The second version of a significant know-how convention is going down in Riyadh subsequent month, with a star-studded lineup of visitor audio system.

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More than 100,000 individuals are anticipated to attend the LEAP convention within the Saudi capital, together with soccer legend and tech investor Thierry Henry, Dragon’s Den investor and podcaster Steve Bartlett, and the presidents of Nokia and Ericsson Pekka Lundmark and Borje Ekholm.

LEAP will run from February 6 to 9 on the Riyadh Front Exhibition and Conference Center, and can function greater than 700 audio system and 900 exhibitors from main firms.

Representatives from Saudi firms together with NEOM, Saudi Aramco, Mobily, STC, and ELM will seem alongside exhibitors from a few of the world’s largest know-how companies together with Google, Amazon, Snapchat, Alibaba, Huawei, Microsoft, and IBM.

A parallel synthetic intelligence (AI) occasion – DeepFest – will happen for the primary time from February 7 to 9.

It is being organized in partnership with the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) with assist from the Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT).

Subjects to be explored on the convention embrace sensible cities, monetary know-how, well being know-how, retail, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), house know-how, and the so-called fourth industrial revolution (4IR).

Investors can even take to the LEAP Investor Stage to debate rising alternatives within the sector.

There might be a contest between 90 startups over which might ship the very best pitch, competing for a prize pool of greater than $1 million.

LEAP has additionally launched a mentorship scheme the place as much as 30 artistic startups can join with world consultants.

A number of robots will mingle with the exhibitors and guests, together with humanoids from Japan and Hong Kong, dancing robots from the US, and AI-powered kids’s tutors from the American firm Roybi.

They will current demonstrations alongside the Magic Keys augmented actuality system, which helps budding musicians be taught to play devices; the Stage11 music expertise, which mixes gaming, combined actuality and digital collectables; Italy’s ‘Mirror’, which customizes PINKO baggage and mints them into NFTs; and Interstellar Lab’s superior farming applied sciences.

“These are the 21st century inventors who are presenting the world of living and work – but not as we currently know it,” Michael Champion, Regional EVP, MEA at Informa Markets, which organizes LEAP, stated in a press release.

“This is an unprecedented and universal exhibitor mix which will send technology advancement into a whole new world-living orbit. LEAP is the window to tomorrow’s world, an event which powers the future and empowers those looking to shape it.”

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