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Welcome to the Innovation Zero MENA 2025 Agenda!

With 50+ content sessions spread across the Main Stage and key sector forums, including Finance & Advanced Technology and Environment, Innovation Zero MENA 2025's world-class agenda will invite experts and leaders to explore the key factors propelling the region along its ambitious economic transformation.

 

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Main Stage
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    Vision 2030 strives to transform Saudi Arabia to a diversified powerhouse, promoting global investment and job creation across sectors.
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    A combination of projects in MENA will reduce impacts across the energy value chain and beyond. The Vision 2030 includes some very specific thinking on clean energy generation through the circular car ...
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    The gulf states resources and vision provide a unique platform to help develop new energy technologies globally, particularly in some of the harder to abate sectors. The plentiful supply of reliable s ...
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    State-owned investments funds epitomise the collaboration between policy and finance on a domestic and international scale. This session analyses how fiscal, monetary and trade policies in the region ...
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    The region has worked on a number of programmes to attract investment for building renewables, scaling decarbonization and circular carbon technologies and improving resource efficiency. This session ...
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    The gulf’s infrastructure developments provide the potential for establishing a launch pad for supplying the three continents with new energy sources. In this session we will explore the unique attrib ...
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    Cities such as Neom and Masdar provide a vision of what benefits a sustainable city can bring and reflect the changing needs and capabilities of society. We will explore the diverse ways that these ne ...
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    The region is becoming one of the world’s largest AI-powered data hubs, leveraging abundant, low-cost energy to fuel AI innovation. With big AI-related investments in the region, this session will exp ...
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    In a region with the potential for abundant sources of low cost energy there can be a pull for new technologies that are energy intensive but offer the opportunity to provide breakthrough products for ...
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Energy & Circular Carbon Economy Forum
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    This panel will explore the challenges ahead with the deployment of renewables in the Kingdom. Experts will discuss investment opportunities, policy support, and cutting-edge technologies driving sola ...
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    As the MENA region scales up its renewable energy capacity and diversifies its power generation, the grid must evolve in tandem. Electrification of industry and transport, alongside large-scale energy ...
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    The move to develop more renewables and storage, will require a grid that can optimise new generation and storage and create better energy security across the region. This panel will explore the polic ...
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    There are several ambitious new hydrogen projects in the MENA region. With plans to produce green hydrogen using renewable energy, this panel will explore the technical challenges of large-scale green ...
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    Carbon capture is no longer a future concept—it’s happening now across the region. Saudi Arabia’s flagship Jubail CCUS Hub stands as a global benchmark, capturing CO₂ from natural gas processing and r ...
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    As pressure mounts to decarbonise heavy industry and transport, electrification and cleaner fuel technologies are emerging as critical enablers of near-term progress. This session will focus on the pr ...
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    Energy efficiency is rising fast on the MENA climate agenda. From factories to transport to buildings, local initiatives are helping reduce energy use and emissions. This panel explores how efficiency ...
Cities, Mobility & Infrastructure Forum
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    As the MENA region invests in next-generation cities like Neom, Masdar and Qiddiya, the integration of low-emission energy solutions and ecological design is transforming the future of urban developme ...
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    The region’s ambitious sustainability agenda is transforming its built environment—from state-of-the-art airport expansions to iconic football stadiums ahead of the World Cup. This session will examin ...
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    As cities around the world face rising temperatures and more intense heatwaves, the demand for cooling is surging—driving up energy consumption and placing increasing pressure on urban infrastructure. ...
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    With the MENA region embarking on ambitious building and infrastructure programs, reducing emissions from cement, steel and conventional construction practices has become a critical priority. This ses ...
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    As MENA expands its mining sector, the challenge is scaling sustainable extraction, refining, and supply chains. This panel will focus on the technical and operational requirements for developing low- ...
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    Aviation plays a critical role in MENA’s economy, but decarbonizing air travel requires investment in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and LCAFs such as hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, and synthetic hydr ...
Main Stage
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    Building improved resilience in a warming climate is essential to local security, but our natural resources also offer new commercial opportunities, and provide local assets for citizens and visitors. ...
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    Adopting a circular economic model—one that minimizes waste and maximizes resource efficiency—offers a powerful pathway to accelerate climate action across sectors. Yet realizing these potential deman ...
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    Water is fundamental to economic development, social well-being, and environmental health. Yet across the region, water scarcity—driven by climate change, environmental degradation, and rapid urban an ...
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    As part of the region’s goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve net zero by 2060, Saudi and other countries across MENA have activated initiatives to help them reach these goals. During t ...
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    The decarbonization of transport is a cornerstone of national climate strategies, yet achieving it requires both cleaner energy and improved systems thinking. This session explores how to holistically ...
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    To deliver on local goals, projects and the development of contributing technologies requires the mobilization of huge amounts of new talent. This session will explore the importance of structural fou ...
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    In this session, we will explore the complexities of climate volatility, tipping points, and the ecosystem risks they bring, while considering how these factors should influence the development of sus ...
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    Globally, pressure is mounting on companies to enhance their sustainability efforts. As expectations grow, how are companies from across all sectors prioritizing actions and operationalizing their sus ...
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Finance & Advanced Tech Forum
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    The MENA region has significant potential for low emission, sustainability and climate technology startups, but early-stage financing remains a challenge. This panel will explore how venture capital ( ...
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    Carbon markets offer a powerful tool to channel much-needed climate finance into projects that reduce emissions and promote sustainable development. With plans to create a low emissions energy hub wit ...
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    Financing large-scale renewable energy, CCUS, and hydrogen projects requires innovative financial structures, risk mitigation strategies, and strong public-private collaboration. This panel will explo ...
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    How can MENA foster an innovation-first mindset to lead the world in clean energy, AI-driven sustainability, and next-gen materials, fast-tracking innovations from the lab bench to field-scale pilot f ...
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    AI is a game-changer for energy efficiency, predictive maintenance, carbon management, autonomous energy grids and much more. Quantum computing is unlocking ultra-efficient materials discovery, comple ...
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    The semiconductor industry is critical to the energy transition, enabling solar power, grid optimization, energy storage, and electric vehicles. Yet, the MENA region remains largely dependent on impor ...
Environment Forum
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    Healthy, productive land ecosystems are key to ensuring our future resilience and securing the livelihoods and wellbeing of communities worldwide. As climate change intensifies, exacerbating desertifi ...
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    Rapid population growth, climate change and increasing sectoral demands are placing an unprecedented strain on water resources. Addressing water stress across the MENA region demands more than conserv ...
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    Desertification is one of the most pressing threats to our global food security, with millions of hectares of arable land lost annually to land degradation. This session will explore how climate-smart ...
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    With plastics playing a critical role in industrial and consumer applications, the MENA region faces a pressing challenge in managing plastic waste and carbon emissions while maintaining economic grow ...
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    Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 is leading a transformative shift in the global tourism industry, emphasizing sustainability, eco-friendly destinations and cultural preservation. Learn how KSA and regional ...
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    Oceans are vital to global food systems, clean energy, biodiversity, and climate resilience—underpinning economies and communities worldwide. Yet, escalating threats like pollution, overfishing, and r ...

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