Wish List (12)

October 2025

Going on the Offensive: Implementing a Pentesting Strategy

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Cobalt.io, Rubrik

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400

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About This Expert Series
As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, organizations can no longer rely solely on defense--they need to go on the offensive. This Expert Series will cover the implementation of an effective penetration testing (pentesting) strategy. Attendees will explore how pentesting can uncover vulnerabilities before attackers do, ensuring stronger security postures. From planning and execution to post-test reporting, this session provides actionable insights for IT professionals on enhancing their organization's proactive cybersecurity measures. The audience of IT decision makers and influencers will hear from a security expert provided by ActualTech Media. As a sponsor, you'll only need to provide a promotional slide, while ATM will handle all aspects of audience development, event production, and lead delivery. Position your brand as a crucial player in helping businesses preempt and mitigate potential breaches!

Vendor Fit
Companies specializing in security testing tools, penetration testing services, and vulnerability management solutions will find this event an ideal platform to promote their offerings.

May 2026

Security Automation: Tips, Tricks, and Tools for Better Security

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400

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"As cyber threats grow in speed and complexity, manual processes are no longer enough to keep organizations protected. Security automation has become essential for reducing response times, minimizing human error, and allowing IT teams to focus on higher-value work. From automating repetitive tasks to orchestrating complex incident response, organizations are actively exploring solutions that strengthen security while improving efficiency. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to engage directly with IT buyers and influencers who are seeking actionable insights and proven technologies to advance their automation strategies. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions help enterprises accelerate detection and response, streamline operations, and improve overall resilience. Attendees will be evaluating practical tools and real-world best practices that make automation achievable and impactful in everyday security operations. Sponsorship places your brand in front of decision-makers eager to invest in smarter, faster defenses.

Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include SOAR providers, SIEM vendors, AI-driven security platforms, managed detection and response providers, and automation tool vendors focused on security operations."

Backupalooza 2026! New Tools Using AI, Immutability, Air Gapping, Automation, and More

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800

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"Backup and recovery are no longer back-office functions—they are front-line defenses against ransomware, outages, and data loss. With AI, immutable storage, air-gapped protection, and advanced automation redefining what's possible, IT leaders are actively searching for the next generation of tools that keep their data secure and their businesses resilient. This MegaCast gives your company the opportunity to engage directly with IT buyers and influencers who are exploring innovative approaches to modern backup and disaster recovery. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its solutions deliver smarter protection, faster recovery, and simpler management for today's hybrid and cloud environments. Attendees will be evaluating tools that ensure business continuity, reduce risk, and streamline operations—placing your brand front and center with decision-makers making critical data protection investments.

Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include backup and recovery vendors, cloud storage providers, cybersecurity companies focused on ransomware defense, data management platforms, and automation tool providers."

June 2026

Protecting Your Data: A Holistic Approach to Data Security, Data Loss, PII Protection, and More

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400

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"Enterprises today face relentless pressure to protect sensitive data from theft, loss, misuse, and regulatory non-compliance. From intellectual property and customer records to personally identifiable information (PII), the risks extend across on-premises systems, cloud services, and distributed workforces. IT leaders are actively searching for integrated strategies that combine strong prevention, rapid detection, and reliable recovery. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to connect with an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating the next generation of tools and services to safeguard critical data assets. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its solutions deliver holistic protection—combining encryption, access controls, monitoring, backup, and compliance automation into unified approaches. Attendees will be exploring proven methods that reduce exposure, streamline governance, and ensure data remains both secure and accessible. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers prioritizing investments in data security.

Vendor Fit
Best suited for data security vendors, data loss prevention (DLP) providers, compliance and privacy specialists, backup and recovery innovators, and cloud security platforms."

July 2026

Designing an Open AV/IT Ecosystem

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250

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Increasingly, software is defining the AV ecosystem. This panel discusses how AV/IT departments can evolve their current systems and products and newly purchased devices to interoperate in an open ecosystem. Whether adding displays, microphones, room control, scheduling, or any networked AV device, ensuring everything is interoperable is paramount. An open AV ecosystem works toward that end goal.

+ Open architecture AV platforms

+ AV in the cloud

+ Interoperability between legacy and networked AV

+ Mitigating security vulnerabilities

+ Deploy, manage and monitor

August 2026

The Cloud-Powered Enterprise: Securing Your Cloud

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400

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Enterprises are embracing cloud services to drive agility, innovation, and cost efficiency—but with this shift comes new security challenges. Misconfigurations, unauthorized access, compliance gaps, and evolving threats can put sensitive data and applications at risk. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking strategies and technologies that protect workloads across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. This EcoCast offers your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers who are making critical investments to secure their cloud-powered enterprises. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions provide visibility, enforce governance, secure identities, and defend against cloud-native threats. Attendees will be evaluating tools and approaches that simplify compliance, strengthen resilience, and ensure business continuity. Sponsorship places your brand at the center of conversations about securing the enterprise cloud.

Vendor Fit
Best suited for cloud security vendors, identity and access management providers, compliance and governance platforms, workload protection specialists, and managed cloud security service providers.

Displays: The New Pitch

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250

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There has never been a more exciting and opportune time to implement displays into your corporate, education, museum, healthcare, hospitality, government, or transportation environment. The cost of displays has come down, content management and workflows have become easier to use, and there's no better way to engage audiences.

Whether a massive wrap-around video wall in the lobby to set the tone and brand identity, a virtual studio for announcing new products or hosting a town hall, large displays for classrooms and collaboration spaces, strategically placed displays throughout campuses for wayfinding, kiosks, critical messaging, dynamic content in cafeterias, projection-mapped immersive experiences and so much more, it's an exciting time.

+ AVoIP and SoC play a major role in the hybrid environment

+ All-In-One displays for flexibility

+ Utilizing near-field communications (NFC)

+ Sustainability and ESG

The Power of Data: Enabling Automation and Operational Efficiencies

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400

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Data has become the engine driving smarter operations and business agility. Enterprises are looking beyond traditional reporting to harness data for automation, predictive insights, and improved efficiency across IT and business processes. From streamlining workflows and optimizing resources to enhancing decision-making, data-driven strategies are reshaping how organizations operate. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking solutions that help them unlock the full potential of their data while maintaining security, governance, and scalability. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers who are planning investments in data-driven automation. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its technologies help enterprises transform data into actionable intelligence, automate repetitive tasks, and drive measurable business outcomes. Attendees will be evaluating proven approaches that reduce operational costs, increase agility, and deliver more value from existing systems. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with organizations ready to maximize their data.

Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include data analytics providers, automation and orchestration platforms, AI/ML solution vendors, governance and compliance specialists, and cloud service providers focused on operational efficiency.

September 2026

Exploring the Intersection of Data, Storage, and Artificial Intelligence

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The relationship between data, storage, and artificial intelligence is quickly becoming one of the most important areas for IT leaders to understand. From ensuring high-performance access to massive datasets, to enabling AI-driven automation and analytics, organizations are rethinking how storage and data strategies work hand-in-hand with emerging AI initiatives. This Expert Series event from ActualTech Media gives your company the opportunity to reach an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively exploring this critical intersection. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the content, covering practical approaches for managing, securing, and optimizing data and storage infrastructures to support AI-driven innovation. As a sponsor, your role is simple: provide a single slide and a brief message. We'll manage the rest, ensuring your brand is recognized by decision-makers investing in next-generation data and AI solutions.

Vendor Fit
Best for storage providers, data management vendors, and AI infrastructure companies seeking visibility with IT decision-makers.

October 2026

AV/IT Manager Higher Ed Classroom AV Roundtable

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250

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AV Technology invites six AV/IT technology managers from various colleges and universities to discuss classroom AV challenges and successes.

+ What new classroom tech have they installed that is making a difference?

+ What new tech are they planning for next year?

+ The enrolment cliff. Real or not?

+ Best practices for instructor training?

+ AI, AR, VR, AND XR

It is not a requirement, but sponsors can suggest an AV/IT manager from a specific university.

This panel will be end-users only.

November 2026

Retail 2027: Navigating the Next Wave of Consumer Shopping Experiences

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250

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Our panel of experts, like you, will look ahead at what's to come for consumer and technology innovations. It will explore key trends and industry advancements that will redefine retail in 2027. Topics discussed will include AI for personalized experiences, immersive shopping environments with AR and VR and the evolving role of physical stores as experience hubs. Help usl forecast the changing consumer behaviors and emerging opportunities that will shape the successful retail strategies of tomorrow.

Target Audience: Retail CEOs, CMOs, CIOs, heads of innovation, digital strategy leads ecommerce directors, business development managers, loss prevention specialists, operations and warehouse management.

Your Pain Points Answered

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During the live AV/IT Summit we ran a special interactive panel where the audience and AV/IT expert panelists asked questions and provided solutions. We will gather some questions ahead of time and give the audience an open-mic period to ask questions. Here's a sample:
+ How do you reduce the number of components in your AV ecosystem without losing functionality?

+ Cross-platform meetings still have interoperability challenges - what can we do to fix this?

+ Are open standards the solution, and how do we get there?

+ What does the future of AV service look like given the fact that trouble calls are increasingly IT related