Following two years of postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first-ever Saga Festival took place on 10 to 12 September 2021 in Romania, Bucharest – reportedly generating a revenue of 25m euros – with over 130,000 people in attendance to witness the audiovisual spectacular. INFiLED provided five customised triangular LED displays stood in the central position of the main stage, duplicating the icon of the Saga Festival, while smaller LED solutions courtesy of INFiLED formed slim lines around it. With more than 2000 sq m of LED panels on site, the rig provided clear and vivid images corresponding with the…
Author: James Robertson
Venuetech has partnered with Cedar Electronics, a manufacturer of Flip-Chip COB LED displays. This collaboration was highly anticipated with the continuous expansion of the Venuetech video division, as the clientele base and market have become more focused on quality visual representations. With over 10 years of experience in Flip-Chip COB LED display R&D and manufacturing, Cedar electronics has become the world’s most prominent manufacturer of Flip-Chip COB displays. Dedicated to providing integrated solutions based on Flip-Chip COB LED display technology. “We are glad to establish a strategic relationship with Venuetech in the Middle East market”, stated Cedar Electronics G.M. Wang…
Creative Technology Middle East (CTME) has made three new appointments to its team in the Middle East. CTME welcomes Chad Smith as the newly appointed Project Manager to our live events division. Chad has over 11 years of experience throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia. He has extensive knowledge in technical design and production and is responsible for providing AV technical management across various events. Alongside managing a team of engineers, Chad has built strong relationships with worldwide clients, providing support, communication and problem-solving solutions. He has a diverse portfolio across corporate, sports, weddings, live entertainment, festivals, and…
For more than 35 years, SOS Global Express has been providing customised logistics solutions for the complex and time-critical events industry. Headquartered in New Bern, North Carolina, and with international hubs in Hamburg, London, and Moscow, the company has the experience, resources, and international network to offer a true year-round, 24/7 service to its clients – wherever they are in the world. That ability strengthened even further recently with the opening of a new Dubai branch, SOS Event Logistics LLC, which will service the company’s existing long-term customers in the region as well as facilitate the expected growth in the…
With Expo 2020 just around the corner, it’s safe to say that it’s an incredibly busy time for Neumann&Müller (N&M) Middle East. Entrusted with the design and delivery of 10 pavilion projects, as well as several planned live events on Expo site, the company is growing rapidly to meet the demand. “We are growing our team massively, not only for the Expo 2020 projects but also to grow our presence generally here in the Middle East,” commented N&M Dubai’s Felix Erdmann. “We are currently in the process of doubling our full-time employee numbers over the next two to three months.”…
Health and safety is always of paramount importance for any large-scale event, and with delegations from 191 countries as well as tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world descending on Dubai for a six-month period, they don’t come much larger in scale than Expo 2020 Dubai. For Steve Kearney, Managing Partner at Gallowglass Health and Safety, which has been tasked with delivering HSE for the entire Expo 2020 site, the project represents a milestone for the company. “It’s a massive undertaking, the likes of which have never been seen in the Middle East before,” he described to…
With an extensive role at Expo 2020 as well as several major events around the corner, including Abu Dhabi Showdown Week and the Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix, the remainder of 2021 is set to be extremely busy for Flash Entertainment. While the constant threat of COVID-19 adds a note of caution to any positive projections, the sudden upturn in business, coupled with an aggressive regional expansion plan, seems to have the Abu Dhabi-based organisation on the path to success. Here, CEO, John Lickrish explains how the company is planning to deliver some of the year’s biggest events. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpmea32_digitallr/36…
INFiLED launches its new outdoor rental solution, TITAN-X. As part of the INFiLED DNA, the idea behind the TITAN-X innovation is to create a long-lasting outdoor LED rental screen with excellent transparency yet remains strong. INFiLED CEO, Michael Hao commented: “To accomplish this challenging task, we built an international R&D team of 15 engineers from both Europe and China, who after seven months of dedication to this project, finally completed TITAN-X. The beauty of TITAN-X lies in how our team combined high transparency with a super load capacity into one.” He added: “The average outdoor stage screen construction needs a stage…
Every year on 29 May, the city of Istanbul celebrates the fall of Constantinople. Known locally as the Conquest of Istanbul, the holiday is marked with annual celebrations, with largescale public events that retell the tale of the historic 1453 siege, which saw Sultan Mehmed II’s army overwhelm the Byzantine troops to claim the city we now know as Istanbul for the Ottoman Empire. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpmea31_digitallr/20 Photos: Emre Dorter www.imagina.com.tr
As the world recovers from the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies and organisations up and down the live events supply chain are aiming to recover, rebuild and, ultimately, return to normal operation. Like all venues, Dubai’s Coca-Cola Arena has been hit hard by the pandemic, however, as restrictions in the UAE begin to ease, it seems there may be some light at the end of the tunnel. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpmea31_digitallr/6 Photos: Coca-Cola Arena www.coca-cola-arena.com
Nobody could argue with the fact that video conferencing tools have been invaluable over the past 18 months. However, as many are tiring of Teams and experiencing a chronic case of Zoom fatigue, increasingly individuals and organisations are looking to alternative ways of keeping in touch while international travel remains difficult. Offering a futuristic solution to this universal issue is ARHT Media, whose HoloPresence technology allows presenters or artists to appear as a hyper-realistic, life-sized hologram, with the ability to interact with a live audience with no noticeable latency. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpmea31_digitallr/40 Photos: NMK Electronics www.arhtmedia.com www.nmkelectronics.com
Established in Dubai in 2007, Seven Production has garnered a well-earned reputation over the years as one of the region’s leading innovators in film and broadcasting for TV and sports, as well as corporate and live events. With regional offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah and Lebanon, as well as the UK and Finland, the company’s trademark blend of 4K and HD broadcast solutions as well as live event technical support is now seen on broadcast and events projects throughout the MENA region and beyond. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpmea31_digitallr/44 Photos: Seven Production www.7production.net
