The theme of this year’s Sydney Technorama Roadshow is ‘crisis averted.’
What happens when your station goes silent? This year’s Technorama Roadshow is built to help community stations prevent that moment and recover fast when it happens. The Crisis Averted theme will focus on practical, real world strategies to keep the station on air, reduce risk, and build resilient systems that can be managed.
What’s on the agenda:
- Practical tips to secure your station’s broadcast
- Real world examples of on air crises
- An introduction to the people and tech you need to know
- Discussions of what the future holds for broadcast technologists
Community radio stations operate in challenging environments: Limited budgets, volunteer driven teams, aging equipment, and increasing technical complexity all create risk. This Technorama event is designed to give stations simple, effective approaches that work in the real world.
PRE DAY – FRIDAY 17 April 2026
Tours of the Powerhouse Museum, Castle Hill and Hope 103.2
CORE DAY – SATURDAY 18 April 2026
At Peppers The Hills Lodge, Castle Hill
Schedule:
Keeping your station on air
Bullet Proof Broadcasting
Understanding your transmission site – Antennas and Cabling
Technology for an Accessible Future
Horror Stories
Good Enough
Future of Broadcast Tech
Full program here
This Sydney Technorama event is designed to give you simple, effective approaches that work in the real world. You will walk away with ideas you can implement immediately.
Throughout the day, you will gain practical insights into keeping your station on air during failures, building resilient and reliable systems, avoiding common technical risks, creating simple backup and recovery processes, managing cybersecurity and system updates, improving documentation and knowledge sharing, and planning for future technology changes. This is not theory. It is based on real experiences from stations just like yours.
Technorama is designed specifically for community radio station managers, technical volunteers, content producers, committee members, and anyone responsible for keeping a station running. Whether you are highly technical or just getting started, you will find value.
Travel Support is available for those who need it.
Technorama is supported by the CBF, CMTO and CBAA.