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CABSAT 2024 Successfully Concludes With Several New

Announcements, Partnerships, And MoUs In media, Entertainment,

And Satellite Sectors

Friday, May 24, 2024

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The 30 edition of CABSAT, the flagship conference for the broadcast, satellite,
content creation, production, distribution, and entertainment industries, drew to a

successful conclusion on May 23, 2024, organised by the Dubai World Trade Centre
with record-breaking turnout. The third day of the conference, which welcomed over

18,000 visitors, featured announcements of collaborations, and Memorandums of
Understanding (MoUs) between exhibiting organisations, in addition to highlighting
emerging trends and technologies, and encouraging insightful discussions.

Almanasa, Iraq’s OTT streaming platform, announced a strategic partnership with Roya
Media Group, a provider of premium digital content. This collaboration aims to deliver
a streaming experience to audiences across Iraq by combining the strengths of both

platforms to offer a diverse and extensive library of entertainment options. The
partnership was announced at the CABSAT Co-Production Salon, a dedicated meeting

lounge for business opportunities in investment in Arabic content.

As well as the Co-Production Salon, CABSAT 2024 showcased several exclusive
conference events, like the Content Congress and theSATExpo Summit, to global

industry leaders, regional government officials, and other business stakeholders for
three days of networking and knowledge sharing opportunities.

“Enabling and accelerating local talent is crucial to consistently secure the incredible
expansion of the regional content creation economy, and Dubai Studio City is proud to

have been a platform for more than 358,000 minutes of such unique stories to come to
life in 2023,” said Majed Al Suwaidi, Senior Vice President of Dubai Media City,

Dubai Studio City and Dubai Production City at TECOM Group
PJSC. “Committed to unlocking the visions of Dubai Economic Agenda ‘D33’ and
Dubai Creative Economy Strategy, we are proud to serve as a global platform for

regional storytellers and were pleased to champion their vibrancy and creativity as
Strategic Partner of CABSAT’s milestone 30th edition this year.”

The Content Congress witnessed significant success on its concluding day with major

sessions in place – such as ‘How to Create a YT Channel with the Help of AI,’ led by
Arjun Radhakrishna, Lead Senior Producer at Nas Daily Studios and ‘The Making of

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