Center for Emerging Technologies

The launch of the Center for Emerging Technologies (CET) marks a significant expansion of KPMG and Microsoft’s global alliance of almost twenty years into Saudi Arabia, introducing a nationwide initiative designed to help organizations in the Kingdom better understand the implications and opportunities that emerging technologies bring and how to leverage them effectively to transform businesses.

Driven from KPMG’s Insight Center in Riyadh, KPMG and Microsoft will work with organizations in the Kingdom on various aspects of emerging technologies – from discussing goals, assessing readiness, creating proof of concepts to setting successful adoption roadmaps.

We anticipate this initiative to be a significant catalyst for organizations in the Kingdom, propelling them towards sustained innovation and transformative growth.

KPMG and Microsoft’s global reach, deep industry knowledge, expertise, and ground-breaking partnership uniquely position the CET to empower organizations in the Kingdom in their business transformation and technology adoption journeys.

Combination of KPMG and Microsoft’s knowledge and experience to deliver great outcomes

By combining KPMG’s expertise and capabilities with Microsoft’s solutions in a partnership not yet before seen in the Kingdom, the CET is positioned to be unique in its scope to provide up-to-date solutions, serve different clientele and sectors, and drive the market towards increased diffusion of leading-edge technologies.

Using local and global presence, IP and expertise to lead in technology adoption

The CET will empower organizations to leverage KPMG’s IP and local teams in tandem with experts from across the world, to help build cutting-edge Microsoft solutions that accelerate their digital transformation journey.

Leveraging industry expertise to empower organizations on their transformation journeys

The CET brings global industry expertise across various domains. Coupled with Microsoft’s market-leading tech, we will deliver high-value interventions to organizations. This partnership allows for AI and emerging technology solutions tailored to industry and functional USE cases that will drive tangible outcomes.

Connecting with academia and inspire curricula and R&D collaboration

As the CET leverages the joint investments of KPMG and Microsoft across various technologies and use cases globally (starting with AI), it will play an important role in transferring and localizing this gained knowledge at local universities and R&D centres. This further create customized technology implementations that lead to innovative USE cases.

The CET offers a comprehensive suite of services to bridge tech gaps for organizations and pave the way for successful tech adoption and business growth.

The Advisory Board is a group of executives and experts in various aspects of technology, industry, economy, innovation, and academia; with passion, holistic thinking and thought leadership around emerging technologies’ role in driving impact and leaps in various sectors.

As a collaborative and voluntarily effort by its members, the advisory board provides general advice, guidance and critical thinking on what and where the CET should focus on, in order to maximize the positive impact on economy, businesses and society in the country.

The Advisory board can help open venues of collaboration with relevant partners globally to accelerate learning and adoption. The board also recommends ways of localizing and skilling the knowledge within the Kingdom, across organizations, academia and relevant audiences.

The launch event held in Riyadh brought together global and local thought leaders including Dr. Michio Kaku, an American physicist and popular science writer, who discussed present and future technological advancements, specifically tailored to the ongoing digital transformation journey in Saudi Arabia.