Jordan–U.S. Investment & Innovation Summit

Every existing Jordanian convening sits in Amman or a third country and treats the diaspora as an audience that travels: the Jordanian Businessmen Association's ninth diaspora investor conference was a one-day Amman event; the Jordan–EU Investment Conference (November 2026, Dead Sea) targets European capital in Jordan. No standing, U.S.-hosted, diaspora-anchored Jordanian deal-making summit exists — no pre-scheduled matchmaking, no deal rooms, no published tracking. The winning mechanics are proven elsewhere (SelectUSA, with $256B+ in announced projects — announced, not realized), and the failure mode is equally proven: pledges without tracking decay.

A two-day, 300–500-person summit with at least 60% of agenda time in meetings and deal rooms. A six-month pre-event pipeline: 60–80 pre-qualified Jordanian projects mapped to the national opportunity map, 150–200 pre-qualified U.S. and diaspora investors, software-tracked matchmaking targeting 800+ pre-scheduled one-to-ones, and a published anonymized pipeline report before doors open. Ten-to-twelve bilingual deal captains log every session; the plenary stage is reserved for signed-agreement ceremonies staged honestly (LOI, term sheet, closed). A twelve-month published deal tracker follows, with quarterly milestones.

Jordan: projects meeting U.S. capital on U.S. soil, with government desks bookable like any meeting. The U.S.: investors and buyers receiving pre-qualified, tracked deal flow. The diaspora: the convener class — investors, professionals and associations — as hosts, sponsors and deal captains.

An independent 501(c)(3) convener (or fiscally sponsored) owns the brand, matchmaking and tracker, and remains editorially independent; JBA co-chairs the Amman pipeline; the Ministry of Investment pre-qualifies projects with no agenda control; the embassy and consulates run B2G desks. FARA safeguards are structural: government entities participate as sponsors and participants, never as principals or directors; counsel reviews any government funding before acceptance.

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Modeled budget of roughly $610K–1.03M all-in (venue, production, matchmaking platform, travel support for Jordanian founders, year-round pipeline staff, contingency) — scenario-labeled estimates, since no comparable summit publishes budgets. Revenue mix: sponsorships 50–60%, tickets 20–25% (nominal or free for vetted Jordanian founders), institutional support 15–25%; break-even near $650K. Illustrative year-one target of $25–50M committed by month twelve, with Rajasthan's conversion benchmark applied honestly.

Scenario estimate — not a commitment, not a forecast.

Economic impact scenarios

Scheduling is gated on three anchors secured in advance: a JBA partnership with pipeline access, Ministry of Investment project pre-qualification, and three anchor sponsors. Tier-1 promotion follows a Chicago pilot selling at least 70% of target sponsorship. Discontinue or redesign if show-rate falls below 40%, committed capital falls below $10M by month 12 after two editions, anchor-sponsor renewal falls below 50%, or any foreign government attempts to direct programming.

Pre-scheduled one-to-ones held (target 800+) and show-rate (at or above 70%); qualified projects (60–80) and investors (150+); LOIs signed; capital committed at twelve months; tracker published quarterly — attendance is explicitly excluded as a success metric.

FARA — independence by structure: board, funding and agenda. Pledge inflation — publish only tracked stages, never headline unsigned pledges as deals. Duplication with Amman conferences — strict U.S.-market focus with a shared, not competing, pipeline. Matchmaking decay — investor vetting, a one-line deal thesis required per meeting request, capped attendance.

• concept — not funded
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