The Future Investment Initiative debuted in 2017 as a showcase for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's dream of diversifying the economy of the world's largest crude exporter away from oil.
It has been India's year on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with genuine global interest in the India growth story, a clear outlier to the overall state of global growth.
Given the heavy snowfall and significant traffic on the way to Davos this year, it became apparent that opting for the hour's helicopter flight from Geneva was a practical choice.