MASTERS by inVOYAGE brings directors and senior leaders from live events, experiential marketing and luxury hospitality together for two days of MBA-style sessions, masterclasses and one-to-one meetings. For its 2026 edition at InterContinental London Park Lane, PSP came on board as official technical production partner, delivering everything from the main stage in the Ballroom to the breakout rooms and front of house. When the audience is made up of people who produce events for a living, the bar is set accordingly.
The brief
inVOYAGE asked PSP to take on the full technical production for MASTERS. At the centre of it was the main conference in the hotel's Ballroom, running across two show days of keynotes, panels and masterclasses. Every session had to look and sound right for a room of senior industry professionals, and every session needed to be recorded.
Around the main room sat a second layer of work. Three breakout spaces, Grays, Leadenhall and Marylebone, needed their own self-contained AV for the first show day. Front of house needed digital signage, a lit step and repeat and a branded registration area, Ballroom 3 needed additional screens, and the content team needed editing stations on site. Following a site visit, the scope grew to include a graphic surround for the registration desk, frosted decals and a charging station.
The timeline was tight. The full Ballroom build had to go in on a single rig day, ahead of two show days, with the de-rig following straight after the final session.
The delivery
Vision
The Ballroom was built around a 10m x 3m central LED wall made from Unilumin Upad IV 2.6mm panels, flanked by two portrait sponsor screens built from the same product, so partner content sat at the same quality as the main stage. All three walls were ground supported and ballasted, driven by Novastar MCTRL4K processors, with spare panels on site in case one needed swapping mid-show.
Screen management ran through a Barco E2 Gen 2 (more on that below). PSP built redundancy into every source: presentations ran on Millumin from two 27" iMacs as main and backup, video playback ran from a matched pair of workstation laptops, and presenters had MacBook Pro M4 Max machines on stage. Samsung 4K comfort monitors kept speakers on track, Hive Mastercue V7 cuelights let them drive their own slides, and a Hive Filibuster countdown and traffic light kit kept every session to time.
Cameras and record
Three Panasonic AW-UE160 4K PTZ cameras covered the stage, controlled from a single AW-RP200 panel by a dedicated PTZ operator and cut on a Roland V-160HD switcher. A Panasonic AG-CX350 held the wide shot. Every session was recorded to Blackmagic HyperDeck Studio Pro 2 recorders in main and backup, so inVOYAGE left with a complete record of the conference, and two 4K editing stations sat on site for the content team.
Sound
The main system was d&b audiotechnik throughout: six Y10P cabinets with two B6 subs, plus four E8s split between front fill and foldback, all powered by d&b D20 amplifiers. Mixing was on a Yamaha QL5 with a Rio3224-D3 stage rack. Speakers and panellists were on eight channels of Shure Axient Digital, paired with DPA d:fine 6066 headset mics, alongside handhelds and a lectern gooseneck. A 16-way Clear-Com talkback system kept the crew connected across the room.
Lighting
Lighting was programmed and run from an Avolites Quartz with a Titan Wing, on a 10m truss rig over the stage. Ten Chauvet Ovation F-265WW fresnels gave even, camera-friendly key light, with Prolight Eclipse profiles for specials. Eight Robe LEDBeam 150s, six Cameo Zenit W600 G2 washes, Chauvet Ovation battens and Colordash Par Quads brought colour and movement to the set. Twelve Astera Hyperion tubes and 24 Prolight Smartbat Plus battery uplighters, both controlled wirelessly, dressed the room while keeping cabling to a minimum in a five-star ballroom.
Set and staging
PSP built an 8m x 2m stage at 450mm, finished in grey carpet with a printed fascia and steps at both sides and the front. Two 2.62m tall set panels with returns framed the LED walls, and a clear acrylic lectern kept the stage looking clean on camera.
Breakouts and front of house
The breakout rooms each ran as self-contained spaces on the first show day, with Samsung 98" 4K screens, digital lecterns with integrated 40" portrait displays, Yamaha DM3 mixers, QSC speakers and Shure radio mics, looked after by two dedicated AV technicians. Out front, four Theatrixx xVision 1.8mm LED totems carried digital signage, alongside the lit step and repeat, the registration desk graphic surround and a charging station with a 55" screen.
The team
On site, a PSP project manager led a crew covering every discipline: E2 operator, sound engineer, lighting engineer and operator, LED engineers, PTZ operator, graphics operator and designer, video and lighting riggers and production carpenters, supported by local crew for the rig and de-rig. The kit travelled on two 26-tonne trucks.
Kit callout: Barco E2 Gen 2
The E2 is a screen management system. It sat between every source in the room, from presentation machines and video playback to sponsor content, and every screen on stage. Instead of each screen simply showing one input, the E2 let the operator build layouts across the whole canvas: a speaker's slides on the central wall with partner logos on the sponsor screens, a full-width video, or a holding graphic between sessions.
Crucially, the operator built and checked each look on a preview output before it goes live, so the audience only ever saw what they were meant to see. At a conference that moved quickly between keynotes, panels and video content, that is what made every transition look deliberate. PSP's E2 travels as a complete rack with its own laptop, UPS and network switch, so it arrives ready to work.
“It was a pleasure working with PSP for our inVOYAGE MASTERS conference. David and the PSP team were incredibly professional, supportive and consultative throughout the planning, build-up and final execution. Their proactive approach not only made the delivery seamless, but also resulted in an elevated look and feel. Can’t wait to work with them again.”