The Network Café will afford attendees a dedicated area to use to schedule appointments and meet with
selected other participants during the conference.

The Network Café is a new concept to foster business contacts and build profitable relationships. In addition to the traditional exhibit hall for sponsors, a large café style space will be furnished with quiet tables and refreshments where sponsors, officials from the Investment Promotion Department of the Royal Commission, business representatives, and international business interests can sit, meet and talk in comfortable and discreet surroundings.

Each conference registrant will be given the opportunity to fill out a survey of his/her business interests, conference objectives and list of contacts with whom they would like to meet. WDF will carefully match this up with the appropriate official from the Royal Commission, business and finance representatives, as well as compatible international interests.

The contact “matches” will become part of a Network Appointment Card that will be given to each participating registrant at the start of the conference. The card will indicate those entities and individuals at the conference who will be available to meet and talk with the registrant in one-to-one meetings in the Network Café.

The Network Café will be open for the duration of the conference. In this way, WDF assures each participant the optimum effective use of his/her time at the conference. WDF staff members will be on hand to help identify additional prospective contacts and facilitate meetings as needed throughout the conference.

Officials from the Royal Commission will be on hand at all times to answer questions regarding business in Jubail and Yanbu.

For more information or to indicate your intention to use this networking tool, please check the Network Café box on the registration form.