Get to know us at LEAP and find out how we can accelerate your company’s digital transformation.
09–12 February 2025
11:00–18:00
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.
Head of Customer Engineering
at Google Cloud Saudi Arabia.
Customer Engineer Specialist - Data Analytics & AI, Google Cloud Saudi Arabia.
Customer Engineer Specialist- Analytics & Gen AI,
Google Cloud Saudi Arabia.
EMEA Staffing Partner - Google Cloud Sales (Middle East, Africa, Italy, Iberia)
Head of VC & Startup Ecosystem, South EMEA, Google Cloud
Workspace Specialist
Chief Data Officer, Abdul Latif Jameel United Finance
Android Partnerships, Head of Saudi Arabia
Customer Engineer, Infrastructure Modernization
Generative AI Solutions Specialist, Blackbelt, Applied AI Engineering, Google Cloud - EMEA & APAC
Google Cloud Field Sales Representative, Public Sector
Google Cloud, Customer Engineer
Apigee Specialist
Head of Digitalization at Gidea
Sr. Software Engineer,
Google Developer Expert
Google Cloud Security Customer Engineer
Google Cloud Security Customer Engineer
Enterprise Account Executive, Apigee
Customer Engineer, SAP Solutions
12:30 - 12:55 | Opening Keynote: Google Cloud Unveiled: Cutting-Edge Innovations for Saudi Businesses This opening keynote unveils the latest Google Cloud innovations tailored to empower Saudi businesses. Discover how our cutting-edge solutions in AI, data analytics, and infrastructure can drive growth, efficiency, and a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving Saudi market. Khalid Alohali |
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13:00 - 13:25 | BigQuery and Gemini for Fintech Discover how the integration of BigQuery and Gemini empowers Fintechs to unlock the full potential of their data. Learn how to build a powerful data platform that leverages Gemini's AI capabilities on all your BigQuery data, driving smarter decisions and faster innovation. Hassan Ahmad |
16:00 - 16:25 | Finding What You Need with BigQuery's Vector Search and Governance Unlock the power of your data platform! This session explores how BigQuery's new vector search capabilities, combined with robust governance features, allow you to quickly find relevant information within massive datasets, driving better insights and faster decision-making. Jithin S L |
17:00 - 17:30 | Crafting Your Path to Google: Insights for Job Seekers Embark on a guided journey to Google success, this session is intended for professionals seeking jobs at Google, the session offers advice and career navigation tips that will empower you to position yourself for success. Zacharia Ahmed |
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12:30 - 13:00 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
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13:00 - 13:30 | Google for Startups Accelerator Program Join this session to discover how the Google for Startups Cloud Program can help your startup succeed! We're excited to showcase the different tiers of our program and all the financial, technical and community benefits startups can access to grow their businesses. Whether you're just starting out or you're ready to scale your business, Google for Startups can help you achieve your goals. Cyrille Saint Olive |
13:30 - 14:00 | Bring it all together: Google's ecosystem powers the future of AI at work Join industry leaders as they reveal strategies to help maximize business impact with Google Workspace, Pixel for Business, ChromeOS, and Android Enterprise. Get a firsthand account how Google’s ecosystem works better together to supercharge collaboration and productivity, drive business results, and shape the future of AI at work. Nouf Razzouqi |
14:00 - 14:30 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
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14:30 - 15:00 | Redefining Auto Finance: How ALJF is Using Data & AI to Reshape the Industry Join Abdul Latif Jameel United Finance as they share their journey of redefining the auto finance industry. Learn how ALJF is leveraging Google Cloud's BigQuery and AI to enhance customer experiences, optimize operations, and drive innovation. Abdullah Hamed Albar |
15:00 - 15:30 | Premier Partner #5: iSolution Session: The API Economy: Redefining Connectivity in a Digital World APIs are the backbone of the modern digital economy, powering everything from financial transactions to social media. This talk explores how APIs are not just connectors but enablers of innovation, collaboration, and growth. |
15:30 - 16:00 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
16:00 - 16:30 | Premier Partner #6: Oredata: Real-World Success in the AI Era: Leveraging Cloud, Data, and Generative AI Discover how organizations are navigating the AI revolution and achieving tangible success by leveraging cloud technology, advanced data strategies, and generative AI. This session will highlight real-world case studies, practical insights, and actionable strategies that empower businesses to solve complex challenges, drive innovation, and create value. Learn from industry experts and pioneers who are redefining what's possible in today's AI-driven landscape. Whether you're exploring AI for the first time or scaling its impact, this session will provide the inspiration and knowledge you need to thrive in the AI era. |
16:30 - 17:00 | Exploring the latest AI innovation in Android for Consumers and B2B partners Uncover the latest AI-powered features in Android designed for consumers and B2B partners. Learn how these innovations enhance user experiences while creating new opportunities for businesses. May Bahgat |
17:00 - 17:30 | From Content Creation to Community Building: Batala's Journey on YouTube Learn about Batala, YouTube's groundbreaking program designed to amplify diverse voices and stories, fostering inclusion and representation on the platform by supporting content creators. Get to know inspiring female content creators as they share their stories, experiences, and best practices. |
12:30 - 13:00 | Oil & Gas Lens powered by Google Cloud AI Deploying AI to production can be bafflingly complex. Learn how Google Cloud is bringing its over two decades of expertise in productionizing planet scale AI to our cloud customers with the AI Hypercomputer architecture. It’s a groundbreaking supercomputing architecture built on performance-optimized hardware (TPUs, GPUs), open software (PyTorch, Jax, Kubernetes), and tailored consumption models that optimize efficiency and productivity across AI training, tuning, and serving. Plus, gain valuable insights from our customers Kakao Brain and Nuro on their journey to deploying large scale AI on Google Cloud. Ibrahim Alothman |
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13:00 - 13:30 | Modernize your legacy IT infra to a modern and cloud native environment Summarize this table Is your industry legacy IT holding you back? Discover how to overcome the challenges of modernization and successfully migrate to a cloud-native environment, unlocking new levels of performance and innovation. Zahra Al-Kaf Google Cloud |
13:30 - 14:00 | Google AgentSpace Discover how Google Agentspace unlocks enterprise expertise for employees with agents that bring together Gemini’s advanced reasoning, Google-quality search, and enterprise data, for use cases including search, summarization, generation, and actions. Faisal Alsrheed |
14:00 - 14:30 | Premier Partner #7: Mongo Db: Modernize Your Applications with MongoDB and AI Discover how to transform your legacy applications with MongoDB and its flexible data platform. Learn modern techniques to build intelligent, scalable solutions that drive innovation and deliver exceptional user experiences. |
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14:30 - 15:00 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
15:00 - 15:30 | Premier Partner #8: Xebia |
15:30 - 16:00 | Google Cloud approach towards Digitally Enabled Healthcare Ecosystems Google Cloud is enabling healthcare ecosystems by providing secure, scalable infrastructure and AI-powered solutions. They aim to break down data silos and facilitate collaboration among providers, payers, and researchers. This drives innovation and improves patient care through data-driven insights. Riyouf Alabood |
16:00 - 16:30 | Transform your cloud operations and design capability with Gemini Cloud Assist Cloud infrastructure management demands constant attention to ensure high availability, efficiency, and security. Gemini, a powerful large language model assistant, streamlines these critical tasks for compute, storage, and networking on Google Cloud. Imagine describing infrastructure needs in plain language and receiving best-practices configurations – or proactively analyzing your environment to identify troubleshooting root causes. Join this session to see how Gemini automates routine tasks, suggests optimizations, and provides infrastructure insights. Zahra Al-Kaf |
16:30 - 17:00 | Premier Partner #9: Publicis Sapient AI - Acceleration client value realisation Transform the software development lifecycle with Al. Our proprietary Al platform, Sapient AI, drives enhancements in productivity, efficiency, speed and quality. Blending advanced code generation with agentic Al and an enterprise-level code library, our engineers use Sapient Slingshot to create high-impact solutions for your business—supporting everything from modernization to development and testing. |
17:00 - 17:30 | Supercharge your API and Integration landscapes with AI-powered Apigee platform The Adoption of GEN AI needs a robust protection and seamless API led integrations. The challenge of having a connected and protected API led models requires several considerations on hw to effectivily design, manage, secure and integrate different interactions through APIs. Join this session to learn new features in Apigee and Application Integration and gain insights on the AI capabilities of a complete "AI Powered platform" Ayman Abdulqader |
12:30 - 13:00 | The power of Big Query and Vertex AI for Gen AI BigQuery unlocks powerful insights from massive datasets, while Vertex AI simplifies building and deploying generative AI models. Together, they fuel innovation by enabling data-driven decision making and creation of new AI-powered solutions. |
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13:00 - 13:30 | Gidea ChatBot with Gemini Gidea presents how to revolutionize your workspace with Gemini AI: a smart chatbot solution for seamless communication and enhanced productivity. |
13:30 - 14:00 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
14:00 - 14:30 | Transform your SAP workload with Google Cloud Plan, migrate, and deploy your mission-critical SAP workloads on Google Cloud’s highly available, secure, and scalable certified infrastructure. In this technical session, learn how our customers use SAP-specific tools and infrastructure to improve availability, performance, and security based on proven best practices. Post-deployment, learn how customers use Google Cloud’s SAP-optimized workload management tools to ensure smooth, efficient operations of and continuously high availability for their SAP applications. Alper Akbal |
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14:30 - 15:00 | Built by Developers, for Developers Learn the best tools and tips to utilize Google Cloud for developers, GDG star (Mais) will share their experince and best practises. Mais Alheraki |
15:00 - 15:30 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
15:30 - 16:00 | Supercharge Your Security Operation: Assembling a World-Class SecOps Unit Tired of playing catch-up with cyber threats? Traditional security operations are struggling to keep pace. This session unveils Google's revolutionary approach to SecOps, leveraging cutting-edge threat intelligence, automation, and AI to empower defenders. Discover how Google Security can help you build a proactive security posture, optimize your defenses, and achieve unparalleled outcomes. Join us to explore the future of SecOps and transform your security strategy. Moataz Wahdan |
16:00 - 16:30 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
16:30 - 17:00 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
17:00 - 17:30 | Staying Ahead of the Curve: Threat Intelligence in a Dynamic Threat Landscape This emphasizes the importance of proactively using threat information to bolster the cybersecurity posture. By continuously monitoring and analyzing the threat landscape, organizations can identify potential risks and vulnerabilities, allowing them to adapt their defenses and stay one step ahead of emerging threats. Noah Melhem |
12:30 - 12:55 | Opening Keynote: Google Cloud Unveiled: Cutting-Edge Innovations for Saudi Businesses This opening keynote unveils the latest Google Cloud innovations tailored to empower Saudi businesses. Discover how our cutting-edge solutions in AI, data analytics, and infrastructure can drive growth, efficiency, and a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving Saudi market. Khalid Alohali |
---|---|
13:00 - 13:25 | BigQuery and Gemini for Fintech Discover how the integration of BigQuery and Gemini empowers Fintechs to unlock the full potential of their data. Learn how to build a powerful data platform that leverages Gemini's AI capabilities on all your BigQuery data, driving smarter decisions and faster innovation. Hassan Ahmad |
16:00 - 16:25 | Finding What You Need with BigQuery's Vector Search and Governance Unlock the power of your data platform! This session explores how BigQuery's new vector search capabilities, combined with robust governance features, allow you to quickly find relevant information within massive datasets, driving better insights and faster decision-making. Jithin S L |
17:00 - 17:30 | Crafting Your Path to Google: Insights for Job Seekers Embark on a guided journey to Google success, this session is intended for professionals seeking jobs at Google, the session offers advice and career navigation tips that will empower you to position yourself for success. Zacharia Ahmed |
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12:30 - 13:00 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
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13:00 - 13:30 | Google for Startups Accelerator Program Join this session to discover how the Google for Startups Cloud Program can help your startup succeed! We're excited to showcase the different tiers of our program and all the financial, technical and community benefits startups can access to grow their businesses. Whether you're just starting out or you're ready to scale your business, Google for Startups can help you achieve your goals. Cyrille Saint Olive |
13:30 - 14:00 | Bring it all together: Google's ecosystem powers the future of AI at work Join industry leaders as they reveal strategies to help maximize business impact with Google Workspace, Pixel for Business, ChromeOS, and Android Enterprise. Get a firsthand account how Google’s ecosystem works better together to supercharge collaboration and productivity, drive business results, and shape the future of AI at work. Nouf Razzouqi |
14:00 - 14:30 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
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14:30 - 15:00 | Redefining Auto Finance: How ALJF is Using Data & AI to Reshape the Industry Join Abdul Latif Jameel United Finance as they share their journey of redefining the auto finance industry. Learn how ALJF is leveraging Google Cloud's BigQuery and AI to enhance customer experiences, optimize operations, and drive innovation. Abdullah Hamed Albar |
15:00 - 15:30 | Premier Partner #5: iSolution Session: The API Economy: Redefining Connectivity in a Digital World APIs are the backbone of the modern digital economy, powering everything from financial transactions to social media. This talk explores how APIs are not just connectors but enablers of innovation, collaboration, and growth. |
15:30 - 16:00 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
16:00 - 16:30 | Premier Partner #6: Oredata: Real-World Success in the AI Era: Leveraging Cloud, Data, and Generative AI Discover how organizations are navigating the AI revolution and achieving tangible success by leveraging cloud technology, advanced data strategies, and generative AI. This session will highlight real-world case studies, practical insights, and actionable strategies that empower businesses to solve complex challenges, drive innovation, and create value. Learn from industry experts and pioneers who are redefining what's possible in today's AI-driven landscape. Whether you're exploring AI for the first time or scaling its impact, this session will provide the inspiration and knowledge you need to thrive in the AI era. |
16:30 - 17:00 | Exploring the latest AI innovation in Android for Consumers and B2B partners Uncover the latest AI-powered features in Android designed for consumers and B2B partners. Learn how these innovations enhance user experiences while creating new opportunities for businesses. May Bahgat |
17:00 - 17:30 | From Content Creation to Community Building: Batala's Journey on YouTube Learn about Batala, YouTube's groundbreaking program designed to amplify diverse voices and stories, fostering inclusion and representation on the platform by supporting content creators. Get to know inspiring female content creators as they share their stories, experiences, and best practices. |
12:30 - 13:00 | Oil & Gas Lens powered by Google Cloud AI Deploying AI to production can be bafflingly complex. Learn how Google Cloud is bringing its over two decades of expertise in productionizing planet scale AI to our cloud customers with the AI Hypercomputer architecture. It’s a groundbreaking supercomputing architecture built on performance-optimized hardware (TPUs, GPUs), open software (PyTorch, Jax, Kubernetes), and tailored consumption models that optimize efficiency and productivity across AI training, tuning, and serving. Plus, gain valuable insights from our customers Kakao Brain and Nuro on their journey to deploying large scale AI on Google Cloud. Ibrahim Alothman |
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13:00 - 13:30 | Modernize your legacy IT infra to a modern and cloud native environment Summarize this table Is your industry legacy IT holding you back? Discover how to overcome the challenges of modernization and successfully migrate to a cloud-native environment, unlocking new levels of performance and innovation. Zahra Al-Kaf Google Cloud |
13:30 - 14:00 | Google AgentSpace Discover how Google Agentspace unlocks enterprise expertise for employees with agents that bring together Gemini’s advanced reasoning, Google-quality search, and enterprise data, for use cases including search, summarization, generation, and actions. Faisal Alsrheed |
14:00 - 14:30 | Premier Partner #7: Mongo Db: Modernize Your Applications with MongoDB and AI Discover how to transform your legacy applications with MongoDB and its flexible data platform. Learn modern techniques to build intelligent, scalable solutions that drive innovation and deliver exceptional user experiences. |
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14:30 - 15:00 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
15:00 - 15:30 | Premier Partner #8: Xebia |
15:30 - 16:00 | Google Cloud approach towards Digitally Enabled Healthcare Ecosystems Google Cloud is enabling healthcare ecosystems by providing secure, scalable infrastructure and AI-powered solutions. They aim to break down data silos and facilitate collaboration among providers, payers, and researchers. This drives innovation and improves patient care through data-driven insights. Riyouf Alabood |
16:00 - 16:30 | Transform your cloud operations and design capability with Gemini Cloud Assist Cloud infrastructure management demands constant attention to ensure high availability, efficiency, and security. Gemini, a powerful large language model assistant, streamlines these critical tasks for compute, storage, and networking on Google Cloud. Imagine describing infrastructure needs in plain language and receiving best-practices configurations – or proactively analyzing your environment to identify troubleshooting root causes. Join this session to see how Gemini automates routine tasks, suggests optimizations, and provides infrastructure insights. Zahra Al-Kaf |
16:30 - 17:00 | Premier Partner #9: Publicis Sapient AI - Acceleration client value realisation Transform the software development lifecycle with Al. Our proprietary Al platform, Sapient AI, drives enhancements in productivity, efficiency, speed and quality. Blending advanced code generation with agentic Al and an enterprise-level code library, our engineers use Sapient Slingshot to create high-impact solutions for your business—supporting everything from modernization to development and testing. |
17:00 - 17:30 | Supercharge your API and Integration landscapes with AI-powered Apigee platform The Adoption of GEN AI needs a robust protection and seamless API led integrations. The challenge of having a connected and protected API led models requires several considerations on hw to effectivily design, manage, secure and integrate different interactions through APIs. Join this session to learn new features in Apigee and Application Integration and gain insights on the AI capabilities of a complete "AI Powered platform" Ayman Abdulqader |
12:30 - 13:00 | The power of Big Query and Vertex AI for Gen AI BigQuery unlocks powerful insights from massive datasets, while Vertex AI simplifies building and deploying generative AI models. Together, they fuel innovation by enabling data-driven decision making and creation of new AI-powered solutions. |
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13:00 - 13:30 | Gidea ChatBot with Gemini Gidea presents how to revolutionize your workspace with Gemini AI: a smart chatbot solution for seamless communication and enhanced productivity. |
13:30 - 14:00 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
14:00 - 14:30 | Transform your SAP workload with Google Cloud Plan, migrate, and deploy your mission-critical SAP workloads on Google Cloud’s highly available, secure, and scalable certified infrastructure. In this technical session, learn how our customers use SAP-specific tools and infrastructure to improve availability, performance, and security based on proven best practices. Post-deployment, learn how customers use Google Cloud’s SAP-optimized workload management tools to ensure smooth, efficient operations of and continuously high availability for their SAP applications. Alper Akbal |
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14:30 - 15:00 | Built by Developers, for Developers Learn the best tools and tips to utilize Google Cloud for developers, GDG star (Mais) will share their experince and best practises. Mais Alheraki |
15:00 - 15:30 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
15:30 - 16:00 | Supercharge Your Security Operation: Assembling a World-Class SecOps Unit Tired of playing catch-up with cyber threats? Traditional security operations are struggling to keep pace. This session unveils Google's revolutionary approach to SecOps, leveraging cutting-edge threat intelligence, automation, and AI to empower defenders. Discover how Google Security can help you build a proactive security posture, optimize your defenses, and achieve unparalleled outcomes. Join us to explore the future of SecOps and transform your security strategy. Moataz Wahdan |
16:00 - 16:30 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
16:30 - 17:00 | Stay Tuned, Great Content is Being Prepared for You! |
17:00 - 17:30 | Staying Ahead of the Curve: Threat Intelligence in a Dynamic Threat Landscape This emphasizes the importance of proactively using threat information to bolster the cybersecurity posture. By continuously monitoring and analyzing the threat landscape, organizations can identify potential risks and vulnerabilities, allowing them to adapt their defenses and stay one step ahead of emerging threats. Noah Melhem |