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Regenerative urban design: It’s more than ‘do no harm’
Smart tech is helping cities move towards regenerative urbanism – a model that actively restores ecosystems and reimagines city life through innovation and collaboration.
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A look through time: Have urban needs really changed that much?
From Jane Jacobs' 1958 call for people-first urban design to today’s AI-powered smart cities, we explore how urban needs have stayed the same – even as the tools have transformed.
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Are our smart cities wise enough?
Bringing human wisdom (from Reddit) into smart city development
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Top trends to watch in the smart cities market
Explore key smart city market trends for 2025–2030, from EV infrastructure to AI-powered waste systems – backed by the latest industry report.
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Regenerative urban design: It’s more than ‘do no harm’
Smart tech is helping cities move towards regenerative urbanism – a model that actively restores ecosystems and reimagines city life through innovation and collaboration.
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A look through time: Have urban needs really changed that much?
From Jane Jacobs' 1958 call for people-first urban design to today’s AI-powered smart cities, we explore how urban needs have stayed the same – even as the tools have transformed.
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Top trends to watch in the smart cities market
Explore key smart city market trends for 2025–2030, from EV infrastructure to AI-powered waste systems – backed by the latest industry report.
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Is GenAI the key to building smarter cities?
Learn how generative AI is unlocking the true potential of digital twins – to make smart cities more efficient, inclusive, and citizen-focused.
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Why sustainability is the heart of the smart city revolution
The smart cities of the future will use tech to lower emissions, cut urban temperatures, and improve quality of life in highly populated areas.
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What makes a city ready for a smart future?
Discover the cities that rank highly for smart city preparedness, and learn why locally relevant innovation is more important than cutting-edge tech.
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A Surgical LEAP, Shaping the Future of Surgery
Step into the theatre as we explore the future of surgical technology and how innovative discoveries are reshaping the way surgeons operate and train the next generation. Join some of the worlds most renowned surgeons as they look to the future of health tech and how technology can change lives
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Investors and NFTs: Is It Worth The Investment?
Today, it seems as if you cannot avoid NFTs. The news, social media, business moguls, venture capitalists, and teenagers alike are all buzzing about them. From mid-2021, we have started to see venture capital investment in NFT marketplaces, along with some exclusive NFT-directed funds being established. Now we want to
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Women In Tech, Inspiring Future Generations
To celebrate International Women’s Day and the theme #Breakingthebias, we will be looking at exciting projects that are being led by women and how tech is opening opportunities for female leaders. Get first-hand experience from female leaders in the tech industry, including 2019’s Woman of the Year in
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Industry 5.0: How, What, Where and When?
Industry 5.0 is said to already be on the horizon but what is the actual difference between Industry 4.0 vs Industry 5.0? What technologies are at the cusp of the fifth industrial revolution? And what will real personalisation look like in Industry 5.0? Find out from
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The Unlimited Potential of Web 3.0 and the Metaverse
Web 1.0 was static, decentralised, mostly read-only home pages. Web 2.0 is about blogging, social media and e-commerce centralised and owned by tech giants. Web 3.0 is about whatever we want it to become. According to Chris Dixon: “We are now at the beginning of the web3
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Don’t Do It Alone: Why Tech Partnerships Are Crucial to Business
“No matter how big you are you need to be fast, and you need to partner, and you need to grow very quickly otherwise someone else will overtake you.” Felix Wass (CEO and President of DETASAD) left us in no doubt at #LEAP22 that tech partnerships are crucial to the
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Unraveling "Deep trouble" with Tannya Jajal
follow us on spotify With recent advancements in technologies and in particular AI, creating convincingly fake images, audios and videos of people’s faces and voices have never been easier while spotting them has become harder. While there are many interesting and creative applications of deepfakes, they are also likely
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Investing in Sports: What Sets It Apart?
follow us on spotify Daniel Bernard, sports industry investor, founder, frequent public speaker, strategist, and entrepreneur workshop leader joins us in this episode to talk about how he started investing in sports tech. How is sports tech investing different than any other type of investment? What are some factors that
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Digital power can accelerate the world's sustainability goals
Global leaders gathered for the COP26 summit in November 2021 in the UK, bringing sustainability back on the international agenda. After two weeks of sometimes tense discussions, the world agreed on individual and collective measures to combat climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Part of this commitment is a
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How to Stand Out When Talking to Investors with Hamad Al Fahad
follow us on spotify Post-pandemic stress and an uncertain market have made it more critical for start-ups to stand out when communicating with investors. In this episode, Hamad Al Fahad, MP at Tajawoz and Venture Advisor at Brinc, discusses the typical trappings that many entrepreneurs fall into when trying to
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From digital healthcare to personalised medicine
Telehealth has grown a lot since early 2020. While early pandemic uptake of digital solutions could have dropped off, a 2021 report by McKinsey found that telehealth digital healthcare adoption has remained strong, as a result of improved consumer perception and robust investments into the space. So much so that
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Can humans decide the values and culture of AI?
“We’re currently in the midst of the first of three AI revolutions,” said Ben Goertzel (CEO at SingularityNET) at #LEAP22, “And it’s just going to get more exciting from here on out.” That first revolution – the one we’re in right now – is the narrow AI revolution. We
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If you want to make a difference, you’re in the right place
Welcome to this week’s LEAP:IN newsletter. Each week, we unpack leader’s powerful quotes and decipher the tech landscape. With exclusive content from some of the world’s leading experts in AI, robotics, space, edutech, climate tech and more, read on to discover this week’s insights and