LEAP 2025. Fourteen stages and a sports hub.
Malham, Riyadh, 9 to 12 February 2025. A second LEAP for our team.
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- ShowLEAP
- WhereRiyadh Exhibition and Convention Center, Malham
- When9-12 February 2025
- We wereOur team was there
Inside the KAFD metro station, Riyadh. Photo Kolaiel, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A bigger programme.
For its fourth edition LEAP grew its conference to fourteen stages and twenty content tracks.
BBC Click presenters hosted the Tech Arena, with demonstrations from Adobe, Boston Dynamics and L’Oréal, and a new Sports Tech Hub brought athletes and clubs to the floor.
Two hundred thousand again.
More than 201,000 visitors in four days, over 1,800 exhibitors, a thousand speakers, six hundred start-ups and more than 1,900 investors.
- Visitorsmore than 201,000
- Exhibitorsover 1,800
- Speakersa thousand
- Start-upssix hundred
- Investorsmore than 1,900
Wadi Hanifa, Riyadh. Photo Peter Dowley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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- SEPA2 PM in the panel
- Your bankmay be earlier
- SWIFTtakes longer
Who else covered it.
Written up in the local press by Al Eqtisadiah, in the press by TradeArabia, Economy Middle East and عكاظ, in the trade press by Wamda, discussed on the podcast نشرة السبت, and by 3 others.
Run by Tahaluf and the Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
LEAP 2025, official pageOrganiser (opens in a new tab)Local press
- Al EqtisadiahFebruary 2025ليب 2025 .. هل الذكاء الاصطناعي يعوق التواصل البشري؟ (opens in a new tab)
The paper asked experts on the Malham show floor how AI affects human communication; most, including a cyber defence analyst from Salam, called the effect positive.
- Al EqtisadiahFebruary 2025استثمارات بـ 7.5 مليار دولار في التقنية والذكاء الاصطناعي خلال ثاني أيام "ليب 2025" (opens in a new tab)
Day two brought 7.5 billion dollars of announcements, among them a 5 billion dollar DataVolt and NEOM AI data centre at Oxagon and 911 million dollars from Mobily.
Press
- TradeArabiaFebruary 2025LEAP25 ends on a successful note; nets $15bn in key investments (opens in a new tab)
Closing report: nearly 15 billion dollars of investments, deals closed in days that usually take a year, and editions planned in Riyadh and Hong Kong for 2026.
10 more clippings
- Economy Middle EastFebruary 2025LEAP25 ends with record investments, Riyadh, Hong Kong editions set for 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Closing report citing 14.9 billion dollars of AI, infrastructure and cloud investments and two 2026 editions, one in Riyadh and one in Hong Kong.
- عكاظFebruary 2025خبراء لـ«عكاظ»: «ليب 2025» منصة للعالم التقني باستثمارات مليارية (opens in a new tab)
Tech experts interviewed by the paper in Riyadh describe the edition as a meeting point for startups, investors and founders backed by billion-dollar investments.
- عكاظFebruary 2025السفير الصيني لـ عكاظ: «ليب 2025» يوائم بين «الحزام والطريق» و«رؤية 2030» (opens in a new tab)
China's ambassador Chang Hua tells the paper the edition links the Belt and Road initiative with Vision 2030 and helps the kingdom diversify its economy.
- عكاظFebruary 2025«الداخلية» تستعرض الخوذة الذكية بمؤتمر «ليب التقني 2025» (opens in a new tab)
The Interior Ministry shows at Malham a smart helmet for security gates and checkpoints that uses AI to analyse data, on view until 12 February.
Trade press
- WamdaMarch 2025MENA startups raised $494 million in February 2025, 371% MoM growth (opens in a new tab)
Saudi startups led the region in February with 250.3 million dollars across 25 deals, a rise the monthly report ties partly to the rounds startups announced at the edition.
Podcast
- نشرة السبتFebruary 2025نشرة السبت | أبرز إنجازات مؤتمر ليب 2025 (opens in a new tab)
Weekly tech bulletin of the computer college club at Taibah University, given over to the main results of LEAP 2025 a few days after it closed.
Video
- العربيةFebruary 2025تفاعلكم | جولة في مؤتمر "ليب 25" في الرياض.. أبرز الفعاليات وغرائب التكنولوجيا (opens in a new tab)
Al Arabiya's Tafa'olcom tours the opening day in Riyadh, from the robotics platform to the latest AI work shown by tech firms and investors.
- الشرق الأوسطFebruary 2025مؤتمر «ليب 2025» يعلن عن استثمارات 14.9 مليار دولار لتعزيز ريادة السعودية في التقنيات الناشئة (opens in a new tab)
Opening under the slogan Towards New Horizons with more than 1,000 speakers, 680 startups and 14.9 billion dollars of investments in AI and cloud computing.
- Fast Company Middle EastFebruary 2025LEAP 2025 recap: A glimpse into the future of technology (opens in a new tab)
Video roundup of the Riyadh edition with interviews of industry leaders on AI breakthroughs and digital transformation in the region.
From the organiser
- Saudi Ministry of Communications and ITFebruary 2025Saudi Arabia Solidifies Its Position as a Regional and Global Hub for AI with $14.9B in Investment at LEAP25 (opens in a new tab)
Ministry release from day one listing 14.9 billion dollars of AI investments, among them Groq with Aramco Digital for 1.5 billion and Alat with Lenovo for 2 billion.
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