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How do you design for resilience in the era of machine decision-making?

Critical industries are supported by an invisible architecture – energy, finance, and logistics now depend on AI systems that make decisions faster than humans can react. And building resilience into that architecture is becoming one of the tech industry’s most urgent challenges. The team over at Black Hat MEA recently

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Why Education and Inspiration Will Drive Entrepreneurship in Tech

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) opened on September 23 2009, after an intensive period of building and academic development.  “It was a dream to build a university that is leading in terms of science and technology and research, at the shores of the Red Sea,” said

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The Roller Coaster Ride Called “Education”

Education has always been a teacher-centric model. Teachers lectured students on key topics and students listened, learned, and were tested on how well they retained knowledge. COVID-19 changed this model. Suddenly, schools were in lockdown mode and students were sequestered at home learning their lessons via technology—smart phones, laptops,

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Wish Your Cat or Dog Could Talk to You? Your Wish Might Come True

Watch your pet for any length of time, and it’s almost impossible not to wonder: “What are they thinking?” One day, thanks to artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, that might not be so hard to answer. There are numerous ground-breaking attempts to use algorithms to decode animal language

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Virtual real estate is being sold for millions, why?

In 2010, the domain name Insurance.com made headlines as it is broke records after its sale for $35.6m. the domain name was one among many domain names sold for millions in the past two decades, even though they were registered for little to no money in the early

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The space between: Reimagining connectivity for the future

There’s a lot of science in tech: we like data, algorithms, and configurations that solve problems. But there’s also an incredible level of imagination behind the technology of today – and behind the technology of the future. Which is why when Fahri Diner (CEO and Founder at Plume) gave

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The new work code for the digital economy

With a growing number of software companies, telecom companies, and hardware firms expanding in the region, there is an explosion in demand for software programmers, coders and software and hardware engineers in the Middle East. Everything from electronic payment systems to complete overhauls of government and corporate platforms require new

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What’s your vision?

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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Elevate your customer experience with Big Data

In partnership with Infobip Nowadays, data can be found anywhere, and most brands collect a tremendous amount of it from their customers. Data can be collected across multiple touchpoints, from purchase history to customer insights and even social media commentary. It almost makes us feel as we’re drowning in