The CEDIA Australia Tech + Business Summit 2026 will return to the Gold Coast from 27–29 October 2026, hosted at Novotel Surfers Paradise. Designed for smart home integrators and installers, the Tech Summit will deliver three days of education, networking, and supplier engagement tailored to the needs of the Asia Pacific market.
Education sessions will take place on 27 and 29 October, focusing on practical skills, emerging technologies, and business-critical insights for residential technology professionals. The table-top display day will be held on 28 October, providing attendees with the opportunity to engage directly with leading manufacturers, distributors, and service providers.
The summit is proudly sponsored by globally recognized manufacturers and Australia's top distributors, ensuring a high-quality experience for all participants. This unique gathering emphasizes personal interactions, allowing professionals in the smart home industry to build meaningful relationships that can enhance their business prospects.
By attending the Tech + Business Summit, you will not only gain exposure to innovative technologies but also position yourself at the cutting edge of the evolving smart home landscape. This event is designed to equip you with the knowledge and connections necessary to thrive in this dynamic field..
CEDIA offers unique opportunities to drive your company’s network and profile, connect with responsive tech experts and exchange knowledge and strategies with an energized global community of decision makers. Integrate your company into the CEDIA smart home tech scene!
Register NowTickets are available, so don't miss out on the opportunity to rub shoulders with the industry's elite and be part of this special celebration of excellence.
9:00am – 4:00pm
9:00am – 5:00pm
Thought Leader Series
9:00am – 5:00pm
Launchpad
9:30am
Launchpad
10:00am
Launchpad
11:00am
Thought Leader Series
11:00am-12:30pm
Launchpad
11:30am - 12:30pm
Launchpad
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Thought Leader Series
1:30pm-3:00pm
Launchpad
3:30pm
Launchpad
4:00pm
9:00am – 5:00pm
9:00am – 5:00pm
6:30pm – 10:30pm
9:00am – 4:00pm
Location: Wavebreak Room
This intensive course, instructed by Michael Daly, Stuart Robertson and Amanda Wildman, takes participants beyond the basics, providing the skills and knowledge required to design, construct, document, and maintain professional-grade equipment racks for smart home and AV integration projects.
The course also covers creating accurate as-built documentation to support future service and upgrades, alongside proven strategies for ongoing rack maintenance, including service plan development and process management.
By the end of this course, participants will be equipped with the advanced techniques needed to deliver robust, well-organised, and easily serviceable racks that meet the highest professional standards.
Founding Director, Wired By MJD
Owner, Sound Living
Owner, CEO, TruMedia
9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Burleigh Room
Partner, Officina Acustica
Thought Leader Series
9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Wavebreak Room
Artificial Intelligence is moving fast — but what does it actually do for a technology integration business today? AI Live is a dynamic 90-minute session that moves beyond buzzwords and marketing hype. In real time, we’ll demonstrate practical, immediately usable AI tools that save time, improve service quality, and unlock new technical capability.
Ovner, CEO, TruMedia
Launchpad
9:30am
Location: Burleigh Room
Launchpad is a dedicated series of manufacturer product announcements - your first look at the brand-new solutions shaping the smart home industry.
Across the Tech Summit, leading manufacturers take the stage to unveil their latest products, giving integrators an exclusive, first-to-market view of what's coming next. From new hardware and control platforms to the technologies redefining how we design and deliver connected homes, Launchpad puts innovation front and centre.
Best of all, every Launchpad session is free to attend - no registration fee, no barriers. Just come along, see what's new, and get ahead of the curve before these products hit the market.
Launchpad
10:00am
Location: Burleigh Room
Launchpad is a dedicated series of manufacturer product announcements - your first look at the brand-new solutions shaping the smart home industry.
Across the Tech Summit, leading manufacturers take the stage to unveil their latest products, giving integrators an exclusive, first-to-market view of what's coming next. From new hardware and control platforms to the technologies redefining how we design and deliver connected homes, Launchpad puts innovation front and centre.
Best of all, every Launchpad session is free to attend - no registration fee, no barriers. Just come along, see what's new, and get ahead of the curve before these products hit the market.
Launchpad
11:00am
Location: Burleigh Room
Launchpad is a dedicated series of manufacturer product announcements - your first look at the brand-new solutions shaping the smart home industry.
Across the Tech Summit, leading manufacturers take the stage to unveil their latest products, giving integrators an exclusive, first-to-market view of what's coming next. From new hardware and control platforms to the technologies redefining how we design and deliver connected homes, Launchpad puts innovation front and centre.
Best of all, every Launchpad session is free to attend - no registration fee, no barriers. Just come along, see what's new, and get ahead of the curve before these products hit the market.
Thought Leader Series
11:00am-12:30pm
Location: Wavebreak Room
In this candid, business-focused session, a successful integrator shares the real world pathway to achieving the first million dollars in annual revenue. From refining service offerings to building a profitable client base, you’ll gain practical strategies, lessons learned, and actionable steps to scale your business with confidence.
Managing Director, LUXOR Integration
Launchpad
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: Burleigh Room
Launchpad is a dedicated series of manufacturer product announcements - your first look at the brand-new solutions shaping the smart home industry.
Across the Tech Summit, leading manufacturers take the stage to unveil their latest products, giving integrators an exclusive, first-to-market view of what's coming next. From new hardware and control platforms to the technologies redefining how we design and deliver connected homes, Launchpad puts innovation front and centre.
Best of all, every Launchpad session is free to attend - no registration fee, no barriers. Just come along, see what's new, and get ahead of the curve before these products hit the market.
Thought Leader Series
1:30pm-3:00pm
Location: Wavebreak Room
This course gives you a standardised, repeatable process for closing out projects cleanly and profitably. You'll learn how to build a performance verification checklist and commission the systems integrators deal with every day — distributed audio, video distribution, networks, security, lighting and control. From there, the course walks through the practical steps that separate professional closeouts from painful ones: managing punch lists, redlining as-built documentation, calibrating for optimal performance, and delivering a client orientation and user guide that reduce callbacks and set up ongoing service revenue.
Founding Director, Wired By MJD
Launchpad
3:30pm
Location: Burleigh Room
Launchpad is a dedicated series of manufacturer product announcements - your first look at the brand-new solutions shaping the smart home industry.
Across the Tech Summit, leading manufacturers take the stage to unveil their latest products, giving integrators an exclusive, first-to-market view of what's coming next. From new hardware and control platforms to the technologies redefining how we design and deliver connected homes, Launchpad puts innovation front and centre.
Best of all, every Launchpad session is free to attend - no registration fee, no barriers. Just come along, see what's new, and get ahead of the curve before these products hit the market.
Launchpad
4:00pm
Location: Burleigh Room
Launchpad is a dedicated series of manufacturer product announcements - your first look at the brand-new solutions shaping the smart home industry.
Across the Tech Summit, leading manufacturers take the stage to unveil their latest products, giving integrators an exclusive, first-to-market view of what's coming next. From new hardware and control platforms to the technologies redefining how we design and deliver connected homes, Launchpad puts innovation front and centre.
Best of all, every Launchpad session is free to attend - no registration fee, no barriers. Just come along, see what's new, and get ahead of the curve before these products hit the market.
9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Burleigh Room
Most integrators are excellent at installing systems. Far fewer are excellent at designing and documenting them — and that gap is where margin disappears, disputes start, and callbacks accumulate.
You'll cover the complete documentation lifecycle: reading architectural drawings, producing the AV floor plan that wins the job, generating pre-wire schedules from your block diagram, and building the schematic set your rack builder and programmer can actually work from. You'll also cover rack drawings, power calculations, network design, and what to put in front of a client when you're pitching — including how to charge for the design work you're already doing for free.
Who it's for: Intermediate to senior residential AV integrators ready to operate at a higher professional standard — winning more work with visual proposals, protecting projects with signed scope documents, and handing over systems clients can understand.
What you'll leave with: A complete documentation workflow, and a framework for charging design fees as a professional service.
Cinema Innovation Manager, Kolosseum
9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Wavebreak Room
You can be the best integrator in your market — but if nobody knows you exist, it doesn't matter. Marketing is the discipline most integration businesses know they should invest in, and the one most consistently pushed to the bottom of the pile. This full-day masterclass is designed to fix that.
Across the day, you'll hear from an integrator, a brand marketer and a communications specialist/former journalist — three distinct perspectives on how smart home businesses win attention, build reputation and convert interest into signed contracts.
You'll leave with a practical marketing framework you can start implementing the next morning: how to define your brand, where to spend (and not spend), how to generate and nurture leads, and how to turn completed projects into your most powerful sales asset.
This masterclass is for business owners, managers and anyone responsible for winning work — no marketing experience required. It would also be suited to suppliers as well as integrators.
Owner, CEO, TruMedia
Marketing Manager, Canohm
Get hands-on with the latest smart home technology from leading brands and distributors — all under one roof, in a single day.
Connect with fellow integrators, design and build professionals, and technology brands. Build the relationships that generate referrals, partnerships, and new business.
Attend expert-led sessions covering real-world integration challenges, emerging technologies, and the business skills that separate growing firms from the rest.
Eric Leicht
AV Partners