Name: Fortune Global Forum 2025: Opening Ceremony and Welcome
Uploaded: 2025-10-28
Duration: 14 min 23 s
Description: Hosted by H.E. Fahd bin Abdulmohsan Al-Rasheed, Anastasia Nyrkovskaya, & Diane Brady.

Hosted by H.E. Fahd bin Abdulmohsan Al-Rasheed, Anastasia Nyrkovskaya, & Diane Brady.

Fortune Global Forum 2025: Opening Ceremony and Welcome

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Again, this journey is a long journey, and why are we here is the big question. Fortune's mission is to make business better, and we're doing doing it through our excellent reporting and journalism. Saudi Arabia is the frontiers of the business world today and that's why we wanted to be here and that's why we're here now again, everybody needs a good partner to get things started. So I wanted to talk for a second about our partner here as well. His Excellency Fahad Al-Rashid is our partner. He's the advisor in the general secretariat of the Council of Ministers and the chairman of SEGA. For those of you who know him, he does many things transforms cities, thinks about human capital growth companies transforms he left two cities, build the port, build the metro, and help, help us to to be here as well. So I wanted to say a huge thank you. Enjoy the next two days, and I hope to speak with you and see you around. Thank you. Since 1995, the Fortune Global Forum has convened in great cities on the dynamic frontiers of business. Singapore, New York, Beijing, Paris, Cape Town, New Delhi, Abu Dhabi, Toronto, and Rome. Now, nearly 30 years on, this well-established gathering returns for the second time to the Middle East. Today, the world turns its attention to Riyadh, a vital and expanding hub for global trade, technology, and economic transformation, guided by its ambitious Vision 2030 plan. Saudi Arabia is embracing creative solutions to the forces reshaping global business on a monumental scale. At this pivotal moment when leaders everywhere are navigating artificial intelligence, new economic pressures, and opportunities for growth, the Fortune Global Forum provides a unique stage for dialogue that defines the future. Here in Riyadh, we unite the world's foremost business and thought leaders, Fortune Global 500 CEOs, policymakers, and innovators. Together, they will set the agenda for business in a rapidly changing world. Welcome to the Fortune Global Forum. Where the future of business begins. Fortune guests, please welcome to the stage advisor, General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chairman of the Saudi Conventions and Exhibitions General Authority, His Excellency Fahad bin Abdul Mohsen al Rashid. Behar and I mean this bit so or is me marat Mahaliata had been Abdel messen a rushid. Of hasmu Mali wasada Sara Malekomoramaullahi Oakata. Your Highnesses, Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Riyadh and welcome to Saudi Arabia. Welcome to the Fortune Global Forum 2025. We are honored to have you all here at this great moment. So many things happening in the world, so many challenges, and so many opportunities. But you've come to the right place because this is the land of opportunity. Saudi Arabia, with Vision 2030 has made major strides, not only economic, but social. Female participation in the workforce. Has hit 37%. Ahead of our 2030 targets. We started with the tourism sector, targeting 100 million visitors. Last year, we did 120 million visitors. But we have so much more to do. Because our leadership pushes us because we as people are ambitious. We want to do more. We want to do more because we are people of the desert. And think about what you have to do to survive and build a city the size of Riyadh in the desert. Riyadh is 100. 1200 kilometers in terms of size, double the size of Singapore. We have 8 million people living in Riyadh. It's the 44th largest city economy in the world. What does it take to do all of this? Ambition Patience And unlimited boundless. Optimism. And this is Saudi Arabia. This is the Saudi people. But how does Vision 2030 mechanically work? We have KPIs set for all sectors of the economy. Just like business do. But then to achieve them, we've launched initiatives. Actually we've launched 1,052 initiatives across the board. And 85% of them are on track. How can we do it? We're doing it together, men and women. Across the country. We're doing it with great talent that we've attracted from all over the world. And most importantly, we are doing it through the power of partnerships. We have partnership partnered with our friends from all around the world like you. To do this, these partnerships have allowed us to scale, scale our capability and scale the depth of our knowledge. And we've achieved, like I said, so much. Just a few months ago we've launched Humane in artificial intelligence. And signed $23 billion of partnerships just right after that. So we are here, we are ready, we are opening our arms and extending our hands to you. Thank you for being with us and enjoy the next 2 days. Thank you very much.