-career technologist considering a career in space, this is for you.
NASA has handed nine companies small cheques to answer a big question: can Mars exploration shift from bespoke missions to bought-in services?
How miniaturisation is transforming space tech – from student-built satellites to global innovation networks orbiting above us.
Seven lessons from LEAP’s space speakers on perspective, creativity, and connection – showing how space thinking transforms life on Earth.
Hong Kong offers unmatched access to APAC, combining connectivity, capital, innovation, and stability, making it the ideal launchpad for LEAP East.
Cleaner fuels, faster engines, and light-powered sails – propulsion is quietly transforming the economics and ethics of reaching the stars.
According to data from Next Move Strategy Consulting, the global autonomous vehicle market reached nearly 17,000 units in 2022. By 2030, it’s projected there will be 127,000 autonomous vehicles on the roads worldwide. This week we interviewed LEAP 2024 speaker Helen Pan (General Manager at Baidu’s
Imagine taking your first trip into space. You’re about to turn to the window and look down at Earth from above for the very first time – what would you be hoping to see? Well, some scientists are looking down in the hope of spotting a beaver. OK, not exactly.
In 2008, anthropologist Tom Boellstorff published a book called Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. It was an outlier in the field of social anthropology; the account of a field study that had been conducted entirely online, inside the online game Second Life. The
Everyone has a drawer full of batteries in their house. But beyond the standard power devices that everyone’s familiar with, researchers continue to explore different materials and techniques that can generate power and change the resources we rely on – so more and more novel power devices are in development.
We’ve written before about the way that connectivity and access to digital tools can enable people from a wide variety of backgrounds to exercise their entrepreneurial spirit. With low-cost, high quality technological tools, almost anyone can start a business in minutes. And the same goes for people working in
Having emerged from the University of Michigan’s Direct-Brain Interface Laboratory, Neurable is developing cutting-edge brain-computer interfaces that measure brain activity and generate real-time insights. Far from being complex devices, Neurable tech is easy to use – and has the potential to transform how we interact with technology, and with each
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates are in increasingly high demand. So much so that many countries around the world are working to boost enrollment in STEM higher education – because skilled graduates are needed across technological and computer science sectors. In the US, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports
Isaac Applbaum (Founder and Partner at MizMaa Ventures) is an investor with extensive experience in international markets, and a specific interest in Saudi Arabia. Based in California, he has visited Saudi Arabia 28 times. He’s a proactive investor in early-stage startups – including startups he discovered at LEAP. And he’