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title: "Future Investment Initiative (FII)"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/fii"
language: "en"
type: "Event"
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# Future Investment Initiative (FII)

Annual investment conference in Riyadh, first held in 2017.

Future Investment Initiative (FII) appears in 6 stories in the Cicada archive, from 2017 to 2025.

## Every story, oldest first

- 2017-10-24 — [First Future Investment Initiative opens in Riyadh](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/fii-2017-first-edition): The inaugural Future Investment Initiative (FII), organized by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), ran from 24 to 26 October 2017 at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center and the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, with more than 2,000 attendees.
- 2017-10-24 — [Crown Prince unveils NEOM, a $500bn tech-led megacity zone](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/neom-announced-fii-2017): At the first Future Investment Initiative, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced NEOM, a planned business and industrial zone of about 26,500 square kilometers on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- 2017-10-25 — [Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to humanoid robot Sophia](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/sophia-robot-citizenship): During a panel at the first Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, moderator Andrew Ross Sorkin announced that Sophia, a humanoid robot built by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, had been granted Saudi citizenship, making Saudi Arabia the first country to do so for a robot.
- 2022-10-25 — [FII6 closes with more than $9bn of deals](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/fii6-2022): The sixth Future Investment Initiative ran from 25 to 27 October 2022 in Riyadh.
- 2024-10-29 — [FII8 closes in Riyadh with $70bn of announced deals](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/fii8-riyadh-2024): The eighth Future Investment Initiative ran from 29 to 31 October 2024 in Riyadh, with organizers expecting 7,000 participants and about 520 global CEOs.
- 2025-10-27 — [FII9 closes with over $50bn in deals and pledges](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/fii9-riyadh-2025): The ninth Future Investment Initiative ran from 27 to 30 October 2025 in Riyadh under the theme 'The Key to Prosperity', ending with more than $50 billion in signed agreements and investment pledges across AI, advanced technology, renewable energy and infrastructure.

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