
Get to know us at LEAP and find out how we can accelerate your company’s digital transformation.
August 31–September 3, 2026
11:00 AM–6:00 PM GMT+3
Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center, Malham
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Discover the future of AI, data, and cloud innovation. Join us to explore how we're helping businesses in Saudi Arabia and beyond transform and thrive.



12:00 PM—12:25 PM | Data & AI Speaker: Hassan Ahmad |
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12:30 PM—12:55 PM | Infra AI - How GKE and OSS is transforming your large scale training and inference Join us in a session to understand how Google cloud infraAI is leveraging open source technology to help you scale your training, fine tuning and inferencing needs Speaker: Louay Shaat |
1:00 PM—1:25 PM | The Architecture and Economics of AI on Google Cloud This session walks you through the journey of manually deploying open LLMs on bare GCE VMs all the way to a fully managed Vertex AI production pipeline with different optimization approaches. You will also learn about the economics of deciding between cloud GPUs versus owning your own, along with practical architecture patterns for enterprise AI workloads. Speaker: Mohammed Fazalullah Qudrath, Principal Customer Engineer, CNTXT |
1:30 PM—1:55 PM | Leveraging Google Cloud for Qiyas Success This session provides a practical roadmap for Saudi public sector entities to accelerate their Qiyas scores by mapping Google’s cutting-edge infrastructure, Data/AI, and security solutions directly to the National Digital Transformation indicators. Learn how to move beyond basic cloud adoption to build high-performing, citizen-centric services that meet and exceed the Kingdom’s standards for digital excellence. Speaker: Ghada Alhader |
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2:00 PM—2:25 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
3:00 PM—3:25 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
4:30 PM—4:55 PM | Surviving the Unthinkable: Advanced Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Strategies on GCP This session will explore advanced strategies for disaster recovery and business continuity on Google Cloud. We will go beyond traditional backup and recovery to discuss how to architect for resilience, using a multi-region, multi-cloud, or hybrid approach. Learn how to leverage GCP's native services to design and implement a DR plan that meets your business's specific RTO and RPO requirements. Speaker: Firas Elsayid |
5:00 PM—5:25 PM | Building the Largest Integration Platform in the Middle East — Without Downtime An inside look at Lean’s large-scale API transformation journey in collaboration with Google Cloud and AppyThings. Lessons learned from migrating thousands of APIs while ensuring uninterrupted service at national scale. |
5:25 PM—6:00 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
6:00 PM—6:30 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
12:00 PM—12:25 PM | Seting up the Data Cloud for the AI era Speaker: Alaa Sharaf |
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12:30 PM—12:55 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
1:00 PM—1:25 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
3:30 PM—3:55 PM | Latest AI features on Android Session will cover the latest and greatest new features on Android devices, that are transforming the way users interact with their devices Speaker: May Bahgat |
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4:00 PM— 4:25 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
5:00 PM—5:25 PM | Compliance and Cloud Security The session will explore the compliance journey for Google Cloud customers in Saudi Arabia, offering insights and information to help them meet their organizational and national cybersecurity requirements. It will also cover Google Cloud Data Sovereignty and Data Residency controls, both locally and globally. Speaker: Sultan Altukhaim |
5:25 PM—6:00 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
12:00 PM—12:30 PM | The defenders Advantage Speaker: Ahmad Alkhatib, FSI Sales Leader, Google Cloud Security |
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12:30 PM—12:55 PM | The AI Renaissance: Modernizing Saudi Enterprise with CNTXT & Google Gemini This session provides a practical roadmap for Saudi public sector entities to accelerate their Qiyas scores by mapping Google’s cutting-edge infrastructure, Data/AI, and security solutions directly to the National Digital Transformation indicators. Learn how to move beyond basic cloud adoption to build high-performing, citizen-centric services that meet and exceed the Kingdom’s standards for digital excellence. Speaker: Shambhu Kumar, Director of Cloud Transformation, CNTXT |
1:00 PM—1:25 PM | Dynamic Decision Intelligence for Modern Governments Governments today need more than static reports to guide complex planning decisions. This session explores how dynamic mobility and population intelligence can help public sector leaders better understand how cities function and how people interact with infrastructure and services. From tourism authorities analyzing visitor patterns to urban planners evaluating district activity and healthcare leaders understanding community movement, geospatial intelligence enables more informed policy planning and operational decisions. Powered by telecom-derived insights and scalable cloud technologies such as Google Cloud, governments can transform aggregated signals into actionable intelligence for modern decision-making. |
1:30 PM—1:55 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
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2:00 PM—2:25 PM | APIs & Integration in the Age of Gen AI AI models are only as powerful as the data and systems they can access. As enterprises scale their Generative AI efforts, governing the connections between foundational models, agents, and enterprise backends has become a critical challenge. In this 25-minute session, we will explore the architecture required to securely build and manage AI products. Speaker: Ayman Abdulqader, Apigee Customer Engineer, Google Cloud |
2:30 PM—2:55 PM | Reserved for Partner: Isolution Session 2 |
4:00 PM—4:25 PM | Reserved for Partner: Oredata |
4:30 PM—4:55 PM | VTON: Where AI Stands and How Virtual Try-On Creates Business Value Virtual Try-On experiences that let customers digitally try products using advanced computer vision. VTON boosts engagement, increases conversion rates, and reduces returns by enhancing purchase confidence, while the Oredata VTON Suite delivers an enterprise-ready, scalable solution to turn these capabilities into real business value. Speaker: Zacharia Ahmed, EMEA GTM Recruiting Partner, Google Cloud |
5:00 PM—5:25 PM | Reserved for Partner |
12:00 PM—12:25 PM | Data & AI Speaker: Hassan Ahmad |
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12:30 PM—12:55 PM | Infra AI - How GKE and OSS is transforming your large scale training and inference Join us in a session to understand how Google cloud infraAI is leveraging open source technology to help you scale your training, fine tuning and inferencing needs Speaker: Louay Shaat |
1:00 PM—1:25 PM | The Architecture and Economics of AI on Google Cloud This session walks you through the journey of manually deploying open LLMs on bare GCE VMs all the way to a fully managed Vertex AI production pipeline with different optimization approaches. You will also learn about the economics of deciding between cloud GPUs versus owning your own, along with practical architecture patterns for enterprise AI workloads. Speaker: Mohammed Fazalullah Qudrath, Principal Customer Engineer, CNTXT |
1:30 PM—1:55 PM | Leveraging Google Cloud for Qiyas Success This session provides a practical roadmap for Saudi public sector entities to accelerate their Qiyas scores by mapping Google’s cutting-edge infrastructure, Data/AI, and security solutions directly to the National Digital Transformation indicators. Learn how to move beyond basic cloud adoption to build high-performing, citizen-centric services that meet and exceed the Kingdom’s standards for digital excellence. Speaker: Ghada Alhader |
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2:00 PM—2:25 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
3:00 PM—3:25 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
4:30 PM—4:55 PM | Surviving the Unthinkable: Advanced Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Strategies on GCP This session will explore advanced strategies for disaster recovery and business continuity on Google Cloud. We will go beyond traditional backup and recovery to discuss how to architect for resilience, using a multi-region, multi-cloud, or hybrid approach. Learn how to leverage GCP's native services to design and implement a DR plan that meets your business's specific RTO and RPO requirements. Speaker: Firas Elsayid |
5:00 PM—5:25 PM | Building the Largest Integration Platform in the Middle East — Without Downtime An inside look at Lean’s large-scale API transformation journey in collaboration with Google Cloud and AppyThings. Lessons learned from migrating thousands of APIs while ensuring uninterrupted service at national scale. |
5:25 PM—6:00 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
6:00 PM—6:30 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
12:00 PM—12:25 PM | Seting up the Data Cloud for the AI era Speaker: Alaa Sharaf |
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12:30 PM—12:55 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
1:00 PM—1:25 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
3:30 PM—3:55 PM | Latest AI features on Android Session will cover the latest and greatest new features on Android devices, that are transforming the way users interact with their devices Speaker: May Bahgat |
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4:00 PM— 4:25 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
5:00 PM—5:25 PM | Compliance and Cloud Security The session will explore the compliance journey for Google Cloud customers in Saudi Arabia, offering insights and information to help them meet their organizational and national cybersecurity requirements. It will also cover Google Cloud Data Sovereignty and Data Residency controls, both locally and globally. Speaker: Sultan Altukhaim |
5:25 PM—6:00 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
12:00 PM—12:30 PM | The defenders Advantage Speaker: Ahmad Alkhatib, FSI Sales Leader, Google Cloud Security |
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12:30 PM—12:55 PM | The AI Renaissance: Modernizing Saudi Enterprise with CNTXT & Google Gemini This session provides a practical roadmap for Saudi public sector entities to accelerate their Qiyas scores by mapping Google’s cutting-edge infrastructure, Data/AI, and security solutions directly to the National Digital Transformation indicators. Learn how to move beyond basic cloud adoption to build high-performing, citizen-centric services that meet and exceed the Kingdom’s standards for digital excellence. Speaker: Shambhu Kumar, Director of Cloud Transformation, CNTXT |
1:00 PM—1:25 PM | Dynamic Decision Intelligence for Modern Governments Governments today need more than static reports to guide complex planning decisions. This session explores how dynamic mobility and population intelligence can help public sector leaders better understand how cities function and how people interact with infrastructure and services. From tourism authorities analyzing visitor patterns to urban planners evaluating district activity and healthcare leaders understanding community movement, geospatial intelligence enables more informed policy planning and operational decisions. Powered by telecom-derived insights and scalable cloud technologies such as Google Cloud, governments can transform aggregated signals into actionable intelligence for modern decision-making. |
1:30 PM—1:55 PM | Session reserved for Google Cloud Partner |
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2:00 PM—2:25 PM | APIs & Integration in the Age of Gen AI AI models are only as powerful as the data and systems they can access. As enterprises scale their Generative AI efforts, governing the connections between foundational models, agents, and enterprise backends has become a critical challenge. In this 25-minute session, we will explore the architecture required to securely build and manage AI products. Speaker: Ayman Abdulqader, Apigee Customer Engineer, Google Cloud |
2:30 PM—2:55 PM | Reserved for Partner: Isolution Session 2 |
4:00 PM—4:25 PM | Reserved for Partner: Oredata |
4:30 PM—4:55 PM | VTON: Where AI Stands and How Virtual Try-On Creates Business Value Virtual Try-On experiences that let customers digitally try products using advanced computer vision. VTON boosts engagement, increases conversion rates, and reduces returns by enhancing purchase confidence, while the Oredata VTON Suite delivers an enterprise-ready, scalable solution to turn these capabilities into real business value. Speaker: Zacharia Ahmed, EMEA GTM Recruiting Partner, Google Cloud |
5:00 PM—5:25 PM | Reserved for Partner |










