Why Saudi Arabia is emerging as a testbed for global sports tech – from smart venues and esports to system-level innovation at LEAP 2026.
How sports tech is moving beyond sponsorship into core infrastructure – transforming performance, venues and fan engagement at LEAP 2026 Sports Tech Hub.
Learn how global brands use events to enter new markets. Build trust and accelerate relevance through CoLAB collaborations at LEAP.
At global tech events, your brand isn’t competing for space – it’s competing for memory. Memory is built through participation, so the brand collaboration opportunities at LEAP are designed for it.
For investors at LEAP, experience is the first stage of due diligence – and has more impact than a pitch deck. Find out how the Tech Arena fast-tracks investor conversations.
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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
Hot on the heels of a rapid global transition to digital, e-commerce is a highly competitive space – with companies competing to solve problems using the most efficient technologies. And LEAP offers the ideal place for brands to gain access to key technologies and new research that can elevate their business.
An early-stage tech investor with a keen eye for market opportunities, Salomon Aiach (Co-Founder at Origins Fund) invests mostly in B2C and B2B2C companies, so the end-user is the consumer. From Facebook to Goldman Sachs, his career history is littered with high-profile (and high-pressure) roles, and when it comes to
From working in Parliament in Austria to pushing the boundaries of digital tech in Riyadh, LEAP 2024 speaker Margarete Schramboek (Board Member at Aramco Digital; Former Minister of Economy and Digital, Austria) has a passion for the potential of digitisation to transform our world. We asked her what entrepreneurs should
Last year on the blog, Dr. Ritesh Jain (Founder of Infynit) explained why payments are the lifeblood of the financial services industry. This week, we caught up with him again to dig a little deeper into his perspective on payments, fintech, and financial inclusion. Crucially, we wanted to find out
Last year, esports club Team Vitality celebrated a decade in the industry – and over that time it has been part of seismic changes in the popularity and scope of the esports market. Back in 2013, the esports market was just beginning to find its place, carving out a space at
Imagine if you could maintain your biological age at 25, and mitigate the impact of age-related illness? What if you could look into the future and know that it’s possible to live to an old age while still feeling healthy, vibrant, and energised? The manipulation of gene expression in
From 2014 to 2016, Taavi Rõivas (Chairman at Auve Tech) was the Prime Minister of Estonia. Now he’s deeply involved in bringing autonomous vehicles (AVs) to the roads and making them available for commercial use – here in Saudi Arabia, and in other countries around the world. We caught up
