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From tech farmers to future celebrities

When you hear about AI-powered systems that create and maintain stable plant-growing environments, or robotics and automated data collection that enables the creation of sustainable insect protein, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the organisations doing those things are tech companies.  At #LEAP22, however, Sky Kurtz (Co-Founder and CEO

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Trusted tech and things with twins

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

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Why central banks are creating digital currencies

When someone says ‘digital currency’, the world thinks ‘blockchain’. But blockchain isn’t the only tech that can be used to develop digital currency – and some economists don’t think that decentralised blockchain-based cryptocurrency ticks all the necessary boxes to be considered as money at all.   This isn’t true

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The beating heart of future health tech

The beating heart of future health tech Genomics, wearables, assistive tech and digitised patient services: healthcare is transforming at pace, and key industry players are looking at an optimistic future.  At #LEAP22 Asad Khan (Managing Director – Technology, Health and Public Service Lead at Accenture) sat down with Pranav Vempati (CEO

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Why MENA VCs fell in love with food and fintech apps

The past two years has transformed the Middle East’s entrepreneurial evolution into a revolution. Regional governments had been planting the seeds of this nascent industry for years, but it kicked into fourth gear over the past 18 months to combat the challenges of the pandemic. As our physical world

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Why networks (and courage) are the future of business

It seems obvious now he’s said it, doesn’t it? But Klein wasn’t just talking about traditional networking. He wasn’t waxing lyrical about the power of community and collaboration in a very conventional sense (although we do believe in that, too). At SAP, networks are being transformed

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Join the accessibility revolution in tech

Accessibility isn’t a new concern in tech design. The World Wide Web consortium published its first set of accessibility guidelines in 1999, and the latest updated version was released in 2018. But although many tech companies factor accessibility into their product development, they’re not all getting it right

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Could a digital twin of the earth solve climate change?

“We want to be able to simulate the planet Earth up to a kilometre small,” said Dr. Simon See (Head of Nvidia AI Technology Centre and AI Nation) at #LEAP22. “We want to be able to visualise it.”  He was talking about technology under development by Nvidia that could change