{"id":19460,"date":"2021-12-13T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/12\/13\/cityneon-expands-its-presence-in-middle-east-at-qatar-free-zones-enhancing-the-regions-entertainment-technology-industry\/"},"modified":"2021-12-13T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T04:00:00","slug":"cityneon-expands-its-presence-in-middle-east-at-qatar-free-zones-enhancing-the-regions-entertainment-technology-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/12\/13\/cityneon-expands-its-presence-in-middle-east-at-qatar-free-zones-enhancing-the-regions-entertainment-technology-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Cityneon Expands its Presence in Middle East at Qatar Free Zones, Enhancing the Region\u2019s Entertainment Technology Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\">\n<ul>\n<li><i>New facility in Ras Bufontas Free Zone will&#13;<br \/>\ncater to growing entertainment technology markets in the EMEA region<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Facility to include an international&#13;<br \/>\nexperience and entertainment technology centre, innovation lab and a&#13;<br \/>\nlarge-scale production workshop<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>DOHA,&#13;<br \/>\nQATAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0-&#13;<br \/>\n13&#13;<br \/>\nDecember 2021 &#8211;<b> <\/b>Cityneon Holdings, a global entertainment company based&#13;<br \/>\nin Singapore that specializes in unique, immersive, and large-scale experiences,&#13;<br \/>\nsigned in Doha a strategic partnership agreement with Qatar Free Zones&#13;<br \/>\nAuthority (QFZA) to establish a facility in Qatar Free Zones. The facility will&#13;<br \/>\ncater to growing entertainment technology and experience markets in the Europe,&#13;<br \/>\nMiddle East and Africa (EMEA) region. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img width=\"500\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/206096\/Cityneon-signing-edited.jpeg#image-206096\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"\/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><img src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/206096\/Cityneon-signing-edited.jpeg#image-206096\" width=\"500\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">QFZA and Cityneon Holdings officials during the signing ceremony held on 8th December 2021<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img width=\"500\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/206103\/Cityneon-Render.jpg#image-206103\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"\/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><img src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/206103\/Cityneon-Render.jpg#image-206103\" width=\"500\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Artist impression of Cityneon&#8217;s new facility spanning 15,000 square meters in Ras Bufontas Free Zone<\/h5>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\nagreement was signed during a ceremony at Ras Bufontas Free Zone in the&#13;<br \/>\npresence of H.E. Ahmad Al-Sayed, Minister of State and Chairman of QFZA, H.E. Akbar&#13;<br \/>\nAl Baker, Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive and Secretary-General of Qatar&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nNational Tourism Council and H.E. Jai S Sohan, Singapore&#8217;s Ambassador to Qatar,&#13;<br \/>\nas well as QFZA senior management. It was signed by QFZA CEO Lim Meng Hui and&#13;<br \/>\nCityneon General Manager of Middle East Feroz Siddiqui. Cityneon&#8217;s senior&#13;<br \/>\nmanagement team, including Executive Chairman and Group CEO Ron Tan, joined&#13;<br \/>\nvirtually from Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Cityneon&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nnew facility will be built across 15,000 square meters in Ras Bufontas Free&#13;<br \/>\nZone, and will include an international experience and&#13;<br \/>\nentertainment technology centre, an innovation lab focused on R&amp;D in&#13;<br \/>\nanimatronics and robotics, and a large-scale production workshop. Cityneon&#13;<br \/>\nwill produce large-scale experiences in Qatar as they have done around the&#13;<br \/>\nworld, such as their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n94asOA10tE\">Jurassic&#13;<br \/>\nWorld: The Movie Exhibition<\/a> in Chengdu, China, and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VuPcbiYUF5k\">Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N.<\/a> exhibition&#13;<br \/>\nin Las Vegas and many more.<\/p>\n<p>Lim&#13;<br \/>\nMeng Hui, CEO of QFZA, said, &#8220;We are delighted to welcome Cityneon, a leading entertainment&#13;<br \/>\ntechnology company that designs and manufactures equipment and robotics for the&#13;<br \/>\nsector. Cityneon&#8217;s decision to open its first such facility in the Middle East&#13;<br \/>\nat Qatar Free Zones is testament to the strength of our offering and the exciting&#13;<br \/>\ntrajectory of the entertainment technology industry and the tourism sector in&#13;<br \/>\nQatar and across the region, in line with Qatar National Vision 2030. Qatar&#13;<br \/>\nFree Zones provide an ideal environment for international and local companies&#13;<br \/>\nwith the skills and innovation to help build a better future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cityneon&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nExecutive Chairman and Group CEO Ron Tan said, &#8220;We are pleased to be working&#13;<br \/>\nclosely with QFZA to fast-track our expansion plans in the EMEA region, which&#13;<br \/>\nis a strategic and important market for the company. We see immense potential&#13;<br \/>\nfor our IP business in the EMEA region and the strategic location of our new&#13;<br \/>\nfacility in Qatar will be pivotal in addressing the markets that we plan to&#13;<br \/>\nserve, as well as for us to reach out to potential partners and collaborators&#13;<br \/>\nfor the Group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Feroz&#13;<br \/>\nSiddiqui, who will lead the new facility as General Manager &#8211; Middle East,&#13;<br \/>\nadded, &#8220;With this new office we embark on our middle eastern journey in bringing&#13;<br \/>\ncheer, joy, laughter and smiles to awe our audiences with our large, immersive&#13;<br \/>\nand technologically advanced entertainment assets to the region.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Singapore&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nambassador to Qatar H.E. Jai S Sohan, who witnessed the ceremony, added, &#8220;It is&#13;<br \/>\nmy delight to see Cityneon set up base in Qatar Free Zones, a leading hub for&#13;<br \/>\ninnovation in the region, as the latest of many Singaporean companies with&#13;<br \/>\noperations in Qatar. The new facility will not only boost tourism across the&#13;<br \/>\nregion but also attract a new talent pool to the developing entertainment&#13;<br \/>\ntechnology industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\nnew venture is expected to bring varied benefits to Qatar. Cityneon is a global&#13;<br \/>\nleader in immersive experiences and will help develop the regional entertainment&#13;<br \/>\ntechnology and Intellectual Property (IP) industry to generate new jobs in&#13;<br \/>\nrobotics and animatronics, costume design and fabrication, and sculpting and moulding,&#13;<br \/>\namong others. Qatar Free Zones&#8217; technology and research ecosystem will enable Cityneon&#13;<br \/>\nto enhance its IP business operations for the region and benefit from a growing&#13;<br \/>\ncommunity of like-minded organizations, dedicated research and innovation&#13;<br \/>\nfacilities, and partnership opportunities. <\/p>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\npartnership between QFZA and Cityneon will also support Qatar&#8217;s National Vision&#13;<br \/>\n2030, which aims to create a knowledge-based economy and promote economic&#13;<br \/>\ndiversification. It will expand the significant skilled labour pool in Qatar&#13;<br \/>\nand support the ongoing digital transformation of the country. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-12-13\/110665\/cityneon-expands-its-presence-in-middle-east-at-qatar-free-zones-enhancing-the-regions-entertainment-technology-industry\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New facility in Ras Bufontas Free Zone will&#13; cater to growing entertainment technology markets in the EMEA region Facility to include an international&#13; experience and entertainment technology centre, innovation lab and a&#13; large-scale production workshop DOHA,&#13; QATAR &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0-&#13; 13&#13; December 2021 &#8211; Cityneon Holdings, a global entertainment company based&#13; in Singapore that specializes in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}