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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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8 Things we love about Austria’s startup ecosystem

Welcome to the 417 new techies who have joined us. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Kambis Kohansal Vajargah (Head of Startup-Services and Deputy Head of

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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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Do tech entrepreneurs need mentorship or trusted advisors?

In a recent conversation with Richard McKeon, our own Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Tahaluf, he said that having trusted advisors has been critical to his own career path to date.  “When I think about how I’ve navigated the twists and turns of my marketing career so

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How to leverage founder-led marketing for your tech company

Founder-led marketing has become a big deal in 2024. Across the tech industry, founders are stepping up to take centre stage in their company’s marketing strategy – posting on LinkedIn, authoring blog posts, engaging with PR opportunities, and giving customers a closer look at the inner workings of their business.

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Gamers in the ‘real’ world

Welcome to the 313 new techies who have joined us since last week Friday. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Leon Winkler (Senior Director of International

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Developers: 3 Programming puzzle platforms to challenge your brain

Programming puzzles are short programming challenges designed to help developers improve and evaluate their skills. If you’re a developer, programming puzzles are a valuable resource at any stage in your career – but they’re particularly useful for newer coders who are actively building their skill sets.  Often written in

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Our collective human memory: Why data means more than you think

Data isn’t static; not fixed in place. It’s information – and we like to think of it as a living thing; shifting and changing as our world shifts and changes, too.  When we asked Dr. Kathrin Kind-Trueller (Chief Data Scientist / AI A. Director Nordics) if there’s one thing

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Experience matters

Welcome to the 80 new techies who have joined us since last week Friday. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Hamad Al Fahad (Managing Partner at

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‘Community’ has been diluted - but it matters more than ever

Anything can become a buzzword in commercial industries. And in tech, ‘community’ has become just that. It’s thrown around in marketing lingo constantly; hailed as the single most reliable way to sell products and build success.  At LEAP, we talk about community all the time. But in an industry

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How to make your first tech investment in 6 steps

At LEAP 2024 we welcomed more than 1,200 investors to the exhibition floor – where they discovered innovative startups, expanded their networks, and selected new investments to add to their portfolios.  But if you’re a new tech investor taking your first steps into the investments ecosystem, it’s not

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How do you change your team dynamic?

Welcome to the 80 new techies who have joined us since last week Friday. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Tan Wooi Leong (Managing Director, Energy

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An introvert’s guide to attending a tech conference

There’s no getting around it: LEAP is busy. With over 200,000 attendees, the flow of conversation is constant. And for the more introverted among us, the idea of being at an event for several days with loads to see and do, and a lot of people to meet,

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What will passive BCIs do for healthcare?

A brain-computer interface (BCIs) is a communication link between the electrical activity in the brain, and a computational device that serves a function for the user. BCIs can be split into two key categories:  1. Active use interfaces 2. Passive use interfaces  We ask Dr. Ramses Alcaide (President and CEO

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Find yourself in tech – then find yourself again

Welcome to the 80 new techies who have joined us since last week Friday. If you haven’t already, subscribe and join our community in receiving weekly tech insights, updates, and interviews with industry experts straight to your inbox. This week we’re quoting Margarete Schramboek (Board Member at Aramco