[Fiware-gold-members] URGENT: Business Opportunity in Middle East - Please reply to Juanjo wehn interested

[Juanjo Hierro]

Dear members,

   Thanks for the interest shown by many of you who have replied to our 
request for expressions of interest about the Al Madinah region.

   Due to the number of responses received, we would like to send to Al 
Madinah information about companies with competence in FIWARE in a more 
structured way, including info regarding success stories in cities 
connected to the candidate companies.

   For this reason, we would need that you fill the Smart Cities Survey 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wy362t2Zsp559pjPWoBz7vvNzitpV16W22Ku5JjXD44/edit> 
available on the web before EOB tomorrow Monday November 2nd.   Note 
that it is required to fill the form once for each of the cities you 
wish to bring as reference of your work.  It will take only few minutes 
per success story.

   Note that contacts in the cities will not be shared with Al Medinah.  
This data is optional in the survey but, in any case, we won't share it 
with Al Medinah authorities.

   Note that companies with no success stories will most likely not be 
considered by Al Madinah as they are looking for companies with proven 
competences in FIWARE.

   Filling this form, we will not only be able to present your case in 
front of the region of Al Medinah for their consideration but will be 
able to use the information for Reference Marketing. Actually, based on 
the information you will provide we will be able create new FIWARE 
Impact Stories, peer-to-peer conversations, presentations, case studies, 
video testimonials, press releases, media interviews, analyst interviews 
and briefings, speaking engagements, advertisements, and so much more. 
The goal? To grow the level of awareness and adoption of FIWARE among 
cities, companies, organizations, or media, and press.

   In this respect, we encourage you to still fill the form even not 
interested in the particular opportunity of Al Medinah.

   Best regards,

-- 

Juanjo Hierro
Chief Technology Officer
juanjose.hierro at fiware.org <mailto:juanjose.hierro at fiware.org>
www.linkedin.com/in/jhierro <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhierro>
Twitter: @fiware <https://twitter.com/fiware> @JuanjoHierro 
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On 30/10/2020 08:37, Ulrich Ahle wrote:
>
> Dear members of the FIWARE Foundation,
>
>   The FIWARE Foundation was recently approached by authorities of the 
> Al Madinah region/city (Saudi Arabia) who have plans for issuing a RFP 
> for a Smart City platform.  They approached us to learn more about the 
> FIWARE technology, also understanding we were the neutral platform 
> vendor organization behind the technology.   After several 
> interactions, they seem to be convinced that FIWARE standards are the 
> way to go and it seems they plan to incorporate a set of requirements 
> towards selection of a FIWARE-based or FIWARE-compatible platforms in 
> their RFP, which they plan to publish very soon (apparently next week).
>
>   They plan to invite companies to their RFP and have asked us which 
> companies they may send the invitation to with enough expertise as a 
> provider of a smart city platform powered by FIWARE.  We don't know to 
> what extent there will be a close list of companies the authorities 
> will invite to this RFP or the RFP will be open to any company but 
> they want to make sure it is received at least by companies which have 
> enough expertise can propose a smart city platform based on FIWARE.
>
>   In addition, the authorities of Al Madinah are also looking for 
> companies with expertise in FIWARE who may work providing advice / 
> consultancy services to the Smart City project office.  Of course, 
> this would mean that such a company would not be able to apply for the 
> RFP.
>
>   Should any of the two above roles (bidder to the RFP or consultancy 
> service provider) be of interest to you, please contact us and provide 
> a mean for contacting we may forward to Al Madinah region 
> authorities.  Note please that we have been asked to provide names of 
> potential interested companies and mean for contacting but the final 
> decision whom they will invite is up to the Al Madinah authorities.
>
>   Unfortunately, Al Medinah region have asked us for a list of names 
> by Monday this coming week.   Therefore, a quick response would be 
> greatly appreciated.
>
>   Looking forward to your response *to Juanjo.*
>
> Best Regards
>
> Ulrich Ahle 	
> 	
> Chief Executive Officer
> FIWARE Foundation 		
> Franklinstrasse 13 A
> 10587 Berlin - Germany
>
> phone: +49-174-1533348
> mail: ulrich.ahle at fiware.org <mailto:ulrich.ahle at fiware.org>
> www.fiware.org <http://www.fiware.org/>
> twitter: @AhleFIWARE
>
>
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