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What happens when AI becomes part of the team?
How AI agents, automation and hybrid workforces are changing enterprise teams in Saudi Arabia.
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Why Saudi Arabia doesn’t need to be first
Why Saudi Arabia’s ‘fast-follower’ approach to AI and technology may be its biggest competitive advantage.
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How technology blurred the boundaries of travel (and life)
Discover how technology is transforming travel in 2026, blurring the boundaries between movement, work, identity and everyday life.
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Three incredible things tech has achieved in 2026
Explore three major tech breakthroughs of 2026, from fusion energy advances to space robotics and humanoid surgical systems.
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The rise of water intelligence platforms
Find out how water intelligence platforms are transforming infrastructure through smart meters, IoT sensors, cloud systems, and real-time analytics across global cities.
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The startup opportunity inside ageing water systems
Ageing water infrastructure is creating new opportunities for startups in predictive maintenance, smart metering, infrastructure analytics, and water technology platforms.
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How SUSTAIN turns ambition into action
Saudi Arabia’s SUSTAIN platform shows how AI can turn sustainability ambition into coordinated execution.
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How Saudi Arabia is building sovereign AI
How Saudi Arabia is bringing together energy, infrastructure, and capital to build sovereign AI capability.
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Saudi Arabia: A hotspot for the digital generation
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
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Will fintech create new inequalities in finance?
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
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The evolution of esports with Fabien Devide
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
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How long do you want to live?
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
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From politics to AVs, and serving LEAP with driverless shuttles
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
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Accelerating innovation: An open-source autonomous driving platform
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
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What’s the link between space tech and beavers?
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.
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Coming of age in the metaverse
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