The annual conference of the Imagination and Ingenuity Institute (i2) titled “Impossibility to Impact,” which celebrates the graduation of the first group of students enrolled in the institute’s fellowship program, will be held in Riyadh on Feb. 17.

The conference will create a platform for a number of theses related to creative projects, which were carried out by a number of Middle Eastern entrepreneurs during their fellowship period. It will also present an opportunity to exchange ideas about various topics that will be presented by a number of select international speakers on creative entrepreneurship. It will be attended by a number of international investors and businessmen.

Hayat Sindi, founder and chief executive officer of i2, said that all fellow entrepreneurs underwent a comprehensive program where they spent most of their time inside the Harvard Labs for Creativity (i-Lab) supported by several Harvard Business School faculty members, including several Nobel Prize winners, world-class authors and experts before they moved to visit Media Lab at Massachusetts where they explored some experiments and collaborated with faculty members and research assistants.

“It will be an exceptional day as we will host these brilliant minds that worked for months to develop and create innovative projects. Those fellow entrepreneurs shared their experiences with outstanding minds that were awarded the Nobel Prize, and faculty members of international institutes, in addition to a number of international authors and experts. Time has come to transform these Arab thoughts into sustainable projects,” Sindi said.

“We aim to create a comprehensive environmental system where minds can unite with supporters and governments to benefit from research and projects that will change societies,” she added.

i2, headquartered in Jeddah, aims to solve issues related to energy, health, water and environment.