VirtuThinko at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh

VirtuThinko took part in LEAP 2026, which ran from 31 August to 3 September 2026 at the Riyadh Exhibition & Convention Centre in Malham. Organised by Tahaluf, LEAP marked its fifth anniversary this year. In its first four years the event welcomed more than 200,000 attendees from over 180 countries, and it has become one of the places where the global technology community meets Saudi Arabia's fast-growing digital economy.

Saudi Arabia is one of our two home markets, and LEAP is where the Kingdom's technology ambitions are on full display. Founders, investors, policymakers and enterprise technology leaders come to Riyadh to see what is next in AI, cloud and cybersecurity. For a cybersecurity consultancy working across Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, it is the right room to be in: the conversations at LEAP shape the projects that organisations take on over the following year.

Our stand was built around a single idea: as organisations bring AI agents into their daily work, security has to cover both the people and the machines. Alongside our partners KnowBe4 and Kinetic8, we showed visitors how to secure the digital workforce, human and AI, from the training and behaviour of employees to full visibility of the assets, identities and exposures across their environment.

Most breaches still start with a person, whether it is a convincing phishing email, a reused password or a rushed approval. With KnowBe4 we walked visitors through security awareness training and phishing simulation that change how employees behave, not just what they know, and how teams can measure that change over time. AI-generated phishing makes this more urgent, because attacks are now more personal and harder to spot.

You cannot protect what you cannot see. Kinetic8, an agentic unified cyber asset intelligence platform, brings asset, exposure and identity data from existing security tools into one view. At the stand, we showed how it helps security teams answer basic but difficult questions: what do we own, what is exposed, who has access, and what should we fix first.

Over four days our team met CISOs, IT leaders, partners and fellow exhibitors from across Saudi Arabia, the Gulf and beyond. Many of the discussions came back to the same themes: how to adopt AI safely, how to keep security teams from drowning in alerts, and how to build awareness programmes that hold up against AI-driven social engineering. Those conversations are now turning into follow-up meetings and workshops.

LEAP was also a chance for some of our interns to see the industry up close. Mohamed Alderazi and Mohamed Abdulredha joined the team in Riyadh, meeting visitors, sitting in on partner discussions and seeing how a regional cybersecurity business presents itself on a global stage. Giving interns this kind of exposure is a big part of how we build the next generation of Bahraini and Saudi talent.

We want to thank Tahaluf and the LEAP team for another outstanding edition, our partners KnowBe4 and Kinetic8, and everyone who stopped by the stand. If we met at LEAP, or if you would like to see how to secure your own workforce of humans and AI, get in touch with our team and we will pick up the conversation.