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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), the kingdom’s powerful sovereign wealth fund, has been announced as the presenting partner for the United States’ inaugural America Business Forum, taking place November 5-6 at the Kaseya Center in downtown Miami.
The two-day Miami business conference, happening across the street from the site of President Donald Trump’s future presidential library, will bring together world leaders, CEOs, and investors from around the globe. Organizers say the event underscores Saudi Arabia’s expanding financial and diplomatic presence in South Florida.
“Miami is where the world comes to meet the future,” Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who is president of the American Business Forum board and helped bring the event to the Magic City, said in a press release announcing the partnership. “We’re honored to welcome the leaders and our partner PIF, who are shaping the next era of leaders.”
Over the last few years, Suarez has worked closely with Saudi Arabia to help expand the Kingdom’s global investment efforts to reshape its reputation for violating human rights. He has been spotted thousands of miles away from Miami, visiting the desert nation. For the third consecutive year, Suarez spoke at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute Priority conference in Miami Beach in February, where he announced the establishment of the Kingdom’s new investment office in Miami.
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At the conference, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Investment H.E. Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Falih thanked Suarez for believing in the Kingdom and its “equity story.”
“The mayor has been coming for a number of years,” Al-Falih said. “I met him for the first time in Jeddah, and then we went to Riyadh. He met his royal highness, and he’s been a regular visitor.”
With this latest partnership, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S., H.R.H. Reema Bandar Al-Saud, and the PIF’s Head of Global Capital Finance, Investment Strategy, and Economic Insights, Fahad Al-Saif, join a list of speakers that includes President Trump, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Prize Winner María Corina Machado, and Argentinian President Javier Milei. Actor Will Smith is seemingly no longer listed as a speaker.
“This will be one of the most consequential gatherings of our time, and we’re thrilled that extraordinary figures in sports, business, politics, and international affairs will be joining us, as well as our partner PIF,” Ignacio Gonzalez, founder of America Business Forum, said in the press release.
Here is the full list of speakers set to speak at the business conference this week:
- President Donald Trump
- Soccer legend Lionel Messi
- Retired tennis star Rafael Nadal
- Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon
- FIFA President Gianni Infantino
- Formula 1 President and CEO Stefano Domenicali
- WeWork cofounder and Flow cofounder Adam Neumann
- Former Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt
- Citadel CEO and founder Ken Griffin
- Argentina President Javier Milei
- 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado
- Business coach and motivational speaker Tony Robbins
- Retired tennis star Serena Williams
- Host of PBD Podcast Patrick Bet-David
- The Witkoff Group Founder and U.S. Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff
- PIF’s Head of Global Capital Finance, Investment Strategy, and Economic Insights Fahad Al-Saif
- Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. H.R.H. Reema Bandar Al-Saud
