Arabnet Riyadh 2019 <\/a>highlighted programming\ncovering a range of topics. The Inspire Sauditrack featured top\nglobal investors from Silicon Valley, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong,\nFrance, Austria, Mexico and around the MENA region. <\/p>\n\n\n\nOmar\nChristidies, Founder and CEO of Arabnet, conducted a fireside chat with\nAmerican billionaire venture capitalist, Tim Draper, the Founding Partner of\nDraper Associates and DFJ, whose prominent investments include Baidu, Skype,\nTesla, SpaceX, Twitter and Robinhood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, the discussions on the DMS Stage\nfocused on enabling digital players to thrive and contribute to Vision 2030\naddressing the most relevant topics bound to impact the future of digital\nmarketing in the Kingdom featuring Dr Khaled AlBallaa, Senior Director,\nMubasher Financial Service Group and Andrew Williams, VP –\nCommunications and Social Media, Jawwy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The CIO Forum,\n<\/em><\/strong>sponsored by Mastercard, explored the\nbest practices for Digital Transformation across government and enterprise, and\nfeatured top CTOs and CIOs from the National Water Company, Alamar Foods, Arab\nNational Bank, as well as experts from IBM, Mastercard and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 \u2018Connecting the Kingdom\u2019, also featured more than 300 exhibiting start-ups in the KSA\u2019s largest tech entrepreneurship showcase and attracted over 150 speakers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":44153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[809,3629,78,791,79],"tags":[10823,10821,6068,10820,155,464,3433,10822,10824,811,277],"class_list":["post-44152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-news","category-newsletter","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-ksa","category-used","tag-alamar-foods","tag-arab-national-bank","tag-arabnet","tag-arabnet-riyadh-2019","tag-cio","tag-ibm","tag-mastercard","tag-national-water-company","tag-omar-christidies","tag-riyadh","tag-saudi-arabia"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44157,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44152\/revisions\/44157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}