14 Dec 2020 - 8:19
Officials from Silicon Valley Forum, Embassy of Qatar in Washington DC, and USQBC during the webinar.
The Peninsula
Doha: The US-Qatar Business Council (USQBC), the Silicon Valley Forum and the Embassy of the State of Qatar in Washington DC hosted a virtual event on December 8, entitled ‘Qatar in Focus: Smarter Countries & Thriving Communities in the Digital Age’.
The virtual event provided US companies with an overview on how Qatar is driving ambitious economic diversification by investing in smart cities technologies and digital innovation to build its smart nation. Highlighting the growing relations between Qatar and US, officials said that the total economic value of the partnership between the two countries has exceeded $200bn.