The Wellington leg of ENTECH NZ 2026, Australia and New Zealand's longest-running professional AV trade roadshow, runs as a free single-day exhibition at the Lower Hutt Events Centre on 30 July 2026.
ENTECH NZ 2026 rolls into the Wellington region on Thursday 30 July 2026, staging its Wellington-leg exhibition at the Lower Hutt Events Centre. It is a single-day, free-to-trade event with doors open from 9 am to 5 pm, sitting between the tour's Auckland opening at NZICC (28 July) and its Christchurch finale at Te Pae (4 August). The organiser bills 2026 as the 10th anniversary of ENTECH's New Zealand edition and the roadshow's 33rd year overall.
ENTECH is Australia and New Zealand's longest-running professional audio-visual and entertainment-technology trade roadshow, running since 1994. It is led by chief executive Kate McKenzie, who stepped up to the CEO role after eight years managing the roadshows as event manager. The touring format is ENTECH's signature: rather than a single fixed show, it brings the professional AV, lighting, staging and vision market to each major centre for one day.
The floor is built for working professionals: integrators and AV installers, consultants and designers, production, hire and touring companies, and end users across venues, corporate, education and houses of worship. The organiser also flags government and council AV managers as a target audience. It is a trade event — attendance is free for trade guests, and the organiser states most attendees hold a purchasing role.
The Wellington leg is held at the Lower Hutt Events Centre, in Lower Hutt within the greater Wellington region rather than the Wellington CBD itself — a distinction worth noting for anyone planning travel from central Wellington. Beyond the confirmed venue, the organiser does not publish transport or accommodation detail, and none is asserted here.
As the only AV trade roadshow that visits every major population centre and returns to New Zealand annually, ENTECH is a fixed point in the local pro-AV calendar. Its exhibition format — dozens of stands of national distributors, an Audio Demo Zone, EnTalks industry keynotes and a pre-booked meetings platform — concentrates the country's audio, lighting and vision supply chain into a single day, which matters for a business-events sector that depends heavily on exactly this technology.
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