LEAP 2026
Four days in Riyadh. One stage, many conversations about what AI needs to work in the real world.
Context64.ai joined LEAP 2026 for four days of conversations across enterprise AI, engineering, digital assets and Physical AI. COO Jan Bernasch represented the company on the Sports Tech Stage for the panel “Digital Assets for Sports Impact Powered by AI.”
- Location
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Dates
- 31 Aug – 3 Sep 2026
- Stage
- Sports Tech Stage
- Session
- Digital Assets for Sports Impact Powered by AI
Digital Assets for Sports Impact Powered by AI
- Jan BernaschCOO, Context64.ai
- Dr. Philipp BerkessyModeratorCo-founder, Green Encoded
- Elisabeth Görgl2× Ski World Champion & Olympic Medallist
Jan Bernasch represented Context64.ai alongside Dr. Philipp Berkessy and Elisabeth Görgl. The discussion took Context64.ai’s work into a new domain: how real-world sports activity, content, performance evidence, sponsorship, ownership and rights can be connected to trusted digital assets.
Every sporting moment generates data across different systems: athlete performance, event results, media, image rights, sponsorship and ownership. The challenge is not collecting more of it. The challenge is proving what it represents, preserving its relationships and provenance, and turning it into something trustworthy enough to support decisions and new digital business models.
From sports data to programmable value.
Context64.ai’s contribution to the panel was the intelligence and trust layer: connect what a sporting moment produces, preserve what it means and where it came from, and make it verifiable enough to become an asset — one that a tokenization layer can then turn into programmable value.
- 01Sports data
Performance, results, media, image rights, sponsorship and ownership — spread across systems.
- 02Context64.aiGoverned context
Ontology and knowledge graph preserve meaning, relationships, provenance and lineage.
- 03Verified asset
Identity, evidence, rights and ownership — traceable back to the source.
- 04Programmable value
Verified asset packages can support new models for licensing, access and revenue.
“The value is not in collecting more data. It is in proving what the data represents.”
What stayed with us.
The “10x Engineering Team”
Walid Al Naeem, VP & Chief Engineer at Aramco, described a “10x Engineering Team”: human expertise, digital engineers and intelligent machines amplifying one another.
This only works when domain experts can shape the context AI works with, while IT provides a secure, governed foundation. The quality of that context sets the ceiling for what AI systems can reliably deliver.
Physical AI needs engineering context
A conversation with Martin Elbs and Christoph Allstadt from Lightwheel opened another direction around Physical AI. Lightwheel’s work spans egocentric human data, simulation and evaluation for robot and world-model training.
Our perspective: Physical AI also needs governed engineering context. The machine, its requirements, components, changes, failure modes and history need to remain understandable when reality diverges from simulation — an interesting bridge to keep exploring.
Saudi Arabia is moving fast
Across LEAP, the ambition and pace of execution in Saudi Arabia stood out.
- HUMAIN’s push toward a sovereign AI stack
- Aramco’s “10x Engineering Team” vision
- Strong interest in agentic and industrial AI
- Physical AI still underrepresented relative to its industrial potential
Four days in pictures.
Four days of conversations, not just one panel.
Beyond the Sports Tech Stage, LEAP created space for conversations across enterprise AI, industrial systems, agent architectures and digital assets. The week continued at the Austrian Embassy with a group spanning industry, research, AI and digital assets.
- Dr. Philipp Berkessy and Green EncodedInvitation and panel organization
- Elisabeth GörglPanel perspective
- Lukas SternExchange and collaboration during the week
- Antonia Praun and the Austrian EmbassyHosting the evening in Riyadh
- Christoph P. and ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA Saudi ArabiaSupport on the ground
The conversations continue after Riyadh.
LEAP ended with new connections, concrete follow-ups and a clearer view of where governed context matters next — from engineering copilots and agentic systems to Physical AI and new forms of digital value.