President Donald Trump will be joined by some of the world’s foremost business and technology executives for a meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The Tuesday dinner in Riyadh comes during Trump’s first bilateral foreign trip of his second term. The meeting will include top Trump administration officials, such as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and will allow lobbying opportunities for the United States’s top business executives.
Tech titans, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia head Jensen Huang, Alphabet chief investment officer Ruth Porat, Amazon chief Andy Jassy, Palantir CEO Alex Karp, and IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, will be in attendance.
Joining them will be business heads, including Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, Halliburton CEO Jeff Miller, CloudKitchens founder Travis Kalanick, Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden, Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, Fifa President Gianni Infantino, LinkedIn President Reid Hoffman, and Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, according to a list obtained by the New York Times.
“We have the biggest business leaders in the world here,” Trump said after landing in Riyadh. “They’re going to walk away with a lot of checks.”
The meeting comes as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has aimed to reinvent the oil kingdom as the center of business and technology investment, particularly artificial intelligence. He has directed billions of dollars toward AI, helping to make the kingdom a hot spot for AI conferences.
Last year, the country created a $100 billion AI and technology investment fund, with talks to invest even more.
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After landing in Riyadh, Trump encouraged the kingdom to invest another $400 billion in the U.S. over the next four years, bringing the total up to $1 trillion. However, some economists have expressed skepticism that Riyadh has these funds.
Trump will also travel to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates as part of his first international trip.