Agenda

8:30 am
09:30 am
Registration
Drop in your business card and grab your welcome kit, make sure you collect your customized agenda. Time to brace yourself for the amazement to follow.
8:30 am
09:30 am
09:30 am
9:40 am
Welcome address by GBB
A brief journey of GBB so far, what it aims to achieve and what’s in store
09:30 am
9:40 am
09:40 am
09:45 am
Welcome Address by Sabina Ali, Forbes Middle East
09:40 am
09:45 am
09:45 am
10:00 am
Inaugural Address
09:45 am
10:00 am
10:00 am
10:15 am
Presentation
10:00 am
10:15 am
10:15 am
10:30 am
Raya Ani, Founder & Design Director, RAW NYC - Architects
10:15 am
10:30 am
10:30 am
10:45 am
Metaverse in Design by Pallavi Dean, Founder & Creative Director, ROAR
10:30 am
10:45 am
10:45 am
11:00 am
Adaptive Architecture by Mustafa Bodo Rasch, CEO, SL-Rasch GmbH
10:45 am
11:00 am
11:00 am
12:20 pm
Pre-scheduled Meetings 1 to 4
The signature face-to-face meetings curated for each registered attendee exclusively with great care taken to create perfect match between decision making buyers looking to source and suppliers with some of the most in-demand offerings
11:00 am
12:20 pm
12:20 pm
12:30 pm
Networking Coffee Break
12:20 pm
12:30 pm
12:30 am
1:30 pm
Panel Discussion - Delivering a Destination
  • How Vision 2030 is recreating KSA as a world class destination
  • Real estate projects that go beyond, to host communities and not just residents
  • What it takes to cater to the World?

  • Panel Chair: Jason Addison, Senior Real Estate Advisor BCG & Principal of PMDC WLL

    Panel Speakers: Elsaeed Albially, Vice President - Projects Development, Knowledge Economic City

    Yahya A Siraj, Chief PPP, National Housing Company

    Ilan Williamson, Chief Projects Delivery Officer, The Red Sea Development Company

    Amr Salah, Executive Director - Infrastructure & Utilities, The Royal Commission for AlUla
    12:30 am
    1:30 pm
    1:30 pm
    2:30 pm
    Networking Luncheon
    1:30 pm
    2:30 pm
    2:30 pm
    5:00 pm
    Pre-scheduled Meetings 5 to 11
    2:30 pm
    5:00 pm
    5:00 pm
    7:00 pm
    Unwinding Break
    Breather from the day’s hustle-bustle, just so you can prepare for more to come.
    5:00 pm
    7:00 pm
    7:00 pm
    10:00 pm
    Gala Dinner
    A semi-formal setting for the right ambience to get conversations started and network strengthen
    7:00 pm
    10:00 pm
    8:30 am
    9:30 am
    Re-Registration
    Make your presence known so we don’t miss you out of the exciting day to come
    8:30 am
    9:30 am
    9:30 am
    10:40 am
    Panel Discussion - Post-modern Architecture - Hijazi & Salmani Architecture
  • Bespoke architecture and it’s new-age expectations
  • The problem with Facadism
  • Proposed design codes and their implications


  • Panel Speakers: Dr. Christopher Drew, Director of Sustainability - AS+GG

    Dipesh Patel, Principal – BDP Pattern

    Christos Passas, Director – Zaha Hadid Architects

    Juan Martin, Director - ROSHN
    9:30 am
    10:40 am
    10:40 am
    12:00 pm
    Pre-scheduled Meetings 12 - 15
    10:40 am
    12:00 pm
    12:00 pm
    12:15 pm
    Networking Coffee Break
    12:00 pm
    12:15 pm
    12:15 pm
    01:15 pm
    Panel Discussion: Products and Projects: Design V/S Delivery
  • How products define the project and provide the competitive edge
  • Sustainability in Hospitality
  • Key changes and challenges of the new age needs


  • Panel Chair: Federico Minucci, Regional Director - EGIS

    Panel Members: Zak A Ayache, ED – Head of Design, AMAALA
    12:15 pm
    01:15 pm
    1:15 pm
    02:30 pm
    Luncheon
    1:15 pm
    02:30 pm
    03:15 pm
    04:00 pm
    Panel Discussion - Hollistic Hospitality: All that the New Saudi has to offer
  • Regenerative tourism
  • ESG Investment
  • Spectrum of possibilities in providing a wholesome travel experience


  • Panel Speakers: Olivier Harnisch, Senior Strategy Advisor – Ministry of Tourism of Saudi Arabia, Member of Board of Directors – PIF Hotel Management Co. & PIF Saudi Hospitality Eng. Muhammad Al Amir, CEO, AIMS Hospitality

    Dimitris Manikis, President & MD – EMEA, Wyndham
    03:15 pm
    04:00 pm
    03:30 pm
    05:00 pm
    Networking Session
    03:30 pm
    05:00 pm