" The sprawling Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, was originally built for royal guests. It was converted into a grand commercial hostelry in 2011. In October 2017, it became the venue for a thirty-five-hundred-person futuristic investment conference, populated by leading financial and business figures from both Saudi Arabia and around the world, "

― Daniel Yergin , The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations