Speakers addressed Agentic AI applications alongside hands-on workshops and demo spaces
Members of the senior leadership team of KBW Ventures, headed by founder and CEO HRH Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, attended Google Cloud’s AI Live & Labs Roadshow in Riyadh, the opening leg of a two-city program dedicated to the rise of agentic artificial intelligence AI.
Held at the JAX District in Al Diriyah, the event focused on developers, sharing information around the technologies moving fastest in the sector. Prince Khaled took in a program that included keynote sessions on the agentic AI era and the agentic data cloud, live demonstrations of scaling AI agents in production, a customer panel, and a developer hands-on lab in which participants built their own AI agent. He followed the keynotes with particular interest in the industry-shaping potential of agentic systems and the broader future of work.
“What we are watching unfold is a kind of industrial revolution,” said Prince Khaled. “Agentic AI will not simply make existing tasks faster; it is set to remake how human beings perceive meaningful work altogether. For me this is where the real interest lies — the point where machine autonomy, productivity, and human meaning intersect — and the opportunity, and the responsibility, is to shape that shift rather than merely react to it.”
The Riyadh line-up brought together Google Cloud leaders working at the front edge of enterprise AI, among them Lisa Martinez, Head of AI Go-to-Market, Iberia and MENAT; Khalid Alohali, Interim Country Manager for Saudi Arabia; and Ahmed Alsagob, AI Go-to-Market Lead, Saudi Arabia. They were joined by specialists and customer engineers, from across data analytics, data management, AI infrastructure, consulting, and enterprise engagement.
The visit reflects a long-standing thesis at KBW Ventures, where technology investing has consistently moved toward the frontier. The portfolio spans biotechnology and health technology, financial technology, enterprise software and SaaS, security, energy and infrastructure, mobility, and the food and agriculture economy.
Across these sectors, artificial intelligence increasingly runs as a connective layer rather than a standalone category — powering the diagnostics, authentication, risk, and automation tools that KBW Ventures companies bring to market.
