ArabNet Riyadh 2019 in Strategic Partnership with Monsha’at - the General Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises saw successful discussions and possibilities of investing in Tech companies.  Around 6000 participants and a number of experts who spoke on different topics participated from around the world to establish their activities inside Saudi Arabia.

 Arabnet Riyadh 2019 featured full tracks of programming covering a range of topics. The Inspire Saudi  focused on startups and investing in tech companies, featuring 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, had a 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, Robinhood, to name a few.  The Inspire Saudi track also included several panels and keynotes including international VCs, in addition to a panel on breaking the boys club to empower women entrepreneurs, and a game show in which multiple VCs participated .

Another fruitful platform The Ad/Edge track tackled how brands, agencies, and publishers are adapting their strategies to keep up with cutting-edge technologies, consumer behaviors, and the structural changes that are reshaping the industry featuring top speakers from big brands, including Lars Silberbauer, Head of MTV Digital Studios, Senior Vice President at Viacom; Elie Chammas, Sales Director and Team Lead - GCC, TikTok;  and Kaswara Al-Khatib, Chairman, Webedia Arabia.

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. Digital Media Services (DMS) – the digital arm of Choueiri Group, announced their latest appointment as the Exclusive Media Representatives for Mubasher.info - MENA’s most-preferred Arabic-language platform for equity market news, data, analysis and investor tools.

The CIO Forum, sponsored by Mastercard, explored the best practices for digital transformation across government and enterprise.  Arabnet Riyadh also featured a number of dynamic initiatives to support entrepreneurs including The Academy, workshops on entrepreneurship, marketing and e-commerce; Pioneering Women, featuring talks and mentorship sessions by successful female executives. Arabnet concluded with ideas and opportunities and solutions to implement it in media and digital world