For the past five years, Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas has honored businesses, ideas and organizations driving change. This year, World Changing Ideas (WCI) comes to the Middle East region as a full-day summit showcasing big ideas, concepts, and companies which will reshape our future. 

Impact can mean different things. But, for Fast Company Middle East, it is ideas that have the potential to grow and bring change to more people and find pathbreaking solutions to important problems.

Tonomus will be the presenting partner for the inaugural edition, supporting the bold vision of presenting ideas which will truly shape the future of business and society. 

Speaking about the association, Joseph Bradley, CEO of Tonomus, said, “Tonomus is the first cognitive multinational conglomerate to be established as a full-fledged NEOM subsidiary. We’ve invested $1 billion in 2022 alone in developing an infrastructure of hyper-connected, autonomous technologies to realize the mission of building a sustainable, accessible future. Our ever-expanding portfolio of predictive, proactive products and solutions will enable NEOM’s vision of creating the world’s first cognitive community.”

The summit will bring together a group of business and government leaders, venture capitalists, thinkers, and social entrepreneurs from across the region and the world. It will showcase the innovative ways businesses and organizations are tackling the biggest challenges of our time. 

Some of the speakers include Aamer Sheikh, CEO at PepsiCo Middle East Business Unit, Brandon Rowberry, CEO – Digital Health,  Aster DM Healthcare, Giuseppe Saba, Chief Executive Officer at International Humanitarian City and others.

The panel discussions, attended by purpose-driven leaders, will focus on key issues like – Developing future-ready talent, Trade 2.0, and big shifts which are reshaping our future.

“With World Changing Ideas, we aim to promote ideas with great potential, help them expand their reach, and support the growth of innovation–from a major corporation to a startup,” said Ravi Raman, Publisher of Fast Company Middle East. 

The summit will take place on 23 November 2022 at the Address Sky View, Dubai. It will be attended by over 200 leaders from the world of business, politics, art and science. 

To know more about Fast Company Middle East’s World Changing Ideas, click here.