Riyadh. Sovereign scale.
The Riyadh chapter convenes Saudi-based and GCC-active senior AI leadership. The room is weighted toward sovereign entities, banking, telecommunications, and the institutions executing the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 programme.
A room shaped by sovereign-scale decisions.
Riyadh is the chapter most engaged with sovereign-scale AI — decisions whose cost and consequence land at the level of the national budget. The cohort is curated to ensure the senior decision-makers on both the spending side and the regulatory side are in the room together.
Sector mix
Public Investment Fund portfolio entities, the major banks, the telecommunications operators, the energy majors, and the institutions delivering on the Vision 2030 digital agenda.
Cadence
Four roundtables per year, with the second-quarter session traditionally held jointly with the Muscat chapter to anchor the cross-GCC editorial agenda.
Four questions on the Riyadh table.
- National infrastructure — sovereign compute and data residency Q1
- Foundation models — build, partner, or license at national scale Q2
- Workforce — the AI-fluency programme at scale Q3
- State of Enterprise AI — chapter input to the annual Index Q4