Fortune Most Powerful Women is an invitation-only community of top leaders from a wide range of industries around the world. They turn to this community for trusted insights, open dialogue, and unrivaled collaborations. This 20-21 May Fortune Most Powerful Women is coming to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the community’s first ever gathering in the Middle East.
This invitation-only conference will bring together over 125 of the world’s most influential female business leaders to discuss our theme, “A New Era for Business.” Together participants will examine topics including leadership in crisis, navigating economic shifts, deploying emerging technologies safely and at scale, and exploring new trends across health care, sports, design, culture, investing and more.
We’ll learn how women are taking bold steps to redefine the norms of corporate and societal leadership, and we’ll dive into the challenges and opportunities on the path to driving real change across our workplaces and communities. Fortune’s signature peer-to-peer roundtables, high-level networking and inspirational and news-making conversations will ensure that attendees will leave with practical advice and actionable business solutions.
We’ll do all of this in a country invested in growth, innovation and promoting the progression of women in the workplace and society as a whole; women’s participation in the workforce has doubled over the past 6 years and 45% of small and medium-sized businesses in Saudi Arabia are now owned by women.
Join us to for two days of conversation and connection with a peer group like no other as we explore top business trends and how women are redefining global leadership.
Overview
Fortune’s Most Powerful Women initiative began as an editorial list in 1998 and has since expanded into a multiplatform franchise, including a daily newsletter, in-depth feature reporting, social media channels and a wide variety of global gatherings.
The company’s flagship U.S. conference, The Most Powerful Women Summit, launched in 1999, has convened over 10,000 leaders to date, and has become a must-attend event for leaders across government, philanthropy, education, sports, and the arts. The Summit offers practical advice for attendees looking to leverage their platforms for meaningful change as community members recognize their power and their responsibility to not only maximize their organization’s success, but also solve the most pressing issues of the day – in business and beyond.
Since 2013, Fortune expanded the franchise globally and has hosted international summits and/or networking events in London, Montreal, Toronto, Paris, Davos, and Hong Kong. At all events, distinguished business women come together with Fortune’s award-winning journalists to learn, inspire, collaborate and amplify their impact.
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The MPW International Summit program is developed with the guidance of Fortune editors, whose journalistic perspective provides unique insights into the key trends and dynamic people that are driving business.
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