The Fullerton Hotel Sydney will become the first hotel in the city to completely replace projectors and portable screens with permanent LED displays across all its event spaces, effective September 1, 2026.
This property-wide technological overhaul at No.1 Martin Place is funded by a multimillion-dollar capital investment and coincides with the appointment of AVPartners as the hotel’s new in-house audiovisual provider.
The centrepiece of the upgrade is located in the Grand Ballroom, Sydney’s largest pillarless hotel ballroom with a capacity of up to 1,400 guests. The venue will debut Australia’s largest permanent hotel LED installation, featuring more than 190m2 of screen space. This includes a 33m by 4m track-mounted screen that can operate as a single ultra-wide canvas or split into multiple independent displays.
The infrastructure rollout extends to every remaining event space on the property. The Heritage Ballroom, located under an 11m dome ceiling, will be fitted with two motorised 3.6m by 2.2m LED screens that can merge into a single wide display. Meanwhile, the Barnet Room will receive joinable mobile LED screens, and all standard meeting rooms are being outfitted with permanent, wall-mounted LED panels.
This transition eliminates traditional rigging schedules and physical room resets for event organisers, allowing a single space to transition seamlessly between multiple formats on the same day.
“The flexibility of this installation changes what a single event day can look like. We can run a plenary session in the Grand Ballroom in the morning, split the room into separate meeting spaces over morning tea, reset for lunch, hold breakouts through the afternoon, and reconfigure for a gala dinner that night, all in the same room. Three or four event formats in one space, with no rigging schedule and setting up and packing down,” said Andrew Hackett, managing partner, AVPartners.
Additional technical upgrades across the event and pre-function spaces include AI-enabled production cameras, 4K vision processing, and touchscreen room controllers with a direct support line to the technical and banquets teams. The Grand Ballroom’s capabilities are further augmented by an evenly distributed PA system and more than 150 kinetic orb lights.
