CABSAT is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. What better way to participate in this celebration than with exclusive stories of disruptive innovation from the region and Arab entrepreneurs. Our cover story this month is about a visionary CTO who suggested a budget of USD 250,000 to enhance an existing facility to meet the objective […]
CABSAT is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. What better way to participate in this celebration than with exclusive stories of disruptive innovation from the region and Arab entrepreneurs.
Our cover story this month is about a visionary CTO who suggested a budget of USD 250,000 to enhance an existing facility to meet the objective of ensuring that journalists at its breaking news channel could create content anytime, from anywhere.
When they later discovered that the facility wouldnt be ideal for the job, he stuck by the original budget and went on to design and engineer a groundbreaking solution from scratch. It is likely to leave you speechless, primarily because most other broadcasters both locally and regionally would have undertaken similar projects only if they had much higher budgets.
I also had the pleasure of interviewing US-based entrepreneur, Mohammad Shihadah, who has been involved in developing human-language technologies for the last 24 years. He says that technology today enables broadcasters to provide content not just anytime and anywhere but in any language. Its interesting to hear what he has to say about the power of media monitoring, audio fingerprinting and how machine translation can contribute to creating rich metadata.
This month, we also bring you stories from various parts of the Middle East as well as interviews with several key figures in production and broadcast.
The icing on the cake, however, is an exclusive review of the Blackmagic Production Camera 4K that we managed to receive from two Dubai-based filmmakers just before going to press, and this is our gift to you this CABSAT.
While youre at the show, dont forget to drop by our stand (D7-41), and pick up a copy of the Pro50 book, our guide to the top 50 companies in the region.
We look forward to seeing you at CABSAT!