LEAP 2026

NVIDIA’s VP for Enterprise across the Middle East, Türkiye, Africa and Southern Europe, talks about Saudi Arabia’s move from AI announcements to deployed compute, the energy question, and where GCC demand goes next

Jarwan talks about the “conversion layer” between infrastructure and value, why AI sovereignty is a ‘team sport’, and what it takes to move AI from the screen to the shop floor

For the initiative, Salam is collaborating with Future Work, a national company focused on strengthening Saudi Arabia’s freelance ecosystem through freelancer license validation, flexible work models and labor-market innovation

At LEAP 2026, Globant unveiled what it calls the world’s first live agent-to-agent tourism corridor — an AI network linking Red Sea Global and AlUla so two destinations can plan a single visitor journey between them. Federico Pienovi, the company’s CBO and CEO for MENA and APAC, talks about the initiative and why Globant is bringing systems already running in production rather than concepts to the show

As LEAP 2026 gets underway, industry leaders across sport, infrastructure, collaboration, security and industrial AI explain what Saudi Arabia’s push to become the region’s AI hub looks like on the ground — and what they’re bringing to this year’s show

Under its theme “Powering What’s Next,” Salam will showcase AI-enabled solutions across industry, healthcare, mobility, and security, demonstrating scalable innovation that fuels the Kingdom’s digital economy