KPMG
Saudi Arabia, the auditing and advisory firm, has partnered up with
Microsoft, Ericsson, and Metakey to establish a Centre of Excellence
(CoE) for metaverse and digital twins.
It launched the CoE at LEAP Conference 2023, a four-day annual tech convention held in Riyadh, the capital and largest city of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- According to KPMG, Metaverse will place Saudi Arabia on a global stage, with the CoE being the stepping stone.
- One of the CoE’s objectives is to help organizations build digital twin objects.
- KPMG has reserved a co-investment fund for metaverse use cases in Saudi Arabia as a part of the CoE.
- An advisory board and a team of specialists from academia and industry will guide the CoE.
- The LEAP 2023 conference was finalized on Thursday, Feb. 9, with over 100,000 global tech innovators and experts.
