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Investing in understanding: Why cultural capital matters in tech
Learn why tech investors who build depth, context, and empathy are the ones shaping markets that endure.
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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.
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Why LEAP is a force-multiplier for your portfolio (and your investor career)
Find out why four days at LEAP can redefine your deal flow and your investor brand.
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Why leaders should show up curious (to enable security and speed)
Find out why leading with curiosity enables tech leaders to strengthen cybersecurity culture and build resilient teams.
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How do you design for resilience in the era of machine decision-making?
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
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Cybersecurity as a (helpful) creative constraint
Research shows moderate constraints boost creativity. See how cybersecurity can act as a design partner for tech innovation, offering the ideal conditions for growth.
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The invisible cost of insecure innovation
Breaches cost millions and destroy trust. Learn why building security into innovation from day one saves money, culture, and growth.
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Why culture, care and communication are critical for the future of tech
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.
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EdTech that offers industry experience
Imagine: an app that enables young people to gain work experience in the sector they want to work in, build a rating via feedback from real employers, and get hired. That’s what Yussouf Ntwali and Gabriel Ekman (Co-Founders of BAG Innovation) have created in Rwanda. Their app is bridging
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How RiceAfrika is creating Technology for Humanity
RiceAfrika Technologies is a startup with a big vision: to build an Africa that can feed itself and the world. It’s a tech-driven agriculture optimisation service provider that connects smallholders with the equipment and materials they need to increase food production and tap into a structured market. And with
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Rocket Fuel Winner: Takadao gets eyeballs and credibility
Startups: if you want to know how you could benefit from LEAP 2024 and take your startup to new heights, this is one for you. Each year at LEAP we host the Rocket Fuel Pitch Competition. As well as a share of the $1 million prize fund, the competition will
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Developers: How to create tech that industries need
How can developers make sure they’re creating technology that other industries actually need? Reach out early, collaborate, and keep your biggest critics close.
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If you’re a C-level, this is what you’ll learn at LEAP
Find out what you’ll gain from attending LEAP – one of the biggest tech events in the world, happening in Saudi Arabia.
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The future of business and tech in KSA
With a growth in new investment funds and the launch of new economic zones, Saudi Arabia is working hard to achieve its Vision 2030. Find out what the future of business and tech looks like in KSA.
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The state of investment in the Middle East
LEAP happens in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The hospitality is incredible, the setting is immensely inspiring – but there’s a more strategic reason for locating one of the biggest tech events in the world here in KSA. As a country driving economic transformation, in a region that’s fast growing its
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Developers: 3 ways to keep ahead of the curve
People are calling it an arms race right now. The rush to create new technology – largely in the AI sector – and come out on top of emerging trends. For developers, the pressure to stay ahead is real. Tech is changing fast, and there’s a sense that if you come