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Six questions separate something that exists from something that has been announced, and they work on any press release. Applied to LEAP 2026, they sort a week of headlines into a short list and a long one.
Announced megawatts tell you about a provider's ambition. What a buyer needs is energised capacity, allocation, jurisdiction of operation and an exit path, and none of those appears in a capacity announcement.
More than 600 investors are expected, and most founders will spend three days meeting the wrong ones. The people who can actually change a Saudi fintech company's trajectory are usually standing at a bank's stand, not on the investor list.
A conversation at a stand is not a pipeline. What separates the vendors who convert LEAP from the ones who do not is entirely a matter of what they do in the fortnight after the halls empty, and Money20/20 arriving on 14 September has just compressed that window.
A demo is a rehearsed path through a system, and the vendor chose the path. Six requests, none of them technical, will tell you more in ten minutes than an hour of watching the version they prepared.