KSA 2025
2ND EDITION
THE PURPOSE LEGACY
WHERE FAMILY BUSINESSES MEET TO WRITE THE FUTURE
ABOUT WORLD WITH PURPOSE ksa 2025
World with Purpose KSA is an exclusive invitation-only summit that brings together the top 200 global family businesses with the leading family businesses of Saudi Arabia to foster partnerships and discuss the pivotal role of family enterprises in driving global prosperity and impactful change.
This closed-door event will showcase how family businesses can leverage their influence for significant social impact, harness technological advancements to drive innovation, and facilitate cross-border collaborations that open new growth avenues in support of Vision 2030. It will delve into the most disruptive investments poised to revolutionize industries and contribute to a sustainable future, aiming to create a legacy of prosperity and positive impact for future generations.
WORLD WITH PURPOSE KSA
2nd Edition
Location: Riyadh, KSA
Dates: 4-5 February, 2025
Mission
- Foster a collaborative dialogue with 200 global family businesses and leading Saudi family businesses to explore and amplify their role in driving global prosperity and advancing the achievement of the UN SDGs by 2050
WHO WILL ATTEND
- Founders and owners of family businesses globally and regionally
- Philanthropists
- Private and public sector leaders
- Global and regional thought leaders
- Experts and visionaries
- Next-gen leaders
- Innovators
- Board Members
- Academics
- Technologists
themes
- Enabling global prosperity: the intersection of purpose and money
- Leadership evolution: Conscious minds driving business success
- A deep dive into the disruptive power of AI for family businesses
- Ahead of the curve: investing in future innovation
- Women with purpose: rewriting a powerful narrative for an empowered future
- Inspiring Next Gen to find purpose for impact
Objectives
- Support the sustainable development and evolution of Saudi Arabia in alignment with Vision 2030
- Forge partnerships among Saudi and global family businesses to enable global prosperity and support the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Accelerate the rise of female leadership in family businesses
- Leverage AI, technological innovation and disruptive investments to unlock value and drive sustainable growth
Why Saudi Arabia as the 2nd Edition of World with Purpose
ALIGNMENT WITH SAUDI VISION 2030 FOCUSING ON ECONOMIC IMPACT, INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGIC LOCATION: kSA'S CENTRAL POSITION MAKES IT A STRATEGIC HUB FOR CONNECTING WITH DIVERSE REGIONAL AND GLOBAL STAKEHOLDERS
FAMILY BUSINESS ECOSYSTEM: KSA HAS A ROBUST FAMILY BUSINESS SECTOR WITH SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC IMPACT
INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM: KSA IS INVESTING HEAVILY IN INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT
PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS
Sanda Ojambo
Assistant Secretary General United Nations Global Compact
Todd Ruppert
Former CEO and President of T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services, and venture partner of Greenspring Associates, a $14 billion VC firm
A visionary impact investor with passion for the arts
RIchard Branson
The importance of passion in business
Roberta Calarese
Founder and Chief Executive Officer GHAYA; Former Secretary General of the Dubai International Financial Centre
Women leading with purpose and shaping a new business narrative
Prof. Ilya Strabulev
is the David S. Lobel Professor of Private Equity and Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an expert in corporate finance, venture capital, innovation financing, and financial decision-making. He is the founder and director of the Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative
Building a venture mindset
Dr. Zach Bush
Zach Bush MD is a physician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is an internationally recognized educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease, and food systems
Human and Planetary Evolution
Katie Wachsberger
Dana Global is an Abu Dhabi-based venture builder for women-led startups in desert technology: agtech, foodtech, water solutions, circular economy, and renewable energy specifically geared for the unique desert climate of the Middle East.
Discovering Desert Tech
Paul Polman
Former Global Chief Executive Officer Unilever and author of Net Positive
Giving more than taking
Magnus Grimeland
Magnus Grimeland is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Antler, a global early-stage VC enabling and investing in the world's most exceptional people. He leads a global team across 5 continents and 14 locations with the mission to fundamentally improve the world by supporting founders, who are building the defining companies oftomorrow.
Building Next Gen Founders
Colin Mayer
is the Emeritus Professor of Management Studies at the Blavatnik School of Government and Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He explores the urgent need for a new approach to capitalism that values more than just profit and focuses on creating sustainable development
Prosperity: Better business makes the greater good
Ester Dyson
Esther Dyson is an American investor, journalist, author, commentator and philanthropist. She is the executive founder of Wellville, a nonprofit project focused on improving equitable wellbeing. Dyson is also an angel investor focused on health care, open government, digital technology, biotechnology, and outer space
Women leading in space
David Yang
David Yang is a Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneur, founder and Board Director at ABBYY, co-founder of Yva.ai, World Economic Forum named him as one of the top 100 World Technology Pioneers
Bridging the gap between technology and humanity
Bruno Roche
Founder of Economics of Mutuality and former Chief Economist of Mars. Author of the disruptive books “Completing Capitalism: Heal Business to Heal the World” and “Putting Purpose into Practice” with Colin Mayer
Economics of Mutuality
Soraya Hosni Gonsales
Soraya is a tech founder (Clever Harvest) a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader, and the NEXUS Global Ambassador for Tunisia. Her anthropological experience and polyglot ability has shaped her ability to launch enterprises that have value across cultures and traditions
Purposeful Agritech
Josette Sheeran
Vice-Chairwoman World Economic Forum; Undersecretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, US Dept of State; International Council on Women's Business Leadership Committee on access to markets, US State Department
The responsibility of priviledge
Iza Sia Login
Iza Sia Login co-founded the tech unicorn Outfit7, creating the Talking Tom mobile gaming franchise which would go on to collect over 18 billion downloads and become one of the most downloaded app franchises of all time. From the very conception of Outfit7, Iza Sia’s $1 billion-dollar exit had a greater purpose than profit and had been manifested with the intention to power her present-day philanthropic megaprojects.
Maximising Performance to scale Impact
Nipun Mehta
Nipun Mehta is the founder of ServiceSpace, a global community working at the intersection of technology, volunteerism and a gift culture. As a designer of large-scale social movements that are rooted in small acts of service and powered by micro moments of inner transformation, his work has uniquely catalyzed "many to many" networks of community builders grounded in their localities and rooted in practices of cultivating deeper connection -- with oneself, each other and our systems.
Designing for Generosity
Sal Khan
Salman Khan is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science. He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a private in-person school in Mountain View, California.
Unleashing education through AI