AUSTRALIA | The Fullerton Hotel Sydney has become the first in the city to replace projectors with permanent LED display screens.
The Fullerton Hotel Sydney will become the first hotel in the city to retire projectors and portable screens entirely from its event spaces, replacing them with permanent LED from 1 September 2026.
The hotel hosts more than 600 events a year at No.1 Martin Place. From 1 September 2026, AVPartners, Australia's only ISO 9001-certified in-house audiovisual provider, will operate technical and creative event services across the property, supported by a multimillion-dollar capital investment in new AV infrastructure.
The Grand Ballroom is the largest pillarless hotel ballroom in Sydney, with capacity for up to 1,000 guests in a banquet setting and 1,400 in theatre style, and divisible into four separate sections. From 1 September, it will carry the largest permanent LED installation in any hotel ballroom in Australia; more than 190 m² of LED, anchored by a 33m by 4m track-mounted screen that reconfigures from one ultra-wide canvas into multiple independent screens.
Every other event space gets a permanent or modular LED solution. The Heritage Ballroom, on level six of the GPO building under an 11-metre dome ceiling and circular antique windows, receives two motorised 3.6m by 2.2m LED screens that join into a single ultra-wide display. The Barnet Room receives joinable mobile LED screens while every standard meeting room is fitted with permanent wall-mounted LED. With the rollout, The Fullerton Hotel Sydney retires projectors and portable screens entirely from its event-floor inventory.
The upgrade also includes AI-enabled production cameras, 4K vision processing, lighting and audio across event and pre-function spaces, and touchscreen room controllers in every space with a direct support line to the AVPartners and Banquets teams. The Grand Ballroom adds more than 150 kinetic orb lights and a high-end evenly distributed PA system.
For event organisers, this enables seamless transitions between event formats, from conferences to breakouts and gala dinners, reducing the need for traditional bump-in and reset periods.
"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
Area Partner NSW Teresa Amey, who joined the original team at No.1 Martin Place in 2000. "I was part of the team that opened this property in 2000. Twenty-five years on, the Grand Ballroom remains one of Sydney's most significant event spaces and is now redefined with the technology to match. This is the most sophisticated permanent AV installation of any hotel ballroom in Australia." Teresa Amey, Area Partner NSW, AVPartners
"We are delighted to welcome AVPartners as our new audiovisual partner at The Fullerton Hotel Sydney. This partnership marks an exciting chapter for our hotel,” said John O’Shea, General Manager, The Fullerton Hotel Sydney.
“Their reputation for technical excellence, bespoke service and innovative event solutions aligns perfectly with our commitment to delivering world-class experiences. With our Grand Ballroom and versatile meeting spaces, we look forward to leveraging their expertise to elevate our clients' events and bring their visions to life with seamless, cutting-edge technology."
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