Riyadh – Mubasher: Global tech event LEAP has launched its third edition in the capital of Saudi Arabia on 4 March 2024 where more than 1,100 expert speakers will take part until the end of the week.

The four-day event, which will conclude on 7 March, will bring together over 172,000 regional and international tech professionals as well as more than 1,800 global tech exhibitors.

LEAP 2024 is also gathering above 600 startups and over 1,300 investors at Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center.

The event is featuring leading names in the tech industry as speakers, including Chairman and CEO at IBM, Arvind Krishna; Co-Founder, President, and COO at Cloudflare, Michelle Zatlyn; in addition to Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Everywhere Ventures, Jenny Fielding.

The previous edition, LEAP 2023, was held under the theme ‘Into New Worlds’, where creative economy, financial technologies (fintech), smart cities, health technology (healthtech), the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), future energy, and retail were discussed.

The first edition of LEAP was held in February 2022 and attracted more than 100,000 attendees.