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5 EdTech changes for 2025

Discover the developments you’ll see across the EdTech sector this year, with a focus on personalised learning, adaptive teaching, and the integration of new innovations into existing educational models.

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EdTech: How can we empower future generations?

Aman Merchant (Serial Entrepreneur; Chief Provocateur at Radicle; General Partner at ReimaginED Collective) is a futurist at heart, with three decades of experience across education, social impact, and innovation.  An expert in the art of collaboration, he’s a leader in global education transformation. As Founder of the ReimaginED Collective,

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Shooting Star Winner: A journey after LEAP

At LEAP 2024, Karnika (Senior Associate at Newtrace) battled it out in front of a live audience in the Rocket Fuel Pitch competition, and won the Shooting Star award; which included an equity-free investment of $150,000.  Newtrace is developing next-generation membraneless electrolyzers to enable the adoption of green hydrogen

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The Garage and LEAP: When great minds come together.

We’ve been talking to some brilliant and influential leaders in the Saudi startup tech and ecosystems for #LEAP2025. This series gives us an unmatched insight into the impact LEAP has had in their success. This week we caught up with Omar Al-Shabaan, CPO at The Garage. The Garage and

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Ibrahim Abdulaziz Neyaz from NTDP: How LEAP helped them reach new heights

We’ve been talking to some brilliant and influential leaders in the Saudi startup tech and ecosystems for #LEAP2025. This series gives us an unmatched insight into the impact LEAP has had in its success. Recently we caught up with Ibrahim Abdulaziz Neyaz, CEO of the National Technology Development Programme

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Discover LEAP: The Creative Economy Track

In the Discover LEAP series here on the blog, we’re introducing you to the different stages and content tracks that you’ll experience at LEAP 2025. Dig deeper into the opportunities we’re lining up, and find out more about some of the expert speakers who are preparing to

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How AI is transforming the creative economy

Globally, our ideas about what the creative economy is have changed over the last two decades. We started to describe a range of activities as ‘creative industries’ about twenty years ago; including theatre, film, music, dance, visual arts, and more. As digital technologies have advanced, creative industries expanded to include

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Lessons from Austria: How to build a robust startup ecosystem

Kambis Kohansal Vajargah (Head of Startup-Services and Deputy Head of Founder-Services at Austrian Federal Economic Chamber) is the founding partner of a number of startups – including watchado, Saturo, ALVERI, and more. He’s an angel investor at Gateway Ventures and Founders of Europe, and he was chosen by the World

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Why investments in fusion tech are ramping up

Fusion power technology has attracted a growth in funding in recent years, and optimism about its potential to serve as a viable solution to the global climate crisis is growing.  Total investment has grown from USD $4.8 billion in 2022, to $6.21 billion in 2023 – and up to

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Leave reactive ‘sickcare’ behind with a digital health strategy

“There wasn’t a single resource showing all the digital health tools around on the planet. We created that.”  In a nutshell, that’s what Dr. Koen Kas (CEO at Healthskouts) has set out to do – but his influence on the healthcare sector runs deeper than a single current project.