SAUDI-US Investment Forum business leaders during Trump visiting

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is listed as a star lecturer while Saudi Arabia strives to settle as the world leader in AI. Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud activity, is committed to investing more than $ 5.3 billion in Saudi Arabia in the coming years to create data centers for the IT power to execute AI models.

The CEO of Palantir should speak at the conference and recently credited a pro-defense technological wave for a solid performance in the first quarter. Alex Karp declared on a recent call on the results that part of Palantir’s success had to do with “an unanswered cacophony of the combination of 20 years of investment and a massive cultural change in the United States”.

Elon Musk is listed as a speaker, just a few months after Tesla has announced that she is entering the Saudi market. The richest man in the world previously had a somewhat difficult relationship with Saudi Arabia on unsuccessful commercial affairs.

Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, launched an investment company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia last year, and CEO Larry Fink underlined the global scope of the company during a recent call for results. There was once a leading voice on questions like ESG and Dei, but the recent annual letter of the company not mentioned any of the problems. Instead, Fink wrote that Blackrock is now betting on the private market.

Trump’s AI and Cryptographic Tsar are among the White House officials planned to speak. Sunday evening, David Sacks posted on the arrival of the Middle East on X, saying that America must be the “partner of choice” with regard to AI, and that “the effective Diplomacy of IA is more than ever vital”.

Nvidia representatives spoke at the World Summit of this year AI, organized in Saudi Arabia, and now CEO Jensen Huang is expected to represent the chips giant at the Tuesday conference. A senior Saudi AI official told CNBC in September that the country hoped to have access to NVIDIA high performance fleas in the year. Groq, a semiconductor startup and a potential competitor from NVIDIA, announced that he had obtained a $ 1.5 billion commitment from Saudi Arabia to extend the delivery of its AI chips.

The CEO of Citigroup, Jane Fraser, is among the leaders of Wall Street who should speak. She also spoke on the future investment initiative of Saudi Arabia in October.

Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, also spoke about the future investment initiative of Saudi Arabia before the presidential election and said that he thought Trump would be a better president the second time. Last year, the billionaire said he wanted Blackstone to become the “biggest financial investor” in AI’s global infrastructure.

Boeing has had a relationship with Saudi Arabia since the 1940s, according to his website. Although CEO Kelly Ortberg is planned to speak in Saudi Arabia, Boeing made the headlines linked to a different country in the Middle East, after several points of sale reported that the Royal Qatari family planned to give the Trump administration a Boeing 747-8 Jumbo jet to use as Air Force One. The plane is worth $ 400 million and has been criticized by figures out of the two political parties for conflicts of potential interests.

Ruth Porat, president and head of alphabet investments, should speak, and Google has made recent investments in Saudi Arabia. In 2024, the company announced that it opened an AI center in Saudi Arabia, and a partnership in 2025 between Accenture and Google Cloud seeked to pursue the generating capacities of AI in the country.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna recently announced a new IBM IA product list while the company is looking to develop its AI generative business. In February, IBM announced that it was extending its efforts to AI in Saudi Arabia and the company opened its doors in the country.

Omeed Malik founder and president of 1789 capital, a venture capital company that counts Donald Trump Jr. among his partners. He recently launched a private club in Washington, DC, which is aimed at the Maga social scene, co-organized a Trump fundraising which has collected more than $ 10 million. 1789 Capital invests in energy and software, among other industries, and he presents himself as anti-ESG. Instead, it focuses on “EIG” – entrepreneurship, innovation and growth.