The world of major event technology is harder to enter than it looks.
Not because the work is beyond you. Because no one shows you the door.
TECGEN Core teaches you the language, the frameworks, and the professional context to walk into any conversation in this industry and hold your ground.
It is built from 30 years of operational delivery across 12 Olympic Games cycles. It is not an introduction to sports management. It is the vocabulary and the structure that practitioners actually use in the field.
What TECGEN Core gives you
Three things practitioners in this industry need that no standard qualification provides.
1. The Language
The Technology Layer Cake. Venue Technology. Results systems. TEC Delivery Management. These are the frameworks that practitioners use every day. When you know them, you can hold a conversation with anyone in this world. When you do not, every interview starts at a disadvantage.
2. The Framework
Twelve modules built from 30 years of operational delivery. Not theory. The actual structure of how major events are planned, resourced, and delivered from the inside.
3. The Access
TECGEN Core is the entry point to the On Venue community. Monthly live sessions with practitioners. Peer review sessions. Real conversations with people doing this work at Olympic and World Cup level. The community is where the doors open.
Take your next step.
Know where you stand, before you decide where to go.
Most people who want to work in this industry have some of the knowledge. Few have all of it. The TEC GEN readiness assessment gives you an honest picture of where you stand, and tells you exactly what to do next. It takes five minutes. Your result is immediate
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Self
Paced
Work on your schedule
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Community supported
Monthly live sessions with practitioners
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Certification included
Carry it on your CV
What practitioners tell us.
Rio 2016
Paris 2024
What you will learn
Technology Foundations
How the systems connect. The Technology Layer Cake, broadcast infrastructure, DIVA Networks, spectrum management, results technology, and the applications that run a Games.
Venue and Delivery
How a venue actually works. Anatomy of a venue, functional area management, scope of work, procurement discipline, and the immovable deadline.
Stakeholder and Governance
How the industry is structured. The international community of sport, client groups, the power of persuasion, conflict transformation, and the communication ecosystem.
People and Leadership
How to lead under pressure. Sustainable leadership, hero versus host models, mindset, character strengths, and the champion’s mentality that the best practitioners share.
Career and Professional Development
How to position yourself. Transferable skills, the Have/Need/Want framework, your 3-5 year career plan, and how to articulate your experience in the language hiring managers are listening for.
12 Modules
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Business of Sport and TEC
The scale, complexity and funding of major sport events. The Olympic movement, governance structures, and the TEC ecosystem.
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International Community of Sport
Cultural navigation, internationality, and the professional standards that define the global sport technology community.
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TEC Jobs in Sport Events
The roles, the career pathways, the client groups, and the skills hiring managers are actually looking for.
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Technology Layer Cake
The five foundational technology layers — from energy generation to applications — and how they connect at every scale of event.
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Anatomy of a Venue
Venue types, key spaces, the TVDB, functional area requirements, and why relationships on site determine everything.
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TEC Delivery Management
The immovable deadline, the PMO trifecta, scope of work, procurement, and what separates delivery professionals from project administrators.
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Power of Persuasion
Understanding stakeholder needs, the difference between persuasion and manipulation, and how to make every conversation move the project forward
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Conflict Transformation
How to anticipate, reframe, and resolve conflict in high-pressure delivery environments — the Needs, Beliefs and Strategies framework applied.
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Communication Ecosystem
The culture of communications on venue. Channel selection, active listening, multicultural navigation, and the one-minute check-in that keeps a team aligned.
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Sustainable Leadership
Hero leadership versus host leadership. Feedback loops, decision-making under pressure, and what it means to lead for the long game.
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Mindset and the TEC Professional
Growth mindset versus fixed mindset. Character strengths, team roles, and the champion’s mentality that distinguishes the best practitioners in the field.
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Career Management
Lifelong learning, the Have/Need/Want inventory, your personal career roadmap, and how to tell the story of your experience in a way that wins interviews.
Learn at your own pace.
TEC GEN Core is entirely self-paced. Work through the curriculum on your schedule — between contracts, alongside your current role, or as a focused sprint before your next application.
Each module combines video content, key learnings, and wrap-up questions designed to consolidate and retain what you have covered.
Join a community of practitioners.
TECGEN Core includes access to the On Venue community. Every month, members join a free live session with practitioners from inside the major event technology world.
These are working conversations, not webinars. You will meet people who are one step ahead of where you are now.
Earn your certification.
On completion of all 12 modules you receive a certificate of completion signed by Christiaan PAGE.
Your enrolment fee is credited in full toward TECGEN Pro registration if you apply within six months of completing the course.
The people who build this course.
Christiaan PAGE
Lead Facilitator
TEC Delivery, Technology Frameworks, Venue Operations
30 years of major event technology delivery across 12 Games cycles. Architect of the DIVA Network, now standard industry terminology. IOC Advisory role.
Michelle GUILIANO
Career Development
Mindset, Career Management, Programme Direction
Michelle contributed the Mindset and Career Management modules to TEC GEN Core. Executive coach, former recruiter, and programme director with specialist curriculum design experience.
Gustavo PRUDENTE
Leadership and Influence
Leadership, Sustainable Performance
Gustavo contributed the Leadership and Influence modules to TEC GEN Core, drawing on 15 years of coaching leaders across corporate and major sport event environments.
Luisa GALINDO GARZÓN
Communication
Communication, International Community
Luisa contributed the Communication and International Community modules to TEC GEN Core, drawing on 15 years navigating communications across borders in sport communities and organisations.
Full 12-module curriculum
Certification on completion
Community access included
Self-paced — start when you are ready
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Technology delivery across major international broadcast events including 12 Olympic and Paralympic Games cycles, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, World University Games, Six Nations Rugby and the Ryder Cup — on five continents, and counting.