ArabNet Riyadh 2019 has successfully concluded having brought together over 6,000 attendees and 250 speakers from across the globe to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).
The two-day event, under the theme of ‘Connecting the Kingdom’, also featured more than 300 exhibiting start-ups in the KSA’s largest tech entrepreneurship showcase and attracted over 150 speakers who explored opportunities for establishing their activities inside Saudi Arabia.
The second day of Arabnet Riyadh 2019 highlighted programming covering a range of topics. The Inspire Sauditrack featured top global investors from Silicon Valley, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Austria, Mexico and around the MENA region.
Omar Christidies, Founder and CEO of Arabnet, conducted a fireside chat with American billionaire venture capitalist, Tim Draper, the Founding Partner of Draper Associates and DFJ, whose prominent investments include Baidu, Skype, Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter and Robinhood.
In addition, the discussions on the DMS Stage focused on enabling digital players to thrive and contribute to Vision 2030 addressing the most relevant topics bound to impact the future of digital marketing in the Kingdom featuring Dr Khaled AlBallaa, Senior Director, Mubasher Financial Service Group and Andrew Williams, VP – Communications and Social Media, Jawwy.
The CIO Forum, sponsored by Mastercard, explored the best practices for Digital Transformation across government and enterprise, and featured top CTOs and CIOs from the National Water Company, Alamar Foods, Arab National Bank, as well as experts from IBM, Mastercard and others.
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