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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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Interview: what makes a startup investible?
Startup founders and tech investors make up a significant slice of the LEAP audience, and we’re committed to supporting the growth of a robust investment ecosystem in tech – both in the MENA region and around the world. A big part of that is giving investors the knowledge and mentorship
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How smart tech can turn a heritage site into a living museum
We’ve written before about whether old cities can become smart cities. But what about historical sites and large areas of archeological importance? Is there an unsolvable tension between the old and the new – or can smart technology help to preserve regional heritage? Smart tech leader Lawrence Eta will be
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1% Mentality: Why small gains are worth your time
In a recent interview with Entrepreneur Magazine, Steven Bartlett (Founder of Social Chain and star of TV show Dragons’ Den) said that he and his team swear by the philosophy of marginal gains. Sometimes called ‘the 1% mentality’, it’s the idea that focusing on incremental, seemingly insignificant progress in
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How to create a youth innovation movement
Young people have ideas. Good ideas. But how can the tech industry support young innovators to turn those ideas into projects, products, and businesses? In 2020, a group of researchers set about to conduct a systematic review of studies into adolescent creativity. Across 64 articles on the factors that enhance
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On the horizon but under the radar: why people aren’t talking about air taxis
If the world was on the cusp of a new form of air travel which would allow us to fly across cities and towns quickly and easily and with minimal impact on the environment, you’d think everyone would be talking about it – right? Wrong. Because we are very close