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Celebrating Excellence
The LeadBoard is a premier platform dedicated to recognizing and celebrating exceptional leaders. The LeadBoard recognizes visionary leaders and innovators who exemplify resilience and integrity and inspire others to rise to the challenge of today’s dynamic world. The LeadBoard is not just a recognition platform—it’s a movement to elevate the standards of leadership and empower the next generation of changemakers.
Meet the LEADBOARD
Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei is a university professor and a pioneering researcher, and a leading advocate for ethical AI.
Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever helped create OpenAI, and later AlexNet, among other entities in the deep learning area.
Ahmed Banafa
Ahmed is a professor and visionary in ethical advocacy, quantum computing, IoT, and emerging technologies.
Pushmeet Kohli
Pushmeet is a leader in innovation, through his work in securing AI systems at Google DeepMind.
Ted Chiang
Chiang is a leading voice in critiquing artificial intelligence and the corporate structures driving its development.
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey spent his career helping to create might already surpass the human brain in some respects.
LEADTECH EVENTS 2025
LEAP 2025
Billed as a ‘Digital Davos,” LEAP takes place in 9 – 12 February in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, The event presents innovations with change-makers in the industry.
NVIDIA’s GTC AI
GTC to be held in San Jose, March 17–21 brings together developers, innovators, and business leaders gather to experience AI and accelerated computing.
SXSW South by Southwest
SXSW, a leading US tech event held in Austin, Texas, is on May 7-15. It is known for its dynamic fusion of conferences, as well as immersive music and film experiences.
WEB SUMMIT 2025
The Web Summit Vancouver 2025 in May 27–30 in British Columbia gathers international entrepreneurs, investors, media outlets, and industry leaders
HANNOVER MESSE
Happening March 31- April 1 in Germany, the industrial technology fair showcases solutions in the industrial sector with a focus on innovation, automation
GITEX GLOBAL
Held from October 13 – 17 in Dubai, UAE, Gitex Global has become a major international technology event for the unveiling of new tech solutions.
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LEADIMPACT 2025
Platforms that inspire innovation and social impact.
TAMAKKAN ENTREPRENEUR
Integrated services in business solutions curated for entrepreneurs, from marketing solutions to leadership guidelines.
WORLD4GOOD
Successful global blueprints in
sustainability, thriving communities,
and good governance
THE GLOBAL BRAINTRUST
A grassroots AI community that
advocates for the most safe, fair and
human-centred adoption of AI, reflecting
and serving all humanities.
THE SMOVIES
A short film competition platform that promotes new filmmaker content, and that focuses on interculturalism and public-good global themes.
BRANDMOXIE
The un-agency that addresses the
branding, marketing and scaling needs of businesses in today’s fast-moving
economic landscape.
TEMPO
An online magazine that celebrates artists, entrepreneurs and community leaders. Tempo celebrates veryday people doing extraordinary things, and promotes “feel your tempo, live your rhythm.”
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LEADVIEW 2025
We are moving beyond the ‘geo’ in geopolitics, witnessing the digital transformation of power as the metaverse and AI reshape economic and military influence. This highlights the diminishing role of traditional geographic constraints in global power struggles.
Dr. Keith Dear
Digital Geopolitics Analyst
I often tell my students not to be misled by the name ‘artificial intelligence’ – there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans’ lives and human society.
Fei-Fei Li
Sequoia Capital Professor
Artificial intelligence is the new frontier for global collaboration—and competition—shaping the geopolitical landscape in ways we’re just beginning to understand.” This comment reflects the dual nature of AI as a unifier and disruptor across nations.
Sam Altman
OpenAi CEO
Digital transformation is no longer an option; it is the platform on which future economies and societies will operate.” This underscores the criticality of digital advancements in shaping global competitiveness.
Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO
Digital trade is the new frontier for development, but nations must address the digital divide to ensure it uplifts, not marginalizes. The WTO (…) needs to implement reforms and to work with members to make sure the WTO comes out of the partial paralysis that it’s in.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
WTO Director-General
It has confirmed the moment is now to find a new road, a road wide enough for all of us, free of the obstacles and detours of the past. That new road starts with a decision on the Global Stocktake, a decision that is ambitious, corrects course and accelerates action to 2030
Sultan al Jaber
UAE Minister of Advanced Tech
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