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25Feb

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Sports

PSG announces Doha-based innovation lab at Web Summit Qatar 2025

PSG Labs will focus on identifying and supporting innovative ideas to address the club’s challenges both on and off the pitch. French club Paris Saint-Germain has launched a new platform to collaborate with startups and incubate ideas, with its first regional headquarters based in Doha. The platform, called PSG Labs, was announced by the club’s Chief Innovation and Digital Officer, Jerry Newman, on the sidelines of the Web Summit Qatar 2025 on Tuesday. “By launching this innovation lab in Doha, PSG is demonstrating the impact that visionary leadership and global collaboration can have in shaping the future of sports,” Newman said at the announcement. PSG Labs will serve as the dedicated innovation engine directed towards identifying and supporting ideas t...

WEB SUMMIT QATAR, RECORDS HIGHEST NUMBER OF ATTENDEES IN THE MIDDLE EAST’S BIGGEST STARTUP EVENT

24Feb

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Technology

WEB SUMMIT QATAR, RECORDS HIGHEST NUMBER OF ATTENDEES IN THE MIDDLE EAST’S BIGGEST STARTUP EVENT

This year’s Web Summit event been held in Qatar-Doha, has welcomed a whopping number of 25,747 attendees from 124 countries across the world. The event which started on Sunday 23, February, 2025 with an amazing opening night has since recorded the largest startup gathering in the Middle East with a total of 1,520 startups and 723 investors.Here are the numbers of the Web Summit Qatar event;A total of 168 partners are exhibiting, including Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, TikTok, and Huawei; 381 speakers are taking the stage to tackle issues from AI and global policy to climate change;Over 47 percent women-founded startups – a 51 percent rise from last year – with 37 percent women attendees; 120 new meetups organised through Web Summit’s AI-powered system;AI is the top startup ...

FIFA Club World Cup 2025 tickets on sale from Thursday, 19 December

18Dec

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FIFA Club World Cup 2025 tickets on sale from Thursday, 19 December

Fans will soon be able to secure their seats at FIFA’s new global club showpiece via FIFA.com/tickets Sales open on Thursday, 19 December at 10:00 EST/16:00 CET on a first-come, first-served basis Ticket prices start at USD 30 (excl. taxes and fees) for the first phase of the tournament The wait is almost over. Fans of the 32 clubs that have qualified for the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup™ can soon take their passion to the world by securing a coveted seat at the groundbreaking tournament. The first phase of ticket sales begins on Thursday, 19 December at 10:00 EST/16:00 CET via FIFA.com/ticketsand runs until Tuesday, 14 January at 10:00 EST/16:00 CET. Individual match tickets will be available for all 48 group-stage matches. General-public tickets are priced fr...

FIFA and Qatar launch FIFA World Cup 2022™ Legacy Fund to drive groundbreaking initiatives with WTO, WHO and UNHCR

27Nov

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Sports

FIFA and Qatar launch FIFA World Cup 2022™ Legacy Fund to drive groundbreaking initiatives with WTO, WHO and UNHCR

Initiatives supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency USD 50 million fund to have social impact across multiple regions for the first time Focus on refugees, education, public and occupational health, and football development programmes Following the announcement made in November 2022, FIFA is taking the implementation of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ Legacy Fund to the next level with an investment of USD 50 million in a series of social programmes in collaboration with Qatar and three global organisations, namely the the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. The objective of this fund and the multi-stakehol...