Webinar Schedule
Wish List (26)
- September 2025
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SmartPanel Leading the Workforce of the Future
The workforce of the future is developing rapidly, thanks to emerging technologies, shifting employee expectations, and the adoption of remote and hybrid work models. This webinar will discuss how leaders can adjust to these changes and effectively manage an agile, multigenerational workforce. Discussion points include getting more from technologies like AI and automation, nurturing continuous upskilling and reskilling, and creating flexible workplace policies that draw and retain top talent.
- October 2025
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EcoCast Supporting and Enabling Modern Applications
About This EcoCast
In today's fast-paced digital environment, supporting and enabling modern applications requires advanced tools and strategies that ensure performance, scalability, and security. This event will explore the latest innovations in application development, deployment, and management, with a focus on enhancing the efficiency of cloud-native and hybrid applications. IT professionals and decision-makers will gain valuable insights into automation, monitoring, and optimization techniques that drive success in modern application environments. Sponsoring this webinar provides a unique opportunity to engage with a targeted audience of IT buyers, developers, and infrastructure leaders looking for solutions to support and enhance their modern application ecosystems. As a sponsor, your company can highlight its expertise, demonstrate product capabilities, and connect with decision-makers who are actively seeking the latest technologies to enable their application infrastructure.Vendor Fit
This event is ideal for vendors offering solutions in cloud services, application performance management, DevOps tools, or security platforms tailored to modern, scalable applications. - December 2025
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EcoCast AI Strategies for 2026 You Should Plan for Now
About This EcoCast
AI innovation is accelerating—and forward-thinking IT leaders are already planning for the next wave. As we approach 2026, success with AI will hinge on the ability to scale pilot projects, operationalize models, and align AI efforts with measurable business goals. This EcoCast will explore strategic priorities IT teams should act on today to be ready for what's next: building robust data pipelines, implementing effective governance, adopting agentic systems, and evaluating platforms for automation, analytics, and generative AI. Sponsors will have the opportunity to present solutions that help enterprises future-proof their AI strategies while addressing current challenges in performance, security, and integration. This event connects vendors with an audience of IT buyers and influencers committed to using AI to drive lasting transformation across the business.Vendor Fit
Ideal for AI platform providers, MLOps vendors, automation firms, or companies supporting enterprise AI readiness and scalability. - June 2026
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SmartPanel Countering Ransomware Threats: Tactics to Mitigate Phishing Attacks
"As ransomware evolves, having a robust strategy and tactics to counteract phishing campaigns is more critical than ever. As a leading industry expert, join us to explore the latest trends in ransomware, providing actionable insights into how attackers can override traditional security measures and share strategies for enhanced detection, proactive defense and rapid response against malware.
Target Audience: IT security managers, CISOs, cloud security engineers"
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EcoCast Empowering Distributed Workforces: DEX, DaaS, VDI and Other Tools to Level up Your Organization's Productivity
"As distributed and hybrid work models become the norm, enterprises are challenged to deliver secure, reliable, and seamless digital experiences that keep employees productive no matter where they work. From digital employee experience (DEX) platforms to desktop as a service (DaaS) and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), IT leaders are actively seeking solutions that optimize performance, strengthen security, and simplify management at scale. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to engage directly with IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating the next generation of tools designed to empower today's distributed workforce. By sponsoring, your organization can showcase its expertise in enabling high-quality digital experiences, integrating productivity-enhancing technologies, and supporting business agility. Attendees will be exploring proven approaches that reduce friction, boost end-user satisfaction, and ensure secure, consistent access to business-critical applications. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned in front of decision-makers shaping the future of work.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include DEX platform providers, DaaS and VDI vendors, endpoint management specialists, collaboration tool providers, and cloud or security vendors enabling distributed workforce productivity." -
SmartPanel AI Strategies to Optimize Stock and Supply Chain Operations
"Join our panel to discuss how AI applications transform inventory management and demand forecasting, enabling retailers to reduce stockouts, overstock situations and anticipate future demand spikes, ensuring product availability and efficiency. As an expert, help us teach how to leverage predictive analytics software and AI applications to improve operations.
Target Audience: Supply chain directors, inventory managers, operations managers/directors, logistics and warehouse managers"
- July 2026
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SmartPanel Designing an Open AV/IT Ecosystem
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
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EcoCast Boosting IT Efficiency: How to Do More with Less
IT teams are expected to deliver greater business value while facing tighter budgets, talent shortages, and growing complexity. From cloud optimization and process automation to AI-driven support and smarter infrastructure management, organizations are searching for ways to reduce costs, streamline operations, and maximize productivity without compromising performance or security. This EcoCast gives your company a direct opportunity to connect with IT buyers and influencers who are actively evaluating solutions that help them achieve more with fewer resources. By sponsoring, your organization will demonstrate how its solutions improve efficiency, reduce waste, and unlock innovation in environments constrained by budgets and staffing. Attendees will be exploring practical approaches that include automation platforms, observability tools, AI-powered assistants, cost optimization strategies, and integrated service delivery models. Your brand will be positioned in front of decision-makers determined to reimagine efficiency for 2026 and beyond.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include automation vendors, observability and monitoring providers, AI-powered IT operations platforms, cost optimization specialists, and cloud or infrastructure management innovators. -
EcoCast The Cloud-Powered Enterprise: Securing Your Cloud
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. -
EcoCast Upleveling Your Identity and Access Management Solutions
Identity and access management (IAM) sits at the heart of enterprise security, yet many organizations are finding that traditional tools no longer meet the needs of hybrid workforces, multicloud environments, and escalating compliance requirements. IT leaders are searching for advanced IAM solutions that provide stronger security, simplify user experiences, and scale with business growth. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to connect with an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating how to modernize and strengthen their identity strategies. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its solutions support zero trust initiatives, streamline authentication, protect privileged accounts, and reduce risk. Attendees will be exploring proven technologies and best practices that improve governance, enable passwordless access, and deliver both security and efficiency. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers preparing their next IAM investments.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include IAM vendors, authentication and passwordless technology providers, privileged access management specialists, zero trust platforms, and governance and compliance solution providers. - September 2026
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EcoCast Transforming IT in Healthcare Environments
Healthcare organizations face unique IT demands: protecting sensitive patient data, complying with strict regulations, modernizing electronic health record systems, and enabling clinicians with reliable, user-friendly technologies. At the same time, they must defend against rising cyberattacks, manage hybrid infrastructures, and deliver seamless digital experiences for staff and patients. IT buyers and influencers in healthcare are actively seeking innovative solutions that streamline operations, improve security, and enhance care delivery. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers navigating the complexities of healthcare IT.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for healthcare IT solution providers, cybersecurity vendors, EHR optimization specialists, cloud and infrastructure innovators, and compliance-focused service providers. -
Expert Series Exploring the Intersection of Data, Storage, and Artificial Intelligence
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. -
SmartPanel Elevating Retail Shopping Experience With AI-Powered Visual Search
Shopper expectations for seamless product discovery are rapidly evolving. Help us explore how AI-driven visual search and image recognition enhance user experience, product findability and engagement in the shopping journey by allowing customers to upload photos.
Target Audience: Ecomnmerce managers, digital merchandising, UX /UI designers and product managers
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EcoCast Discovery Day: Products and Services That Support Cloud Migration, Security, Sustainability, and Success
Enterprises are embracing the cloud to unlock agility, scalability, and innovation—but success requires more than migration. IT leaders are actively searching for solutions that ensure secure workloads, enable sustainable operations, and deliver measurable business value. From optimizing cloud migrations and improving visibility to strengthening security and advancing AI initiatives, organizations want practical tools that help them thrive in competitive markets. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating new technologies and services to support their cloud-driven strategies. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its offerings accelerate cloud adoption, improve security postures, and enable sustainable, efficient operations. Attendees will be exploring products and services designed to simplify complexity, reduce risk, and ensure long-term success. Sponsorship positions your brand directly in front of decision-makers prioritizing cloud innovation.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include cloud migration service providers, security vendors, sustainability-focused IT solution providers, cloud optimization platforms, and managed service providers. - October 2026
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EcoCast Building a Proactive PC Upgrade Strategy
As workforce demands evolve, enterprises can no longer rely on reactive hardware refresh cycles. Aging PCs reduce productivity, increase security risks, and raise support costs—yet many organizations still struggle with planning effective, long-term upgrade strategies. IT buyers and influencers are actively looking for solutions that help them modernize their fleets with the right mix of performance, security, and manageability. This EcoCast provides your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers who are preparing to align PC lifecycle management with business goals. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its products and services enable smarter refresh planning, enhance endpoint security, and optimize total cost of ownership. Attendees will be exploring proven approaches for streamlining procurement, deploying modern devices, and supporting hybrid and remote work environments. Sponsorship ensures your brand is in front of enterprises ready to invest in their next wave of PC upgrades.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include PC manufacturers, device management solution providers, endpoint security vendors, lifecycle services companies, and resellers focused on modern workplace technology. -
EcoCast Turning Your Log and Incident Data into Real-time Security Insights
Security teams are drowning in logs and incident data, yet many still struggle to transform that raw information into actionable intelligence. With threats evolving rapidly, organizations need tools that provide real-time visibility, automated correlation, and meaningful insights to accelerate detection and response. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking solutions that help them cut through the noise, improve efficiency, and strengthen their defenses. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to a highly engaged audience looking for technologies that maximize the value of their security data. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its solutions deliver real-time analytics, streamline investigations, and provide actionable intelligence that reduces risk. Attendees will be exploring strategies and tools that integrate SIEM, XDR, threat intelligence, and automation to achieve smarter, faster security operations. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned directly in front of decision-makers making critical investments.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for SIEM and XDR providers, security analytics platforms, threat intelligence vendors, and automation tool providers focused on real-time detection and response. -
EcoCast Supporting, Securing, and Enhancing Microsoft-centric Environments
From Azure to Microsoft 365 and hybrid Active Directory, Microsoft platforms are the foundation of IT operations for most enterprises. Yet supporting these environments at scale introduces challenges around identity and access management, data protection, compliance, and performance optimization. IT buyers and influencers are actively looking for solutions that simplify operations, enhance security, and ensure reliability across Microsoft-centric ecosystems. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to an engaged audience of decision-makers seeking technologies and services that help them get the most out of their Microsoft investments. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions secure sensitive data, improve productivity, and strengthen governance across Microsoft workloads. Attendees will be evaluating proven approaches that address real-world pain points while enabling agility and business continuity. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned directly in front of IT leaders shaping Microsoft strategies.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include Microsoft-focused security vendors, identity and access management providers, backup and recovery specialists, compliance solution providers, and managed service partners supporting Microsoft environments. -
Expert Series Kubernetes and Containers: New Ways to Secure, Back up and Optimize Modern App Environments
Kubernetes and container technologies are transforming how modern applications are deployed, scaled, and managed. Yet with this agility comes new challenges: securing containerized workloads, ensuring reliable backups, and optimizing performance across complex environments. IT leaders are seeking clear guidance on how to keep these environments secure, resilient, and cost-effective. This Expert Series event offers your company the chance to reach an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively investing in modern app infrastructures. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the content, covering emerging best practices for protecting, backing up, and fine-tuning containerized environments. As a sponsor, your involvement is simple: provide a single slide and a short message. We'll handle the rest, ensuring your brand gains visibility with decision-makers charting their container strategies.
Vendor Fit
Ideal for container security vendors, backup providers, and optimization solution companies focused on Kubernetes environments. -
SmartPanel AV/IT Manager Higher Ed Classroom AV Roundtable
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.
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MegaCast Tech Showcase Day: Master of Disaster 2027
Disruptions from ransomware, outages, human error, and natural events can strike at any time, and enterprises are under pressure to ensure they can withstand and recover from the unexpected. Business continuity and disaster recovery strategies are being reimagined with cloud-based recovery, immutable backups, AI-driven automation, and faster failover capabilities. IT buyers and influencers are actively searching for solutions that help them minimize downtime, reduce data loss, and maintain resilience across hybrid and multicloud environments. This MegaCast provides your company the opportunity to showcase its innovations and expertise to an engaged audience preparing for the next generation of disaster recovery and data protection. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its technologies strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and simplify management for enterprises determined to be ready for anything. Attendees will be evaluating proven approaches to ensure continuity and security in the face of disruption.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include backup and recovery vendors, DRaaS providers, cloud storage innovators, cybersecurity companies, and automation platforms focused on business continuity and resilience. - November 2026
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SmartPanel Your Pain Points Answered
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
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MegaCast Tech Showcase Day: Cutting Edge Tech 2027
Enterprises are moving quickly to identify and adopt the technologies that will define IT success in the years ahead. From AI-driven automation and advanced cybersecurity to hybrid cloud optimization, observability, and data-powered innovation, IT leaders are seeking solutions that provide agility, efficiency, and resilience. This MegaCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its products, services, and thought leadership to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating the next wave of innovations shaping the enterprise. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions address real-world challenges and deliver measurable business outcomes. Attendees will be exploring forward-looking tools and strategies that help them optimize operations, strengthen security, and prepare for the future. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers driving enterprise technology adoption.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for AI solution providers, cybersecurity innovators, automation platforms, cloud and infrastructure vendors, and data-driven technology companies. -
EcoCast Building a Robust Security Awareness Program
Human error remains one of the leading causes of security incidents, making employee awareness a critical layer of defense. From phishing attacks and credential theft to insider threats, organizations need structured programs that educate users, change behaviors, and reinforce security best practices. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking solutions that combine engaging training, continuous reinforcement, and measurable outcomes to reduce risk. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to decision-makers who are prioritizing security awareness as part of their overall defense strategy. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions improve user resilience, strengthen compliance, and create a security-first culture. Attendees will be evaluating practical tools and services that help enterprises reduce vulnerability, improve reporting, and drive lasting behavioral change. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned directly in front of organizations investing in awareness and training.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include security awareness training vendors, phishing simulation platforms, compliance training providers, and managed security service providers focused on user education. - December 2026
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SmartPanel Cyber 2027: The Future Is Already Hacked!
As we close out 2026 and look to 2027, the pace of cyberrisks will only accelerate. As technology advances, staying ahead of the curve is crucial for information security professionals. Your company's leading experts can help forecast the biggest trends, challenges and opportunities as we explore the future of cybersecurity and IT trends that will shape 2027.
Target Audience: CISOs, CTOs, risk and compliance leaders, IT architects, business leaders
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SmartPanel Future-Proofing News: Technology, AI, and the Cloud
Live news is the lifeblood for local TV stations and the impact that the cloud and IP have had on the tools local broadcasters use to capture and deliver live TV have been revolutionary. We'll examine the latest products and techniques that help broadcasters cover more news faster, more reliable and with greater coverage.
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EcoCast Supercharging Public Sector and Education Technology and Security
"Public sector agencies and educational institutions are under growing pressure to modernize technology, secure sensitive data, and deliver seamless digital experiences for users—all while facing budget constraints and compliance requirements. From strengthening cybersecurity and protecting personal information to adopting cloud-based services and supporting remote access, IT leaders in these sectors are actively seeking solutions that drive efficiency, reliability, and resilience. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are tasked with advancing public sector and education technology initiatives. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions enable secure digital services, modernize IT infrastructure, and empower faculty, staff, and citizens alike. Attendees will be evaluating proven tools that improve performance, reduce risk, and align technology investments with mission-critical goals. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers shaping the future of public sector and education IT.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include cybersecurity vendors, cloud service providers, identity and access management specialists, data protection companies, and IT service providers supporting government and education."