Bridging Innovation and Influence: The Silicon Valley-DC-Middle East Connection (Invite only)

The global innovation map is being redrawn in real time. Silicon Valley’s speed, product DNA, and risk capital are colliding with the Middle East’s long-term vision, energy advantage, and sovereign scale to create a new growth corridor. Combined with Washington, D.C.’s regulatory reach and policy expertise, this dynamic is connecting capital, ideas, and talent to accelerate sectors and economies at an unprecedented pace. This session will bring together founders, investors, and policymakers together to turn momentum into execution across deep tech, financial products, AI and data centers, health care, education, and public–private partnerships. Specifically, we will discuss how to build at scale: capital formation, talent mobility, regulatory alignment, and security. We will also discuss how to co-locate R&D and manufacturing, structure infrastructure JVs, and design procurement that pulls innovation into government and industry with a single aim: move beyond headlines to opportunities that create jobs, diversify economies, and ship real products across geographies.