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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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Bio-inspired robots sparking curiosity in 2023
Robots are no longer a thing of the future – they’re a part of our daily lives. Most of us engage with robotics without really acknowledging it; from e-commerce bots to robot vacuum cleaners, we use them to add convenience and efficiency to regular tasks at home and work.
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Is Riyadh a smart city?
You know we’re often deep in conversation about smart cities a lot – with good reason. Smart city experts including Kris Libunao (Executive Director and Chief Sustainability Officer at SmartCT), Jorge Sebastiao (Co-Founder, Eco X, CBO Simba Storage), Joseph Bradley (CEO at NEOM Tech & Digital Company), and many
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At a glance: The AI revolution in healthcare
AI is changing the way physicians treat patients, speeding up pathology detection and treatment times, and offering more choices for patients, doctors, and healthcare operators. In 2021, a study by health insurer Optum found that 85% of the healthcare executives they surveyed already had an AI strategy. The global AI
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What can you expect at LEAP 2024?
LEAP launched in 2022 as the largest debut tech event in the world, with 100,000 attendees. In 2023, we welcomed 172,000 visitors – making LEAP the most attended tech event in the world. That means that in just two years, LEAP has outperformed the world’s leading brands; some
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Is anything possible? Playing with AI
At LEAP 2023, Jack McCauley (Co-Founder of Oculus, Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley) spoke about his experience of playing with the potential of AI, and developing different capabilities that could change the world we live in. He described his private R&D facility, equipped with state-of-
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What challenges does the VR sector face in 2023?
This year, the global VR market is valued at USD $15.8 billion – up from less than $12 billion in 2022. There are expected to be more than 15 million shipments of AR and VR headsets for commercial use in 2023, and 17.81 million shipments of headsets for consumer
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Blending human-centred design with a futuristic mindset
Imagine trying a new technology – something you’ve been excited about for ages. You finally have access to this exciting innovation, and you think it’ll make your life better. But when you start to use it you struggle to operate it, or you find it hard to understand the
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How entrepreneurs are motivated by struggle
The world loves trying to define what entrepreneurs are. Countless studies explore the mysterious qualities of entrepreneurs, searching for a reason why some people tenaciously pursue entrepreneurial endeavours, and others don’t. This 2022 study, for example, attempted to uncover the dominant characteristics behind entrepreneurial intention and success over the