KAUST to host First Saudi international conference on Technology

Riyadh, March 07, SPA -- The City of Riyadh will host on March 16-17
the activities of First Saudi International Technology Incubation
Forum, organized by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
(KACST) attended by 25 global experts and specialists in the field of
technology incubators, as well as a large number of inventors,
researchers and managers of incubators in the Gulf and the Middle
East regions.

Prince Dr. Turki bin Saud bin Mohammed Al Saud, Vice-President of
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology for Research
Institutes said that conference sponsored and initiated by KACST city
through Badir Program for Technology incubators (BADIR-ICT) is the
first ICT technology incubator to be established in Saudi Arabia. It
is part of the national BADIR technology incubator initiative of
Saudi Arabia's national research institute and King Abdulaziz City
for Science and Technology (KACST) with cooperation of the World
Bank for the development of information aims to develop an
environment of creativity and innovation in the Kingdom through
incubators; and in the framework of the City to develop incubation
policies.
--SPA