U.S.-Saudi investor summit to follow MBS meeting with Trump

Preparations are moving into high gear for next week’s White House visit by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, with an investor summit now set to take place on the sidelines.

The conference, co-hosted by the Saudi Ministry of Investment and the U.S.-Saudi Business Council, will take place on Nov. 19 at Washington’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, CBS reports. 

While still unconfirmed, the event in billed in an invitation as a platform for “exclusive business matchmaking” through which participants will “explore new investment horizons across critical sectors, including energy, technology, financial services, infrastructure, and healthcare.” 

No word yet whether the investor summit will be attended by MBS and President Donald Trump, who will meet the day before in the Oval Office and join a black-tie dinner likely to include top executives from Wall Street and Silicon Valley. When Trump visited Saudi Arabia in May, the U.S. leader joined the Crown Prince at an investor conference in Riyadh alongside Tesla’s Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, BlackRock’s Larry Fink and Citigroup’s Jane Fraser.

Already gathering in Washington are some of MBS’s top lieutenants who are meeting with Trump administration counterparts to set the agenda for talks covering some $600 million that the Saudi kingdom has committed to spending with U.S. businesses. Among the most watched was the meeting on Tuesday between Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Prince Khalid bin Salman, the Saudi Minister of Defense, met on Tuesday with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and U.S. Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff. The meeting was also attended by Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Princess Reema bint Bandar.