Participants arrive to attend the annual Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Riyadh on October 29, 2024. Global business leaders meet in Saudi Arabia on October 29 for a glitzy investor forum as conflict shakes the region and scepticism mounts over the Gulf kingdom's most ambitious development projects. (Photo by Fayez Nureldine / AFP) (Photo by FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images)