As AI adoption surpasses 70%, companies face a strategic choice: build, buy, or drift. Explore how positioning (not technology) is creating competitive advantage.
Climate tech investment is still rising, but venture funding is more selective. We look at data from BloombergNEF, IEA and Dealroom to see where climate capital is going now.
Jonathan Reichental on building human-centred cities, smarter innovation, and leading through constant change.
Agentic AI is changing travel tech – and creating new opportunities for entrepreneurs to build customer relationships and platform loyalty.
Andrew Fenner (Director General at WYSE Travel Confederation) on youth travel, AI, and building platforms for the future of global mobility.
How researchers are beginning to design AI systems that deliberately search for new ideas – to enable AI-powered innovation.
A recent experiment let AI generate art without human prompts – and shows why AI can only make art with the direction of a creative human.
As AI spreads across industries, the idea of an ‘AI startup’ may disappear. Here’s why infrastructure technologies change how startups differentiate.
Metaverse is a word that has only recently entered our dictionary. The word popped up 128 times in company conferences in 2021, compared to only 7 in 2020. We can credit Mark Zuckberg for bringing the obscure term to common usage. In October 2021, the founder of the social media
Saudi Arabia’s $500 billion, smart mega-city, NEOM, is breaking ground on the unspoilt coastline of the Red Sea, setting in motion a chain-reaction of construction projects creating a city where robotics is revolutionizing everything and outnumbering people, and self-driving cars are the norm. NEOM will be Saudi’s first
The US is recognised as the current leader in AI research and development – but China is closing the gap. And when it comes to the use of AI in life sciences, China has already edged ahead, as Dr. Kai-Fu Lee (CEO and President at Sinovation Ventures) noted during his keynote
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
Renato De Castro (Executive Director at RMA Advisory) opened his #LEAP22 keynote with a touch of regret. In February 2009 he received a “very strange” offer – the opportunity to buy something called Bitcoin, for about $0.09. He didn’t buy it. Then in 2010, his child was born. “We
As the world has made a rapid shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, some countries have moved faster than others. Saudi Arabia stood out from the start as a nation with the drive to accelerate the rollout of digital services. According to the World Bank, Saudi
During his keynote at #LEAP22, Mazen Al Dawood (SVP of Corporate Strategy, Business Planning and Partnerships at Mobily) mentioned a recent survey that asked families in Saudi Arabia what was most important to them before they moved into a new house. Most said that their number one priority was to
Scientists have long tried to figure out exactly how far human beings can go before we hit our outermost limits. For millennia, we’ve been creating technology to overcome the limitations of our physical bodies – and now we’re turning to tech to expand the limits of our minds. Over
