Webinar Schedule
Wish List (25)
- March 2026
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SmartPanel Day 2: AV/IT Interoperability
You've completed the installation and everything is running smoothly—until it's not. "Day 2" explores how to mitigate interoperability issues once a new firmware is pushed out or a new device gets added to the AV/IT network. We address whether networked AV should be on its own dedicated network.
+ An update on AV standards and protocols
+ What's new in Dante
+ The security talk
+ Wi-Fi 7
+ What AV folks need to know about IT
+ What IT folks need to know about AV
- May 2026
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EcoCast Security Automation: Tips, Tricks, and Tools for Better Security
"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." -
MegaCast Backupalooza 2026! New Tools Using AI, Immutability, Air Gapping, Automation, and More
"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." -
SmartPanel Cutting-Edge Tech Innovations Shaping the Future of the Travel and Hospitality Industries
As the travel and hospitality industry evolves, staying ahead of technological trends is crucial for success. This webinar will bring together industry leaders, innovators and enthusiastic participants eager to discover how advancements in innovations like AI, blockchain and sustainable technologies are transforming guest experiences and operational efficiencies. Our audience will consist of key decision-makers, including hotel executives and travel agency leaders, all seeking actionable insights to drive their businesses forward. By sponsoring this event, you'll position your brand at the forefront of innovation, connect with influential industry players, and gain invaluable visibility in a rapidly evolving market. Don't miss the chance to be part of this pivotal conversation — be a catalyst for change in the travel and hospitality sector!
- June 2026
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EcoCast Protecting Your Data: A Holistic Approach to Data Security, Data Loss, PII Protection, and More
"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
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EcoCast Securing Identity with Passwordless Authentication
Passwords have long been the weakest link in enterprise security, fueling phishing attacks, credential theft, and user frustration. Organizations are increasingly turning to passwordless authentication methods—such as biometrics, hardware keys, and mobile-based authenticators—to strengthen identity security while improving the user experience. IT buyers and influencers are actively exploring these solutions to align with zero trust strategies, reduce risk, and simplify access management. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to an engaged audience making critical investments in identity security. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its solutions help enterprises replace passwords with stronger, more convenient authentication methods. Attendees will be evaluating technologies that deliver seamless login experiences, reduce administrative overhead, and protect sensitive systems against evolving threats. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers committed to advancing their identity and access management programs.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include identity and access management vendors, passwordless authentication providers, multi-factor authentication platforms, biometric security companies, and zero trust solution providers. -
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
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EcoCast Tech Showcase: Assessing and Improving Backup, Data Protection, and Disaster Recovery Capabilities
Data is the lifeblood of every enterprise, and protecting it against outages, cyberattacks, and accidental loss is a top priority for IT leaders. Yet many organizations still struggle with fragmented backup systems, slow recovery times, and gaps in data protection strategies. IT buyers and influencers are actively looking for solutions that deliver speed, reliability, and resiliency while simplifying management across hybrid and multicloud environments. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to decision-makers evaluating the next generation of backup, disaster recovery, and data protection technologies. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions help enterprises strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and ensure business continuity. Attendees will be exploring practical tools and proven strategies that reduce risk, meet compliance demands, and protect critical business assets. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with IT professionals ready to invest in modern data protection.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include backup and recovery providers, disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) vendors, cloud storage innovators, and data protection companies focused on resiliency and continuity. - August 2026
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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. -
EcoCast The Power of Data: Enabling Automation and Operational Efficiencies
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. -
SmartPanel The Human Edge: Succeeding with an AI-Powered Workforce
Connect with organizational leaders eager to unlock the future of HR. Join us at the 2026 AI Impact Summit to showcase your tools and solutions that are transforming hiring, talent development, and workforce management. Don't miss this prime opportunity to position your brand as a strategic partner in the AI revolution shaping the workforce of tomorrow. Elevate your reach—partner with us and lead the conversation.
Target Audience: Executives running companies and leading workteams
- September 2026
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MegaCast Artificial Intelligence Showcase: Looking at Now and Into the Future of AI
Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from experimentation into enterprise-wide adoption, driving innovation across security, operations, customer engagement, and beyond. Organizations are eager to understand how to implement AI responsibly, optimize infrastructure, and prepare for what's coming next. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking proven solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes today while positioning them for the future. This MegaCast provides your company with the opportunity to highlight its expertise and showcase cutting-edge AI solutions to an engaged audience ready to evaluate technologies that enhance efficiency, scalability, and competitiveness. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its offerings help enterprises accelerate AI adoption, secure AI systems, govern data, and achieve tangible ROI. Attendees will be exploring strategies and tools that balance innovation with accountability, ensuring AI deployments align with business and compliance requirements. Sponsorship places your brand directly in front of decision-makers investing in the future of AI.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for AI solution providers, infrastructure and cloud vendors, governance and compliance platforms, data management innovators, and security companies enabling safe and scalable AI adoption. -
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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MegaCast Next Level IT: Tools, Products, and Services for Exceptional IT Operations
Enterprises are under pressure to deliver faster, more reliable, and more secure IT operations while keeping costs and complexity under control. From automation and observability to security, cloud optimization, and AI-powered support, IT leaders are actively exploring solutions that help them elevate performance and efficiency across the enterprise. This MegaCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating the tools, products, and services that can take their IT operations to the next level. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its solutions reduce operational friction, improve agility, and enable IT teams to deliver more value to the business. Attendees will be looking for proven approaches that strengthen resilience, simplify management, and accelerate digital transformation. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers committed to optimizing IT.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include automation vendors, observability and monitoring providers, AI-powered IT operations platforms, cloud optimization companies, and security innovators. -
EcoCast Best Practices Series: Implementing Advanced Threat Detection
Cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated, faster, and harder to detect using traditional defenses. Enterprises need advanced detection capabilities that leverage automation, analytics, and threat intelligence to identify suspicious activity before it escalates into full-blown incidents. IT buyers and influencers are actively evaluating tools and strategies that strengthen detection across networks, endpoints, cloud services, and identities. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to an engaged audience of decision-makers who are making critical investments in advanced security solutions. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its technologies improve visibility, shorten response times, and reduce risk. Attendees will be exploring proven approaches that integrate SIEM, XDR, AI-powered analytics, and automation into cohesive detection strategies. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned in front of IT professionals committed to elevating their security capabilities.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include SIEM and XDR vendors, threat intelligence providers, MDR and SOC service providers, and AI-driven security analytics platforms. - 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. -
Expert Series Protecting and Optimizing Team Collaboration Software: Keeping Slack, Teams, Google and Other Users and Data Safe
Collaboration platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Workspace have become essential to business productivity—but they also present new avenues for cyberattacks, data loss, and compliance risks. IT leaders are under pressure to secure these tools without slowing down communication or user experience. This Expert Series event gives your company the opportunity to connect with an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively seeking solutions for protecting and optimizing their collaboration environments. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the session, sharing best practices for safeguarding users, data, and integrations while ensuring reliable performance. As a sponsor, your participation is simple: provide one slide and a short message. We'll take care of the rest, ensuring your brand is recognized by decision-makers focused on securing collaboration platforms.
Vendor Fit
Best for security vendors, SaaS protection providers, and compliance-focused companies supporting collaboration platforms. -
MegaCast Defense in Depth: Building a Robust Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Strategy
Ransomware remains one of the most pressing threats to enterprise security, with attacks growing more sophisticated, frequent, and costly. To defend against these risks, IT leaders are adopting a defense-in-depth approach that combines layered prevention, rapid detection, and resilient recovery. From protecting endpoints and identities to ensuring data backups are immutable and quickly recoverable, organizations need integrated solutions that minimize downtime and financial loss. This MegaCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are prioritizing ransomware prevention and recovery in 2026 and beyond. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions strengthen defenses, streamline response, and ensure business continuity. Attendees will be evaluating tools and services that protect against evolving threats while enabling fast, reliable recovery. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers making critical security investments.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for endpoint protection vendors, backup and disaster recovery providers, identity security specialists, incident response service providers, and cybersecurity innovators focused on ransomware defense. -
SmartPanel Beyond Awareness Month: Building Year-Round Cyber Resilience
Cybersecurity Awareness Month serves as an annual reminder, but with today's evolving threats, thinking about cybersecurity once a year is not enough. In this webinar, help us discuss practical strategies, emerging trends and real-world examples that will help IT organizations build year-round cyber resilience.
Target Audience: IT security leaders, compliance professionals, training managers and cybersecurity strategists
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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. -
EcoCast Transforming Backup and Disaster Recovery with AI and Emerging Techniques
Traditional backup and disaster recovery strategies are no longer enough to protect against today's evolving threats and complex IT environments. Organizations now demand solutions that incorporate artificial intelligence, automation, immutability, and other advanced techniques to ensure data resilience and business continuity. IT buyers and influencers are actively exploring tools that reduce recovery times, improve detection of anomalies, and strengthen protection against ransomware and outages. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to present directly to decision-makers who are evaluating the next generation of backup and disaster recovery solutions. By sponsoring, your organization can showcase how its technologies harness AI and emerging innovations to deliver smarter protection and faster recovery. Attendees will be seeking practical, proven approaches to simplify management, strengthen resilience, and safeguard critical systems. Sponsorship ensures your brand is visible to enterprises prioritizing modern data protection strategies.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include backup and recovery providers, AI-driven data protection vendors, cloud storage innovators, disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) providers, and cybersecurity firms focused on resilience. -
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.
- December 2026
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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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SmartPanel Higher Ed UC&C: Beyond the Classroom
Some colleges and universities have a larger footprint than many corporate enterprises but have unique needs for unified communications and collaboration.
Offices and meeting spaces for administration and instructors must be equipped for collaboration across campus and accommodating hybrid workers. Public spaces are often used for ad hoc lessons and study with engaging video walls, and wayfinding has become a staple on many campuses.
+ Critical UC systems link virtually every communications device
+ The higher-ed meeting space
+ Mobile device for emergency alerts throughout every space within the campus.
+ Mitigating security vulnerabilities
+ Deploy, manage, and monitor