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An AI-powered robot for education and empowerment

We interviewed #LEAP23 speaker Elnaz Sarraf (Founder and CEO at ROYBI Robot) to learn how she came up with her life-changing product (clue: it started with sketches on paper in her bedroom), and how she navigated the journey from the seed of an idea, to raising funding of $4.2

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Can wireless connectivity combat learning loss?

“We are creating a great divide amongst the world’s children – the connected and the unconnected.” Qualcomm is a wireless technology company, headquartered in San Diego. It develops semiconductors, services and software to enable wireless connectivity around the world, and owns patents that are crucial to important technologies including 5G.

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Open-source data and re-learning everything

It’s nearly time for #LEAP23. We’ve been catching up with our speaker line-up to get a first glimpse into the wisdom they’ll share in Riyadh this February – and it’s clear they won’t disappoint. subscribe   This week we’re quoting… Ulrich Ahle (CEO at FIWARE) What

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Is necessity really the mother of invention?

Are you ready for #LEAP23. We are – and our keynote speakers are, too. Take a glimpse into their worlds.  subscribe   This week we’re quoting… Sebastien Gendron (Co-Founder and CEO at TransPod) What Gendron said:  “The most open-minded regions embracing radical innovation are the oil and gas regions – Alberta and

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Mindset matters: The subtle roles of tech in education

Schools around the world have adopted tech as part of their educational programming. The common rhetoric is that technology gives students access to a wealth of information, quicker learning pathways, and gamified (fun) ways to learn important information and skills.  That’s all true. But tech plays several more subtle

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Ai Bias: The Need to Diversify Tech

Artificial intelligence stands to revolutionise everything from healthcare to education. But there are concerns that AI has the potential to do so in an unfair way, due to bias having crept into its algorithms. As we see more and more artificial intelligence applications in daily life, it’s important to

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You can’t always get what you want

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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How VR is Changing the Way Doctors Learn

Richard Vincent (CEO and Co-Founder at Fundamental VR) wanted to explore useful ways to integrate technology into the medical sector. At #LEAP22, he pointed out that the process of learning a surgical procedure hasn’t really changed in over a hundred years: “it still involves practising on humans. And there’