Fwd: Prince Saud Al-Faisal & co on Nov 8?

Do you know this guy?

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From: Michael Hawley <
Subject: Prince Saud Al-Faisal & co on Nov 8?
Date: October 27, 2017 at 10:10:13 AM EDT
To: Andrew Lippman < Joichi Ito

Andy, and Joi,

Prince Saud is an interesting guy, and squiring a delegation of Saudis around innovation centers in the US. Big itinerary.

They haven't yet squared a visit to the Media Lab on November 8 and they need a little help; it looks like Kent Larsen may be the contact?

Saud is a pilot (he flew his Gulfstream to EG), has overseen lots of Saudi tech investment and education projects, and is a governor of the ancient city of Madinah (so he's rapidly coming up to speed on urban planning and future architecture).

I think there may be useful things here for you. Am contemplating a visit back to Saudi myself around the new year. My friend Eric Kuhne (deceased) designed a new futuristic city for about 250k people which is now being built. Trying to invent a future beyond oil, etc.

Would one of you like to pick this up? Happy to introduce you.

Mike

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From: "Saud K. Al-Faisal"
Subject: Re: planning
Date: October 27, 2017 at 8:42:45 AM EDT
To: Michael Hawley

That's great. I look forward to seeing you.

Attached is the latest itinerary, unfortunately as you can see on Nov 8th 10-11am, the media lab hasn't confirmed. Their the only entity that we're having a bit of difficulty with.

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On Oct 27, 2017, at 00:15, Michael Hawley ..z > wrote:

Saud,

Great that you dropped by Applied Minds. Best prototyping shop on earth.

And sorry to be slow: I was in Stockholm and London on a very busy tear.

YES: I will be here in Cambridge 6-8 Nov. I take it you already have a day arranged at the Media Lab? I don't want to step on any toes there, but if you can, send me your itinerary and if it makes sense for me to shake the bushes a bit more, I will.

Let me know when you might like to meet.

Mike

On Oct 26, 2017, at 11:47 PM, Saud K. Al-Faisal e > wrote:

Mike,

I recently visited Bran at Applied Minds who says hi.

We're now confirmed for Boston for the 6-8, will you be there and able to meet?

Saud

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