Teacher roles are changing fast. We unpack the OECD 2024 outlook, the teacher shortage spike (47% vs 29%), and how AI can elevate (not replace) teaching, with three levers to act.
Can AI truly empathise? We explore what recent research says about chatbots, GenAI therapists, and the role of emotional AI in mental healthcare.
The global brain-computer interface market is growing fast. We explore what the latest data says about where neurotech is heading - and how close we are to real mind–machine integration.
From product-market fit to real-world clinical trials, building brain-computer interfaces isn’t easy. Learn what it really takes from the founders of Neurable and Synchron.
Personal stories fuel world-changing tech. Discover how the founders of Neurable and Synchron turned pain and purpose into pioneering brain-computer interfaces.
Discover innovative startups and government-backed partnerships that are driving change in Saudi Arabia and beyond.
Learn the do’s and don’t of hiring your first 10 employees. Build your startup with the right talent.
Learn how to build your minimum viable product (MVP) and use it to build your startup with focus and feedback.
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
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
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 in
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
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
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
Everyone has a drawer full of batteries in their house. But beyond the standard power devices that everyone’s familiar with, researchers continue to explore different materials and techniques that can generate power and change the resources we rely on – so more and more novel power devices are in development.
We’ve written before about the way that connectivity and access to digital tools can enable people from a wide variety of backgrounds to exercise their entrepreneurial spirit. With low-cost, high quality technological tools, almost anyone can start a business in minutes. And the same goes for people working in
