Julian Tan (Director of Corporate Strategy at BT Group) on AI infrastructure, innovation in large organisations, customer loyalty, and the leadership skills shaping the next decade.
The most ambitious markets are treating governance as an opportunity
How AI agents, automation and hybrid workforces are changing enterprise teams in Saudi Arabia.
Why Saudi Arabia’s ‘fast-follower’ approach to AI and technology may be its biggest competitive advantage.
Two companies arrived at LEAP with very different ambitions. Both left on a larger trajectory.
As AI shifts from training to inference, investors are watching latency, deployment speed, and compute efficiency influence the infrastructure market.
How AI agents, automation and hybrid workforces are changing enterprise teams in Saudi Arabia.
Why Saudi Arabia’s ‘fast-follower’ approach to AI and technology may be its biggest competitive advantage.
Discover how technology is transforming travel in 2026, blurring the boundaries between movement, work, identity and everyday life.
Explore three major tech breakthroughs of 2026, from fusion energy advances to space robotics and humanoid surgical systems.
Find out how water intelligence platforms are transforming infrastructure through smart meters, IoT sensors, cloud systems, and real-time analytics across global cities.
Ageing water infrastructure is creating new opportunities for startups in predictive maintenance, smart metering, infrastructure analytics, and water technology platforms.
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