Featured
LEAP25
Articles

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

Articles

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

Newsletters

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

Articles

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

Articles

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

Articles

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.

Newsletters

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

Articles

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

All
LEAP25
Newsletters

Can artists change how we feel about tech?

Welcome to the 337 new techies who have joined us since last 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 Otto Plesner (Creative Director at RenaiXance) What

Podcasts

Future-Forward Education: how to study in 2024?

follow us on spotify   This episode's focus is on Education, and more specifically Future-Forward Education: how to study in 2024. We are thrilled to be joined by Iryna Volnytska (President of SET University), which stands for Science. Entrepreneurship and Technology. With over 10 years of experience leading technology

Articles

It’s real: A positive relationship between art and tech

LEAP 2024 speaker Otto Plesner (Creative Director at RenaiXance) has a background in theatre and performing arts – and he’s using that creative foundation to imagine new ways for artists to engage with emerging technologies.  In his multi-sensory show The Art of Memory, he blends AI-powered visuals with evocative scents,

Articles

The space industry is making room for startups

Like space exploration itself, launching a project in the space sector has conventionally been something that only major players could attempt to do. But the industry is changing – and it’s making room for startups and small businesses to add new dimensions to business beyond this world.  Francesco Bongiovanni (CEO

Newsletter

How to capture the curiosity of youth

Welcome to the 233 new techies who have joined us since last 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 Marco Quarta (Co-Founder and CEO at Rubedo

Articles

In an ideal world: AI in education

Before he arrived in Riyadh for LEAP 2024, we caught up with Dr. Lin Zhou (SVP and Chief Information Officer at The New School).  Zhou joined The New School in 2019, following 20 years at IBM – where he was program director and innovation leader for Watson Education, leading it from

Articles

Why should we turn back the clock on ageing?

From a five-year-old scientist to a leader cutting edge longevity medicines, LEAP 2024 speaker Marco Quarta (Co-Founder and CEO at Rubedo Life Sciences) has dedicated his life to treating age-related disease.  We asked him why reducing our biological age is so important, both for individuals’ health and for enabling sustainable

Newsletter

The problem of moving around

Welcome to the 285 new techies who have joined us since last 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 Damien Garot (Co-Founder and CEO at Stellar)