The KHDA Certificate in Live Event Technology & Production is a practical vocational programme designed to prepare learners for employment in the live events industry. The programme develops technical competence across audio, lighting, video, rigging, power, networking, communications, production management, stage management, and live show execution.
The programme places particular emphasis on stage management, production coordination, and project management for live events, alongside the technical skills required to support and deliver concerts, festivals, corporate events, exhibitions, theatre productions, and broadcast-support environments.
Learners progress from foundational operational skills in Year 1 to sound system design, stage leadership, production coordination, and live event project delivery in Year 2. The programme combines theory, hands-on workshops, signal flow training, technical presentations, live production labs, and lots of practical experience.
This programme is suitable for:
The programme aims to:
By the end of the programme, learners will be able to:
Deliver a complete live event project to industry standards.
If you're a beginner, after a 6-week course, you'll unlikely find a job. However, our live sound operator course has a 90% success rate in that almost all students who have taken it are now audio practitioners, either full-time, busy freelance, or on long-term contracts.
In the UAE and MENA, Freelance sound engineers can earn between AED500 and AED3500 per day; here's a guide for daily rates from 2024.
Audio Techs AED 1500 +
A2 Operators - AED 1800+
A1 Operators- AED 2250+
System Tech AED 3500+
Full-time sound engineers, depending on experience, can earn monthly
AED3000 for freshers up to 18,000 or more.
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Live sound, studio, and broadcast audio engineering are distinct fields within the audio industry, each with unique focus and skill sets.
Parents of students are often concerned about career options. Fear not because live sound engineers have a wide range of career paths such as: Junior sound engineer (A2) • Senior sound engineer (A1) • Front of house engineer • Monitor engineer • Translation booth (setup and operate) • Comms (communications) • Corporate/conference engineer • AV Technician (AV Tech) • Stage Tech • Backline engineer • Sound systems engineer • Systems Tuning • Fixed Installation • RF engineer • Streaming/Broadcast • Systems integration • Project management • Technical manager.
Our course prices range from AED 2000 to AED45,000 To see what the course fees are, please visit the relevant courses
Just fill in this inquiry form, and tell us which course you’re interested in. Students interested in work experience program must sign work experience agreement and all students sign health and safety disclaimers.
Discounts are available at certain holidays and occasional promotions. Students enrolling 30 days before a start date can avail discounts, too. Follow socials to get updated.
If you are to cancel the enrolled course, notice must be given at least 7 days before the course starts to get a refund (minus the admin fee of AED 300). Unfortunately, we can’t offer refunds for cancellations made less than 7 days before the course starts.
If a student decides to withdraw from an ongoing course, he/she will not be eligible to receive a certificate from Skill Tech Audio even if he/she already finished 80% of the classes. Withdrawals from ongoing courses are not qualified for refunds. All discounted enrollments are not qualified for refunds.
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