Source: CEOs of Chevron Qualcomm and Pfizer will attend US-Saudi event.
According to a source with knowledge of the event, CEOs from Chevron and Qualcomm will be attending the U.S.-Saudi Arabia Investment Forum in Washington this week, during the visit by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Bin Salman is expected to highlight the increasing business ties between Saudi Arabia and the United States during his first visit to the U.S. in 2018.
The event will take place at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Nov. 19. Senior executives from IBM and Alphabet’s Google as well as Salesforce, Andreessen Horowitz (formerly Andreessen Horowitz), Halliburton Adobe, Aramco State Street, Parsons Corp, and Halliburton are expected to attend. The event will take place the day following the meeting between the Crown Prince, also known as MBS, and President Donald Trump.
The forum will feature panels on artificial Intelligence, energy, technology and aerospace, as well as health care, finance, and healthcare.
MBS's trip to the U.S. will be his first since the killing of Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul by Saudi agents, which caused an international uproar. U.S. Intelligence concluded that MBS had approved the capture or murder of Khashoggi.
The crown prince, who is de facto the ruler of the Kingdom, admitted to being responsible for the operation.
In May, during Trump's four day Middle East tour, the United States announced that it would invest billions of dollars into both Saudi Arabia and the United States.
On Monday, Trump claimed that he
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The sale of F-35 fighter planes made in the United States to Saudi Arabia. (Reporting and editing by Scott Malone, Chris Sanders, and David Shepardson)
(source: Reuters)
