executives from the saudi crown prince’s “neom” megaproject have invited bankers and investors to a meeting in new york next month as they try to drum up international interest in their 500 billion plan to build a hightech hub from scratch neom’s chief executive nadhmi alnasr and finance sector head layth alshaiban are scheduled to attend the event in early april according to people familiar with the matter invitations were sent to private equity firms bankers and construction suppliers for the gathering which aims to gauge interest in the project one of the people said it’s potentially one of a series of events in multiple american cities and follows a similar event in london last year another person said