Google Cloud has introduced that it generated greater than SR31bn ($8.26bn) in financial worth in Saudi Arabia in 2024, underscoring the Kingdom’s speedy adoption of cloud and AI applied sciences.
The announcement got here because the second annual Google Cloud Saudi Summit concluded in Riyadh, drawing greater than 2,500 attendees from throughout authorities, business and the nationwide innovation ecosystem.
Held underneath the theme “Within the Cloud: The New Actuality of Saudi Innovation”, the summit highlighted Google Cloud’s deepening position in supporting the Kingdom’s financial transformation.
Google Cloud in Saudi Arabia
Central to the occasion was the discharge of recent knowledge quantifying the size of Google’s contribution to the Saudi financial system in 2024, spanning:
- Search
- Google Play
- YouTube
- Google Cloud
- Promoting instruments
Bader Almadi, Google Cloud Saudi Arabia Normal Supervisor, stated the SR31bn ($8.26bn) contribution reinforces Google Cloud’s place as an “engine of change” throughout sectors comparable to Healthcare, Finance and the nationwide startup ecosystem.
He highlighted the strategic partnership with Qiddiya, together with the launch of a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) to speed up cloud adoption for the brand new metropolis’s methods and help the approaching opening of Six Flags Qiddiya Metropolis — a serious Imaginative and prescient 2030 attraction.
Innovtive tech
A strong human story resonated by way of the summit when Dr. Amal AlSaif, founding father of the Tawasal charity and mom of Eng. Anas Al-Turki, shared how she turned a household disaster right into a nationwide contribution.
She described how she used Google Cloud AI and Textual content-to-Speech know-how to create transformative options together with the Arabic Communication App and the Lip-Studying App.
These instruments, she stated, ship dignity and independence for disabled and aged communities. Her son, Anas, additionally spoke on stage, thanking Google for making innovation each human-centred and accessible.
Innovation was demonstrated all through the occasion by way of associate demos and immersive AI experiences.
Probably the most compelling was the Ministry of Well being’s AI-powered Good Well being Coach, constructed with Lean utilizing Google Cloud and built-in into the Sehaty app. Powered by Gemini on Vertex AI, the software offers residents with personalised, real-time well being steering by way of voice and video — supporting the Kingdom’s preventative healthcare ambitions underneath Imaginative and prescient 2030.
Attendees additionally examined AI brokers on the summit’s AI Agent Bar, with instruments designed to automate and improve sector-specific job duties.
Expertise growth
The occasion positioned main emphasis on expertise growth, celebrating the milestone of greater than 590,000 folks educated in digital and AI expertise by way of programmes.
Constructing on this success, Google Cloud and the Ministry of Communications and Data Expertise (MCIT) introduced a serious new collaboration: the AI & Cloud Tour.
The initiative will scale the affect of the Google Cloud Centre of Excellence (CoE) nationwide, following its coaching of greater than 35,000 learners since 2022. Designed as a one-week hybrid roadshow, the programme will goal 10 cities throughout 10 areas past Riyadh to make sure strong nationwide attain.
